# Songs that totally did not happen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [August 10, 2022, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417 "2022-08-10T06:36:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/81 "2022-08-10T18:03:26Z")
I will personally speculate that, in fact, Lucy did not fly in the sky with diamonds and that those young men were not actually all living together on a yellow submarine. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/82 "2022-08-10T18:09:24Z")
Remember when they took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum? Well, they no longer charge a dollar and a half just to see 'em. (Joni Mitchell recently appeared on stage for the first time in a decade , and changed the lyrics to “charge an arm and a leg” to see 'em. ) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fr6K612Mjig/maxresdefault.jpg "Big Yellow Taxi from Joni Jam at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr6K612Mjig) ---
**Author:** ![RobotDevilDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@RobotDevilDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobotDevilDog)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/83 "2022-08-10T18:11:45Z")
Not all of the vampires walking through the (San Fernando) Valley move west down Ventura Boulevard. Some go west, some go east, and some just wander around. (Tom Petty, _Free Fallin’_, if you’re not familiar.) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/84 "2022-08-10T18:26:14Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > However, many cities are built on rock. Yeah, but rock _AND ROLL?_ > [@Humungous History Book](#): > > The “Tragedy of Briocheburg” could have been avoided had anyone in the city planning office bothered to question the wisdom of building on a bedrock composed of french buns. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/85 "2022-08-10T18:46:54Z")
> [@solost](#): > > _ **Eye of the Tiger - Survivor** _ > A metaphor for working hard toward a goal. Not having the visual organ of a large jungle feline surgically implanted in one’s eye socket Is it about the Thundercats? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/86 "2022-08-10T19:03:43Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Lucy did not fly in the sky with diamonds Though it seems plausible that it’s an accurate description of what they saw, given the strength of 60s era LSD ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/87 "2022-08-10T19:06:16Z")
I am willing to believe that when Jimmy Buffett is coping with a major hangover, he indeed does not love Jesus, and also that his head hurts and his feet stink. I am even willing to believe that the lady who picked him up in the dive where he was playing guitar along with the jukebox paid his bar tab. However, I do not believe that her sheets were actually silk. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/88 "2022-08-10T19:16:25Z")
> [@solost](#): > > And yet the devil still lost? Sounds like the Devil lost on a technical disqualification, basically bringing an orchestra to a solo fiddle fight. But who would have DQ’d him? Certainly not himself. “Shucks, you’re right, I got carried away and summoned up my backing band. Dang. You win.” Not very likely. ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/89 "2022-08-10T19:18:22Z")
Joe Walsh’s Maserati could not do 185. Emissions regulations had strangled all the performance from sports cars well before 1978. I bet it couldn’t hit 150. On the other hand, maybe Sammy Hagar couldn’t drive 55, but it was only because he had one foot on the brake. Let up a little and it will go faster, Sammy! ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/90 "2022-08-10T19:20:34Z")
6pm converted to Ireland time is 12am. Give a couple hours delay for it to make the Ireland TV morning news, and then it makes perfect sense 😉 ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/91 "2022-08-10T19:30:31Z")
> [@solost](#): > > _ **She** _ was a small-town girl. He was a _ **city boy** _, born and raised in South Detroit. Doy. Sorry, was rushing to comment before racing out to lunch. Bugs me when I make basic mistakes like that. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/92 "2022-08-10T19:40:08Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [Cecilia (Simon & Garfunkel song) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_(Simon_&_Garfunkel_song)#Composition) That’s cool! I picked Cecilia as my confirmation name because she was the patron saint of music. > [@solost](#): > > Actually, to be honest, I thought Johnny’s playing was ok but pretty bland and conventional, while the devil’s was spookily cool and avant-garde. I’d give the devil the win, myself. Thank you. This has always been my opinion, too. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/93 "2022-08-10T19:43:14Z")
-“The distant future The distant future It is the distant future, the year 2000 -We are robots -The world is very different ever since the robotic uprising of the mid-nineties.” Very unlikely that the [Flight of the Conchords](https://flightoftheconchords.fandom.com) guys were Robots and that there was an apocalypse in the year 2000… Especially when they released the song in 2008. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/94 "2022-08-10T20:08:44Z")
I’m pretty sure Jolene couldn’t take Dolly’s man if she tried. Plus we’d all kick her ass if she did. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/95 "2022-08-10T20:08:57Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Don’t wreck my daydreams Don’t steal my sunshine ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/96 "2022-08-10T20:17:31Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > I have no idea if in fact the bird is the word. It’s not. “Grease” is the word. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/97 "2022-08-10T20:41:18Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Actually, they were robbing a Piggly-Wiggly at the time. Actually, they were driving down Louisiana State Highway 154. Straight into an ambush. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/98 "2022-08-10T20:53:10Z")
That there is a movie-inspired whoosh, little feller. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/99 "2022-08-10T21:10:49Z")
Didn’t even muss my hair! (Certain folks are laughing right now.) ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417/100 "2022-08-10T21:15:58Z")
Delilah and the guy who wrote “Hey There Delilah” weren’t in a long-distance relationship. They barely knew each other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-totally-did-not-happen/969417.md?page=6)