# Songs with sequels? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248 "2007-08-03T05:17:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/21 "2007-08-03T13:09:07Z")
The Stanley Brothers’ _A Life of Sorrow_ is a sequel to _Man of Constant Sorrow_—the latter of which, of course, was made popular in the movie _O Brother Where Art Thou?_. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/22 "2007-08-03T13:12:35Z")
[Bananas At Large](http://www.bananasatlarge.com/) Da Turdy Point Buck and Da Turdy Point Buck II. [Da Yoppers](http://www.dayoopers.com/) Second Week Of Deer Camp ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/23 "2007-08-03T13:23:19Z")
_snork_ Best of the Worst indeed! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/24 "2007-08-03T13:42:41Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] There was a sequel to Harry Chapin’s _Taxi_. It was called _Sequel_. [/QUOTE] I came here to mention that. It sucked. The novelty C.B. song \*Convoy \* had a sequel, about the rogue truckers travelling around the world by driving on water, thanks to the faith of the Jesus freaks in the convoy. Either that, or I took more drugs in the seventies than I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/25 "2007-08-03T13:49:39Z")
The Twist - Chubby Checker Let’s Twist Again (Like we did last Summer) - Chubby Checker ---
**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:** [August 3, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/26 "2007-08-03T14:13:51Z")
[QUOTE=Rube E. Tewesday] The novelty C.B. song \*Convoy \* had a sequel, about the rogue truckers travelling around the world by driving on water, thanks to the faith of the Jesus freaks in the convoy. Either that, or I took more drugs in the seventies than I remember. [/QUOTE] _'Round The World With The Rubber Duck_. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/27 "2007-08-03T14:16:51Z")
Shep & The Limelites “Daddy’s Home” can be seen as a sequel to their earlier “A Thousand Miles Away”. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/28 "2007-08-03T14:24:37Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] _'Round The World With The Rubber Duck_. [/QUOTE] It was real! Thanks, **Johnny**. ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9fc29f/32.png) [@I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_Ron_Burgundy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/29 "2007-08-03T14:26:26Z")
Fred Jones part II - Ben Folds The first one was Cigarette Also Paul Simon’s The Boxer part II, Still Boxing ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/30 "2007-08-03T14:39:54Z")
The Killers have the murder trilogy, though the first part of the trilogy is an unreleased song. First, “Leave the Bourbon On the Shelf.” Supposedly, this is about the narrator hearing rumors of his girlfriend cheating on him, but I’ve never heard the song or been able to find the lyrics to it. Then, “[Midnight Show](http://thekillersfansite.com/midnight2.htm).” The narrator apparently kills his girlfriend over his belief that she’s cheating on him. And finally, “[Jenny Was a Friend of Mine](http://thekillersfansite.com/Jenny2.html),” which is apparently the narrator rehearsing what he’s going to say to the police. I hadn’t been aware that it was a series of songs at first and just thought, geez, the lead singer is twisted. How many songs about killing your girlfriend can one guy write? Apparently, a whole bunch if it’s the same girlfriend. :dubious: ---
**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:** [August 3, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/31 "2007-08-03T14:41:07Z")
[QUOTE=Rube E. Tewesday] It was real! [/QUOTE] Now how do you feel about that? Better that it’s real? Or worse that it wasn’t the drugs? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/32 "2007-08-03T14:51:29Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] **Snoopy’s Christmas** as a sequel to **Snoopy vs. the Red Baron**. [/QUOTE] “Snoopy’s Christmas” was the second sequel to “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.” The first one was “[The Return of the Red Baron](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/returnof.htm).” ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9fc29f/32.png) [@I\_m\_Ron\_Burgundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_Ron_Burgundy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/33 "2007-08-03T14:54:56Z")
Oh Pearl Jam has a few, I think. Why Go is supposed to precede Daughter, and Once, Alive, and Footsteps are supposed to be a trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/34 "2007-08-03T15:06:23Z")
[QUOTE=denquixote] Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and Etta James (W/ Harvey Fuqua) had a back and forth thing going in the 50’s. The Midnighters recorded “Work with me Annie” and Etta answered with “Dance with me Henry (The Wallflower)” the Midnighters then recorded “Henry’s Got Flat Feet.” They also recorded “Annie had a Baby” not clearly a response, but definitely a sequel. [/QUOTE] This combines the idea of a sequel and an “answer record”, which was sometimes a sequel, and sometimes the same song with the lyrics changed to reflect a different point of view. Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” is an answer record to Otis Redding’s earlier original version. Sample Otis lyric: Do me wrong Honey if you wanna You can do me wrong Honey while I am gone Corresponding Aretha lyric: I ain’t gonna do you wrong while you’re gone Ain’t gonna do you wrong 'cause I don’t wanna Neil Sedaka once did a song called “Oh Carol”. Carole KIng then recorded a song called “Oh Neil”. In a similar vein, after David Bowie released his “Low” album, Nick Lowe released an EP called “Bowi”. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/35 "2007-08-03T15:24:00Z")
The album-side-length “Hemispheres” by Rush is subtitled “Cygnus X-1 BookII”. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/36 "2007-08-03T15:28:53Z")
I seem to recall a perfectly awful sequel to the Steve Lawrence hit _Go Away Little Girl_ called _I Won’t Go Away Little Boy_. Couldn’t begin to tell you the name of the girl who sang it, though. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/37 "2007-08-03T17:13:06Z")
I don’t know if this is really a sequel or not. The Police did a newer version of “Don’t Stand So Close to Me”, which is titled “Don’t Stand So Close to Me '86”. According to the lyrics sites I checked, the lyrics for each version are the same. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/38 "2007-08-03T17:37:23Z")
I keep coming back to “What do we mean by sequel?” Locomotive Breath could be considered the sequel to Auqalung and almost every record Savatage issued was an opera with sequel following sequel to the end of the story. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/39 "2007-08-03T18:08:20Z")
“Destroyer” by the Kinks referrenced “Lola” in its lyrics and “Hello I Love You Won’t You Tell Me Your Name” in the guitar work. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/40 "2007-08-03T18:09:41Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] “Snoopy’s Christmas” was the second sequel to “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.” The first one was “[The Return of the Red Baron](http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/returnof.htm).” [/QUOTE] There was a third sequel, **Snoopy For President** , in 1968. \* Waiting at the pumpkin patch, a dog sincere and brave And everybody hoped that soon the country he would save The pumpkin said “The day has come for you to take a stand” “For love has left the people across our native land” Some wear the sign of the elephant and some wear the sign of the mule But we’ll hold the sign of the beagle high and love will shine right through\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248.md?page=3)