# The Reply Is A Song Lyric **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 11, 2010, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726 "2010-04-11T12:09:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/481 "2010-04-23T23:08:56Z")
Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/482 "2010-04-24T01:09:46Z")
Everybody run, the homecoming queen’s got a gun Everybody run, the homecoming queen has got a gun ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/483 "2010-04-24T01:14:52Z")
She’s a killer queen Gunpowder, gelatine, Dynamite with a laser beam Guaranteed to blow your mind - ANYTIIIIIIME ! ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/484 "2010-04-24T04:54:43Z")
Sorrow beheld her face, false love supplied her grace. Knowing Arthur’s fights and his trusted knights meant more than his queen. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/485 "2010-04-24T07:14:28Z")
Oh what a night, Why’d it take so long to see the light? Seemed so wrong but now seems so right. What a lady what a night. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/486 "2010-04-24T07:24:48Z")
Nights in white satin Never reaching the end Letters I’ve written Never meaning to send ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/487 "2010-04-24T07:54:26Z")
Gimme a ticket for an airplane Ain’t got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone I’m going home My baby wrote me a letter. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/488 "2010-04-24T08:10:26Z")
Rode in on the Greyhound, I’ll be walking out if I go. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/489 "2010-04-24T09:09:33Z")
I’m leaving on a jet plane don’t know when I’ll be back. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/490 "2010-04-24T10:42:20Z")
I remember still, I guess I always will, that winter day I took the west-bound flight as I looked down from the plane you were standin’ in the rain you waved goodbye til I was out of sight ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/491 "2010-04-24T11:30:12Z")
Going through security I held her for so long. She finally looked at me in love, and she was gone. Just a song before I go, a lesson to be learned traveling twice the speed of sound, it’s easy to get burned. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/492 "2010-04-24T15:05:20Z")
People are sayin’ the woman is damned, She makes you burn with a wave of her hand. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/493 "2010-04-24T17:42:46Z")
'm gonna tell you a story, strange as it now seems Of zombie, voodoo, gris gris, and the Witch Queen of New Orleans She lived in a world of magic, possessed by the devils skew From a shack near the swamplands, made of mud-pile brick Marie stirred her witches brew ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/494 "2010-04-24T18:24:34Z")
Do you mean to tell me that was the Voudouine? Yes it was none other, the Queen of New Orleans. ---
**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 24, 2010, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/495 "2010-04-24T18:27:35Z")
The Queen of Diamonds let you down She was just an empty fable. Thr Queen of Hearts you say you’ve never met. Your twisted fate has found you out And it’s finally turned the table. They stole your dreams and paid you with regret ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/496 "2010-04-24T19:25:05Z")
The club Queen heard her husband’s call, but Lord, that Queen of Diamond’s joy When the outlaw in the heavenly hall turned out to be her wanderin’ boy. Now Mudd, he checked, and Gold bet all; Mudd he raised, and Gold did call And his smile just melted off his face when Mudd turned over that Diamond Ace. Now here’s what this story’s told: You feel like Mudd, you’ll end up Gold; Feel like lost, you’ll end up found, so Amigo, lay them raises down. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/497 "2010-04-24T20:39:46Z")
Know when to hold 'em Know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away Know when to run You never count your money while you’re sitting at the table there be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/498 "2010-04-24T20:52:09Z")
I wanna hold em’ like they do in Texas Plays Fold em’ let em’ hit me raise it baby stay with me ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/499 "2010-04-25T04:49:07Z")
All my ex’s live in Texas And Texas is the place I’d dearly love to be But all my ex’s live in Texas And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/500 "2010-04-25T05:16:46Z")
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