# Songs that reference other songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 10, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080 "2006-04-10T14:40:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/61 "2006-04-12T23:37:07Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > and of course Harry Chapin’s “Dance Band on the Titanic”: > > Dance band on the Titanic > Sing “Nearer, my God, to Thee” > The iceberg’s on the starboard bow > Won’t you dance with me > > Instrumentally, the Indigo Girls include Ode to Joy/Beethoven’s 9th at the end of “Cedar Tree”, but not lyrics. In the Jamie Brockett song mentioned earlier are the lines It was midnight on the sea The band was playing “Nearer, my God to Thee.” which makes me wonder if there is a Titanic song that doesn’t reference that one? ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/62 "2006-04-13T00:22:45Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > In the Jamie Brockett song mentioned earlier are the lines > > It was midnight on the sea > The band was playing “Nearer, my God to Thee.” > > which makes me wonder if there is a Titanic song that doesn’t reference that one? Prog/folk band The Morrigan do a “Titanic” song called **‘A Night to Remember’**. I don’t think the ships’s band is mentioned at all. Just a minute, I’ll dig out the CD and have a listen… Nope. It’s there. \* And the band played Nearer My God to Thee Some will perish on the sea…\* ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/63 "2006-04-13T16:45:20Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > To the OP: How about **You Better You Bet** by the Who: > > “I got your body right now on my mind > and I drunk myself blind > to the sound of old T-Rex” T Rex is also referenced in Mott the Hoople’s “All the Young Dudes.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/64 "2006-04-13T17:03:33Z")
Charlie Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”: _“Fire on the Mountain”, “Run, Boys, Run” The devil’s in the “House of the Rising Sun” “Chicken in the Bread Pan (Pickin’ out Dough)” “Granny, does your dog bite? (No, child, no)”_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/65 "2006-04-13T17:08:46Z")
**Surrender** by Cheap Trick references KISS (“I put my KISS record on.”) ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/66 "2006-04-13T19:00:22Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > In the Jamie Brockett song mentioned earlier are the lines > > It was midnight on the sea > The band was playing “Nearer, my God to Thee.” > > which makes me wonder if there is a Titanic song that doesn’t reference that one? Well, of course there’s that old standard, “The Ship Titanic:” _Well they lowered down the lifeboats into the raging sea and the band struck up with “Nearer My God to Thee” Little children wept and cried as the waves crashed o’er the side It was sad when the great ship went down_ ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/67 "2006-04-13T20:09:15Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Well, of course there’s that old standard, “The Ship Titanic:” > \* > Little children wept and cried as the waves crashed o’er the side > It was sad when the great ship went down\* We always sang "…uncles and aunts little children wet their pants It was sad when the great ship went down. Pithy, dontcha think? ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080/68 "2006-04-13T22:00:56Z")
“Prove My Love” by the Violent Femmes contains the spoken line “Third verse, same as the first,” which echoes “I’m Henry the Eighth I Am” by Herman’s Hermits (“Second verse, same as the first”). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-reference-other-songs/352080.md?page=3)