# Songs about love--but not humans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2019, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297 "2019-10-05T02:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/41 "2019-10-05T17:58:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I presume we’re not counting religious songs? There are plenty of songs about love between God and humans. Eric Cartman wrote a few great ones. _“Wanna get down on me knees to Please Jesus! Feel that salvation all over my face!”_ ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/42 "2019-10-05T18:59:04Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [Be My Girl - The Police](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeecRrhnCZk) - Do inflatable humans count? [Sure why not?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqXSAdOfCUE) ---
**Author:** ![TCMF-2L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tcmf-2l/32/16553_2.png) [@TCMF-2L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TCMF-2L)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/43 "2019-10-05T19:24:19Z")
The chorus in the **10cc** song **Dreadlock Holiday** changes each time but the first time it starts: _I don’t like cricket, oh no, I love it._ Second time starts _I don’t like reggae, no no, I love it._ Third time it starts _I don’t like Jamaica, oh no, I love her._ TCMF-2L ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/44 "2019-10-05T19:43:21Z")
Excerpts from a song from England, concerning railway locomotive crew and their passionate feelings for their charges (from the days when steam locos were the norm – modern traction rarely if ever inspires such sentiments among those who tend it): Come all you young maidens, take a warning from me: Shun all engine-drivers and their company – He’ll tell you he loves you, and all kinds of lies; But the one that he loves is the train that he drives. * * * He hugged me and kissed me and gazed in my eyes, And said, “You’re as nice as the 8.45”… * * * A sailor comes home when the voyage is done, A soldier gets weary of following the drum, A collier will cleave to his loved one for life; But a railwayman’s love is the engine his wife… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/45 "2019-10-05T20:40:30Z")
_Chestnut Mare_ by the Byrds. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/46 "2019-10-05T21:31:32Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [Be My Girl - The Police](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeecRrhnCZk) - Do inflatable humans count? Or “Girl of My Dreams” by Bram Tchaikovsky. Back to the animal theme, there's also "Shannon" by Henry Gross. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/R5Wpn3dFrEs/hqdefault.jpg "Shannon- Henry Gross") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Wpn3dFrEs) ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/47 "2019-10-05T21:50:17Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Mary had a little lamb “Mary had a little lamb; Couldn’t make it with a man.” –traditional Meanwhile, Norman Greenbaum (satirical SPIRIT IN THE SKY) wrote a fine interspecies love song. From my memory: Jethro bought himself a milk cow, and he calls her Bess (2x) Milk cow in the morning; milk cow, any time at all. Give you lifetime of pleasure, all she needs is love (2x) Milk cow in the morning; milk cow, any time at all. Dog songs: Old Blue. Old Red. Old Gray Dog. Lassie and Benji themes. My Dog And Me (John Hiatt). I Love My Dog (Cat Stevens - but who loves his cat?) I’m afraid to look for love songs for goats. Or robots. Or conservatives. Too kinky. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/48 "2019-10-06T03:53:03Z")
[Beer Never Broke My Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lb9dq-JZFI) extols the virtues of beer over various types of relationships. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/49 "2019-10-06T16:50:01Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > [Be My Girl - The Police](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeecRrhnCZk) - Do inflatable humans count? Likewise _In Every Dreamhome A Heartache_ by Roxy Music j ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/50 "2019-10-06T16:57:57Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Also, does it count if the object of affection was human, but isn’t anymore? “She’s cool in bed – she oughta be, 'cause Ethyl’s dead.” > > [Alice Cooper - Cold Ethyl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFE9tkq4KM) What’s the ruling on objects of affection which start off alive but end up dead by the end of the song? There’s a lot of them. Like [Delilah by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTwQfyBoEE)? (I believe Tom Jones also did a version). j ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/51 "2019-10-07T14:29:14Z")
Dabnabbit, all of mine have already mentioned. Has anyone chimed in with _Puff the Magic Dragon?_ IIRC, Jackie Paper loved that rascal, Puff. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/52 "2019-10-07T14:55:33Z")
Dance scene from _Love At First Bite_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rmAyOHWwMbo/maxresdefault.jpg ""I Love The Night Life" re-mix for the movie Love At First Bite") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmAyOHWwMbo) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/53 "2019-10-07T15:14:40Z")
[I Love L.A.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4) [I Love New York](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck3MRdeph5o) [Dirty Water](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XRy-jFCm8) Love song to Boston (written and performed by people who’d never been there) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/54 "2019-10-07T20:24:00Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > _Chestnut Mare_ by the Byrds. That’s the one I was going to mention. How can you be more romantically in love with a horse than with a line like “And we’ll be friends for life, she’ll be just like a wife”? Though I love the song, I’ve done horse-riding in my youth and get the song alright. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/55 "2019-10-07T20:47:53Z")
Jonathan Coulton: “[I’m Your Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQCUK1OeZGI)”, a love letter from Charon to Pluto. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/56 "2019-10-07T22:51:34Z")
Here’s a song-within-a-song that might qualify: “If you’ll be my Dixie chicken, I’ll be your Tennessee lamb…” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297/57 "2019-10-07T23:00:02Z")
How about a song about a lovely horse? [My Lovely Horse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-love-but-not-humans/841297.md?page=2)