You know at parties, especially near the end when everyone has had one too many, when people start a good old sing song? What do you sing? I find most people, even those who don't usually sing, have a song that gets a airing on these occasions. Mine changes from time to time. I used to sing Summertime a lot but these days people ask me to sing You needed me by Ann Miller.

That's funny, Callybub! In the situation which you describe, I have been requested to sing Summertime! Also House of the Rising Sun. ...and I don't need one too many! If they ask politely! blue and I used to perform......and we were pretty good, too! But, as the years passed...we just didn't anymore! SO...any opportunity goes well with me!

A coincidence or what? Summertime is my song too! But when having a get-together with close friends (and drinks ) we always end up singing Wild Thing (I think it's by Chip Taylor). It must sound really awful ...

Does someone actually know the words to Wild Thing...
YOu make my heart break or something seems like...

Summertime isn't bad...
I know so many songs that my kids accuse me of being able to sing a song for any word.

One girlhood favorite used to be "Plastic Jesus".
"I don' t care if it rains or freezes long's I got my plastic jesus riding on the dashboard of my car, through all trials and tribulations we shall travel every nation, me and plastic jesus will go far..."
That was the request for us...the only time I pick on a guitar too.

Here it is, Bruyere.

Wild Thing

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything
Come on, wild thing

Wild thing, I think you move me
But I gotta know for sure
Come on and hold me tight
Oh you move me

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything
Come on, wild thing

Wild thing, I think I need you
But I gotta know for sure
Come on and squeeze me tight
Oh I need it

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything
Come on, wild thing

You're something else Pia! Now everyone who reads this is going to be drumming on their desk! Another funtrivia provoked incident!
Productivity is going down in the entire world!

I always get asked to sing Bohemian Rhapsody........ when everyone knows I do Yesterday much better!

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OK...It's Friday night in Canada, well HERE, anyway...and it's 10:36pm, and no one's in Funtrivia! No one who's talking, anyway!

"It's quarter to three..........
There's no one in the place...
'Cept you and me.................."

I'm the one who tells newcomers there's ALWAYS someone here! Now I'm singing to myself! Whatever has become of me? OK...I'm going to go now and resurrect some old chains..........

I always do Blueberry Hill. It stems from when my Mum and Dad used to go out on a Saturday night and me and my sister would be allowed in the pub too. My mum and her brother and sister in law would all stand round the "joanna" (piano) in a typical East End pub singing the likes of I left My Heart In San Francisco, Irene Goodnight Irene and Strangers in the Night, but they'd always finish with Blueberry Hill which would merge straight into Birth of the Blues. They were great times and singing B Hill just lets me relive them!!

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody?

No, perhaps not, it's not even true, because folks, there's always someone around here!

We tend to do a giant singalong in the circles I travel in. Someone always has a guitar (I don't know why, but someone's always got one!) and we end up singing pretty much whatever the guitarist can play. This usually results in a bout of "pub songs" like "Brown Eyed Girl", "No Woman No Cry", "American Pie" (usually abridged ), "Gloria" and the like.

My brother is a musician (he plays guitar and sings) and was working in a cafe yesterday. It turned into a giant singalong/karaoke. At first he was singing, then he would play while other people sung, and in the end there was a group of them all singing! It was beautiful!

Why didn't you ask me, Kristy! I play guitar, too! I could use a good time~"Did you write the Book of Love, and do you have faith in God above....if the Bible tells me so......."

Well, next time I'm in Canada we'll have to catch up for a singalong! I'll bring my brother and you two can jam!

My party pieces are -believe it or not -Summertime,with The Birth of the Blues a close second. But when the drams really start flowing it's usually any popular traditional Scottish or Irish song.

Irish people become very republican after a few drinks..everyone sings The Fields of Athenry.
I sing Ring them Bells, sung by Joan Baez, written by Bob Dylan. I also sing Summertime.

Now don't tell this to anyone, but I would never ever have too much to sip. Well, maybe if the wine was really good, I have been known to come up with that age old song, Roll Me Over, In .......
And do it again!

Nice old Scottish song I believe? At least that is who I learned it from, a nice old Scottish friend!

LOL, what a cool thread. I've been reading Jazz's and others threads about the Iraq issues in Current Affairs and am blown away by the intelligence of this community!

This is one thread that I can contribute to with authority!

Being the local music historian within my set of friends, and also the guitarist for the post party sing-along, After years of filling empty coke bottles with rice for the rhythm section, waking the neighbors and having a ball, these are the best sing-along songs!

Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
Wish You Were here - Pink Floyd
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Time Of Your Life - Green Day
The Gambler - Kenny Rodgers
Piano man - Billy Joel
American Pie - Don McLean
Lola - The Kinks
500 Miles - Proclaimers (make your own words up)
I'm A Believer - The Monkees
Summer Of 69 - Bryan Adams

there's heaps more. The secret is to everyone knowing the words. I can play guitar and piano but I have the dulcet tones of a wounded elephant!

'Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance'?

I was reading over the posts here last night and Mister Callybub saw the post and misread song for snog and wondered what the hell I was getting up to on line!!!!

Ahhh the after hours sloshed up sing-along! How I know it well! A couple of good sing-along songs come to mind. You know the ones; where everyone suddenly knows the words (or fakes it if they don't). My list is as follows:

"Friends in Low Places"
"Sweet Caroline"
"Piano Man"
"Bye Bye Miss American Pie" (Or I think it's just called "American Pie)

Don't really have a favorite among them. Any one of them will do as a big group sing-along.

No party in the Southern half of the United States would be complete without the drunken, slurring rendition of "Free Bird". I personally love a wobbly version of Uncle Tupelo's "Whiskey Bottle".

My daughter and Son-in -law have returned from another visit to Eirin's green shores.
They brought me a cookery book on Irish cooking but- they also brought back a wee book of Irish Pub Songs. My son-in -law and I sat up half the night going through them.
My daughter was asleep , my man was asleep, but Andrew and I were wide awake and giving it lalldy.
We worked our way through the Irish Song Book twice- but when it came to Danny Boy-we sort of reached a vortex from which we could not climb!
In other words we sang it till we were hoarse and the tears were streaming down our faces.
It's a grand song! In my case it can unite generations.
But I'm sure that you all have a Give Us A song that elicits the same feelings.

I don't want to say my high school was anti-semitic, but when they used to sing the "Horst Wessel Lied" at school occasions, it kinda raised a hackle or two...

SHOUT!!!!!! Just how they do it in Animal House which is one of the greatest comedies of all time by the way. There have been many others in my short life but can't remember them all. 6 too many probably

Cheers!!!!!!!

That sort of occasion is the only time my guitar gets used for anything other than an ornament. Then I sing 'Wreck of the Number Nine' a song by Jim Reeves (Number nine is a train).

A quick rendition of the first two verses:
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One dark stormy night not a star was in sight
The north wind came howling down the line
There stood a brave engineer with his sweetheart so dear
And his orders to pull old Number Nine.

She kissed him goodbye with a tear in her eye.
The joy in his heart he couldn't hide.
The whole word seemed bright for she told him that night
That tomorrow she'd be his blushing bride.
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You can probably guess that the train crashes and there is no wedding. After such a happy song I do House of the Rising Sun by The Animals. Most people know some of the words to that one.

Then it's time to hand the guitar to a better player.

My friends and I used to delight in getting a bit tipsy and singing "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Me and Boddy McGee." The only problem was, we had to be really tipsy so we forgot most of the words.