# Why does Carly Simon keep singing about me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629 "2008-07-24T16:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/21 "2008-07-25T00:56:07Z")
Oh yeah? All the girls dreamed that _I’d_ be their partner! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/22 "2008-07-25T01:00:08Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Why does Carly Simon keep singing about me? [/QUOTE] Well, because that’s the way she’s always heard it should be. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/23 "2008-07-25T02:28:59Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] How’d your horse do at Saratoga? [/QUOTE] Your horse, Naturally, won. Though I don’t understand why you’d name a horse “Naturally.” And if you throw the ball to first base, who has it? Naturally? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/24 "2008-07-25T04:56:58Z")
I don’t give a damn! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/25 "2008-07-25T06:40:12Z")
Whatever, dudes. Can someone please make her stop? Blah blah vain. Blah blah blah blah This song is about you. Argh! Knock it off! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/26 "2008-07-25T06:50:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I don’t give a damn! [/QUOTE] That’s our shortstop. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/27 "2008-07-25T15:11:25Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Whatever, dudes. Can someone please make her stop? Blah blah vain. Blah blah blah blah This song is about you. Argh! Knock it off! [/QUOTE] Man, musicians love you don’t they? Check this one, also undoubtedly about you, out. You’re a teaser, you turn ’em on Leave them burning and then you’re gone Looking out for another, anyone will do You’re in the mood for a dance And when you get the chance… You are the dancing queen Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/28 "2008-07-25T15:21:03Z")
Since you give away things you love, can I have your yacht? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/29 "2008-07-25T15:26:30Z")
She just wants you to hold her in your hands like a bunch of flowers, Set her moving to your sweetest song And she knows what she thinks she’s known all along Loving you’s the right thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/30 "2008-07-25T16:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] Your horse, Naturally, won… [/QUOTE] I hear it was an interspecies race. Olive, the other reindeer, also ran. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/31 "2008-07-25T16:30:51Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] It’s not. The song’s about Carly Simon. [/QUOTE] Or both. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/32 "2008-07-25T16:35:03Z")
What else can you do but rise with the tide and go with the flow Say yeah, yeah whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, oh ---
**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/33 "2008-07-25T17:28:35Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Since you give away things you love, can I have your yacht? [/QUOTE] I’ll settle for his pension check, now that he’s 65. It’s a whopping 91 pounds per month, the old blighter! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-carly-simon-keep-singing-about-me/457629/34 "2008-07-25T19:43:56Z")
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