# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/61 "2007-08-09T02:52:51Z")
None. none songs. IMO, the answer is none songs. If an entire bar starts jamming out on some redneck all american classics you hear about three times a night, I leave the bar. Its not the bar for me. In fact I have a physical reaction if I hear the song Sweet Caroline. It makes me feel like I’ve died and gone STRAIGHT to hell. In fact I believe my own personal hell would be a bar full of losers singing sweet caroline. or sweet home alabama. or american pie. or devil went down to georgia. or bohemian rhapsody. or ROCKY TOP of any of the other kitschy bar songs that they play over, and over, and over, and over…and over, and over, and over, and over (and over) that apparently I’m supposed to be a good sport about because I was born and raised in Nashville which everyone in san francisco thinks is some sort of party trick or novelty act. And for that matter, don’t get wasted and rock out to lynard skynard, crazy lady with a mullet, and tell me you are from the south when what you really mean is the south side of chicago. [/rant] whoa… that got out of hand really fast. sorry i’ll stop being a wet blanket. ---
**Author:** ![Typo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Typo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/62 "2007-08-09T03:11:14Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] 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. [/QUOTE] :eek: Would this have occurred in Springfield, Missouri, by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/63 "2007-08-09T04:06:12Z")
I was drunk the day my Mom got out of prison… I went to pick her up in the rain But before I could get there in my pick up truck She got run over by a danged ol train… So I’ll hang around as long as you will let me And I never minded standin’ in the rain. No, You don’t have to call me darlin’, darlin’ You never even call me, I wonder why you don’t call me Why don’t you ever call me by my name. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/64 "2007-08-09T05:28:25Z")
The one and only time I have seen every single person in a semi-crowded bar drop everything and raise their voices in sloppy, drunken unison, it was to this timeless classic: > [@](#): > > I’m the one who wants to be with you! > Deep inside I hope YOU FEEEEEL IT TOOO! > Waited on a line of greens and blues! > Just to be the next TO BEEE WITH YOOOU!!! That’s right…Mr. Big. I dunno either. But it happened. ETA: I did it too. ---
**Author:** ![zygote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e480ec/32.png) [@zygote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zygote)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/65 "2007-08-09T06:41:32Z")
Always look on the bright side of life **whistles** ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/66 "2007-08-09T12:54:13Z")
_Nellie The Elephant_ is the ulitmate sing-to-gether song… WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! _Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk and said goodby to the circus…_ ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/67 "2007-08-09T14:26:39Z")
“[You’re](http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/h/hihosilverlining.shtml) everywhere and nowhere baby, That’s where you’re at…” ---
**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 9, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/68 "2007-08-09T14:29:03Z")
He flies through the air with the greatest of ease ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/69 "2007-08-10T01:27:17Z")
If you’re in Canada, and its anytime between October and June… you must, you MUST , I repeat must sing along to Stompin’ Tom’s “Hockey Game” (Chorus) And the good old hockey game Is the best thing you can name And the best thing you can name Is the good old hockey game… ---
**Author:** ![denquixote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@denquixote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denquixote)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692/70 "2007-08-10T02:06:34Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] Hey, we got the [damn music planted in a park!](http://www.thewanderersfolk.com/images/carlwithnotes.jpg) (The town that turned Woody into a Communist). It’s illuminated in red, white and blue at night. [/QUOTE] Did someone edit the picture? I don’t get it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-should-everyone-sing-along-to/414692.md?page=3)