This topic came upon me while listening to ELO's song Bluebird and realized that the word "work" is in at least 3 songs I can readily pull from memory ...
1. The above mentioned Bluebird
the background singers sing work, work ... over and over
2. The song Car Wash from the movie of the same name ...
(Work and work)
Well, those cars never seem to stop coming
(Work and work)
Keep those rags and machines humming
(Work and work)
My fingers to the bone
(Work)
Can't wait till it's time to go home
3. The song Workin' in a Coalmine (for obvious reasons)

4. Jim Croce, Workin' at the Car Wash Blues.

1) "Working for a living," Huey Lewis and the News

Not only the gerund form in the title but also the third verse,
"I ain't complaining 'cause I really need to work / but hitting up my buddies has me feeling like a jerk."

2) "This Woman's Work," Kate Bush

3) "Do You Love Me?" The Rascals (?) recorded in the 1960s. Was re-popularized in the early '80s on the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. The middle eight has "work, work" backup vocals and "Work it up baby" as the lead vocal.

4) "Synchronicity II," the Police - "Another working day has ended..."

5) "Working for the Weekend," Loverboy

6) "Taking Care of Business," Bachman-Turner Overdrive "If your train's on time you can get to work by nine."

7) "Suffragette City," David Bowie. "my work's down the drain..." Although I could never tell: his school day is insane, so his work (job) may well be down the drain as well, but it's also possible that someone dumped his drug paraphernalia as "works" is a heroin-user's term for needle, spoon, tie-off etc.

8) "She Works Hard For The Money," Donna Summer.

9) "Good Morning Good Morning," the Beatles. "Going to work, don't want to go..."

Gimme a tough one.

The "tough one" is up to you ... IF yer big enuff !!

I had a feeling you were gonna say that...

Some others:

"Hard Day's Night" - The Beatles
"We Can Work It Out" - The Beatles
"Working Class Hero" - John Lennon
"Workin' My Way Back to You" - The Spinners
"Everything Works If You Let It" - Cheap Trick
"The Finest Work Song" - R.E.M.
"Workin' For MCA" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"I Wanna Be a Boss" - Stan Ridgway ("Get other people to work for me.")
"Keep On Working" - Pete Townshend

A few more:

"Rock N Me" - Steve Miller Band ("Well, I've been workin' real hard/Tryin to find a job/But it just keeps getting tougher everyday")
"Substitute" - The Who ("It's a genuine problem, you won't try/To work it out at all/You just pass it by".)
"Because I Got High" - Afroman ("I was gonna go to work...")
"Manic Monday" - The Bangles ("Got to be to work by 9")
"9 to 5" - Dolly Parton
"Morning Train (Nine to Five)" - Sheena Easton
"Too Much Monkey Business" - Chuck Berry ("Workin' in the fillin' station")
"Good Work (If You Can Get It)" - BoDeans
"Work Me Lord" - Janis Joplin
"We Work the Black Seam" - Sting
"Somebody to Love" - Queen ("I work hard [He works hard]/Everyday of my life/I work til I ache in my bones.")

Yet more:

"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman ("Been workin' down the convenience store"; "Says his body's too old for workin'"; "Now I work in a market as a checkout girl")
"Let's Go All the Way" - Sly Fox ("Workin' in a factory/Eight days a week")
"99" - Toto ("I never knew it would work out")
"Working For the Clampdown" - The Clash
"Take This Job and Shove It" - Johnny Paycheck ("I ain't workin' here no more")
"Thank You" - Dido ("I'm late for work again.")
"Life In a Northern Town" - Dream academy ("All the work's shut down.")
"Working Man" - Rush

I can't believe no one's mentioned "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" by the Animals, with its chorus of "We gotta work, we gotta work"

NP - King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King

Not to mention the line "He's been workin' so hard." I thought it was "We gotta run", btw.

Workin' in a Coal Mine - Devo

Derf named that one in his initial post. Just for the record, "Workin' In a Coal Mine" was originally recorded in 1966 by Lee Dorsey. The song was composed by Allen Toussaint.

Lessee, a few more:
"Tuff Enuff" - The Fabulous Thunderbirds ("I'd work twenty four hours/Seven days a week...")
"I've Been Workin' On the Railroad"
"Whistle While You Work"

Come to think of it, R.E.M.'s "Wendell Gee" has the line, "Whistle while you work" in it.

The line from "Wendell Gee" is actually, "Whistle as the wind blows, with me."

Now that I think about it, R.E.M.'s "Stand" has the word in it ("Stand in the place where you live" ... "Stand in the place where you work").

