# New Song Thread Game...ehh?.....ehhh?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 12, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644 "2002-07-12T15:53:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 9

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/161 "2002-07-15T05:06:13Z")

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**Team One**

A Girl’s Gotta Do What a Girl’s Gotta Do, Mindy McCready

_The first thing I did when you said Good-bye  
Was sit myself down and have a real good cry  
The next thing I did was put my **red** dress on  
And go downtown dancing til the break of dawn_

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/162 "2002-07-15T05:09:23Z")

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\*\* Team 2 -\*\*

Peace Frog, The Doors

_Bloody **Red** sun of fantastic L.A._

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**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/163 "2002-07-15T05:11:01Z")

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Team #1:

Red Hill Mining Town - U2

Yeah you keep me holding on  
In Red Hill Town  
See the lights go down on  
I’m hanging on

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/164 "2002-07-15T05:17:30Z")

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\*\* Team 2 -\*\*

Little Red Rooster, The Grateful Dead (and many others)

_been no peace in the barnyard  
Since my little **red** rooster’s been gone_

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/165 "2002-07-15T05:26:41Z")

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**Team One**

Summer’s Coming, Clint Black

_When the day gets cookin’ gonna grab my toys  
And it really doesn’t matter which wave we’re on  
Get to turnin’ up them good old boys  
Crankin’ into the night, by the break of dawn  
All the towns are **red** and I still see blonde_

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/166 "2002-07-15T05:33:41Z")

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**Team 2 -**

Jack A Roe, The Grateful Dead

_I see your waist is slender, your fingers they are small  
Your cheeks too **red** and rosy to face the cannonball_

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/167 "2002-07-15T06:17:54Z")

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**Team One**

Have Mercy, The Judds

_The lipstick on your collar gives your game away  
It’s strawberry **red** and mine’s pink rose_

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/168 "2002-07-15T06:30:14Z")

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Team 2:

_It was **red** and yellow and green and brown…_

_Joseph’s Coat (The Coat of Many Colors)_ - Webber/Rice (from _Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat_

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**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/169 "2002-07-15T06:37:55Z")

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Team 1:

_Cain decked the angel said “fuck you screw”  
shook the garden’s dust from off his shoe  
then he walked in the desert a mile or two  
He came to the plain where the medlars grew  
and he sat down on the burning sand  
looked at the **red** on his brown right hand  
and he spoke to the devil about his plans  
out to the east of Eden_\*

Shriekback - _Bastard Sons of Enoch_\*

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**Author:** ![Ripple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Ripple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripple)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/170 "2002-07-15T06:55:26Z")

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**Team 2 -**

All Together Now, The Beatles

_Black, white, green, **red**  
Can I take my friend to bed  
Pink, brown, yellow, orange and blue  
I love you_

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/171 "2002-07-15T06:56:00Z")

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Team 2:

_I like coffee,I like tea  
I like you baby next to me  
You’re as cool as **red** hot lava  
Jumpin’ East of Java_

_Jumpin’ East of Java_ - Brian Setzer Orchestra

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**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/172 "2002-07-15T07:10:27Z")

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Team #1:

Jimi HEndrix - REd House

There’s a Red House over yonder  
That’s where my baby stays  
There’s a Red House over yonder, baby  
That’s where my baby stays

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/173 "2002-07-15T07:17:35Z")

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Team 2:

_The sun sets on the water  
 **Red** and orange and yellow too  
And I think about the way you loved me  
And I don’t know what to do_

_Down at the Water_ - Animotion

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**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/174 "2002-07-15T07:22:32Z")

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Team 1:

_On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man  
In a dusty black coat with a **red** right hand_

Nick Cave - **Red Right Hand**

(Hoping I didn’t screw up the coding on this one!)

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/175 "2002-07-15T07:58:32Z")

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Team 2:

_I cried all night for Sonny  
'Til my eyes were dry  
'Til the oceans overflowed  
And the **Red** Sea turned blue  
I cried all night for Sonny  
I heard he was crying, too_

_Sonny Cried_ - Harry Connick, Jr.

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**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/176 "2002-07-15T08:18:58Z")

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Team #1:

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain

red rain is coming down  
red rain  
red rain is pouring down  
pouring down all over me

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**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/177 "2002-07-15T08:19:38Z")

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Team 1

“Blue Red and Grey”–The Who

_Some people go for the sultry evening  
Sipping cocktails in the Blue **Red** and grey  
But I like every minute  
Of the day_

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**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/178 "2002-07-15T08:23:39Z")

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How’s about we go with my **Team 1’er** and not that, ahem, repeat?

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**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/179 "2002-07-15T08:26:18Z")

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Team 2:

_And when you kiss me with your ruby **red** lips  
It thrills me so I turn a back over flip_

_That’s Why I Love You So_ - Jackie Wilson

(We’re even, because _Red Rain_ was a repeat.)

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2002, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-song-thread-game-ehh-ehhh/118644/180 "2002-07-15T09:28:26Z")

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It’s amazing that we stay up all night with this stuff.

- ShibbOleth, who has been at work already for over an hour, but is still looking for a way to procrastinate

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