# Songs that are puns (and other wordplay) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748 "2007-08-24T12:38:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748/61 "2007-08-26T01:59:04Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > ``` > Hail Ants, the version of "If You See Kay" you heard was most likely the one by April Wine. > > ``` Yeah, from their Wikipedia entry it sounds about right. At least I know I didn’t dream it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748/62 "2007-08-26T02:17:18Z")
“If I Told You That You Had a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?” An old joke-pick-up line turned into a C&W song, but I forget by whom. I normally don’t care for C&W – bad memories of it from West texas – but this one is good. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748/63 "2007-08-26T19:23:12Z")
There must be scads of songs with double entendres. “Linda and her Londonderry Air” “My Girl’s Pussy” (an older song sung by R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders) “She has freckles on her, but she is nice” “Don’t give me no goose for Christmas, grandma” ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748/64 "2007-08-27T00:50:17Z")
[QUOTE=Hail Ants] Yeah, from their Wikipedia entry it sounds about right. At least I know I didn’t dream it. [/QUOTE] Or it could be the song by Poster Children, from 1991… ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yvLwMxubI6g/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/yvLwMxubI6g?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Another bit of wordplay that has been used more than once is repetition of a line that contains the words “broken record” (in “Ana Ng” by They Might Be Giants and “Broken Record” by The Refreshments). There are a few times that the Refreshments song also substitutes other words for obvious rhymes, as in “Polka Dot Undies” (but the implied words aren’t dirty). You took another guy on that Caribbean cruise While I stayed home and cried into my bottle of pills ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748/65 "2007-08-27T01:21:15Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] “If I Told You That You Had a Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?” An old joke-pick-up line turned into a C&W song, but I forget by whom. I normally don’t care for C&W – bad memories of it from West texas – but this one is good. [/QUOTE] That would be Howard and Dave, better known as the Bellamy Brothers. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748/66 "2007-08-27T14:52:12Z")
Squeeze’s [Pulling Mussels from a Shell](http://www.squeezefan.com/songbook/Pulling_Mussels.htm) > [@](#): > > But behind the Chalet > My holiday’s complete > And I feel like William Tell > Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet > Pulling mussels from a shell [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-puns-and-other-wordplay/416748.md?page=3)