Oops. You're right Trike. A year or two ago I saw the lyrics on another website. I remeber kind of being surprised by the actual lyric, since I thought Stipe was singing, "This ol' afterworld." (Don't ask.) All I could recall offhand was something about whistling.

Yet some more work songs:

"I Hate Work" - Pump N Ethyl
"Hungry" - Tony Carey ("You're working for the man/You never miss a day/Get a little pink slip/And they take it all away.")
"Workin' at the Factory" - The Kinks
"Work With Me Annie" - Hank Ballard

np - "Get the Party Started" CD Single - Pink

You could fill a book with misheard Stipe lyrics. I used to think it was "Whistle as the world goes."

Thought I had a good one.

To my great surprise, the Vogue's "Five o'clock world" does NOT contain the word "work", even though that's the entire topic of the song.

"Blue Collar Man" by Styx suffers the same defect, I noticed. And yet, work, too, is the theme of the song. Strange. And, yeah, Goog, I was thinking of "Five O'Clock World", too. But I wasn't sure about its lyrical content.

Trike, where Michael Stipe is concerned, I agree with you. Although, starting with the album, Green, he did seem to have begun enunciating more clearly.

So... is "work" the only word anyone can think of?

No ... how about the word "superstitious"?
ref: The Rolling Stones
"I Ain't Superstitious" (Meet Me On The Bottom)
Well I ain't superstitious,
But a black cat crossed my trail.
Don't brush me with my broom, Babe,
I just might land in jail.

Okay, maybe that one was too hard ...
How about something easier, like "sign"?
(from The Climax Blues Band
I kept on looking for a sign in the middle of the night
But I couldn't see the light - couldn't see the light

Signs, signs everywhere are signs
Ruinin' the scenery breakin' my mind
do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?

From Billy Joel's Only the Good Die Young:

Come on Virginia, now show me a sign
Send up a signal, now throw me a line
That stained-glass curtain you're hidin' behind
Never lets in the sun...

And the sign flashed out it's warning / in the words that it was forming

"The Sign" - Ace of Base
"Sign of the Times" - Belle Star
"Sign O the Times" - Prince
"Darling Nikki" - Prince and the Revolution ("Just sign your name on the dotted line.")
"Sign Your Name (Across My Heart)" - Terrence Trent D'Arby
"Signs of Life" - Pink Floyd
"Black Blade" - Blue Oyster Cult ("I'm the Cosmic Champion/And I hold the mystic sign")
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered" - Stevie Wonder/Peter Frampton
"Sign of the Gypsy Queen" - April Wine
"Hungry Like the Wolf" - Duran Duran ("Woman you want me/Give me sign")

n.p. - Green Jello Sux - Green Jello (Specifically, "Three Little Pigs")

For "superstitious":

"Very superstitious/Writings on the wall" - "Superstition" - Stevie Wonder/Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

n.p. - Devil Without a Cause - Kid Rock

Would this Creedence Clearwater Revival have qualified for "work":

"Left a good job in the city/Woikin' for the man every night and day"? ("Proud Mary")

still playing: Devil Without a Cause - Kid Rock

Another one for 'sign'
A Sign of the Times--Petula Clark

Some more:

"Rockin' In the Free World" - Neil Young ("There's a warning sign on the road ahead.")
"Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes" - Paul Simon ("She makes the sign of a teaspoon/He makes the sign of a wave.")
"Life In the Fast Lane" - The Eagles ("Didn't see the stop sign.")
"Harvester of Eyes" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Well, that's my sign that you are dead.")

n.p. - Gold - Ryan Adams

"Bitter Suite" - Marillion ("The habit of the windswept thumb/And the sign of the rain")

"White Russian" - Marillion ("Everyone looks in everyone's faces/Searching for signs and praying for traces/Of a conscience in residence")

"Children of the Sea" - Black Sabbath ("We've lost the rising sun, it's the final sign")

"Under a Raging Moon" - Roger Daltrey ("Taking me back to better times/We never read the danger signs.")

"Real World" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Trees twist into secret signs.")

"Born Under a Bad Sign" - Albert King/Cream/Pat Travers/Jimi Hendrix/Homer J. Simpson and others

"For What It's Worth" - Buffalo Springfield

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

Quiet Riot also had a song called "Sign Of The Times"

Then there's "Shine" by Collective Soul ("Gimme a word/Gimme a sign.") And Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" ("There's a sign on the wall/But she wants to be sure.")

n.p. - Portrait of An American Family - Marilyn Manson

"Vital Signs" - Rush (I'm surprised a couple of other folks didn't think of it first.)

