# Topic Playlist (Part 3)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 111

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2201 "2024-10-24T19:03:50Z")

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**Songs with Ghosts**

1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
3. Haunted - The Pogues
4. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws

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**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:** [October 24, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2202 "2024-10-24T19:08:09Z")

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**Songs with Ghosts**

1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
3. Haunted - The Pogues
4. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws
5. If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot

Just like an old time movie, 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well.

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2203 "2024-10-24T19:29:49Z")

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**Songs with Ghosts**

1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
3. Haunted - The Pogues
4. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws
5. If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
6. The Ride - David Allan Coe

Hitchhiker gets a ride from Hank Williams.

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**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:** [October 24, 2024, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2204 "2024-10-24T20:28:57Z")

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**Songs with Ghosts**

1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
3. Haunted - The Pogues
4. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws
5. If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
6. The Ride - David Allan Coe
7. The Ghost in You - The Psychedelic Furs

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**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:** [October 24, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2205 "2024-10-24T20:57:37Z")

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**Songs with Ghosts**

1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
3. Haunted - The Pogues
4. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws
5. If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
6. The Ride - David Allan Coe
7. The Ghost in You - The Psychedelic Furs
8. Carmen Miranda’s Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Five - Leslie Fish

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**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:** [October 24, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2206 "2024-10-24T21:16:14Z")

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**Songs with Ghosts**

1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
3. Haunted - The Pogues
4. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws
5. If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
6. The Ride - David Allan Coe
7. The Ghost in You - The Psychedelic Furs
8. Carmen Miranda’s Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Five - Leslie Fish
9. Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men

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**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:** [October 24, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2207 "2024-10-24T22:07:30Z")

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**Songs with Ghosts**

1. With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm - Stanley Holloway
2. The Jogger - Bobby Bare
3. Haunted - The Pogues
4. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws
5. If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
6. The Ride - David Allan Coe
7. The Ghost in You - The Psychedelic Furs
8. Carmen Miranda’s Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Five - Leslie Fish
9. Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
10. Waltzing Matilda - trad Paterson/Cowan  
"And his ghost may be heard if you pass by that billabong  
“You’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me”

**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2208 "2024-10-24T22:11:31Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2209 "2024-10-24T22:14:26Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith

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**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:** [October 24, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2210 "2024-10-24T23:56:41Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith
4. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2211 "2024-10-24T23:59:03Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith
4. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
5. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers

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**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:** [October 25, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2212 "2024-10-25T01:12:58Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith
4. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
5. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers
6. Timothy – The Buoys  
_possible_ reference to cannibalism, depending on whom you ask

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**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:** [October 25, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2213 "2024-10-25T01:18:28Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith
4. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
5. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers
6. Timothy – The Buoys
7. Royal Orleans - Led Zeppelin

About “a man that I know,” possibly a band member, with the story most often pointing to JPJ, picking up a prostitute in New Orleans, who then turns out to be, uh, “differently equipped” than anticipated.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2214 "2024-10-25T05:02:42Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith
4. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
5. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers
6. Timothy – The Buoys
7. Royal Orleans - Led Zeppelin
8. Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd

“In walked a man with a gun in his hand/ he was looking for you-know-who…”

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**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:** [October 25, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2215 "2024-10-25T11:14:07Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith
4. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
5. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers
6. Timothy – The Buoys
7. Royal Orleans - Led Zeppelin
8. Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
9. Innocent Man - Billy Joel

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2216 "2024-10-25T12:45:51Z")

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**Songs referencing uncomfortable situations**

1. Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
2. Luka - Suzanne Vega
3. Janie’s Got a Gun - Aerosmith
4. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
5. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers
6. Timothy – The Buoys
7. Royal Orleans - Led Zeppelin
8. Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
9. Innocent Man - Billy Joel
10. Lola - The Kinks

**Songs about regret or guilt**

1. Hurt - Johnny Cash

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2024, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2217 "2024-10-25T12:51:28Z")

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**Songs about regret or guilt**

1. Hurt - Johnny Cash
2. Hearts - Marty Balin

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**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:** [October 25, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2218 "2024-10-25T14:29:59Z")

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**Songs about regret or guilt**

1. Hurt - Johnny Cash
2. Hearts - Marty Balin
3. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

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**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:** [October 25, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2219 "2024-10-25T15:03:57Z")

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**Songs about regret or guilt**

1. Hurt - Johnny Cash
2. Hearts - Marty Balin
3. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
4. Best of Intentions - Travis Tritt

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**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:** [October 25, 2024, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2220 "2024-10-25T15:33:11Z")

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**Songs about regret or guilt**

1. Hurt - Johnny Cash
2. Hearts - Marty Balin
3. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
4. Best of Intentions - Travis Tritt
5. Mama Tried - Merle Haggard

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