# Topic Playlist! (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 26, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532 "2021-08-26T02:21:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 249
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4961 "2022-09-20T20:42:40Z")
**Comic Songs** 1. A Bit of Cucumber - Harry Champion 2. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash 3. Another Puff - Jerry Reed 4. The Mississippi Squirrel Revival - Ray Stevens 5. [The Ballad of Irving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8EtvWW8nw) – Frank Gallop 6. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus 7. You Don’t Love Me Anymore - Weird Al Yankovic ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4962 "2022-09-20T23:38:22Z")
**Comic Songs** 1. A Bit of Cucumber - Harry Champion 2. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash 3. Another Puff - Jerry Reed 4. The Mississippi Squirrel Revival - Ray Stevens 5. [The Ballad of Irving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8EtvWW8nw) – Frank Gallop 6. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus 7. You Don’t Love Me Anymore - Weird Al Yankovic 8. The Coconut Song - Harry Nilsson ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4963 "2022-09-21T00:03:47Z")
**Comic Songs** 1. A Bit of Cucumber - Harry Champion 2. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash 3. Another Puff - Jerry Reed 4. The Mississippi Squirrel Revival - Ray Stevens 5. [The Ballad of Irving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8EtvWW8nw) – Frank Gallop 6. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus 7. You Don’t Love Me Anymore - Weird Al Yankovic 8. The Coconut Song - Harry Nilsson 9. Six String Orchestra - Harry Chapin ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4964 "2022-09-21T02:32:41Z")
**Comic Songs** 1. A Bit of Cucumber - Harry Champion 2. One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash 3. Another Puff - Jerry Reed 4. The Mississippi Squirrel Revival - Ray Stevens 5. [The Ballad of Irving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8EtvWW8nw) – Frank Gallop 6. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus 7. You Don’t Love Me Anymore - Weird Al Yankovic 8. The Coconut Song - Harry Nilsson 9. Six String Orchestra - Harry Chapin 10. Shaddap You Face - Joe Dolce **The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** It’ll probably be Allegri’s Miserere just to confuse my protestant/atheist family but … 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4965 "2022-09-21T02:36:04Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** It’ll probably be Allegri’s Miserere just to confuse my protestant/atheist family but … 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra Anyone who knows me knows that ELO is my favorite group, but the final verse would seem particularly fitting: > [@](#): > > Mr. Blue, you did it right > But soon comes Mr. Night > Creeping over, now his hand is on your shoulder > Never mind, I’ll remember you this > I’ll remember you this way ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4966 "2022-09-21T03:24:16Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4967 "2022-09-21T11:56:12Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra 4. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mjksn8mEt8M/hqdefault.jpg "You Can Close Your Eyes (HD) - James Taylor & Carly Simon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjksn8mEt8M) I love this song! The harmonies are magnificent. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4968 "2022-09-21T13:02:47Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra 4. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon 5. Till Victory - The Patti Smith Group Raise the sky We got to fly over the land, over the sea Fate unwinds; and if we die, souls arise God, do not seize me please, till victory Take arms, take aim, be without shame No one to bow to, to vow to, to blame Legions of light, virtuous flight ignite, excite ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4969 "2022-09-21T13:31:07Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra 4. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon 5. Till Victory - The Patti Smith Group 6. Where Is My Mind - The Pixies (Actually this will be at my wife’s funeral) ---
**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:** [September 21, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4970 "2022-09-21T13:52:02Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra 4. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon 5. Till Victory - The Patti Smith Group 6. Where Is My Mind - The Pixies 7. It Is Well With My Soul - Amy Grant ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4971 "2022-09-21T14:04:41Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra 4. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon 5. Till Victory - The Patti Smith Group 6. Where Is My Mind - The Pixies 7. It Is Well With My Soul - Amy Grant 8. Rook - XTC ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4972 "2022-09-21T15:29:47Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra 4. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon 5. Till Victory - The Patti Smith Group 6. Where Is My Mind - The Pixies 7. It Is Well With My Soul - Amy Grant 8. Rook - XTC 9. Monkey Gone to Heaven - The Pixies ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4973 "2022-09-21T20:24:23Z")
**The song that you’d insist is played at your funeral/wake** 1. Year of the Cat - Al Stewart 2. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra 3. It Was a Very Good Year - Sinatra 4. You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor and Carly Simon 5. Till Victory - The Patti Smith Group 6. Where Is My Mind - The Pixies 7. It Is Well With My Soul - Amy Grant 8. Rook - XTC 9. Monkey Gone to Heaven - The Pixies 10. First Movement _(allegro vivace)_ of Symphony #4 (Italian Symphony) by Mendelssohn, as recorded by Herbert von Karajan & the Berlin Philharmonic Used in the movie “Breaking Away”. As a cyclist, need I say more? Although it was a family joke between my mother, my sister, and myself that when Mom finally passed away we were going to use _ **“Ding, Dong, The Witch Is Dead”.** _ And I pass this one back to the respondent above me, Knowed Out. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4974 "2022-09-22T11:58:10Z")
Trust a bicyclist to hold up traffic. I’m listening to a podcast about the symbols hobos etched in towns they visited to alert other hobos to good/bad places to panhandle. So… **Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads** 1. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4975 "2022-09-22T12:13:00Z")
**Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads** 1. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock 2. End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4976 "2022-09-22T12:14:28Z")
**Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads** 1. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock 2. Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell _I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin’_ _Cracklin’ caldron in some train yard_ _My beard a roughening coal pile_ _And a dirty hat pulled low across my face_ ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4977 "2022-09-22T12:26:27Z")
**Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads** 1. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock 2. End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys 3. Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell 4. Hank and the Hobo - Boxcar Willie and housekeeping ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4978 "2022-09-22T13:15:32Z")
**Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads** 1. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock 2. End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys 3. Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell 4. Hank and the Hobo - Boxcar Willie 5. Waltzing Matilda - traditional Written by Banjo Paterson 1895, widely performed from then but first recorded by Collinson and Callow in 1926. “Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong”. Which happens to be Australia’s country’s unofficial national anthem, with a backstory of events during the 1891 Shearers Strike that lead to the founding of the Australian Labor Party. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4979 "2022-09-22T13:31:25Z")
**Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads** 1. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock 2. End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys 3. Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell 4. Hank and the Hobo - Boxcar Willie 5. Waltzing Matilda - traditional 6. The Hobo Song - Johnny Cash ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532/4980 "2022-09-22T13:45:48Z")
**Songs about hobos, train jumpers, hitchhikers and other nomads** 1. Big Rock Candy Mountain - Harry McClintock 2. End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys 3. Gentle on My Mind - Glen Campbell 4. Hank and the Hobo - Boxcar Willie 5. Waltzing Matilda - traditional 6. The Hobo Song - Johnny Cash 7. King of the Road - Roger Miller [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-2/949532.md?page=250)