Didn't someone sing the following lines:

"Give me a SIGN,
Hit me baby one more time!"

The name eludes me somehow....

...of course, now I know! It was Travis, wasn't it?

Here's a new, easy one to get people going: we've already had "work", now let's "play"!

One to start off with:
REM - "Man on the Moon" (Let's play Twister, let's play Risk)

"Hey, Won't You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" B. J. Thomas

"Play Me" Neil Diamond

"Play That Funky Music, White Boy" Wild Cherry

Since I recently brought up Saga on "Hey, remember the 80's Part 2," here's a line from that group's "No Stranger (Chapter VIII):"
Now we're standing on the sidelines
Just watching how you play
With the toys that seem to outgrow you.

And here are a couple Berlin tunes:
"Sex (I'm A...)" (Come inside, it's a passion play just for you)
"Masquerade" (The reeling figures pass on by, Like ghosts in some forgotten play)

I'm know at least one song in Jethro Tull's A Passion Play mention's it's title, but I couldn't give an example...

Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you
("Every Breath You Take" - The Police)

"Play The Game Tonight" - Kansas
"Play This Game" - Todd Rundgren's Utopia

DUH . . . "Play With Fire" - The Rolling Stones

"Roy Orbison's playin' for the lonely" - Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band

Puff, The Magic Dragon ... Peter, Paul & Mary

Puff no longer went to play
Along the cherry lane.

"Please, Mister, Please" by Olivia Newton-John.
Please, mister, please.
Don't play B-17.
It was our song, it was his song, but it's over.

"See Emily Play" Pink Floyd
You'll lose your mind and play/Free games for May/See Emily play"
"Octopus" Syd Barret
"And the tune they play/is 'In Us Confide'"
"Christmas" The Who
"Playing poxy pinball"
"Cousin Kevin" The Who
"Do you know how to play hide and seek?"
"We're Not Gonna Take It" The Who
"If you want to follow me/You've got to play pinball"
"Pinball Wizard" The Who
(Surely all know this one)
"Strange Days" The Doors
"We shall go on playing/Or find a new town"
"Late Night" Syd Barret
"When I woke up today/And you weren't there to play"

And who was it that did "Games People Play"?

"Games People Play" wasn't Alan Parsons Project, was it? I don't know why I made that connection!

Didn't the Foreigner song "Juke Box Hero" have a line about playing (or not knowing how to play) the old six-string from the second-hand store?

Got a beat-up six
From a secondhand store
Didn't know how to play it
But he knew for sure...

From Billy Joel's Piano Man:

He says son can you play me a melody
I'm not really sure how it goes...

"Games People Play" was by Joe South

Here's some more:
"Playground in my Mind" by Clint Holmes
"Where's the Playground Susie" by Glen Campbell
"Rock & Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger
The band's still playin' it loud and lean

I figured I was wrong, Butch. I was going to try to look it up after my post, but my @$*&*^%@* connection terminated and I couldn't log back on until way later.
Thanks, ScottN, for the lyrics. (BTW, wasn't it "six-string?" Or is my brain having connection problems now?)

Could be, Craig... I was working from memory.

Well, yours is slightly better than mine, since I couldn't even recall the verse as well as you did. I suppose we could just look it up, but where's the fun in that? (I'll just be happy if my computer stays connected long enough to post this.) BTW, I still occasionally hear that song on the radio; I'll pay attention next time I hear it!

Besides, Craig, we all know how fallible human ears are... Just go up a few boards to "Misheard Lyrics".

Don McLean's American Pie:
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play

More Neil Diamond songs (since I like the guy's music so much):
As If:
It was more than a matter of wanting
Or needing the foolish games we played.

Beautiful Noise:
It's the song of this kids
And it plays until dark.

Cherry, Cherry:
You know what I'm sayin'
Can't stand still while the music's playin'.

Childsong:
Quiet tree
We have the wind
To make you dance
And fill you with our play.

Cracklin' Rosie:
Play it now
Play it now
Play it now, my baby

Dry Your Eyes:
Dry your eyes and play it slowly like you're going off to war.

Gitchy Goomy:
Like a sweet symphony, all you need is the key, you can play it.

If You Know What I Mean:
And the radio played like a carnival tune

September Morn:
Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play.

Shilo:
When children play seems like you end up alone.

When no one else would come
Shilo, you always came.
And we'd play.

Solitary Man:
Don't know that I will
But until I can find me
The girl who'll stay
And won't play games behind me...

Stones
Stones would play inside her head...

