# Songs in which the title does not appear within the lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941 "2011-06-01T09:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/1 "2011-06-01T09:42:15Z")
There must be several, but I can think of only two: “For What It’s Worth”, by Buffalo Springfield “A Day in the Life”, by The Beatles mmm ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/2 "2011-06-01T09:46:24Z")
“What’s Up” by 4 Non-Blondes “Country Honk” by the Rolling Stones ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/3 "2011-06-01T09:47:52Z")
What’s the real name of the Dylan song “Everybody Must Get Stoned”? That doesn’t appear in the song. ---
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> [@Krokodil](#): > > What’s the real name of the Dylan song “Everybody Must Get Stoned”? That doesn’t appear in the song. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. On the topic of songs with numerical titles, Blur’s Song 2 doesn’t contain either of those words. (It is, however, the second song on most albums it appears on.) The phrase ‘Jimmy Olsen’s Blues’ never appears in that song. (The album title, Pocket Full of Kryptonite, however, does.) While the word ‘logical’ does appear in the Logical Song, the word song, and thus the title, does not. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/5 "2011-06-01T09:58:32Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > While the word ‘logical’ does appear in the Logical Song, the word song, and thus the title, does not. Alright, I’ll give you that. But your contribution made me think of **“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”**, and for that you will never be forgiven. mmm ---
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[59th Bridge Street Song.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBhdKrwTOc) ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/7 "2011-06-01T10:28:28Z")
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit ---
**Author:** ![BDoors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BDoors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDoors)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/8 "2011-06-01T10:39:32Z")
There must be thousands of examples. Just picking, say, _OK Computer_, I think there’s Exit Music Paranoid Android Subterranean Homesick Alien The Tourist [edit] Oh, and Lucky ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/9 "2011-06-01T11:32:47Z")
Just from Led Zeppelin alone, there’s… The Battle of Evermore Black Dog Boogie With Stu Bron-y-aur Stomp D’yer Mak’er Four Sticks Hats Off to (Roy) Harper The Immigrant Song Living Loving Maid The Rover Southbound Suarez Thank You Trampled Under Foot And probably loads of others ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/10 "2011-06-01T11:54:49Z")
While we’re talking about Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues Love Minus Zero/No Limit Ballad of a Thin Man Positively 4th Street It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry Temporary Like Achillies And that’s just his mid-sixties stuff! ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/11 "2011-06-01T12:24:32Z")
Baba O’Riley Bohemian Rhapsody Badge ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/12 "2011-06-01T12:57:47Z")
“Space Oddity” David Bowie “Train in Vain” The Clash “Queen Jane Approximately” Bob Dylan “Just Like Tom Thumb Blues” Bob Dylan “My Back Pages” Bob Dylan “Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream” Bob Dylan “Motorpsycho Nightmare” Bob Dylan “Land of 1,000 Dances” Chris Kenner/Wilson Pickett “Mystery Train” Elvis Presley “Creque Alley” The Mamas and the Papas “Annie’s Song” John Denver “Randy Scouse Git” The Monkees “Unchained Melody” The Righteous Brothers “Fingertips Pt 2” Stevie Wonder “Epistle to Dippy” Donovan “Hymn to Her” The Pretenders “The Inner Light” The Beatles “Night of the Living Baseheads” Public Enemy “Gimme Little Sign” Brenton Wood (Wood consistently sings "Gimme some kind of sign throughout the song) “Come Softly To Me” The Fleetwoods (They sing “Come softly” a lot, but not the full title) ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/13 "2011-06-01T13:05:44Z")
Type O Negative - “The Glorious Liberation of the People’s Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa” ---
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‘Sympathy for the Devil’ by the Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/15 "2011-06-01T13:50:35Z")
“Dakota” by the Stereophonics. Although apparently it was released in the US as “Dakota (You Made Me Feel Like The One)” to get around this possible confusion 🙂 ---
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“Ode to my Family”, the Cranberries. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/17 "2011-06-01T14:41:50Z")
“Straw Hat and Dirty Old Hank” by Barenaked Ladies. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/18 "2011-06-01T14:47:28Z")
> [@sciurophobic](#): > > Badge Great example- though, of course, in concert, Clapton often jokingly sings “Where is my badge” during the (ahem) bridge section. ---
**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:** [June 1, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941/19 "2011-06-01T15:00:43Z")
Simon & Garfunkel–For Emily, Wherever I Might Find Her ---
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“Iris” - The Goo Goo Dolls “Viva la Vida” - Coldplay [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-which-the-title-does-not-appear-within-the-lyrics/583941.md?page=2)