# What song had this line in the lyrics?

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**Created:** [December 30, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-had-this-line-in-the-lyrics/1026158 "2025-12-30T00:38:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-had-this-line-in-the-lyrics/1026158/1 "2025-12-30T00:38:39Z")

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Some time back in the antediluvian epoch when I was in summer camp, there was a silly song that was listing an eclectic assortment of junk that someone had gathered and included “strings of copper wire”. Ring a bell to anyone?

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-had-this-line-in-the-lyrics/1026158/2 "2025-12-30T00:40:24Z")

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Did you mean this for Cafe Society? It doesn’t look like much of a game.