Tennessee Moon
Makes me wonder: is it the same moon Hank played under? (this song's about Hank Williams)

Yes I Will:
And cold it was within the marrow,
waiting like a wounded sparrow,
helpless and forgotten while the radio played on.

Songs by Marillion:
Incubus: I've played this scene before
Warm wet circles: She'll realise that she played her part in a warm wet circle and And the pool player rests on another cue
Script for a Jester's Tear: Too much, too soon, too far to go, too late to play (plus several 'playground' lines

If my memory serves correctly, I think the Love and Rockets song "Ball of Confusion" contains the line "And the band played on..."

Which reminds me of the old classic: "And the Band Played On". 1920's or earlier?

Yes, Craig, "Ball of Confusion" does contain that line and it was originally a hit for The Temptations".

And some more:
"Brickyard Blues" by Three Dog Night
Play something sweet, play something mellow, play something I can sink my teeth in like jello

"When the Band was Playing 'Shakin' All Over' " The Guess Who

"Money for Nothing" Dire Straits
should have learned to play the guitar

"Rock This Town" Stray Cats
but all it played was disco, man

"Roll Over Beethoven" Chuck Berry
There's a rockin' little record, I want my jockey to play

Thanks once again, Butch.

"Sultans of Swing" Dire Straits
They don't give a d**n 'bout any trumpet playin' band...

Continuing with Sultans...

They don't give a d**n 'bout any trumpet playin' band...
It ain't what they call Rock and Roll..
Then the Sultans,
Yeah the Sultans play Creole...

Abba: Knowing me, knowing you

In these old familiar rooms children would play

ah-haa!

Here comes Muffin, Muffin the mule.
Dear old Muffin, playing the fool.

Good one Alan, I thought there was an ABBA song with play in it. I just couldn't quite pull it out of my memory.

Well, since ABBA was mentioned, here are a few more songs of theirs (which I found here, if anyone's interested):

Andante, Andante:
Play me time and time again
And make me strong (play me again 'cause you're making me strong)

Please don't talk
Go on play
Andante, Andante
And let me float away

Angel Eyes
It's a game he likes to play.

Dance (While The Music Still Goes On)
Dance, don't you hear them play our song.

Dancing Queen
Where they play the right music

Dum Dum Diddle
I can hear how you work, practicing hard
Playing night and day
And it sounds better now, Yes you improve
Every time you play

And you're only smiling
When you play your violin

Mamma Mia
Mamma mia, it's a game we play

Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
Playing games within my mind}

Henson Cargill had a tune called Skip A Rope with the line:
Listen to the children while they play

For the record, The Alan Parsons Project and Joe South each have a different song called "Games People Play".

Now it's, uh, my turn to "play":

