# Relatively Unknown Later Verses to Well-Known Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598 "2007-07-29T17:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/1 "2007-07-29T17:12:53Z")
Apropos of nothing in particular except waking up with some silly earworm song in your head… I’m fixing breakfast and humming that old western-cowboy “whoopie tie yi yo, git along little dogies” song. Flip the eggs, & start singing: “Oh you’ll be soup for Uncle Sam’s Indians, It’s ‘Beef, big beef’, I can hear them cry…” & then it crosses my mind that it’s weird that I know that’s part of the song. & then I thought about it for a moment and decided that I got exposed to a lot of those old songs that everyone knows but probably most folks didn’t learn all verses of. (I’m crediting, or blaming, Georgia public schools music teachers, the kind that would come into the classroom singing “children put away your books, sit up straight it helps your looks…” while passing out tambourines and books of folk songs to sing from). Then again, on this board, I doubt that I’m alone in having such lyrical trivia in my head. OK… recognize any of these lyric fragments? … for patriot dream that sees beyond the years, thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human tears America the Beautiful the graceful white swan goes gliding along like a maid in a heavenly dream Home on the Range then conquer we must when our cause it is just and this be our motto, in God is our trust The Star Spangled Banner. no kiddin’ But e’er we part from Freedom’s shores tonight a song we sing for home and beauty bright So then here’s to the sailor and here’s to the soldier too Hearts will beat for him upon the waters blue Sailing Sailing Over the Bounding Main As I was walking I saw a sign there and the sign said No Tresspassing But on the other side it din’ say nothing This Land is Your Land Add any? ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/2 "2007-07-29T17:43:05Z")
The verses to “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” are all completely unknown. All anybody knows is the chorus. [Wikipedia cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Out_to_the_Ball_Game#Lyrics) ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/3 "2007-07-29T18:29:11Z")
Second verse to the Duck Tales theme song: When it seems they’re heading for the Final curtain Cool deduction never fails That’s for certain The worst of messes Become successes ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/4 "2007-07-29T18:56:14Z")
Apocalyptic second verse of Bob Marley’s “One Love”: Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armagideon, So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom. Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner; There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/5 "2007-07-29T19:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] then conquer we must when our cause it is just and this be our motto, in God is our trust [/QUOTE] “And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution.” … much more fun at parties. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/6 "2007-07-29T19:23:08Z")
Isaac Asimov wrote an article on the Star-Spangled Banner, including its relatively unknown later verses. (IIRC it first appeared as one of his science columns in _The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction_.) It’s apparently been “reprinted” on numerous web sites; [here’s](http://www.purewatergazette.net/asimov.htm) the first one Google gave me. > [@](#): > > those old songs that everyone knows but probably most folks didn’t learn all verses of. I think numerous Christmas carols would fall into this category. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/7 "2007-07-29T22:25:07Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] As I was walking I saw a sign there and the sign said No Trespassing But on the other side it din’ say nothing This Land is Your Land [/QUOTE] Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper performed that song on a CD that I bought in the early '90s, and I always assumed that Mojo had made up the second and third verses. It wasn’t until I was investigating the song’s origins during the 2004JibJab controversythat I discovered that they were in the original. One bright sunny morning In the shadow of the steeple By the relief office I seen my people ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/8 "2007-07-29T22:53:40Z")
How about the theme song from **Friends**? The best part is that the second verse is completely ridiculous. You’re still in bed at ten, but work began at eight You burned your breakfast, so far things are going great Your mother warned you there’d be days like these But she didn’t tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees That I’ll be there for you (when the rain starts to pour) I’ll be there for you (like I’ve been there before) I’ll be there for you (because you’re there for me too) So, you’re two hours late for work and you’re actually cooking a breakfast? Work may not be a concern much longer. And “Your mother warned you there’d be days like these.”? What happened to “So no one told you life was gonna be like this.”? ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/9 "2007-07-29T23:34:33Z")
I was surprised at a recent campfire sing-a-long to find out how few people knew the final verse of “Clementine.” How I missed her, how I missed her How I missed my Clementine 'Til I kissed her little sister Glad you’re gone now Clementine… ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/10 "2007-07-30T00:32:14Z")
