# The Homer Simpson Songbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684 "2007-12-12T00:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/21 "2007-12-12T19:03:28Z")
Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does… ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/22 "2007-12-12T19:06:20Z")
[QUOTE=St. Urho] Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does… [/QUOTE] Can he swing from a web? No, he can’t. He’s a pig. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/23 "2007-12-12T19:19:04Z")
_The Safety Dance_ by **Men Without Hats** with the edited line “We can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your pants” ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/24 "2007-12-12T23:13:23Z")
_“Changes - time to change the oil…don’t wanna be an oily man!”_ “Changes” by David Bowie Forgot - he also tells Lurleen he hasn’t felt the way he does about her song since “Funkytown”. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/25 "2007-12-12T23:49:47Z")
“If Ever I Would Leave You” (from _Camelot_). I think he sings some classical pieces in the same ep (but don’t remember it well enough…) I also remember him singing a “Wichita Lineman/MacArthur Park” hybrid. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/26 "2007-12-12T23:54:13Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] Mandy - Barry Mannalow - Sang it about a girl named Mindy (or a man named Andy) [/QUOTE] As it turns out, though, he was auditioning for a minor part in a broadway show. It’s not much, but it’s a start. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/27 "2007-12-12T23:55:58Z")
Oh, and the Super Sugar Crisp theme (“Looks like I forgot to put the foglights in”) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/28 "2007-12-13T00:03:13Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] including a one-second jingle for english muffins he’s surprised he actually gets paid for.) [/QUOTE] [irrelevant tangent] I once wrote a song that had to be exactly one second long. It had four words. The master take ran 1.2 seconds, so I had to speed it up a little. [/irrelevant tangent] ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/29 "2007-12-13T00:20:15Z")
He also joins the family in a rousing Gilbert & Sullivan chorus of “3 Little Maids” ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/30 "2007-12-13T02:36:04Z")
He likes Two Tickets To Paradise: “Excellent guitar riff” He played the Simpsons theme on that giant keyboard (like Tom Hanks in Big), breaking it. One time when he was worried that he might be incompatible with Marge: “Look at these records: Jim Nabors, Glen Campbell, the Doodletown Pipers … now look at _her_ records – they suck!” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/31 "2007-12-13T02:41:03Z")
[QUOTE=Manduck] One time when he was worried that he might be incompatible with Marge: “Look at these records: Jim Nabors, Glen Campbell, the Doodletown Pipers … now look at _her_ records – they suck!” [/QUOTE] Homer also owns a copy of John Calhoun’s (of _I’m Gonna Find Me A Genie With A Magic Bikini_ fame) unsuccesful political album, _This_…er, _These Things I Believe_. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/32 "2007-12-13T03:10:43Z")
I seem to recall hearing Homer singing Peggy Lee’s _Is That All There Is_? under circumstances I forget. He also made up his own lyrics to _Radar Love_ involving a pizza. > [@Marley23](#): > > He’s a big Grand Funk Railroad fan They play an integral part of his history of rock ‘n’ roll: “Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson Airplane, which paved the way for Jefferson Starship. The stage was set for the Alan Parsons Project- which I believe was a hovercraft of some sort…” And then there were his two “Mary Had A Little Lamb” ripoffs while attempting to write a song, “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo” and “Dee Dee Dee Dee Dee Dee Dee.” ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/33 "2007-12-13T03:13:59Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] I seem to recall hearing Homer singing Peggy Lee’s _Is That All There Is_? under circumstances I forget. [/QUOTE] If I’m not mistaken, that was the torch song he sang to the Flanders kids, which made Bart and Lisa jealous. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/34 "2007-12-13T03:42:47Z")
\*M: "But Homer, you’ve been to space. H: …And yet I’ve never been to me. \* Of course quoting Charlene “Never Been to Me” ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/35 "2007-12-13T16:43:24Z")
This thead looks like it’s dying, but this one just occured to me and I had to go back through and make sure no one else had mentioned it: Homer, pumping fists in the air: _“We built this city! This crazy city! What kind of music built this city?”_ Lisa, bored: _“Rock and roooollllll.”_ He also had a copy of a Ray Stevens album featuring “The Streak” which the dog buried. Yes…the dog… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/36 "2007-12-13T16:52:15Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] I also remember him singing a “Wichita Lineman/MacArthur Park” hybrid. [/QUOTE] To a hold recording, yes. A very funny moment. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/37 "2007-12-13T20:09:24Z")
He also dances naked in church, singing “War, what is it good for?” in a Treehouse segment (Homega man, I think). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/38 "2007-12-13T22:46:03Z")
Nobody’s mentioned _It’s raining men_? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/39 "2007-12-14T00:10:14Z")
[QUOTE=xizor] _The Safety Dance_ by **Men Without Hats** with the edited line “We can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your pants” [/QUOTE] It should be noted that this is how I sing along to the song when it’s on the radio/jukebox/whatever. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684/40 "2007-12-14T00:55:24Z")
[QUOTE=olivesmarch4th] Nobody’s mentioned _It’s raining men_? [/QUOTE] Not anymore it ain’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-homer-simpson-songbook/429684.md?page=3)