# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/81 "2014-04-16T00:41:22Z")
Better Man - Pearl Jam: _Waitin’, watchin’ the clock, it’s **four o’clock** , it’s got to stop Tell him, take no more, she practices her speech As he opens the door, she rolls over… Pretends to sleep as he looks her over_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/82 "2014-04-16T00:45:07Z")
Talking in Your Sleep - Crystal Gayle: * * * Three o’clock in the mornin’\*\* And it looks like it’s gonna be Another sleepless night\* ---
**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 16, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/83 "2014-04-16T00:58:39Z")
“The French Inhaler”-Warren Zevon _Loneliness and frustration We both came down with an acute case When the lights came up at two I caught a glimpse of you And your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase_ ---
**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 16, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/84 "2014-04-16T01:10:42Z")
“Excitable Boy”-Warren Zevon _He took in the four a.m. show at the Clark Excitable boy, they all said_ ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/85 "2014-04-16T02:19:13Z")
[3 O’Clock Blues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNfMhEa2Jsg) by B.B. King ['Leven Thirty Saturday Night](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9wFVAhxZDI) recorded by many, here by Arthur Schutt and His Orchestra ['Long About Midnight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z832hjSO9hQ) by Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra [Midnight Special](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4WamkR8G-A) recorded by many, here by Leadbelly [It Came Upon a Midnight Clear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljrf6G1kmto), here by St. Peter’s Choir ---
**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/86 "2014-04-16T02:23:28Z")
‘Afterhours’ - Sisters of Mercy **Two o’clock in the morning 94 degrees** ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/87 "2014-04-16T04:07:06Z")
“I get up at 7 yeah and I go to work at 9”… Working Man, Rush. “Well, he was awake at 6 and on the bus at 8. He was at work at 9 and ate lunch at 12. Home at 5. TV at 7. And he was back in bed at 11. He was an ordinary guy. He was an ordinary guy. He was an ordinary guy. Until lately”… Until Lately, Dream Syndicate. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/88 "2014-04-16T12:41:38Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > “I get up at 7 yeah and I go to work at 9”… Working Man, Rush. “I get up around 7, get outta bed around 9…” Guns n Roses, Mr. Brownstone ---
**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 16, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/89 "2014-04-16T15:19:47Z")
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Taking Care Of Business “You get up every morning From your alarm clock’s warning Take the 8:15 into the city” ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/90 "2014-04-16T16:10:47Z")
**Black Sabbath** , _Tomorrow’s Dream_: “Well I’m leaving tomorrow at daybreak Catch the fastest train around nine…” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/91 "2014-04-16T16:13:51Z")
Electric Light Orchestra, _Last Train to London_: It was 9:29, 9:29, back street, big city The sun was going down, there was music all around, it felt so right ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/92 "2014-04-16T16:15:47Z")
“Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)” The Mamas and the Papas ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/93 "2014-04-16T16:15:53Z")
Couple more country ones: **"I Ain’t Never" –Webb Pierce** You call me up and say “Meet me at nine” I have to hurry hurry but I’m there on time I walk right up and knock on your door The landlord says “She ain’t here no more” **I Can’t Go Home Like This –Ray Price** Well my baby told me when I left home She said “I’ll give you your last warning You better be home by a quarter to eight I don’t mean tomorrow morning” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/94 "2014-04-16T16:34:40Z")
Bob Dylan, “Talkin’ World War III Blues” _Well the whole thing started at three o’clock fast, It was all over by a quarter past…_ ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/95 "2014-04-16T21:43:38Z")
“Red Sails in the Sunset” The Frank Sinatra one, talking to the bartender early in the morning Banana Boat Song (“day be-light and I wanna go home” ---
**Author:** ![Cwofaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Cwofaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cwofaz)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/96 "2014-04-16T22:28:04Z")
After Midnight Eric Clapton After midnight, we’re gonna let it all hang down. After midnight, we’re gonna chug -a-lug and shout. We’re gonna stimulate some action; We’re gonna get some … ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/97 "2014-04-17T09:16:26Z")
> [@Meurglys](#): > > [Four in the Morning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3MJfr_wXQ) by Farron Young. There is also a song _called_ [“Faron Young”, by _Prefab Sprout_,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FVEUwDAfzU) which has the chorus line “I’ve got Faron Young at four in the morning.” ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/98 "2014-04-17T09:19:31Z")
> [@Cwofaz](#): > > After Midnight Eric Clapton > > After midnight, we’re gonna let it all hang down. After midnight, we’re gonna chug -a-lug and shout. We’re gonna stimulate some action; We’re gonna get some … See post #12. It is not really Eric Clapton’s song, it is J.J. Cales’s. He did it first and better. ---
**Author:** ![Cwofaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@Cwofaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cwofaz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/99 "2014-04-17T16:23:10Z")
My bad ---
**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 17, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158/100 "2014-04-17T16:35:24Z")
> [@svd678](#): > > “Red Sails in the Sunset” > The Frank Sinatra one, talking to the bartender early in the morning > Banana Boat Song (“day be-light and I wanna go home” Early morning, and daylight, aren’t “a time of day.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-a-time-of-day/686158.md?page=6)