# 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:** 4
**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:** [August 6, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/61 "2007-08-06T12:21:00Z")
[Lost Boys](http://www.geocities.com/songs2play/1190lostboys.txt) by Ralph McTell is not so much a sequel but a reply to (and rebuttal of) [Tribal Warriors](http://www.gaudela.net/prior/arthur_the_king.html#Tribal_Warriors) by Maddy Prior. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/62 "2007-08-06T12:52:11Z")
Yay! I can throw my own little oddity into the mix: **Thomas Dolby** had: Europa and the Pirate Twins, and Eastern Bloc (sequel to Europa and the Pirate Twins) based on the titles, I’d guess they were related. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/63 "2007-08-06T13:40:23Z")
Flanders & Swann - The Hippopotamus song had a follow up several years later. One verse and chorus telling what happened to the hippo. ---
**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/64 "2007-08-14T18:31:38Z")
Huh…I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Travis Tritt’s three songs “Anymore” followed by “Tell Me I was Dreaming” and finally “If I Lost You”. I recall that the videos made it clear that the three songs were all about the same characters, and I know Travis said in one interview that they were all about the same guy, but I can’t recall if the lyrics lend themselves to figuring that out on their own. I just read through the lyrics of all the songs, and I can’t say that you’d know they were supposed to be related just from that. If you saw the videos, you’d know, but not just hearing the songs…so they semi-qualify. edited to take the damn apostrophe out. Stupid grammar ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/65 "2007-08-14T18:41:41Z")
**Ween** has _The Stallion_ parts 1, 2 and 3 (and possibly more since, I’m more familiar with their older stuff), mang. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/66 "2007-08-14T18:45:21Z")
Tom Paxton wrote “Has Annie Been In Tonight,” “Annie’s Going To Sing Her Song” and “When Annie Took Me Home.” All about an on-and-off and finally over relationship Did Annie drop in for a beer? Or was she into the gin? Ah, tell me if she was here? What kind of a mood was she in? If she was angry still I don’t have a hope in the hell I don’t have a story to tell that’s bright And say, has Annie been in tonight? * * * It isn’t Annie’s only tune The other I’ll be hearing soon Next week, tomorrow or today. She sings it when she goes away. Take the bottle, fill your cup. Don’t miss the part where I fold up Cause Annie’s going to sing her song. Called “Take Me Back Again.” Come on, Annie, sing your song And I’ll take you back again. * * * Love can grown and love can go. Did she love me? I don’t know. Though she often told me so, I never really know. Was I blind? I don’t mind. I think life’s been more than kind. Thanks to life there was the time When Annie took me home. ---
**Author:** ![Jerry\_Franklin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecccb3/32.png) [@Jerry\_Franklin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerry_Franklin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/67 "2012-09-05T22:03:44Z")
Bobby Vinton recorded Rose Are Red and Florraine Darling recorded a sequel As Long As The Rose Is Red. Also Claude King recorded Wolverton Mountain and Joann Campbell recorded I’m The Girl from Wolverton Mountain. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/68 "2012-09-05T22:34:53Z")
Surprised nobody’s mentioned [Father of a Boy Named Sue](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRhmHdwnhWQ) yet. Probably Not Safe for most places, ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/69 "2012-09-05T23:51:43Z")
Awww, my baby is a zombie! How cute. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/70 "2012-09-06T00:27:56Z")
The Ramones: Judy is a Punk The Return of Jackie and Judy ---
**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:** [September 6, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/71 "2012-09-06T02:17:45Z")
The Police-“Synchronicity I” and “Synchronicity II” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/72 "2012-09-06T02:25:43Z")
Not exactly sequels, but Steve Miller’s song The Joker refers to his previous song Gangster of Love, which refers to the previous Space Cowboy. Also in The Joker are references to Enter Maurice where the \*pompatus of love \*was first mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/73 "2012-09-06T04:28:25Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > “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. I know I am years too late with this, but “Hello I Love You Won’t You Tell Me Your Name” was by _The Doors_. However, _The Doors_ blatantly stole the riff on which that song was based from _The Kinks_’ “All Day, and All of the Night”, which is no doubt what _The Kinks_ were actually referencing in “Destroyer”. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/74 "2012-09-06T04:33:23Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > _Glass Onion_ is a sort of sequel to _I Am The Walrus_, at least it tells us that The Walrus Was Paul. It also references “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “Lady Madonna”, “The Fool on the Hill”, and “Fixing a Hole”. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/75 "2012-09-06T04:51:45Z")
Country songwriter followed up the big hit [The Year Clayton Delany Died](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NSVOyhWnXM)a few years later with [Son of Clayton Delaney](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPbWAOuDKjo). ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/76 "2012-09-06T14:10:52Z")
I seem to remember there being some ‘reply’ songs to Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean. A bit of googlage says [Superstar by Lydia Murdock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KRIlJuoNLs) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/77 "2012-09-06T15:51:14Z")
About a month after TLC released their couldn’t-avoid-it-in-1999 hit “No Scrubs,” Sporty Thievz put out a rebuttal song called “No Pigeons.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/78 "2012-09-06T16:10:36Z")
[The Leaving Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCJlAZaw2k) [The Leaving Song Pt. II](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fwGZohSJ9g) Both from AFI. Strangely, the band decided to make The Leaving Song Pt. II track two on their album, and The Leaving Song track eleven on the same album. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/79 "2012-09-06T17:16:32Z")
Garth Brooks did “The Thunder Rolls” and later followed it up with “The Storm.” The sequel was a letdown. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248/80 "2012-09-06T17:55:04Z")
Edge of Sanity’s [Crimson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_%28Edge_of_Sanity_album%29), a forty-minute death metal concept album, was followed (seven years later) by [Crimson II](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_II), another forty-minute death metal concept album. The second is not as well regarded as the first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-sequels/414248.md?page=5)