# Songs that creeped you out when you were a kid **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135 "2002-10-13T21:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/1 "2002-10-13T21:07:52Z")
In the vein of the “Sesame Street Shorts…” thread. When I was a youngun’, I remember being seriously creeped out by the Anne Murray song “Angie Baby”. You know, the song about the insane girl who does nothing all day but listen to the radio and fantasize about imaginary lovers, then one day a neighbor boy breaks in, apparently intending to rape her, and she cranks the volume, then turns is down, sucking him into the speaker, or something… When I was in my late twenties, I was over at a friend’s house, and he put “Angie Baby” on the turntable (some of us still own vinyl, btw), and the creepy memories returned… So, do you have memories of being creeped out by particular popular songs when you were an anklebiter? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/2 "2002-10-13T21:22:26Z")
I had an LP of “American Folk Songs for Kids” (or some title of that ilk). I hated “John Henry” and “Casey Jones” for two reasons: A) they both died, and B) I had male relatives who worked in both the coal mines and the railroads. Go figure. Mom always had to be nearby to skip those songs whenever I wanted to hear it (I wasn’t allowed to touch the stereo system), 'cause I liked the other songs on there, and would end up crying my eyes out if either of those two started playing. (I was three. I semi-got over it eventually, when I could change the records myself). Still don’t like those two songs. ---
**Author:** ![SopranoRosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SopranoRosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SopranoRosa)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/3 "2002-10-13T21:29:26Z")
In the year 2525… Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/4 "2002-10-13T22:14:52Z")
A song that went “Toy land, toy land, beautiful girl and boy land… blah blah… once you’re in, you never get out!” I think it was supposed to be about society and gender identification. It was on a record for kids that most people my age were given by their ex-hippie parents. What a creepy old man singer. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/5 "2002-10-13T23:13:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thea Logica \* > \*\*When I was a youngun’, I remember being seriously creeped out by the Anne Murray song “Angie Baby”. \*\* [nitpick]That was sung by Helen Reddy, of “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar” fame. The song was written by Alan O’Day, whose best-known hit was “Undercover Angel,” which he performed himself. Sorry, I’m a 70s music buff… 🙂 [/nitpick] But it’s a great song nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Savaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Savaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savaka)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/6 "2002-10-13T23:21:19Z")
“Jeff Canady” scared the bejeesus out of me when I was young. Here’s the chorus: > [@](#): > > Hurry hurry children, you better get a’running, > Jeff Canady’s coming and he eats little youngin’s, > His wife is a witch and Jeff can switch from a snake, > To a frog or an old mad dog, so you better leave him alone. It still makes me nervous. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/7 "2002-10-13T23:27:12Z")
There were a couple of things that there were alternate lyrics to when I was a kid. Sung to the tune of “The Old Gray Mare” the words started out “Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts…” and ended up with “…and me without a spoon.” Then there was the alternate version to “My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean” that went: “My bonnie has tuberculosis. My Bonnie she has but one lung. She coughs up her bloody corruption, and lolls it around on her tongue.” Those weren’t recorded, but they grossed _everybody_ out. * * * Geezer ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/8 "2002-10-13T23:38:53Z")
Angie Baby was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the thread title. Followed by The Legend of Wooly Swamp ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/9 "2002-10-14T00:31:29Z")
Pink Floyd’s _Comfortably Numb_ (I think… the one that starts with “Hello? (hello, hello) Is there anybody out there?”). My sister used to play it in her bedroom at night, and I would lie on the other side of the wall, in my bed, and hear this voice like there was a guy trapped somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/10 "2002-10-14T00:37:14Z")
Ironman scared me. I’m not sure if it’s by Black Sabbath or Ozzy solo. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/11 "2002-10-14T04:32:29Z")
The ending of Kiss’ “Black Diamond” scared me because of how the music slows down at the end. I must have been 7 or 8 when I first heard this song (my older sister was an avid Kiss fan at the time and she had all their records) The way they slow it down gave me this creepy impression of what it would be like if everything around me started slowing down until eventually the whole world came to a stop. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/12 "2002-10-14T05:05:20Z")
“Ghost Riders in the Sky” still gives me chills. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/13 "2002-10-14T14:29:26Z")
I was majorly creeped out by “Hotel California”. I remember first hearing it on one of those long famly road trips. A hotel where you can never leave? Scary! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/14 "2002-10-14T14:32:09Z")
RIDER ON THE STORM and THE END by the Doors the fourth side of the Beatles’s White Album (Cry Baby Cry & Goodnight framing Revolution Nine, if memory serves, were particularly unsettling) ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/15 "2002-10-14T15:46:42Z")
A second for “Revolution Number Nine” and also “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zepplin. The middle section with the creepy guitar effects & where it sounds like Robert Plant’s in a hole … :eek: Very creepy to a 5 yr old late at night in the back seat. Especially on 8-track where it faded out & back it at some point! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/16 "2002-10-14T17:13:48Z")
BOC’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper”. I was bugged because there wasn’t NEARLY enough cowbell. Seriously, that song was kind of creepy for an 8-year old to be listening to alone under the covers. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/17 "2002-10-14T17:24:51Z")
**Bloodrock’s** DOA, definitely. > [@](#): > > Laying here, looking at the ceiling, > Someone lays a sheet across my chest… > The face beside me stopped its \ bleeding, > The girl I knew has such a distant stare, > I remember…we were flying low, > and hit something in the air… > > _cue in ambulance sirens_ ---
**Author:** ![Fingolfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Fingolfin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fingolfin)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/18 "2002-10-14T17:36:51Z")
**Flying Purple People Eater** [Anyone know the artist?] **The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia** By Vicki _cough_ Lawrence. They hung an innocent man? Yikes! **The Entire ‘Atom Heart Mother’ Album** by Pink Floyd. I wasn’t really a kid, but I had a very bad trip, triggered by that album, when I was 13! God that was awful! ---
**Author:** ![Savaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Savaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savaka)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/19 "2002-10-14T17:58:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sam Stone \* > **BOC’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper”. I was bugged because there wasn’t NEARLY enough cowbell.** Thank you, **Sam**. Best laugh of the day. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135/20 "2002-10-14T18:00:29Z")
I used to have a really creepy babysitter, very molester-ish, who played some song that had little kids singing “My name is Jimmy, I got a nickel…” It might be “Playground in my Mind”, but I am probably wrong. I refuse to listen to the song to this day, it still creeps me out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-creeped-you-out-when-you-were-a-kid/132135.md?page=2)