# Songs With (For Lack of a Better Choice of Words) Easter Eggs

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**Created:** [November 26, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-for-lack-of-a-better-choice-of-words-easter-eggs/975594 "2022-11-26T15:53:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-for-lack-of-a-better-choice-of-words-easter-eggs/975594/21 "2022-11-27T04:54:57Z")

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In Gilbert and Sullivan’s penultimate work, _Utopia, Limited_, a number of English gentleman have come to the paradisal south-sea isle of Utopia to teach them the British way of doing things. This one introduces himself last:

> Capt: I’m Captain Corcoran, K.C.B.,  
> I’ll teach you how we rule the sea,  
> And terrify the simple Gauls;  
> And how the Saxon and the Celt  
> Their Europe-shaking blows have dealt  
> With Maxim gun and Nordenfelt  
> (Or will when the occasion calls).  
> If sailor-like you’d play your cards,  
> Unbend your sails and lower your yards,  
> Unstep your masts—you’ll never want 'em more.  
> Though we’re no longer hearts of oak,  
> Yet we can steer and we can stoke,  
> And thanks to coal, and thanks to coke,  
> We never run a ship ashore!
> 
> All: What never?
> 
> Capt.: No, never!
> 
> All: What never?
> 
> Capt: Hardly ever!
> 
> All: Hardly ever run a ship ashore!  
> Then give three cheers, and three cheers more,  
> For the tar who never runs his ship ashore;  
> Then give three cheers, and three cheers more,  
> For he never runs his ship ashore!

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-for-lack-of-a-better-choice-of-words-easter-eggs/975594/22 "2022-11-27T23:58:12Z")

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The song was the Ohio Players’ “Love Rollercoaster” and I always heard that it was a woman being murdered IN the studio. Yeah, right, like I’m sure they’d get away with it. The scream is at about 2:35.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QjZbPA1cMIU/maxresdefault.jpg "Love Rollercoaster") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjZbPA1cMIU)

A decade or so later, the Christian band Petra deliberately put a backwards message on one of their songs that said, “Why are you looking for the devil, when you should be looking for the Lord?”

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