# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/61 "2014-04-15T16:57:30Z")
My favorite would be [“Four of Two” by They Might Be Giants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBvTRvoLXHY) (also often used as incidental music on This American Life.) \*\*Guster \*\*has a great song called “[Jesus on the Radio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ2RRwYu3gU)” that opens with the line, "5AM, March 16th… " ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/62 "2014-04-15T17:04:28Z")
[_Daydream Believer_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU615FaODCg&feature=kp), by The Monkees _Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings Of the bluebird as she sings. The six o’clock alarm would never ring._ ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/63 "2014-04-15T17:39:23Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > [Four in the Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3MJfr_wXQ) by Faron Young. And also a different “Four in the Morning” by a different Young, Jesse Colin Young. (He remade this song with The Youngbloods as well.) ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/64 "2014-04-15T17:41:29Z")
Hooray! No one beat me to “8:05” by Moby Grape. ---
**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, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/65 "2014-04-15T17:41:55Z")
Blue Morning, Blue Day - Foreigner “Out in the street it’s 6 am, another sleepless night. Three cups of coffee, but I can’t clear my head from what went down last night.” ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/66 "2014-04-15T17:44:19Z")
“Talking in Your Sleep” – Crystal Gayle Three o’clock in the morning And it looks like it’s gonna be Another sleepless night ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/67 "2014-04-15T17:53:57Z")
And another “three o’clock in the morning”: “Chains of Love” – Big Joe Turner (by way of Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio) It’s three o’clock in the morning And the moon is shinin’ bright ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/68 "2014-04-15T18:59:52Z")
_Two O’Clock Jump_, a Harry James adaptation of Basie’s One O’Clock Jump. _Ain’t Misbehavin’_, Fats Waller and others “I don’t stay out late, Don’t care to go, I’m home about eight, Just me and my radio.” ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/69 "2014-04-15T19:57:01Z")
Five-O’Clock World – The Vogues Clock on the Wall – The Guess Who This is a GREAT pre-U.S. fame track featuring Burton Cummings at his punkiest. The song mentions, in order: 12 noon Twenty to one Quarter to three Five Twenty to nine Twenty to ten The midnight hour ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/70 "2014-04-15T20:24:25Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Elton John again, “it’s four o’clock in the morning, damn it” - _Someone Saved My Life Tonight_ I’ll always remember that one because of the time the spouse and I were driving, listening to the radio, and I asked him what time it was. “It’s four o’clock in the morning, damn it!” says Elton from the radio. 😃 No, we didn’t plan it that way. That’s why it was amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/71 "2014-04-15T20:27:01Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Chuck Berry’s “Reelin’ and Rockin’” mentions 9:21, 9:32, 9:43, 9:54, 10:05, 10:26, 10:28, and 10:29. [Or…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTnoSsaeOn0) \*Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter to one… Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter to two… Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter to three… Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter to four… Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter to five… Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter to six… Well I looked at my watch, and it was way past six… Well I looked at my watch, and it was a little past seven… Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter past eight… Well I looked at my watch, and it was quarter past nine… Well I looked at my watch, and it was somethin’ to ten… Well I looked at my watch, and it was eleven thirty… Well I looked at my watch, and it was straight up twelve…\* ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/72 "2014-04-15T20:33:53Z")
A few from my classic country/roots rock repertoire: **I’ve Got Five Dollars and It’s Saturday Night** –George Jones, Faron Young and many others Music and dancin’, flirtin’ and fun It’s gonna go on till way past one **Move It On Over** –Hank Williams Came in last night a half past ten That baby of mine wouldn’t let me in **Teenage Boogie** –Webb Pierce Saturday night about 8 o’clock This old place begins to reel and rock **It’s Late** – Ricky Nelson If we coulda left home about a quarter to nine We woulda had fun and plenty of time **Wake Up Little Susie** –The Everly Brothers We both fell sound asleep Wake up, little Susie and weep The movie’s over, it’s four o’clock And we’re in trouble deep And I don’t think anyone has mentioned “Rock Around the Clock,” which mentions several times in the course of things. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/73 "2014-04-15T20:48:24Z")
I’m not sure if it mentions a specific ‘time’, but Time by Pink Floyd must be the ultimate song about time. _“Ticking away the moments That make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours In an off-hand…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/74 "2014-04-15T21:05:05Z")
Sweet Bird of Truth by The The “Six o’clock in the morning and I’m the last person on this plane still awake” Anything by Midnight Oil ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/75 "2014-04-15T21:08:56Z")
_“6 in the morning, police at my door…”_ – Ice-T And its prequel: _“Midnight, chillin’ at AM/PM…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/76 "2014-04-15T22:35:39Z")
“Late in the Evening”-Paul Simon ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/77 "2014-04-15T22:40:05Z")
Daysleeper - R.E.M.: _Receiving department, 3 A.M. Staff cuts have socked up the overage_ ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/78 "2014-04-15T22:44:46Z")
“7 A.M.” - Kesha “Midnight City” - M83 “It was a Good Day” - Ice Cube (“woke her up around 1/she didn’t hesitate to call Ice Cube the top gun” and “two in the morning, got the Fatburger”) ---
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Bob Dylan: “Joey” _“What time is it,” said the judge To Joey when they met “Five to ten,” said Joey The judge says, “That’s exactly what you get.”_ ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/80 "2014-04-16T00:27:07Z")
The Platters -"[Twilight Time"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E1dbn6fWI8) Southside of Bombay - [“What’s the Time Mr Wolf?”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spf1bvMQAsU) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158.md?page=5)