# 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:** 24
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/461 "2014-07-24T13:19:27Z")
Talkin ‘bout my baby Ahhh, Latin Lupe Lu She’s a high flyin’ baby Ain’t no dance she couldn’t do [[This version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEGS-pAEvCA), not the Righteous Brothers’ one] ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/462 "2014-07-24T13:24:10Z")
Take back your Samba, ay!, your Rumba, ay!, your Conga, ay-yi-yi! I can’t keep movin’, ay!, my chassis, ay!, any longer, ay-yi-yi! Now maybe Latins, ay!, in their middles, ay!, are built stronger, ay-yi-yi! But all this takin’ to the quakin’, and this makin’ with the shakin’ leaves me achin’, olé! ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/463 "2014-07-24T15:59:55Z")
Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga I know you can’t control yourself any longer Feel the rhythm of the music getting stronger Don’t you fight it 'til you tried it, do that conga beat ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/464 "2014-07-24T16:31:03Z")
Shake your groove thing, shake your groove thing, yeah, yeah Show 'em how we do it now, show 'em how we do it now ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/465 "2014-07-24T16:33:39Z")
Play that funky music white boy Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/466 "2014-07-24T16:56:11Z")
Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide boys, we were wide boys, born with hearts of Lothian Wide boys, we were wide boys, these hearts of Lothian ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/467 "2014-07-24T18:44:48Z")
And it was morning, and I found myself mourning, For a childhood that I thought had disappeared. I looked out the window, And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone I’m not alone, I turned to the mirror, I saw you, the child, that once loved. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/468 "2014-07-24T23:23:10Z")
Oh to live on Sugar Mountain With the barkers and the colored balloons You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain Though you’re thinking that you’re leaving there too soon ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/469 "2014-07-24T23:24:17Z")
And suddenly I find myself Listening to a man I’ve never known before Telling me about the sea, all his loves, 'till eternity Ooh, he’s here again, the man with the child in his eyes ---
**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:** [July 24, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/470 "2014-07-24T23:34:15Z")
Think of a boy with the stars in his eye Longing to reach them but frightened to try Sadly you’d say someday, someday But day after day the show must go on ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/471 "2014-07-25T00:23:04Z")
She’ll turn her music on you You won’t have to think twice She’s pure as New York snow She got Bette Davis eyes ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/472 "2014-07-25T00:34:36Z")
She attracts household flies, she’s got 'Liz’beth Taylor thighs ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/473 "2014-07-25T00:35:41Z")
There’s flies in the kitchen I can hear ‘em buzzin’ And I ain’t done nothin’ Since I woke up today ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/474 "2014-07-25T00:47:50Z")
And throw out all those L.A. papers The moldy box of Vanilla Wafers Adios to all this concrete Gonna get me some dirt road back streets ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/475 "2014-07-25T01:31:05Z")
Come Monday It’ll be all right Come Monday I’ll be holding you tight I spent four lonely days in a brown L.A. haze and I just want you back by my side ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/476 "2014-07-25T01:35:11Z")
Monday, Monday, so good to me; Monday morning, it was all I hoped it would be. But Monday morning, Monday morning couldn’t guarantee That Monday evening you would still be here with me. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/477 "2014-07-25T03:53:39Z")
Tuesday afternoon I’m just beginning to see Now I’m on my way ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/478 "2014-07-25T04:06:42Z")
Waiting for wednesday, my stomach doesn’t hurt enough, Pain always is the sign. Waiting for wednesday, no proof of mine exists, So l don’t have to take it back. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/479 "2014-07-25T05:12:43Z")
Seeing my past to let it go Throw me tomorrow Only for you I don’t regret That I was Thursday’s child ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/480 "2014-07-25T05:22:52Z")
My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch and bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=25)