# Song titles (Parenthetical) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515 "2012-02-21T11:15:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Krav\_Manga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krav_manga/32/3153_2.png) [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/1 "2012-02-21T11:15:15Z")
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin Groovy) Continue (please) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/2 "2012-02-21T11:43:51Z")
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) Lollipop (Candyman) (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) When I’m Up (I Can’t Get Down) Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/3 "2012-02-21T13:05:43Z")
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/4 "2012-02-21T13:10:13Z")
(Get a) Grip (On Yourself) ---
**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:** [February 21, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/5 "2012-02-21T13:45:08Z")
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/6 "2012-02-21T14:00:24Z")
Alone Again (Naturally) ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/7 "2012-02-21T14:02:19Z")
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper ---
**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:** [February 21, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/8 "2012-02-21T14:58:12Z")
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) Pigs (Three Different Ones) For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitchhikers) (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction And from the Godfather of Soulful Parentheses: I Got You (I Feel Good) I Can’t Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll Get It Myself) I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance) Funky President (People It’s Bad) ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/9 "2012-02-21T22:25:57Z")
Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) Life During Wartime (This Ain’t No Party… This Ain’t No Disco… This Ain’t No Fooling Around) Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile) (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It) Uptight (Everything’s Alright) Until You Come Back To Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)/Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/10 "2012-02-21T23:13:19Z")
“Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)” And, in similar vein, “La-La (Means I Love You)” (Actually, I remember this as “La la la la la la la la la (means I love you),” which is the actual lyric, but I can’t find online corroboration of this as the title.) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/11 "2012-02-22T00:52:14Z")
(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/12 "2012-02-22T00:58:57Z")
-[We Go In My City (You Got Vocal)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6shXy7T06aY) -[Maria (I Like It Loud)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVjeheaFfsM) -[The Whistle Song (Blow My Whistle Bitch)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIriPmrsvU) -[All Around The World (La la la la)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRvGZffXhfk) -[Kryptonite (I’m On It)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wsx1onlOE) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/13 "2012-02-22T01:10:53Z")
The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write 'Em) All I Wanna Be (Is By Your Side) ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/14 "2012-02-22T01:19:50Z")
Pride (In the Name of Love) Ultra Violet (Light My Way) Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time) Call Me (Come Back Home) Here I Am (Come and Take Me) Sha La La La (Make Me Happy) Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song) (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) For What It’s Worth (Stop, Hey What’s That Sound) Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) December, 1963 (Oh What A Night) Instant Karma (We All Shine On) Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) (Everything I Do) I Do It For You Escape (The Pina Colada Song) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) I Ran (So Far Away) Dude (Looks Like A Lady) You Don’t Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It) Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) Only the Lonely (Know How I Feel) Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Santa Monica (Watch the World Die) Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I Got) Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless) Don’t You (Forget About Me) (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone Money (That’s What I Want) Anna (Go To Him) The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss) You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) Niether One Of Us (Want To Be The First To Say Goodbye) You Got It (The Right Stuff) Sad Songs (Say So Much) I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me) You Can’t Turn Me Off (In The Middle Of Turning Me On) I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl) Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of…) Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/15 "2012-02-22T04:52:01Z")
Lots of songs have a parenthetically titled (Reprise) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/16 "2012-02-22T05:04:47Z")
Miami 2017 (“Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway”) “Movin Out” (Anthony’s Song) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/17 "2012-02-22T05:09:39Z")
I’m Blue (The Gong-Gong Song) Interestingly, I always thought it was the “gone gone” song. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/18 "2012-02-22T05:58:14Z")
Remember (Walking in the Sand) Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/19 "2012-02-22T17:01:48Z")
Several by Hatfield and the North: “(Big) John Wayne Socks Psychology on the Jaw” “Your Majesty is Like a Cream Donut (Quiet)” “Your Majesty is Like a Cream Donut (Loud)” “Big Jobs (Poo Poo Extract)” “Big Jobs No. 2 (by Poo and the Wee Wees)” “Let’s Eat (Real Soon)” ---
**Author:** ![ruh-roh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ruh-roh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruh-roh)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-parenthetical/613515/20 "2012-02-22T17:29:03Z")
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