# Song Lyrics That Always Bugged You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944 "2011-02-02T21:50:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/241 "2011-03-02T21:06:22Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > I’m working on a rewrite for this, update it a bit > > Gimme crack whore , and I don’t care > > cause I’m so F\*\*kin’ high Charlie, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/242 "2011-03-02T21:09:18Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > From the _Sound of Music_: > > “La, a note to follow sol.” > > Lazy, lazy, lazy, and annoys me every time. I always sing it La, a note before de da. it makes much more sense that way ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/243 "2011-03-02T21:10:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Charlie, is that you? By George I have a title. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/244 "2011-03-02T21:36:34Z")
Down round these heah parts they advise us to make songs somewhat conversational , as if you’re talking to someone and telling a story. It cracks me up when songs that completely violate that rule become giant hits. Okay two songs. One classic song I’d done for years and realized on stage one night that part of it made no sense, so I stopped in the middle to point that out to the audience. Merle Haggard country music Icon had a hit with Daddy Frank Daddy Frank played the guitar and the French harp {an harmonica} Sister played the ringing tambourine Mama couldn’t hear our pretty music but she read our lips and helped the family sing {the screech of brakes} Wait! what? She couldn’t hear but she helped the family sing? What do you suppose that sounded like? Insert off key non sense here. and Mom!! Shut Up Mom!! in sign language. The nest is Good Morning Star shine form Hair, recorded by Oliver “Good morning starshine The earth says hello” AW it’s wonderful waking up with someone you love. “My love and me as we sing Our early morning singing song” Okay a little cheesy, but what song is it? “Gliddy gloop gloopy Nibby nobby nooby La la la lo lo Sabba sibby sabba Nooby abba dabba Le le lo lo dooby ooby walla dooby abba dabba Early morning singing song” Really? That’s romantic to you? That evokes a mental image of young love as two people with morning breath sing this? Maybe that what Daddy frank and the Mrs. sing, …that sounds believable. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/245 "2011-03-02T22:57:35Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > “Gliddy gloop gloopy > Nibby nobby nooby > La la la lo lo > Sabba sibby sabba > Nooby abba dabba > Le le lo lo > dooby ooby walla > dooby abba dabba > Early morning singing song” > > Really? That’s romantic to you? That evokes a mental image of young love as two people with morning breath sing this? These are the sounds heard when they start the day off with an enthusiastic sixty-nine. What? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/246 "2011-03-02T23:47:51Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > These are the sounds heard when they start the day off with an enthusiastic sixty-nine. > > What? LOL!!! Very good, consider it stolen, …I mean borrowed. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/247 "2011-03-03T03:39:21Z")
James McNeill Whistler once made a remark (lost to history, I’m afraid) that Oscar Wilde found hilarious. “I wish I’d said that,” he told his friend. “You will, Oscar,” Whistler replied. “You will.” ---
**Author:** ![Jamodu\_Green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Jamodu\_Green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamodu_Green)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/248 "2011-03-04T14:56:21Z")
Live, The Distance _“Let him come into the city Let him find his lucky penny Let him put it in his pocket and shake it all around”_ Why would you put a lucky penny in your pocket and shake it all around? It would probably fall out of your pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/249 "2011-03-04T14:57:21Z")
You’ve never reached into your pocket and shaken whatever’s in there? Keys, coins … I’ve met people who do it habitually. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/250 "2011-03-04T16:03:38Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > James McNeill Whistler once made a remark (lost to history, I’m afraid) that Oscar Wilde found hilarious. “I wish I’d said that,” he told his friend. > “You will, Oscar,” Whistler replied. “You will.” It [wasn’t lost](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXW6tfl2Y0) to history after all. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/251 "2011-03-04T18:33:08Z")
Time For Me to Fly, by REO Speedwagon. Love the song, but every time I hear: I’ve had enough of the falseness of a worn out relation Enough of the jealousy and the _intoleration_ It’s very jarring. However, according to the internet, intoleration is a perfectly cromulent word, so I’m just going to let it go. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/252 "2011-03-04T22:59:41Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Enough of the jealousy and the _intoleration_ Is that what they’re singing? ---
**Author:** ![Canyon\_Surfer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Canyon\_Surfer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canyon_Surfer)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/253 "2011-03-04T23:25:41Z")
Richard Harris, Donna Summer and others MacArthur Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down… Someone left the cake out in the rain and I don’t think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it and I’ll never have that recipe again Oh, no! ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/254 "2011-03-05T00:45:34Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Time For Me to Fly, by REO Speedwagon. Love the song, but every time I hear: > > I’ve had enough of the falseness of a worn out relation > Enough of the jealousy and the _intoleration_ > > It’s very jarring. However, according to the internet, intoleration is a perfectly cromulent word, so I’m just going to let it go. Makes me think of a **Cheap Trick** song, that I don’t think was released as a single, called “Space”. Every word that rhymes ends in “ation” or “asion”. And it’s pretty cool, except for one word: You push hard, you stop my circulation I know you really need a physical **relation** Yeah, relationship doesn’t rhyme with circulation, but still, I find it annoying anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/255 "2011-03-05T13:46:22Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Is that what they’re singing? Afraid so. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/256 "2011-03-05T14:35:20Z")
“\*\*In \*\*this ever-changing world \*\*in \*\*which we live **in** …” (“Ins” were clearly on sale that day, Sir Paul.) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/257 "2011-03-05T14:42:11Z")
Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting Miss Gale Garnett, performing her hit “We’ll Sing In the Sunshine”…"…I will never love you, the cost of love’s too dear…And though I’ll never love you, I’ll stay with you one year"… (cause her daddy told her to never love any man and take what he can give you)…such a winsome, sunny little song. I picture them in jeans, walking down a country road with sunflowers growing alongside, and her telling it like it is, end date spelled right out at the git-go. COLD! ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/258 "2011-03-05T15:29:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “\*\*In \*\*this ever-changing world \*\*in \*\*which we live **in** …” > > (“Ins” were clearly on sale that day, Sir Paul.) Already mentioned and debunked on the first page of this thread. The line is “But if this ever-changing world in which we’re livin’…” ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/259 "2011-03-05T17:33:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “\*\*In \*\*this ever-changing world \*\*in \*\*which we live **in** …” > > (“Ins” were clearly on sale that day, Sir Paul.) No offense, but how many times do we have to go through this? Every single time a conversation comes up about lyrics somebody mentions this, usually (as now) multiple times in one thread. Why do so many people refuse to believe Paul McCartney knows how to write a sentence? ---
**Author:** ![Chapulin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chapulin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chapulin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944/260 "2011-03-05T17:56:34Z")
They lookin at me crazy cuz i bounce around tha club N I keep clappin mah hands like im tryna kill a bug **Row, row, row ya boat Gently down tha stream** Aint nobody in tha club feelin like me Every time I hear that part (the part in bold) I burst out laughing. Like wtf? Random [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-lyrics-that-always-bugged-you/569944.md?page=14)