"Come Out and Play" - Offspring
"Suicide Is Painless (Theme From M*A*S*H)" ("The game of life is hard to play")
"Jane" - Jefferson Starship ("Jane you're playing a game, girl/You never can win/You're playin' for fun/But I play for keeps.")
"Play the Game" - Queen
"Satorial Eloquence" - Elton John ("Don't you wanna play this game?/Don't you wanna play no more?")
"Sixty Years On" - Elton John ("And Senorita play guitar/Play it just for me.")
"Play Guitar" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie ("Ziggy played guitar.")
"I Don't Like Mondays" - The Boomtown Rats ("Now all the playin's stopped in the playground now/She wants to play with her toys awhile.")
"Maiden Name" - The Red and the Black ("Ain't it a shame/So many cannot play the game")
"Redeemed" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Up on the old North 40/I'm sure it was Christmas Day/When Sir Rastus Bear/Taught children how to play.")
"Beth" - KISS ("Me and the boys are playing...")
"Take the Long Way Home" - Supertramp ("So you think you're a Romeo/Playin' a part in a picture show.")
"Theme From The Monkees" - The Monkees ("Come watch us sing and play.")
"Shades of Grey" - The Monkees ("When the world and I were young/Just yesterday/Life was such a simple game/A child could play.")
"I"ll Spend My Life With You" - The Monkees ("I played a game that couldn't last.")
"Centerfield" - John Fogerty ("Put me in coach/I'm ready to play.")
"Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old People" - Paul McCartney and Wings ("And nobody asks us to play.")
"Pilot of the Airwaves" - Charley Dore ("Pilot of the airwaves/Here's my request/You don't have to play it/But I hope you'll do your best.")
"Baby's Request" - Wings ("You could bring back memories departed/By playing my baby's request.")
"W.O.L.D." - Harry Chapin ("Playing all the hits for you/Wherever you may be.")
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - The Beatles ("It was twenty years ago today/Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.")
"Dear Prudence" - The Beatles ("Won't you come to play?")
"Only a Northern Song" - The Beatles ("It doesn't really matter what chords I play.")
"A Rock and Roll Fantasy" - The Kinks ("There's this guy in my block/He lives for Rock/He plays records day and night.")
"Mind Games" - John Lennon ("So keep on playing those mind games.")
"Lady" - Little River Band ("I looked around/Played a part.")
"Queen of Hearts" - Juice Newton ("Playing with the Queen of Hearts.")
"The Joker" - The Steve Miller Band ("I play my music in the sun.")
"Down On the Corner" - Creedence Clearwater Revival ("Willie and the Poor Boys are playin'.")
"Flowers On the Wall" - The Statler Brothers ("Playing solitaire til dawn/With a deck of 51.")
"Cats In the Cradle" - Harry Chapin ("He said, 'Thanks for the ball, Dad/C'mon let's play.'")
"Squeeze Box" - The Who ("She's got to play it all night.")
"Fire Lake" - Bob Seger ("Who wants to play those eights and aces?")
"Prime Time" - The Alan Parsons Project ("And every hand I play feels like a winner.")
"Do Ya" - Electric Light Orchestra ("I heard the preacher banging on the drums/And I heard the police playing with their guns.")
"Poker" - Electric Light Orchestra ("Play me another hand.")
"Rockaria!" - Electric Light Orchestra ("And the orchestra was playing all of Chuck Berry greatest tunes.")
"Walk of Life" - Dire Straits ("Oh yeah/The boy can play.")
"Games Without Frontiers" - Peter Gabriel ("Hans plays with Lotte/Lotte plays with Jane/Jane plays with Willi/Willi is happy again/Suki plays with Leo/Sacha plays with Britt/Adolf builds a bonfire/Enrico plays with it." " "Dressing up in costumes/Playing silly games.")
"The Little Drummer Boy" ("Shall I play for Him?")
"Home On the Range" ("Where the deer and the antelope play.")
"I Don't Wanna Play House" - Tammy Wynette
"You Can't Kill Rock and Roll" - Ozzy Osbourne ("Playing around with my head.")


(Sorry for the length. But I've had all week to think of these. )

Christ, Benn...

Outside of music, do you...HAVE a life???


I can guess

Yeah. I have a life. A fairly miserable and uncertain one right now. But I have one.

(Part of the problem is, I'm a compulsive list maker.)

You mean the Alan Parsons thing was LEGIT?! Man, I thought I'd just crossed some neurons or something. (That and my ^%%&(**@^%)@#! connection kept disconnecting, so I couldn't check into it myself. After a day, I completely forgot about it!)
Oh, and thanks, Benn. Hang in there.

Welcome back, Benn. I got your email and was wondering how you're still doing since then.

Now, should we try another word or are there still tons more songs with play in them that anyone wants to post?

Naah ... how about the word "stone"?

The first couple that comes to mind is
1. The Stylistics - Stone In Love With You
2. The Fifth Dimension - Stone Soul Picnic

Rainbow - Stargazer
In the heat and the rain/with whips and chains
To see him fly,we built a tower of stone
with our flesh and bone

Pendragon - Green Eyed Angel
Hearts so young against a heart of stone

Chris de Burgh - Heart of Darkness
I took the old path down, climbing over rocks and stones

Cover of the rolling stone...

ScottN has quoted Dr. Hook's song ...

"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" by Bob Dylan
Well, they'll stone when your trying to be so good
Actually 'stone' is used throughout the song and is probably the song with the word in it the most times.

"Stones" by Neil Diamond

Butch, same song (RDW12/35): "Everybody must get stoned"

Well, I heard another song with play today (Cherry Hill Park) but we're done with that word now so time to move on.

Curses, Butch! This is now twice you've thwarted my plans to post a Neil Diamond song containing the requisite word! Once more and I'm afraid I'll be forced to challenge you to a duel at dawn. Of course I'll be a gentleman and let you choose the weapon (water pistol, wet noodle, feather duster).

Anyways...

Another song with "a rolling stone" in it: Early In The Morning - Bobby Darin
Well, ya know a rolling stone -rolling stone-
don't gather no moss -gather no moss-
Stone Blue - Foghat
Stone Cold - Rainbow
Stone Love - Kool & The Gang
Stonecutters Cut It On Wood - From the Broadway show "Carousel"
Stoned Love - The Supremes
Stoned Out of My Mind - The Chi-Lites
Stoney End - Barbra Streisand
Sticks and Stones - