# Songs that mention a time of day **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2014, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158 "2014-04-15T08:09:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/1 "2014-04-15T08:09:54Z")
What are some songs that mention a time of day, either in the title or the lyrics? A few that I’ve thought of: [_One for My Baby_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpJoYYGzjM) (“A quarter to three”). [(and this unforgettable version)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XquQO_kHg) [_About a Quarter to Nine_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEyXQp5iDIg) from “Forty-Second Street.” Thelonious Monk’s ['Round Midnight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zre0u5XyNfY). ---
**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:** [April 15, 2014, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/2 "2014-04-15T08:15:01Z")
**Tori Amos** , _Me and a Gun_ : “5 a.m. Friday morning, Thursday night Far from sleep” ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/3 "2014-04-15T08:19:34Z")
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/4 "2014-04-15T08:43:03Z")
Manic Monday - The Bangles > [@](#): > > Six o’clock already > I was just in the middle of a dream I’m going to guess its AM ETA: Using this google search: o’clock site:azlyrics.com You can find some more - on the second page I found 1,000 o’clock - Aesop Rock Not sure if that counts 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/5 "2014-04-15T09:03:19Z")
Piano Man - Billy Joel It’s 9:00 o’clock on a Saturday… ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/6 "2014-04-15T09:07:27Z")
Working 9 till 5… ---
**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:** [April 15, 2014, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/7 "2014-04-15T09:13:03Z")
The Beatles in **She’s Leaving Home** first verse -_Wednesday morning at five o’clock as the day begins_, and last verse - \*Friday morning at nine o’clock she is far away. \* ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/8 "2014-04-15T09:23:52Z")
[Brown Sugar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0Y3LUqr1Q)- just around midnight [9am](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPOuGt89ubA)on a new york subway [Memory](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfWP7KthIQ) Midnight, not a sound from the pavement. [One For My Baby’(And One more for The Road)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpJoYYGzjM) - It’s quarter to three. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2014, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/9 "2014-04-15T09:36:02Z")
What’s Your Name - Lynyrd Skynyrd “Well, its 8 o’clock in Boise, Idaho. I’ll find my limo driver, mister, take us to the show.” ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/10 "2014-04-15T09:48:50Z")
Rock around the Clock… But then I asked Uncle Google… How many do you want? [http://www.humanclock.com/songlist.php](http://www.humanclock.com/songlist.php) ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/11 "2014-04-15T09:52:20Z")
[7 Minutes to Midnight by Wah! Heat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMCn3KQIxr4) [Iron Maiden go five minutes better with 2 Minutes To Midnight](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbqQOf41Qc&feature=kp) ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/12 "2014-04-15T09:58:16Z")
“5:15”, The Who. “After Midnight”, J.J. Cale (and covered by Eric Clapton)… ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/13 "2014-04-15T10:01:11Z")
Here’s one that’s not on the list posted above: [Spacemen 3 - 2:35](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdQmqNrzxPY) First one I thought of, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/14 "2014-04-15T10:03:01Z")
“Four o’clock in the afternoon and I didn’t feel like very much.” Leonard Cohen, “Dress Rehearsal Rag” “In The Midnight Hour”, Wilson Pickett. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/15 "2014-04-15T10:07:42Z")
10:15 Saturday Night by The Cure ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/16 "2014-04-15T10:09:05Z")
“What’s that honey? Pick you up at 8 and don’t be late?” “Chantilly Lace”, The Big Bopper. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/17 "2014-04-15T10:19:27Z")
“You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four” - “Chattanooga Choo Choo”, Glenn Miller. “One After 9.09”, _The Beatles_. (Seems to be a train departure time.) “It’s four in the morning, the end of December,” Leonard Cohen, “Famous Blue Raincoat.” “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.”, Simon & Garfunkel. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/18 "2014-04-15T10:26:06Z")
“Down at the Tube Station at Midnight”, _The Jam_. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/19 "2014-04-15T10:31:43Z")
“She gets too hungry for dinner at eight,” - “The Lady is a Tramp” (written by Rogers and Hart, best known version by Frank Sinatra). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/20 "2014-04-15T10:47:45Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > [_One for My Baby_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpJoYYGzjM) (“A quarter to three”). > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > [One For My Baby’(And One more for The Road)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJpJoYYGzjM) - It’s quarter to three. Note to self - next time, read the OP. :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158.md?page=2)