# Speak to me in succinct song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 26, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666 "2014-06-26T02:54:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 176
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3501 "2015-04-20T01:03:30Z")
They say it’s your birthday Well, it’s my birthday too, yeah ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3502 "2015-04-20T02:29:45Z")
It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to Cry if I want to, cry if I want to You would cry too if it happened to you ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3503 "2015-04-20T05:28:18Z")
No one understands the heartache No one feels the pain 'Cos no one ever sees the tears When you’re crying in the rain ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3504 "2015-04-20T13:18:10Z")
Riders on the storm Riders on the storm Into this house we’re born Into this world we’re thrown ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3505 "2015-04-20T21:57:15Z")
I met my maker, I made him cry And on my shoulder he asked me why His people won’t fly through the storm I said “Listen up man, they don’t even know you’re born” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3506 "2015-04-20T22:21:24Z")
Well I was born a coal miner’s daughter In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3507 "2015-04-20T23:38:01Z")
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named of Johnny B. Goode Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play the guitar like ringing a bell ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3508 "2015-04-21T00:02:39Z")
Get it, get it, get it. Gitarzan, he’s a gitar man He’s all you can stand Give him a hand, Gitarzan ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3509 "2015-04-21T05:05:21Z")
Down by the river that flows by the coal yards Stand wooden houses with shutters torn down. There lives a girl everybody calls Patches. Patches my darling of old Shantytown. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3510 "2015-04-21T15:50:37Z")
Above the door there burned a scarlet lamp And late at night a hand would knock And there would stand a stranger Yes, I’m the son of Hickory Holler’s tramp… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3511 "2015-04-21T16:56:14Z")
Gypsys, tramps, and thieves We’d hear it from the people of the town They’d call us Gypsys, tramps, and thieves But every night all the men would come around And lay their money down ---
**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:** [April 21, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3512 "2015-04-21T22:41:03Z")
I go down to the pit with the stinking air, The smell of the sweat and the death is there. I dance for a dollar and I dance for a dime, Till their eyes are begging and their pockets are mine. I take a body and I name my fee, I take their money and they take me. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3513 "2015-04-21T22:46:52Z")
If you feel that you see me Not quite at my virginal best, Cross my palm with a coin, And I’ll willingly show you the rest! ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3514 "2015-04-22T00:27:10Z")
If you see me comin’ better step aside A lotta men didn’t, a lotta men died One fist of iron, the other of steel If the right one don’t getcha then the left one will ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3515 "2015-04-22T04:31:08Z")
Somebody said he came from New Orleans Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen And a crashin’ blow from a huge right hand Sent a Louisiana fellow to the Promised Land, Big John ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3516 "2015-04-22T12:42:51Z")
Empty birdcage in her room Curtains pulled against the moon Follow her down to Louisiana Hotel room bedside manner God I’ve got to get back soon ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3517 "2015-04-22T13:00:58Z")
Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow Kick off your shoes and you throw ‘em on the floor Dance in the kitchen till the mornin’ light Louisiana Saturday night ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3518 "2015-04-22T15:08:58Z")
Well, I got me a fine wife, I got me old fiddle. When the sun’s coming up, I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain’t nothing but a funny, funny riddle, thank God I’m a country boy. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3519 "2015-04-22T16:20:59Z")
I guess you didn’t know it, but I’m a fiddle player, too And if you’d care to take a dare I’ll make a bet with you Now you play a pretty good fiddle, boy, but give the Devil his due I’ll bet a fiddle of gold against your soul 'cause I think I’m better than you ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3520 "2015-04-22T16:23:34Z")
You’re so vain I’ll bet you think this song is about you Don’t you? Don’t you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=175) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=177)