# 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:** 55
**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:** [July 5, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1081 "2010-07-05T13:17:53Z")
The world’s about to be destroyed There’s no point getting all annoyed Lie back and let the world dissolve (around you) Despite those nets of tuna fleets We thought most of you were sweet Especially tiny tots and your pregnant women So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long So long so long, so long so long, so long so long, so long so long So long so long and thanks for all the fish ---
**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:** [July 5, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1082 "2010-07-05T13:22:09Z")
We can live beside the ocean Leave it far behind Swim out past the breakers Watch the world die ---
**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:** [July 5, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1083 "2010-07-05T13:39:55Z")
We were waiting for the end of the world, Waiting for the end of the world. Dear Lord I sincerely hope you’re coming 'cause you really started something. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1084 "2010-07-05T21:08:57Z")
Save yourself, serve yourself, world serves its own needs Listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right Vitriolic, patriotic stand, fight, bright, light Feeling pretty psyched It’s the end of the world as we know it And I feel fine ---
**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:** [July 5, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1085 "2010-07-05T22:28:01Z")
Live for yourself There’s no one else more worth living for Begging hands and bleeding hearts Will only cry out for more Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind We marvel after those who sought New wonders in the world they wrought! ---
**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:** [July 6, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1086 "2010-07-06T11:13:18Z")
On a thousand islands in the sea I see a thousand people just like me A hundred unions in the snow I watch them walking, falling in a row We live always underground It’s going to be so quiet in here tonight A thousand islands in the sea It’s a shame ---
**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:** [July 6, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1087 "2010-07-06T13:40:22Z")
And we live beneath the sea. Everyone of us has all we need. Sky of blue and sea of green In our yelow submarine. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1088 "2010-07-06T23:27:03Z")
I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself what a wonderful world. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1089 "2010-07-07T13:32:40Z")
A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right Gravity and distance Change the passage of light Gravity and distance Change the color of right ---
**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:** [July 9, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1090 "2010-07-09T13:25:10Z")
Such a dazzling coat of colors How I love my coat of many colors It was red and yellow and green and brown And scarlet and black and ochre and peach And ruby and olive and violet and fawn And lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve And cream and crimson and silver and rose And azure and lemon and russet and grey And purple and white and pink and orange And red and yellow and green and brown and Scarlet and black and ochre and peach And ruby and olive and violet and fawn And lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve And cream and crimson and silver and rose And azure and lemon and russet and grey And purple and white and pink and orange And blue ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1091 "2010-07-09T21:44:01Z")
She comes in colors ev’rywhere; She combs her hair She’s like a rainbow Coming, colors in the air everywhere She comes in colors ---
**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:** [July 11, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1092 "2010-07-11T00:18:34Z")
I know tonight she comes she’s takin’ a swipe at fun she gives me a reason for sighting my sights well I know tonight she comes she jangles me up she does it with ease ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1093 "2010-07-11T03:29:14Z")
And then along comes Mary And does she want to give me kicks, and be my steady chick And give me pick of memories Or maybe rather gather tales of all the fails and tribulations No one ever sees ---
**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:** [July 11, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1094 "2010-07-11T03:59:48Z")
I’m so up and down And I love what’s no allowed I was blind, now I see And now I’m growing old disgracefully - Whatever happened to Mary ? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1095 "2010-07-11T04:04:04Z")
Mary had a baby, Oh Lord, Mary had a baby, Oh my Lord, Mary had a baby, Oh Lord, People keep a-comin’ an’ the train done gone. What did she name Him? Oh Lord, What did she name Him? Oh my Lord, What did she name Him? Oh Lord, People keep a-comin’ an’ the train done gone. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1096 "2010-07-11T04:16:16Z")
Riding on the _City of New Orleans_ Illinois Central, Monday morning rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors, twenty-five sacks of mail ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1097 "2010-07-11T05:37:09Z")
_Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for a train And I’s feeling nearly as faded as my jeans. Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained, It rode us all the way to New Orleans._ ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1098 "2010-07-11T05:49:59Z")
Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge I’m gonna get me some alligator shoes Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge I’m gonna wear 'em out down in Baton Rouge ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1099 "2010-07-11T12:24:33Z")
And if I were an old man returning With my satchel and porkpie hat I’d hit every jazz joint on Bourbon And I’d hit everyone on Basin after that ---
**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:** [July 11, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726/1100 "2010-07-11T17:19:11Z")
And a crowd of young boys they’re fooling around in the corner Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles They don’t give a damn about any trumpet playing band It ain’t what they call rock and roll And the Sultans… yeah the Sultans play Creole [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-reply-is-a-song-lyric/535726.md?page=56)