# Random Steely Dan Lyrics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [August 21, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006 "2024-08-21T17:54:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/21 "2024-08-22T17:12:08Z")

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Drink your big Black Cow and get outta here.

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/22 "2024-08-22T17:22:48Z")

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Don’t make me do it without the fez on  
Oh no.

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/23 "2024-08-22T17:29:23Z")

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You got to shake it, baby!

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/24 "2024-08-22T17:32:32Z")

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The girls don’t seem to care what’s on  
As long as they play til dawn

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/25 "2024-08-22T17:53:08Z")

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Well, I did not think the girl  
Could be so cruel  
And I’m never going back  
To my old school

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/26 "2024-08-22T17:56:19Z")

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Learn to work the saxophone  
I play just what I feel  
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long  
And die behind the wheel

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/27 "2024-08-22T17:57:04Z")

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Jo, would you love to scrapple?  
She’ll never say no  
No

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/28 "2024-08-22T18:01:30Z")

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They got the shapely bods  
They got the Steely Dan T-shirt  
And for the coup-de-gras  
They’re outrageous

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/29 "2024-08-22T18:33:33Z")

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You fella, you tearing up the street  
You wear that white tuxedo, how you gonna beat the heat?  
Do you take me for a fool?  
Do you think that I don’t see  
That ditch out in the valley that they’re digging just for me?

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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/30 "2024-08-22T18:38:29Z")

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I like your pin shot  
I keep it with your letter  
Done up in blueprint blue  
It sure looks good on you  
And when you smile for the camera  
I know I’ll love you better

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**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/31 "2024-08-23T01:32:52Z")

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While he plundered far and wide  
All his starving children cried  
And though we sung his fame  
We all went hungry, just the same  
He meant to shine  
To the end of the line

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/32 "2024-08-23T09:14:08Z")

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Could it be that I have found my home at last?

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/33 "2024-08-23T09:45:42Z")

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But the hangman isn’t hanging, and they put you on the street

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/34 "2024-08-23T11:31:50Z")

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> [@Railer13](#):
>
> (Say it again)

The Cuervo Gold  
The fine Colombian  
Make tonight a wonderful thing

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/35 "2024-08-23T11:45:37Z")

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My brother attended the College of William and Mary. A classmate, planning to transfer to a different university, had a tee shirt made up that read “William and Mary Won’t Do”.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/36 "2024-08-23T14:34:02Z")

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California tumbles into the sea  
That’ll be the day I go back to Annandale

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**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/37 "2024-08-23T20:28:44Z")

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The summer - this could be the cool part of the summer.

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**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/38 "2024-08-23T20:35:32Z")

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From Everything You Did:  
Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening.

From Hotel California:  
They stab it with their steely knives.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/39 "2024-08-23T22:08:52Z")

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I saw the fireworks  
I believed that I was dreaming  
'Til the neighbors came out screaming  
He’s a third world man

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**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-steely-dan-lyrics/1006006/40 "2024-08-25T13:10:19Z")

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I got the news.

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