Favorite Answer in a Song

[Pete C]

Little Jimmy Rushing, he's been here and gone.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Ain't nobody here but us chickens!

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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

"Takes more than guns to kill a man,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die."
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And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
Joe says, "What they forgot to kill
Went on to organize,
Went on to organize."

[Chris D]

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

[Gentle Giant]

I'm your man.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

I won't dance, don't ask me.

[clinthopson]

But Baby, it's cold outside.

[Boris Badenov]

....Oh, no, that's just his charm! ....Oh, no, that's just his arm! If you want to know if he loves you so, it's in his kiss (that's where it is)!

[HenryMc]

Is she really going out with him?
Well, there she is. Let's ask her.

Betty, is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing?
Mm-hmm

Gee, it must be great riding with him
Is he picking you up after school today?
Uh-uh

By the way, where'd you meet him?
I met him at the candy store
He turned around and smiled at me
You get the picture? (yes, we see)

[walto]

"Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo."

[Gentle Giant]

On his 1976 album All American Alien Boy, Ian Hunter wrote a song called "God (Take 1)" as a dialogue between him and the Big Boss. I thought he did a good job with the questions and answers:

God (Take 1)
God said to me "Gonna kick your ass - 'cos all you do is ask ask ask
All that energy looking for me when i'm sitting here inside you - plain to see
How I built you cell for cell gave you sights to see - gave you tales to tell
Even let you help yourself for a while - to take some weight off this busy
child"

I said to God "I found you out - I know what this world is all about!"
God said "Stop - don't scramble your brain - my opponent's been messing you around again
See him and me are enemies and we play little games for galaxies
And he's inside you - 'n I am too - so here we are - just the three of you"

"Oh we made mistakes - too many cards - but making human beings can be hard
A god gets tired of playing so much chess - he wishes his god would get him out of his mess"
I said to God "what's it like to die" he said "it's as plain as the
sea and sky
Conception was him and me and you - when your batteries fade we all just move on"

I said to God "Who's winning this game - is the devil in front" he said
"Is that his name?
You know I've been so busy I never asked - I never looked up from this awesome task"
I said to God "What's good 'n bad" he said "It's just something
you've got to have
It don't mean nothing to us up here - but you primitive people - you gotta have fear"

I said to God "Do I think for myself" he said I told you once you just
help yourself
Don't forget you're composed of three, your thinking comes from him and me"
I said to God "How big are you, is there a religion - is it true
How big's the universe - is time - the same for you as my life is to mine?"

God said "If all the things that made worlds float - were all to part - then
you would note
The size of him and the size of me - and that's how big we both shall be"
He said "The universe is small - just like some fortune-teller's ball
And we both sit down - and we play the game - when somebody wins it all starts again"

"There's no religion - you did that - it helps to keep your little leaders fat
Like faith 'n superstition stay - to help you pass the time away
But when you talk of time and life - it makes me think of circles, heights
Expansion is the clue - your dreams are nearer than you've ever been"

"You see, my little toy, to think is from two bowls of wine to drink
Don't take too much or you may drown - behave yourself, see you around..."