If it does, we may have a winner with the Pipkins Gimme Dat Ding where, not only do we not know what dat ding (that thing) is, but there’s nothing in the lyrics that ties any object or quality that can be given or possessed to what the singer is singing about.
“I Want That Thing” / Pete Townshend
Thanks everyone. At least my first one counted.
“I Can Do That” (from A Chorus Line)
“What Up with That?” (from Saturday Night Live)
“That’s the Way God Planned It” - Billy Preston
50% of the lyrics were an abbreviated list of things he couldn’t go for, if you care to get into it that far.
“Can You Picture That?” Electric Mayhem Band
“I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” - Meat Loaf
That’s My Weakness Now:
That’s What Friends Are For:
You Can’t Change That - Ray Parker Jr.
That was Yesterday - Foreigner
It’s Like That (And That’s the Way It Is) - Run DMC
So that was Robert Plant singing “That’s The Way (Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh)”… didn’t know Zep had done some disco.
But seriously, “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
Lauryn Hill
Guys, you know you’d better watch out
Some girls, some girls are only about
That thing, that thing, that thi-ih-ih-ing…
That thing, that thing, that thing
Today I heard this on my streamer for the very first time. It uses the term “milkshake” instead of “that”. Which term was new to me, and is not quite inbounds for this thread. But what the heck; y’all might enjoy it anyhow, “that” or no …
It leaves little to the imagination about what her milkshake really is and what it really does.
“That’s Life” / Sinatra
Argh, ninja’d by Robot_Arm (I did search fpr Shania)
Okay, late entry (I searched for the title, snoop and dogg)
That’s that shit
- Snoop Dogg & R. Kelly
Filthy! And I mostly mean R. Kelly besides that title!
So off to “South Pacific” with Rodgers & Hammerstein
“I’m gonna wash that man right outta my hair” – too easy and the OP invited songs that didn’t necessarily have “that” in the title…
How about Emile de Becque’s soliloquy?
One girl for my dream
One partner in paradise
This promise of paradise
This nearly was mine
Close to my heart she came
Only to fly away
Only to fly as day flies from moonlight
Now, now I’m alone
Still dreamin’ of paradise
Still sayin’ that paradise
Once nearly was mine
I’ll keep rememberin’ kisses
From lips I’ve never owned
And all that lovely adventures
That we have never known
- “This nearly was mine”, R & H
Yes, there is a “that” in the lyrics, yet I reckon the “this” in the title is the “that” we’re on about here.
Well if it does, I respectfully submit Dat by Pluto Shervington as your winner.
You’re going to have to work at it. I realize this song may not be well known in the US. Let’s try to put that right. God alone knows what the lyrics actually are. My best guess at a relevant section below; someone else’s best guess in the vid.
(You want goat?) No I might-a kill I queen
(Try de beef nuh?) I no check fi no grass weh green
(Wha’ bout fowl?) What’cha know is time fi a change
(Mere fish ?) Got children out a dat range
(How 'bout de steak?) What’cha know, me no sight me rate
(Try de tripe boss?) Bu’n me belly when I pull me pipe
(What about de pork then?)
Hush your mouth man, me brethren hear
Sell I a pound of dat t’ing there
TLDR
Rasta Ozzy is musing on his grocery bill, wondering if he can make savings “fi buy likkel weed”. In an encounter with the butcher boy, he opts for pork (which he will not say out loud as it is forbidden for rastas, hence his referring to it as Dat.)
After this pruchase, Ozzy is shocked to run into Rasta Jeremiah, who asks him what is in the package. But as it happens, Jeremiah quite fancies a pork dinner too, so all ends well.
There is always a place in the world for the perfect pop song. Enjoy:
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Ha! Thanks, good one!
Black Sheep - “The Choice Is Yours”
You can get with this, or you can get with that
You can get with this, or you can get with that
You can get with this, or you can get with that
I think you’ll get with this, for this is where it’s at