# What songs do you sing when you're bored? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2000, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780 "2000-12-30T08:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/21 "2000-12-30T23:41:34Z")
Usually ‘Thank You’ by Dido from Stan. Sometimes ‘Another Night’ by The Real McCoy (1994) if I’m thinkng. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/22 "2000-12-30T23:50:51Z")
“This is the song that doesn’t end” is the only one that comes to mind. And The Boxer and Yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/23 "2000-12-31T00:09:49Z")
Alessan: Slight nitpick, the actual lyric is: “She’s well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a windowpane…” Personally, the Beatles song I sing when I’m bored is “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” But I also sing snippets of “Call Me Al” or any song from the Annie Get Your Gun musical. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/24 "2000-12-31T02:06:21Z")
“Rollin” by Limp Bizcuit ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/25 "2000-12-31T02:10:10Z")
A badly off key rendition of “Oh Lord won’t you buy me a mercedes benz”. -Boredom is a HORRIBLE thing ! ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/26 "2000-12-31T02:26:16Z")
I can get any song in the world stuck in my head to sing, since I have an amazing memory, but I usually have worship music in my head, especially after going to a convention at Niagara Falls with all the 3-5 hour worship services… _becomes bored_ Lord I lift your name on high… _clapping to a beat_ _head hits keyboard and all goes silent_ ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/27 "2000-12-31T02:50:50Z")
_I Would Walk 500 Miles_ ---
**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:** [December 31, 2000, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/28 "2000-12-31T03:49:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nocturne \* > \*\*Alessan: Slight nitpick, the actual lyric is: > “She’s well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a windowpane…” > > \*\* Yeah, I know, that was just a typo, sort of. You know - you start writing “window”, you automatically finish it with “sill”. But I sing it the way you wrote it. ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/29 "2000-12-31T04:03:11Z")
The Cute Song - by animaniacs or “This is the song that never ends” by Lambchops 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/30 "2000-12-31T04:11:40Z")
I sing Irish songs when I’m working too. “Danny Boy”, “Whiskey in the Jar”, and “Molly Malone” get sung the most often. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/31 "2000-12-31T05:25:05Z")
Damn you, Wyldelf, now I have the Lambchops song stuck in my head…this is the song that doesn’t end…it just goes on and on my friend… ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/32 "2000-12-31T05:33:17Z")
I tend to sing the vocal warm up we did in High School… dona nobis pacem Dona Nobis Pa-cem, pacem Dona Nobis, paaaaaacem… dooooooooonaaaaaaa Noooobis Pacem Dooooona Nobiiiis Paaaaacem. _bows_ ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/33 "2000-12-31T05:44:54Z")
The tune to the circus clown song, don’t know why, I just do. Or random disney songs. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![ElusiveMiser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@ElusiveMiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElusiveMiser)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/34 "2000-12-31T05:57:49Z")
“The Ocean” by Led Zeppelin. Being a drummer, I always do the drumbeat with my hands and feet. And I pride myself on figuring out that the song is in 7/4 time signature. ::bows:: Also, “Operator Plays a Little Pingpong” and “Everybody Way-oh” from the Neverhood. God I love that game. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/35 "2000-12-31T10:11:45Z")
I also just realized today that I sing _Asshole_ by Denis Leary a lot, although usually only the long-ass ranting part about his 1967 Cadillac El Dorado convertible… hot pink… with whale-skin hubcaps, an all-leather cow interior, and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights… Only when I’m bored with friends (that know the lyrics, too) do I ever sing the whole thing all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/36 "2000-12-31T17:25:57Z")
I constantly…CONSTANTLY…have songs stuck in my head if I’m not actively listening to something. My mom calls it having a “noisy brain”…I have a continuous internal radio which plays songs, snatches of songs, bits of conversations, poems, stand-up routines, imagined conversations (you know, when you have both sides of a conversation with someone…a convo you’ll probably never have, but you play out all possible premutations of it in your head)… If I’m walking anywhere, I try to get stuck on “Solsbury Hill” by Peter Gabriel. Fantastic walking beat, and the time changes keep it interesting. I usually end up with something from marching band stuck in there as well, but I can almost always get it back. If I have something stuck in my head that I _can’t stand_, I’ve found that “All Mixed Up” by 311 gets rid of it nicely. “If I Were a Rich Man” and “Matchmaker” from “Fiddler” get me, as do several songs from “The Pirates of Penzance,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “The Music Man,” “Les Miserables,” “Anything Goes,” “Evita” (which I must mention is because of the original soundtrack; haven’t seen the Madonna-fied travesty)… You get the idea. It is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing: my car stereo’s faceplate is gone, so I have to come up with my own aural entertainment. A curse: trying to call asleep and “Everything You Know is Wrong” by Weird al won’t stop spinning in my brain, and it’s 3:30 in the morning and I have to be up in a couple of hours. Almost forgot: almost any and all songs in Tom Lehrer’s repertoire will lodge themselves in my brain given almost any opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Crack\_dOff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Crack\_dOff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crack_dOff)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/37 "2000-12-31T18:30:46Z")
“Aiii, yiiii, yiii-yii, I am the Frito Bandito…” ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780/38 "2000-12-31T19:43:01Z")
I have songs constantly running through my head. Lately, it’s been, “I believe that children are our future…” Since I don’t know all the words, I usually sing the beginnig and “I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow.” It’s fun to belt it. Also, “Bust a Move” has been in my head a lot lately, probably because I’ve seen Dude, Where’s My Car? four times in two weeks. Oh, and “Wind Beneath My Wings.” I sing it to my ten-year-old sister all the time, on my knees. “Did you ever know that you’re my hero?..” I often sing, “Me and yo dawtah got a special thang goin on. You say it’s puppy love, we say it’s full grown…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-do-you-sing-when-youre-bored/47780.md?page=1)