# What song should everyone sing along to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2007, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692 "2007-08-07T01:45:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/21 "2007-08-07T12:36:47Z")
“We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine” ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/22 "2007-08-07T12:55:44Z")
Oh, just _Bugger Off_! …ya bastards, Bugger Off. _Fuck You!_ Bugger off, ya bastards bugger off! _Fuck You!_ Yer a heard of bloody swine who refuse to leave the trough, Ye’ll get no more this evening, so ya bastards bugger off… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/23 "2007-08-07T12:58:37Z")
The correct answer is, of course: [I’d like to teach the world to sing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'd_Like_to_Teach_the_World_to_Sing) ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/24 "2007-08-07T13:12:26Z")
One of my all-time fav commercials is the (Coors I assume) beer commercial where the hippy guy is sitting in a bar full of truckers. He’s drinking the beer and looking at the cheezy behind-the-bar waterfall clock and starts singing, real quiet, “Rocky Mountain High, in Colorado”…and by the end (of course), everyone in the bar is singing along. Everybody will sing “Rocky Mountain High [sup]hiiiiiigh![/sup] in Colorado”–if you play it, they will sing. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/25 "2007-08-07T13:23:10Z")
[Happy Happy Joy Joy](http://www.angelfire.com/wi/RenStimpy2000/Lyrics.html), Happy Happy Joy (Joy) Happy Happy Joy Joy, Happy Happy Joy (Joy) Happy Happy Joy Joy, Happy Happy Joy (Joy) Happy Happy Joy Joy Joy. (_babada daaaa-daaaa_) ---
**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:** [August 7, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/26 "2007-08-07T13:26:42Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] The correct answer is, of course: [I’d like to teach the world to sing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'd_Like_to_Teach_the_World_to_Sing) [/QUOTE] If I am ever in a place where everyone does that, please do not give me a gun… ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/27 "2007-08-07T13:42:30Z")
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND words and music by Woody Guthrie Chorus: This land is your land, this land is my land From California, to the New York Island From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters This land was made for you and me ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/28 "2007-08-07T14:06:10Z")
I love it when people in movie theaters sing Johan Cage’s 4’33" over and over and over again… ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/29 "2007-08-07T14:09:35Z")
The Star Spangled Banner ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/30 "2007-08-07T14:13:21Z")
Where it began, I can’t begin to know when… But then I know it’s growing strong… ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/31 "2007-08-07T14:18:59Z")
Almost heavennnnnnn… West Virginiaaaaa… Blue Ridge Mountainnnns… She-nan-do-ah Riverrrr… ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/32 "2007-08-07T14:22:40Z")
Weeeeee are the champions, my frieeeeeends… And weeeeee’ll keep on fighting, till the end! ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/33 "2007-08-07T14:26:24Z")
[QUOTE=SSG Schwartz] …I was petrified… SSG Schwartz [/QUOTE] OK - so now I have a vision of SSG Schwartz dancing down the hallway of his house ala [Kevin Kline](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119360/)… :eek: ---
**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:** [August 7, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/34 "2007-08-07T14:29:29Z")
I like that old time rock and roll That kind of music just sooths the soul. Brother Love’s travelling salvation show. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/35 "2007-08-07T14:52:02Z")
If you ever find yourself on a bands’ tour bus, I think you are supposed to know the words to “Tiny Dancer” by Elton John. Did anyone else say “Margaritaville”? (Or “Why Don’t We Get Drunk And Screw”?) Personally I’d rather hang out in the bar where everyone sings _I’ll be your Dixie Chicken If you’ll be my Tennesee lamb And we can walk together Down in dixieland_ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/36 "2007-08-07T15:06:38Z")
[QUOTE=Nutty Bunny] \"Summer Lovin’ " from Grease \ [/QUOTE] Did you mean “Summer Nights,” which I posted in post #14? 😃 How about “Kiss” by Prince? ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/37 "2007-08-07T15:08:34Z")
_Buddy, you’re a boy. Make a big noise Playing in the street Gonna be a big man some day…_ ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/38 "2007-08-07T17:15:11Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Almost heavennnnnnn… West Virginiaaaaa… Blue Ridge Mountainnnns… She-nan-do-ah Riverrrr… [/QUOTE] TAKE ME HOOOOOMMMEEE COUNTRY ROOOOOADDDSS TO THE PLAAACE I BEEEELOOONGGG WEST VIRGINIAAAA MOUNTAIN MAMAAAA TAKE ME HOOOOME COUNTRY ROOOOOADS… ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/39 "2007-08-07T19:42:04Z")
True story: I’m in 10th grade and it’s lunchtime, and the radio’s playing over the PA system in the cafeteria like always. The opening chords to Aerosmith’s “Dream On” drifts over the tables, and suddenly the cafeteria erupts with cries of “Turn it up!” One of the lunchroom monitors complies, and soon every teenager in the room is singing along, jocks, preps, headbangers, geeks, cheerleaders, everybody, we’re all singing. Loudly and off key, so I noticed my biology teacher standing in the corner wincing, but we didn’t care. “The Brady Bunch” theme song is another one everyone will sing along to, if somebody else starts it. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/40 "2007-08-07T20:03:09Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] Weeeeee are the champions, my frieeeeeends… And weeeeee’ll keep on fighting, till the end! [/QUOTE] You have to start out with the _tap tap stomp, tap tap stomp_, first. There was an episode of Cheers where Norm was tapping his glass, and it spread out through the entire bar, down to Rebecca banging on a bar tray like a tambourine. I nominate Delta Dawn…ahem. (_ivylass climbs up on the bar_) **Delta Dawn What’s that flower you have on Could it be a faded rose from days gone byyyyyyy? And didn’t you hear him say He’d be a-meetin’ you hear today To take you to his mansion in the skyyyyyy?** You! Yes, you there! Give me another shot of tequila! I got another verse to sing! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692.md?page=3)