# What Are Some Songs That Begin With The Chorus? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [May 5, 2023, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643 "2023-05-05T23:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/21 "2023-05-06T03:08:35Z")
The Quarrymen, yes? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/22 "2023-05-06T11:11:49Z")
Another one by the Quarrymen, “Paperback Writer”. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/23 "2023-05-06T12:02:09Z")
“Stop! In the Name of Love” - The Supremes “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” - The Supremes “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)” - Marvin Gaye “Shotgun” - Junior Walker and the All-Stars ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/24 "2023-05-06T12:22:54Z")
You Can’t Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones, if you’re willing to count the intro with the choir. ---
**Author:** ![Pitchmeister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pitchmeister/32/3459_2.png) [@Pitchmeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pitchmeister)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/25 "2023-05-06T16:59:59Z")
That intro is the exact same from the choir as from Mick - „I saw her today at the reception…“, neither is the chorus. (Shameless brag - I was actually a part of that very choir nine years ago when The Rolling Stones performed that song as their penultimate encore for that tour.) Also, I don’t think „The Long and Winding Road“ counts, since it is one of those songs that doesn’t _have_ a chorus. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/26 "2023-05-06T17:03:28Z")
I do! Because that was the first song to come to my mind. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/27 "2023-05-06T18:01:45Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The Beatles seem to employ the technique regularly. I’m sure I’m missing some Can’t buy me love ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/28 "2023-05-06T18:30:59Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Can’t buy me love And “Nowhere Man”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/29 "2023-05-06T18:35:51Z")
“We Built This City on Rock and Roll” - Jefferson Starship. “You Give Love a Bad Name” - Bon Jovi, starts with half a chorus if that counts. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/30 "2023-05-06T18:53:39Z")
Similarly, “Dancing Queen” by ABBA starts with the second half of the chorus in the intro. (Sorry, I had missed the Bon Jovi example was already mentioned.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/31 "2023-05-06T18:58:22Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Several early Beach Boys songs. It was kind of their signature. For example: [Little Deuce Coupe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKfnqIxggE) [Surfin’ Safari](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrPDLxmfWPM) [Shut Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WFvdf8mOtk&list=OLAK5uy_kbIff7jmogFf9QQP0xNQnhqw8MLpr95bE) [Hushabye](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0h2lbHtPg) [I Get Around](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREBD2og5iY) > [@pulykamell](#): > > “We Built This City on Rock and Roll” - Jefferson Starship. The OP asked for songs, not Eldritch Horrors from the Dungeon Dimensions. At least you had the good graces not to link to it. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/32 "2023-05-06T19:00:03Z")
Chic did this on many of their late 70s dance hits: “Dance, Dance, Dance”, “I Want Your Love”, “Le Freak”, and “Good Times” for sure. Another one leading with the chorus from the same era was LTD’s “Back In Love Again”, with a young Jeffrey Osborne on vocals. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/33 "2023-05-06T19:16:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > At least you had the good graces not to link to it. And so have I: https:// www.youtube .com/watch ?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ As you can see if you put those four things on one line. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2023, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/34 "2023-05-24T23:20:32Z")
Time to get serious here. [The Lumberjack Song.](https://youtu.be/FshU58nI0Ts) Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. NSFW. [Link](https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M). Kyle’s Mom’s A B\*\*\*h. NSFW. [Link](https://youtu.be/i9AT3jjAP0Y). ---
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Ren and Stimpy, _[The Anthem of the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen](https://youtu.be/PKubZ5btqC8)_. ---
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Fisherman’s Friends - “No Hopers Jokers and Rogues” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/37 "2023-06-11T02:28:45Z")
“It’s My Party” by Leslie Gore ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643/38 "2023-06-11T02:32:45Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Leslie Aaaaahhhhh, its Lesley. ---
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> [@silenus](#): > > The OP asked for songs, not Eldritch Horrors from the Dungeon Dimensions. At least you had the good graces not to link to it. I’ve never really understood the hatred for that song. Sure, it’s a bad song, but there were plenty of bad songs in the 80s - I was there, I remember - and “We Built This City” was hardly the worse of them\*. Is it the whole Jefferson Airplane thing? Because they were hardly the first 60s icons to sell out. I don’t see Steve Winwood getting nearly as much flack for “Valerie”, for instance. [\*] That would be “Brother Louis” by Modern Talking. ---
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I feel that several classic blues tunes fit … sort of. The format has traces of a call-and-response format with things shifted around. A few lines of “chorus” followed by a few lines of “verse”. So the “chorus” part repeats but not so much the “verse” part. The way people parse things on lyrics sites sometimes muddle things. Some examples: BB King:[_The Thrill is Gone_](https://genius.com/Bb-king-the-thrill-is-gone-lyrics). Fats Domino: [_I’m Walkin’_](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fatsdomino/imwalkin.html) and _[I Want To Walk You Home](https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fatsdomino/iwanttowalkyouhome.html)_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-songs-that-begin-with-the-chorus/983643.md?page=3)