[QUOTE=as\_u\_wish] How I missed her, how I missed her How I missed my Clementine 'Til I kissed her little sister Glad you’re gone now Clementine… [/QUOTE] I know that last line as “and forgot my Clementine” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/11 "2007-07-30T01:27:12Z")
[QUOTE=Tool of the Conspiracy] JibJab controversy [/QUOTE] Why is this spoilered? But I still won three Purple Hearts! ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/12 "2007-07-30T12:41:50Z")
A good way to commit suicide is to sing the sixth verse of the British national anthem in a Glasgow pub on a Saturday night: - _Lord grant that Marshal Wade May by thy mighty aid Victory bring. May he sedition hush, And like a torrent rush, Rebellious Scots to crush. God save the Queen!_ ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/13 "2007-07-30T12:47:58Z")
The oft forgotten final verse of: Nanananana BATMAN!! Nanananana BATMAN!! Nanananana BATMAN!! BATMAN!!BATMAN!!BATMAN!! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/14 "2007-07-30T13:24:23Z")
[QUOTE=Boulter’s Canary] A good way to commit suicide is to sing the sixth verse of the British national anthem in a Glasgow pub on a Saturday night: [/QUOTE] And very few know verses 2 to 5 of that otherwise memorable song. Similarly, I recently heard a fine rendition of all the verses of “La Marseillaise”: of course, I was only familiar with verse 1. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/15 "2007-07-30T13:33:39Z")
[QUOTE=Boulter’s Canary] A good way to commit suicide is to sing the sixth verse of the British national anthem in a Glasgow pub on a Saturday night: - _Lord grant that Marshal Wade May by thy mighty aid Victory bring. May he sedition hush, And like a torrent rush, Rebellious Scots to crush. God save the Queen!_ [/QUOTE] Holy shit! And these folks are part of the same nation! That makes ours look almost benign… ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/16 "2007-07-30T14:37:31Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Why is this spoilered? [/QUOTE] Because it gives away what the song is. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/17 "2007-07-30T14:58:08Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] Similarly, I recently heard a fine rendition of all the verses of “La Marseillaise”: of course, I was only familiar with verse 1. [/QUOTE] And may I say, those later verses could make one’s skin crawl, with their chatter about coffins, tyrants, and tigers ripping children from their mothers’ wombs! There are two Irving Berlin songs similar to the _Take Me Out to the Ball Game_, written in the same Tin Pan Alley style of an eight-line introduction followed by an eight-line chorus, for which the introduction is usually dropped: _God Bless America_ (although the Irish Tenor performs the introduction when he sings at Yankee Stadium), and _White Christmas_–We nitpicky types hate the reference to “Beverly Hills, L.A.” because Beverly Hills isn’t part of L.A. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/18 "2007-07-30T17:15:26Z")
You roll outta bed, Mr. Coffee’s dead, the morning’s looking bright, And your shrink ran off to Europe And didn’t even write. And your husband wants to be a girl. Be glad there’s one place in the world Where everybody knows your name, And they’re always glad you came … ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/19 "2007-07-30T17:47:08Z")
This may be super-easy, but… There is just one moon and one golden sun And a smile means friendship for everyone… It’s a small world. (Is this verse played on the actual Disney ride? If so, it’s an easy question…) And the most obscure one I know… the theme song from the movie **Revenge of the Nerds** , as heard during the opening credits/Louis-and-Gilbert-drive-to-college sequence, has the following three verses: > [@](#): > > Verse 1: > Mom packs us our lunch and we’re off to school > They call us nerds cause we’re so uncool > They laugh at our clothes, they laugh at our hair > The girls walk buy with their noses in the air > > Chorus: > So go ahead, put us down > One of these days we’ll turn it around > Won’t be long, mark my words > The time has come for revenge of the nerds > > Verse 2: > Horned rimmed glasses with the heavy TV lens > Button down shirt and a pocket full of pens > Straight A students, teachers’ pets > They call us nerds but we’ve no regrets > > Verse 3: > So if they call you a dork, a spaz or a geek > Stand up and be proud, don’t be meek > Hey beautiful people, haven’t you heard > The joke’s on you, it’s revenge of the nerds But upon purchasing the soundtrack CD, I was surprised to find out that there’s an additional verse, that comes between verse 2 and 3: > [@](#): > > While the jocks work out with the football team > We’re trying to score with the girl of our dreams > You know we ain’t good looking, but here’s a surprise > Nerds are great lovers in disguise ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598/20 "2007-07-30T20:37:00Z")
[QUOTE=Peter Morris] You roll outta bed, Mr. Coffee’s dead, the morning’s looking bright, And your shrink ran off to Europe And didn’t even write. And your husband wants to be a girl. Be glad there’s one place in the world Where everybody knows your name, And they’re always glad you came … [/QUOTE] All those night when you’ve got no lights, The check is in the mail And your little angel hung the cat up by its tail, And your third fiance didn’t show, Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name… (quoted from memory, not totally sure about the first line.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/relatively-unknown-later-verses-to-well-known-songs/413598.md?page=2)