Madonna - “Don’t Stop”
Tell me everything I’m not,
But don’t ever tell me to stop…
I saw “Shallow Hal” the other day on HBO, and when they played “Love Goes Where My Rosemary Goes” at the end I found myself singing out loud and not missing a word.
I’m embarassed to admit it, but it’s a killer old-fashioned top 40 pop song, circa 1970.
Now it’s going to be in my head for the rest of the night.
“And nobody knows like me”
Don’t feel bad. Wait, you don’t.
Hell, I know the words to 99% of ABBA’s songs.
I’m not embarrased by the fact that I know a good portion of the lyrics to Subterrianian Homesick Blues… (And enough of the rest of them to make it a good kareoke song)
… But I may be embarrassed by the fact that I know the lyrics to a large number of Weird Al songs.
ahem
Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl
Nighttime would find me in Rosa’s cantina
Music would play and Felina would whirl…
Actually, I suppose that’s not as “embarassing” as it is just “goofy.”
*Just a small town girl
Livin’ in a lonely world
She took the idnight rain
Goin’ anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Singer in a smokey room
Smell ‘a wine an’ cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and then
Strangers, waitin’
Up and down the boulevard an’
Shadows searchin’ in the ni-i-iight
Street light people
Livin’ just to find emotion
Hiding somewhere in the
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
Don’t stop believin’
Hold on to the fee-ee-lih-in!
Street light people
Oh oh oooooh!*
I even taught myself how to play this on the piano. It’s, like, one of three songs I can play. Sad.
At the Copa, Copacabana,
The hottest spot north of Havana…
Anyone else actually remember
I think I love you- so what am I so afraid of?
I’m afraid that I’m not sure of- a love there is no cure for.
I think I could quote the whole thing, but I’ll stop there!
(Partridge family circa 1970)
Just about any song I’ve heard more than twice I know a generous portion of the lyrics to. I’m a singer by nature, I guess, I just NEED to sing along. I guess the most embarrassing ones would include a large number of Spice Girls and Britney Spears singles.
Is it wrong when you know the Weird Al lyrics better than the originals?
Grapefruit diet (Zoot Suit Riot), Couch Potato (parody of Eminem’s Lose Yourself), The Saga Begins (Star Wars version of American Pie), Jerry Springer (One Week), Ode to a Superhero (Spiderman version of Piano Man), Smells Like Nirvana (Teen Sprit), I love Rocky Road (Rock and Roll); they all come rolling out of my mouth whenever I hear the “correct” version.
Pity me.
Wow, apparently I know the words to a LOT of embarassing songs. Including the Spice Girls, Copacabana, Vanilla Ice and several others mentioned. The only one I can think of that hasn’t been mentioned is. . .
- Don’t tell my heart
My Achy Breaky heart
I just don’t think he’d understand
And if you tell my heart
My achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man*
And now that that’s stuck in everyone’s head I be going.
“P Control” – by Prince
Vanilla Ice now frequents Lemont Illinois, my hometown. If you know where that is, or if you don’t know where it is my point’s been made.
If it’s wrong, then we’re going to hell in a handbasket together.
I think it’s even worse when you learn the parodies as a child before you even know the originals exist. And worse than that is when Weird Al starts to parody your own life. (The E-bay song has a line which says “…A Pac-Man Fever lunch box…” The first time I heard it, I was seated on my futon looking straight up at my Pac-Man lunch box ordered on E-bay. 
)
:eek: Wait a minute. I know the lyrics to this song.
Why do I know the lyrics t this song?
“…here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand
he’s a one ball man and he’s off to the rodeo…”
How about “Hello” by Lionel Richie. My mom listened to a lot of pop in the late 1970s and through the 1980s. And this is from a guy who listened to heavy metal exclusively while in college. Ugh!
They rolled out west where the wild sun sets,
And the coyote bays at the moon.
Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake,
And a cat named Kalamazoo.
Yep, I have a degree in music, and a weakness for Hoyt Axton. Oh, and I can sing along to every SINGLE Jimmy Buffett song. My parents are so proud.
Wow. And I thought I was the only one! I also immediately thought of “Ice Ice Baby” when I saw the thread title. And I still know all the words.
Hah, take this!
All right stop, collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop?
Yo, I don’t know.
Turn off the lights, and I’ll glow.
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal,
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.
I’d do the whole song, but they don’t like us doing that here. I did almost do this song at karaoke one night when I was drunk. My husband advised against it. So what’s wrong with a nerdy white girl doing a Vanilla Ice song? Sheesh.
koeeaddi, I know this one as well but I consider even it to have more cred than “Ice Ice Baby” 
I don’t know the songs name, can anyone fill me in?
*On my cayoot let me wander over yonder
till i see the mountains rise…
[croon]wooo ooo oo ooo[/croon]
*
Oh and also:
*This the story of a very unfortunate coloured man
who got 'rested down in old Hong Kong
…
he had many a privilidge taken away from hiim when he stole ol’ Buddha’s gong
And now he’s pawnin’ his piano jus’ t pay the price
of a ticket to the land of the free
Cos he said he comes from 'frisco where they grow the rice
but he’s really from Tenesee…
Thats what they saaayyy…
*
I’m still waiting for someone to post “Rhinestone Cowboy” but who would actually publicly admit it?