# Speak to me in succinct song lyrics

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**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\
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**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 30, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1341 "2014-08-30T17:42:51Z")

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It went “zzzip” when it moved,  
“Bopp” when it stopped,  
“Brrr” when it stood still.

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**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 30, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1342 "2014-08-30T18:03:59Z")

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And then he swung from the tree and he lit on the ground  
He started to rock, really rockin’ around  
It was a crazy ditty with a swingin’ tune  
Sing a boop boop aboopa lopa lum bam boom

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**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 30, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1343 "2014-08-30T18:34:51Z")

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Get it, get it, get it,  
Gitarzan! He’s the jungle man!  
He’s all you can stand, give him a hand,  
Gitarzan!

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1344 "2014-08-30T19:10:36Z")

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He’s the wild man from Borneo  
The wild man from Borneo  
We come to see what we want to see  
We come to see, but we never come to know.

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**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 30, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1345 "2014-08-30T19:20:57Z")

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Wongo.  
Wild Women of Wongo.  
How does their song go?  
Make a me want mo, (Wild Women!)

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**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 30, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1346 "2014-08-30T19:26:24Z")

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He said, woman, look-a here woman,  
They tell me you have five husbands  
And that man you have now sure ain’t one

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1347 "2014-08-30T19:28:33Z")

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Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee  
First one says she’s got my child, but it don’t look like me

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**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 30, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1348 "2014-08-30T19:38:15Z")

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My life’s in jeopardy  
Murdered in cold blood is what I’m gonna be  
I ain’t been home since Friday night  
And now my wife is coming after me

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**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 30, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1349 "2014-08-30T19:40:49Z")

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Now you say you ain’t never met my wife, you ain’t never seen her befo,’  
Say you ain’t been hangin’ roun’ my crib; well here’s somethin’ I wanna know…  
I wanna know what in the worl’ is goin’ down,

How come my dog don’t bark when you come around?

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**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 30, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1350 "2014-08-30T19:43:17Z")

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And he’s bad, bad Leroy Brown  
The baddest man in the whole damn town  
Badder than old King Kong  
And meaner than a junkyard dog

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**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 30, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1351 "2014-08-30T19:45:34Z")

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Me and my arrow  
Straighter than narrow  
Wherever we go, every one knows  
It’s me and my arrow

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**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 30, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1352 "2014-08-30T21:07:42Z")

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Little arrows in your clothing  
Little arrows in your hair  
When you’re in love you’ll find  
Those little arrows everywhere

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**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 30, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1353 "2014-08-30T21:13:06Z")

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Cupid, draw back your bow,  
And let your arrow go  
Straight to my lover’s heart, for me  
Nobody but me

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**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 30, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1354 "2014-08-30T21:25:58Z")

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I’d be friends with the sparrows  
And the boy who shoots the arrows  
If I only had a heart.

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**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 30, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1355 "2014-08-30T22:14:44Z")

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Oh, watch what you say  
You’re breaking my heart

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**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 30, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1356 "2014-08-30T22:26:13Z")

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Don’t play that song, that ‘Achy Breaky’ song  
The most annoying song I know  
And if you play that song, that ‘Achy Breaky’ song,  
I might blow up my radio

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1357 "2014-08-30T22:33:30Z")

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Blow up your TV  
Throw away your paper  
Move to the country  
Build you a home

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**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 30, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1358 "2014-08-30T23:09:22Z")

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I really love my–television  
I love to sit by–television  
Can’t live without my–television  
I can’t turn off my–television

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**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 30, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1359 "2014-08-30T23:37:05Z")

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All I want is lovin’ you  
And music, music, music

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**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 31, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1360 "2014-08-31T00:43:28Z")

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All of my love, all of my love  
All of my love to you  
All of my love, all of my love  
All of my love to you

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