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Songs that mention their title in the opening line of the song
Performer | Song Title | Opening Lines | Comments & Submittor Name | |||
| AC/DC | Back In Black | Back in black I hit the sack I've been too long I'm glad to be back | If you don't know by the opening lines what this song is about, then obviously the opening drumbeat will let you know. - Peter | |||
| The Academy Is... | LAX to O'Hare | It was a plane ride from LAX to O'Hare. | William Beckett has the voice of a god. Thank you. - Lizzie | |||
| Ace | How Long (Has This Been Going On) | How long has this been going on? | Featuring the vocals of Paul Carrack, who found himself in other bands such as Squeeze, Mike & The Mechanics, and Roxy Music. This song would later be covered by Rod Stewart on his 1981 Tonight I'm Yours album. - Vic George | |||
| Adam Sandler | The Lonesome Kicker | Me, I'm the lonesome kicker. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| AFI | Miss Murder | Hey Miss Murder can I, Hey Miss Murder can I, Make beauty stay if I take my life? | AFI's first radio hit. - tastes_like_chicken_32 | |||
| Against Me! | Stop! | Stop! Take some time to think Figure out what's important to you. | - Lizzie | |||
| Alan Jackson | Like Red on a Rose | Like red on a rose. Your lips first smiled at me. | - Anonymous1337 | |||
| Alfred Drake | Pore Jud Is Daid | Pore Jud is daid, pore Jud Fry is daid, All gather round his cawfin now and cry. | "Pore Jud Is Daid" is another song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" - Peter | |||
| Alfred Drake | The Surrey With The Fringe On Top | Chicks and geese and ducks better scurrey When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top. | "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top" is the second song from Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II's first major Broadway musical, "Oklahoma!" Coming during the middle of World War II in 1943 and lasting past the war into 1948 (the original production), "Oklahoma!'s" influence on American musical theatre and American music altogether is not to be underestimated. "Oklahoma!" was to set the stage (excuse the unintended pun) for Broadway musicals for the next two decades and finally give both voice and visual to an American way at looking at music in general and also the theatre in general. "Oklahoma!" was the first Broadway musical to show an entire story, independent of the music, but the music helped a great deal and added much. For the first time, not only did the Broadway musical audience expecting music, they also expected a story with the music. - Peter | |||
| Alfred Drake | Out Of My Dreams | Out of my dreams and into your arms I long to fly. | Another song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" Alfred Drake was the first thespian to play the main character of Curty and sang many of these songs, many times, in the first version (1943 - 1948) of "Oklahoma!" - Peter | |||
| Alice Cooper | Hello Hooray | Hello, Hooray, let the show begin I've been ready. | Alice has always opened his concerts with this song which barely made the Top 40 in 1973. - Rich Braham | |||
| Alice Cooper | House Of Fire | House of Fire, House of Fire | Hey Alice, we got it the first time dude. - Chani | |||
| Alice In Chains | Over Now | Yeah, it's over now. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Alice In Chains | Angry Chair | Sitting on an angry chair. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Alice In Chains | Man In The Box | I'm the man in the box. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Alice In Chains | Again | Hey, let 'em do it again. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Alliser | Somewhere On Fullerton | Somewhere down on Fullerton... | - Lizzie | |||
| Alter Bridge | Watch Your Words | Watch your words, or your words might drown you. | - Jessica | |||
| America | Amber Cascades | Amber cascades all over today. | - Red Ruffcorn | |||
| Amy Grant | Baby, Baby | Baby, baby, I'm taken with the notion, to love you with the sweetest of devotion. | The song was written by Grant and dedicated to her then-six-week-old daughter Millie. - MOR | |||
| Amy Grant | Thy Word | Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. | - Vic George | |||
| Amy Grant | After the Fire | After the fire is over, after the ashes cool | - Erin | |||
| Andrew W.K. | Party Hard | When it's time to party, we will party hard. Party hard. | Just try thinking while listening to this song. - Brian Kelly | |||
| Andrews Sisters | Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree | Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me Anyone else but me, No! No! No! Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me | "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree" was written and recorded originally back in World War II. The writers were Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept and Charles Tobias. It was originally envisioned to be sung my a male vocalist, in the guise as a serviceman writing home to his girlfriend, and was recorded by several artists both during World War II and afterwards. But the most famous and best selling version was by the Andrews Sisters with a very swinging beat. - Peter | |||
| Andy Williams | It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year | It's the most wonderful time of the year, With the kids jingle belling and everyone telling. | - Ava Murphy | |||
| Animotion | Obsession | You're an obsession. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Ann-Margret | One Boy | One boy, One special boy, One boy to go with, To talk with, And walk with ... | "One Boy" is another one of the songs from Charles Strause and Lee Adams' musical, "Bye Bye Birdie". Ann-Margret played the teenaged Kim McAfee in the 1963 motion picture (Susan Watson played the character in the Broadway version, and in a 1995 TV special the character was played by Chynna Phillips). Ann-Margret is better known for the role, as well as the song. - Peter | |||
| Anne Murray | Sweet Little Jesus Boy | Sweet little Jesus boy, They made you be born in a manger. | - Ava Murphy | |||
| Annie Lennox | Walking On Broken Glass | Walking On Broken Glass | If you thought that Annie Lennox without Dave Stewart was going to leave behind giving us the title in the opening lines, this tune will disabuse you of that. - Peter | |||
| April Wine | You Could Have Been A Lady | Could have been alright, could have been here tonight, Could have been sweet as wine, you could have been a lady. | - Peter | |||
| Aretha Franklin | Chain Of Fools | Chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools | Yes, again the Queen of Soul repeats a word, this time "chain", but this time ten times (instead of twelve times as with "Think" in this classic of hers. But her being the Queen of Soul and the rest of the song, "Chain Of Fools" we forgive her. - Peter | |||
| Aretha Franklin | Think | Think (think) think (think) think (think) Think (think) think (think) think (think) | Yes the opening lines for this Queen of Soul's classic is the title repeated twelve times. - Peter | |||
| Army Of Me | Come Down To DC | Why don't you come down, come down to DC? | - Lizzie | |||
| Arrested Development | Tennessee | Tennessee. (Tennessee.) Tennessee. (Tennessee.) | I prefer the sitcom actually. - Brian Kelly | |||
| Ashley Tisdale | Last Christmas | Last Christmas, I gave you my heart... | i luv this song like sooo much! - Raphaella So | |||
| The Association | Cherish | Cherish is the word I use to describe All the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside | "Cherish" was the first of two #1's for the 6-man group known as the Association (the second would be "Windy" in the summer of 1967). "Cherish" reached #1 for three weeks in September 1966. - Peter | |||
| The Ataris | In This Diary | Here in this diary, I write you visions of my summer. | - Lizzie | |||
| Avenged Sevenfold | Seize The Day | Seize The Day | Quite self-explanatory - Jhamal | |||
| Avenged Sevenfold | Seize The Day | Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost | - sucka | |||
| Average White Band | Pick Up The Pieces | Pick up the pieces, uh-huh! Pick up the pieces, uh-huh! Pick up the pieces, uh-huh! Pick up the pieces, woo-hoo! | The Average White Band took this funky mainly instrumental dance tune to #1 on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 charts in 1975. "Pick Up The Pieces" was extremely popular in Discos of the time. The only lyrics in the song appear half-way through, and it's the title repeated four times. - Peter | |||
| Avril Lavigne | Girlfriend | Hey hey, you you. I don't like your girlfriend. | Possibly the newest song on the list...for now. - Brian Kelly |
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