# Popular Music and the Circumstances of My Birth

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-and-the-circumstances-of-my-birth/428266>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 30, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-and-the-circumstances-of-my-birth/428266 "2007-11-30T02:24:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-and-the-circumstances-of-my-birth/428266/61 "2007-12-01T10:26:41Z")

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“Born too late for you to notice me.  
To you I’m just a kid that you won’t date.  
Why was I born too late?”

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**Author:** ![Layla01](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/layla01/32/15552_2.png) [@Layla01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Layla01)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-and-the-circumstances-of-my-birth/428266/62 "2007-12-01T10:47:48Z")

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[Born, born to be alive…](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/patrick_hernandez/born_to_be_alive.html)

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**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-and-the-circumstances-of-my-birth/428266/63 "2007-12-02T02:10:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Spoons]  
Lord, I was born a ramblin’ man…  
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I was born in the back seat of a Rambler  
Rollin’ down Highway Forty-one…

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-and-the-circumstances-of-my-birth/428266/64 "2007-12-02T03:56:59Z")

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_In her pains mother earth came to bloom  
 [Her children were born in the eye of the storm](http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/gordon_lightfoot/too_many_clues_in_this_room-lyrics-158403.html)  
And there’s too many clues in this room_

[_I was born and raised in San Jose_](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/burt+bacharach/do+you+know+the+way+to+san+jose_20025964.html)

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