# 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:** 44
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/861 "2010-05-31T02:25:25Z")
Oh, the roads back east are mighty swell, The Chesapeake, Ohio and the ASL, But I make my run and I make my pay On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/862 "2010-05-31T02:30:05Z")
And the sound of the whistle at the cross in the road And the tanks and the trucks and the tractors on the flat car load Becomes a part of the soul, and the heart and the mind Of the boy who’s raised by the railroad line ---
**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:** [May 31, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/863 "2010-05-31T08:20:48Z")
Get up get dressed, have nothing to impress Everybody make a chain, this train Is the cheapest and the best It’s better than real, under those wheels, north, south, east and west You are the station on the Candybar Express ---
**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:** [May 31, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/864 "2010-05-31T08:21:56Z")
dbl post. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/865 "2010-05-31T15:18:11Z")
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:** ![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:** [May 31, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/866 "2010-05-31T15:43:45Z")
Billy the mountain, A regular, picturesque, Postcardy mountain Residing between lovely Rosamond and Gorman With his stunning wife Ethel, A tree! ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/867 "2010-05-31T16:41:15Z")
If you’re looking for a helping hand, He’ll give you one, you know he will. If you’re looking for trouble, huh-uh, turn around, You don’t want to mess with Billy from the hills. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/868 "2010-05-31T18:55:02Z")
The hills are alive, with the sound of music With songs they have sung for a thousand years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music My heart wants to sing every song it hears ---
**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:** [June 1, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/869 "2010-06-01T02:55:34Z")
Over the hills and through the woods to grandmother’s house we’ll go the horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the light and drifting snow ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/870 "2010-06-01T12:24:47Z")
By-Tor and the Snow Dog Prepare for battle Let the fray begin! ---
**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:** [June 1, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/871 "2010-06-01T16:26:35Z")
Me and you and a dog named boo Travellin’ and livin’ off the land Me and you and a dog named boo How I love being a free man ---
**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:** [June 1, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/872 "2010-06-01T16:45:01Z")
Freedom is a dusty road heading to a highway Californian skyways will lead us where we wanna stay Suddenly a summer breeze breaks a misty mornin’ There’s a new day dawning we’d better be on our way. So love me love my dog We’ve lived the road too long to break up Love me live my life and travel through this land I can’t leave a friend I promised that before we started ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/873 "2010-06-02T03:26:58Z")
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, Nothing, that’s all that Bobby left me, yeah, But feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues, Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm, Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee. ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/874 "2010-06-02T05:45:30Z")
If it makes you happy It can’t be that bad If it makes you happy Then why the hell are you so sad ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/875 "2010-06-02T08:35:37Z")
I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/876 "2010-06-02T08:50:05Z")
Well she can fuck off if she wants to Cause she’ll do it anyway And I won’t give her the pleasure of Imploring her to stay It’s a world of opportunity So she’d best make up her mind If she thinks she’s coming back to me I might not wait behind ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/877 "2010-06-02T09:29:13Z")
I know you’re leaving, it’s been so long overdue for far too long, I’ve had nothing new to show to you ---
**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:** [June 3, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/878 "2010-06-03T03:07:44Z")
Daddy ain’t that bad, he just plays rough I ain’t that scarred, when I’m covered up I leave the light on Yeah, I leave the light on Little girl hiding underneath the bed Was it something I did? Must be something I said I leave the light on I better leave the light on ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/879 "2010-06-03T03:29:23Z")
Try to leave a light on when I’m gone Even in the daylight, shine on And when it’s late at night you can look inside You won’t feel so alone ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/880 "2010-06-03T04:08:43Z")
When the lights go down in the city, and the sun shines on the bay, oh I want to be there, in my city, oh-oo-oooh, oh-oh-oh [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726.md?page=45)