# Songs identifiable from two or three words **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2010, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435 "2010-11-04T09:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/21 "2010-11-04T12:49:28Z")
“Imagine…” “Sara spelled without…” “Carry on…” “Up and down…” “Two all-beef…” “See the tree…” “I was working…” “In my mind…” “Baby hair, and…” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/22 "2010-11-04T13:10:08Z")
> [@Electric\_Warrior](#): > > …in a crossfire hurricane I was going to go with “I was born an original sinner…” ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/23 "2010-11-04T13:14:35Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I was going to go with “I was born an original sinner…” And I was thinking “I was born one morning when the sun didn’t shine…” ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/24 "2010-11-04T13:20:14Z")
Day-oh! Day-ay-ay-oh! Goodbye, Norma Jean ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/25 "2010-11-04T13:44:21Z")
There’s a lady… Remember when you… Goodbye Yellow… Some people call… ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/26 "2010-11-04T13:44:42Z")
Discussion of Todd Rundgren in the Prince thread made me think of: “And there’s more…” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/27 "2010-11-04T13:46:38Z")
1. She grew up… 2. They pulled in… to Nazareth (I thought it was “I” pulled in?) 3. We’ll be fighting… in the streets 4. Lights out tonight… 5. With a purple…umbrella and a 50 cent hat 6. Well, it’s eight…o’clock on a Saturday 7. Just got home… 8. Lines form on…my face and hands For single words, what about: Yesterday… Help!.. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/28 "2010-11-04T14:12:59Z")
All the leaves A wop bop From the halls Hot town, summer How many roads I can’t get I am he Let me take Little surfer, little O beautiful for One pill makes O say, can The continent of There’s something happening When the truth You need coolin’ ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/29 "2010-11-04T14:14:02Z")
Hello, it’s me. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/30 "2010-11-04T14:27:45Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Goodbye, Norma Jean Which brings us to the biggest selling single in history: Goodbye, England’s rose ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/31 "2010-11-04T14:33:27Z")
Purple haze. . . One two three (several songs) Riders on the. . . I shot the. . . ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/32 "2010-11-04T14:44:37Z")
Layla Lola ---
**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:** [November 4, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/33 "2010-11-04T14:59:40Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Layla > Lola Not really: Layla: What will you … Lola: I met her … ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/34 "2010-11-04T15:18:51Z")
You ain’t nothin’. . . Start me up. . . Sugarpie, honeybun. . . I got sunshine. . . Stop! In the. . . ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/35 "2010-11-04T15:23:29Z")
A stick, a stone ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/36 "2010-11-04T15:24:30Z")
Heard it through the grapevine you don’t even need three words, when that intro riff come son you just know whats coming, Dum der rum dum, der der der der Maybe theres a whole thread in songs you know without words or music - just the incoming beat pattern. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/37 "2010-11-04T15:52:46Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Shouldn’t that be “we don’t need”? :smack: At least you knew what song it was from just two words 😃 These mist covered… Hey there people ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/38 "2010-11-04T16:12:25Z")
Don’t Bogart that Gimme an “F” She loves you Wild Thing ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/39 "2010-11-04T16:14:29Z")
That great intro, then “Jesus Christ” ---
**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:** [November 4, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-identifiable-from-two-or-three-words/559435/40 "2010-11-04T16:51:58Z")
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