# 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:** 41
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/801 "2014-08-10T23:15:28Z")
and who should be waiting there But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter, Bess, the landlord’s daughter, Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/802 "2014-08-10T23:46:25Z")
I saw a Berkeley woman sitting in a rocking chair. A dulcimer in her lap, feather in her hair. Her breasts swayed freely with the rhythm of the rocking chair ---
**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:** [August 10, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/803 "2014-08-10T23:50:30Z")
With just one look I was a bad mess 'Cause that long cool woman had it all ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/804 "2014-08-11T00:20:48Z")
He met a girl known on the strip, San Francisco’s Mabel Joy Destitution’s child born on an L.A. street called Shame ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/805 "2014-08-11T00:25:12Z")
I called a friend in Frisco lord He said “baby’s in LA” Here am I in Alabam’ Two thousand miles away ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/806 "2014-08-11T00:58:20Z")
But I would walk five hundred miles And I would walk five hundred more ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/807 "2014-08-11T00:58:38Z")
In South Australia I was born, heave away, haul away In South Australia, 'round Cape Horn, we’re bound for South Australia ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/808 "2014-08-11T01:33:30Z")
When you see the Southern Cross For the first time You understand now Why you came this way ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/809 "2014-08-11T01:45:26Z")
Nazarene screaming on his crucifixion Prophecy in its final contradiction When you die is when the lie will be believed Upon the cross, before the world to see ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/810 "2014-08-11T01:54:26Z")
Oh, Shenandoah, it’s far I wander. Aa-way, you rolling river! Shenandoah, it’s far I wander. Ah-way, we’re bound to go, ‘cross th’ wide Missouri! ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/811 "2014-08-11T02:11:32Z")
They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs through, They sing of her beauty in Virginia City, too. At dusky sundown to her name they drink a round and to young Vandy whose love was true. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/812 "2014-08-11T02:17:48Z")
It’s a hangin’ day in Wolf City, Wyomin’ Wolf City, Wyomin’, eighteen ninety four They’re gonna drop Cat Ballou Through the gallows floor ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/813 "2014-08-11T02:28:57Z")
Hangman, hangman, slack your rope. Slack it for a – \ Tommy Smothers, of course - who else? ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/814 "2014-08-11T02:41:18Z")
Well I been up to my neck in trouble Up to my neck in strife Up to my neck in misery For most of my life ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/815 "2014-08-11T03:04:08Z")
I’m going up the 'pool from down the smoke below To taste my mum’s jam sarnies and see our Aunty Flo ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/816 "2014-08-11T03:30:18Z")
There was me and my daddy and my daddy’s mammy And her sister’s granny and four of her chums … and Auntie Rose ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/817 "2014-08-11T03:42:27Z")
I’m my own grandpa ---
**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:** [August 11, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/818 "2014-08-11T03:50:17Z")
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe. ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/819 "2014-08-11T03:58:19Z")
Now I’m a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind I’m in love I’m a believer ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/820 "2014-08-11T04:13:51Z")
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