Songs that you just have to sing


It occurred to me the other day as I was driving to work that I cannot help but to sing certain songs as I hear them on the radio - especially the one word songs like Tequila! You know, hum hum hum hum, hum hum hum hum, Tequila! I just have to sing it, even if I were sitting in church and heard in ever-so-faintly from some teenager's car's radio in the parking lot on a hot summer day. I'd still sing it!

There are others as well - Puff the Magic Dragon, for instance - you can't hear it without joining in verbally.

Of course Springsteen's "Born to Run" - I remember the college parties. Eeven the girls who didn't know the words would mumble inaduibly until the chorus kicked in, and then would loudly scream, "Baby, I was born to run - yes girl, to run!!!" Then they started to mumble again...

Another list. This time, it' sing-along songs.
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"Dancing Queen" - Abba
"Joy to the World" - Three Dog Night
"Stairway to Heaven" - Led Zeppelin
"Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Bob Dylan
"Wild Horses", "Angie" - Rolling Stones
"Proud Mary", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - CCR
"Hound Dog" - Elvis Presley
"Gimme Three Steps" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Rock Lobster" - B-52s
"Space Oddity" - David Bowie

And, heaven save us, "Desperado," - Eagles

Some of these songs I do not even particularly care for, yet when they come on, whatever the circumstances, I am compelled to sing as if by hypnosis.

"It was a Rock Lobster!"

"Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce

"Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones

"Blowin' In the Wind" by Bod Dylan (I'm told that this song has been translated into something like 17 languages, but that may be an Urban Legend. I've never seen or heard any but the English version).

"Blinded By the Light" by Bruce Springsteen (made popular by Manford Mann). "Madman, drummers, bummers, and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps an adolescent pumps his way into his hat. With a boulder on my shoulder, feeling kind of older, I tripped the merry-go-round. With this very unpleasing, sneezing and wheezing, the kylidopy crashed to the gound..."