# Write a new verse for "I Get a Kick Out of You"--or, Where does your mind go on YOUR commute?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-new-verse-for-i-get-a-kick-out-of-you-or-where-does-your-mind-go-on-your-commute/538650
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 7, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-new-verse-for-i-get-a-kick-out-of-you-or-where-does-your-mind-go-on-your-commute/538650 "2010-05-07T17:01:18Z")
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### Author: ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-new-verse-for-i-get-a-kick-out-of-you-or-where-does-your-mind-go-on-your-commute/538650/1 "2010-05-07T17:01:18Z")

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Stopping by a drugstore for a caffeine drink between buses this morning, I was treated to The Voice descending from on high (speakers in the ceiling): "I get no kick from Champaaaaaaagne . . . " and found myself infested with a hell of an [earworm](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+sinatra/i+get+a+kick+out+of+you_20055132.html). Naturally this evolved into an attempt to come up with my own verses:  
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Some get a kick from Rogaine  
I wouldn’t care  
If I ran out of hair  
I would just wear  
A toupee or two  
Cuz I get a kick out of you

Some folks can’t kick Mary Jane  
They just go broke  
Living from smoke to toke  
Man it ain’t no joke  
You know it’s true  
But I get a kick out of you\*

So where’s yours? Here’s the rules:

[ul]  
[li]First line includes the word “kick,” and rhymes with “Champagne/a plane/cocaine.”[/li][li]The next three lines rhyme. (There’s an established meter–um, iambic diameter?–but Cole Porter was way better of hewing to that than I am; I’ll just trust to my imaginary Sinatra’s ability to fit the phrasing together somehow.)[/li][li]The next line rhymes with “you.”[/li][li]The last lined ends with “I get a kick out of you.”[/li][/ul]

Have at it.

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### Author: ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/write-a-new-verse-for-i-get-a-kick-out-of-you-or-where-does-your-mind-go-on-your-commute/538650/2 "2010-05-07T17:49:20Z")

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This is a quick and dirty attempt. Could probably use some refinement. But here goes:  
_Some get a kick out of pain  
Sadists and masochists’s  
Eyes glaze with bliss  
As the latter’s wrists  
Turn black and blue  
But I get a kick out of you_