# Songs that lists things **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251 "2014-02-13T15:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/121 "2019-01-21T07:56:26Z")
[What Did Della Wear?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztfOSyCCFM) [These Foolish Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mshV7ug8cdE) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/122 "2019-01-21T10:16:12Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > “Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3” by Ian Dury. Also, arguably, his “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick.” …and England’s Glory: \*There are jewels in the crown of England’s glory And every jewel shines a thousand ways Frankie Howerd, Noel Coward and garden gnomes Frankie Vaughan, Kenneth Horne, Sherlock Holmes… …Nice bit of kipper and Jack the Ripper…\* j ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/123 "2019-01-21T15:52:02Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > …and England’s Glory: > > \*There are jewels in the crown of England’s glory > And every jewel shines a thousand ways > Frankie Howerd, Noel Coward and garden gnomes > Frankie Vaughan, Kenneth Horne, Sherlock Holmes… > > …Nice bit of kipper and Jack the Ripper…\* > > j I wouldn’t have thought to call it a list, but this does remind me of The Kinks’ [Village Green Preservation Society](http://kindakinks.net/discography/showsong.php?song=425) ---
**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:** [January 21, 2019, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/124 "2019-01-21T20:16:50Z")
[New Rules](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2qgadSvNyU) by Dua Lipa. She’s got new rules, she’ll count them. Luckily, there are only three. ---
**Author:** ![guy3fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ab097/32.png) [@guy3fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guy3fire)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/125 "2019-01-22T02:43:13Z")
Of course we can’t forget Cindi Lauper’s list of pronouns in “She Bop” … She bop, He bop, We Bop, They bop. The there’s the classic “Put Another Log on the Fire” etc and then come tell me why you’re leaving me. – Waylon Jennings. I love the Muppets skit version. But for those who rue our materialistic shopping society there is the fun to sing Veggietales “Stuff Mart Rap” ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/126 "2019-01-22T02:57:10Z")
Seven Drunken Nights by the Dubliners (amongst many other Celtic bands) Whatever song became the theme for “The Big Bang Theory” by the Barenaked Ladies ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/127 "2019-01-22T03:06:31Z")
\*“One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don’t do anything at all” \* White Rabbit, by **Jefferson Airplane.** ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/128 "2019-01-22T04:52:47Z")
Better than Anything \*Better than Lucy and Desi Better than Route 66 Better than Kildare and Casey Better than Quiz shows all fixed Better than Huntley and Brinkley Better than Singing with Mitch Better than Hitchcock and Karloff Better than flicking the switch Better than movies late at night or watching Emile Griffith fight Better than anything except being in love\* ---
**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:** [January 22, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/129 "2019-01-22T12:02:26Z")
“Things You Left Behind” by the Nails, of whom I am apparently fonder than some in this discussion. “The Twelve Days of Christmas” --Trad. “The Seven Deadly Virtues” from Camelot “The Elements Song” by Tom Lehrer ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/130 "2019-01-22T13:38:35Z")
Iron Maiden’s album “Seventh Son of A Seventh Son” starts with : Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win Seven holy paths to hell, and your trip begins. Seven downward slopes, seven bloodied hopes, Seven are your burning fires, seven your desires. ---
**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:** [January 22, 2019, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/131 "2019-01-22T14:42:49Z")
No mention of Stevie Wonder’s I Just Called to Say I Love You? Two from Kristopherson: The Pilgrim Chapter 33, and also The Taker ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/132 "2019-01-23T01:32:34Z")
Talkin’ Baseball - Terry Cashman God - John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/133 "2019-01-23T20:46:32Z")
> [@guy3fire](#): > > Of course we can’t forget Cindi Lauper’s list of pronouns in “She Bop” … She bop, He bop, We Bop, They bop. Cyndi was either listing pronouns or conjugating the verb “to bop,” it’s hard to tell. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/134 "2019-01-24T15:35:02Z")
Two from Dylan: Forever Young and Blowing in the Wind ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/135 "2019-01-25T13:41:16Z")
If man is five, if man is five, if man is five Then the devil is six, then the devil is six The devil is six, the devil is six and if the devil is six Then God is seven , then God is seven, the God is seven -Pixies,\* This Monkey’s Gone To Heaven\* ---
**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:** [January 25, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/136 "2019-01-25T14:32:24Z")
“Ten Duel Commandments” from **Hamilton** > [@](#): > > Number one > The challenge, demand satisfaction > If they apologize, no need for further action > > Number two > If they don’t, grab a friend, that’s your second > Your lieutenant when there’s reckoning to be reckoned > > Number three > Have your seconds meet face to face > Negotiate a peace > Or negotiate a time and place > This is commonplace, ‘specially ‘tween recruits > Most disputes die, and no one shoots ---
**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:** [January 26, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/137 "2019-01-26T14:57:10Z")
Godspell’s Day by Day is a list See thee more clearly Love thee more dearly Follow them more nearly ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/138 "2019-01-26T20:43:30Z")
_Penny Lane_ - The Beatles _I’m The Year 2525_ - Sager and Evans _Celluloid Heroes_ - The Kinks _Never to Spain_ - Three Dog Night _No No Song_ - Ringo Starr _I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly_ - Nursery Rhyme Song _Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts_ - Children’s Playground Song _There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea_ - Folk Song ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/139 "2019-01-26T21:16:55Z")
_One, Red, the ruler seeking freedom Two, Gold, the father seeking unity Three, Orange, the thinker seeking understanding Four, Yellow, the poet seeking harmony… Five, Green, the scientist seeking truth Six, Blue, the disciple seeking goodness Seven, Indigo, the artist seeking beauty_ –The Seven Rays by Utopia ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251/140 "2019-01-26T23:32:39Z")
The universe song, monty python Dirty deeds AC DC Ive been everywhere One piece at a time, J. Cash Night Train GnR king of the road [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-lists-things/681251.md?page=8)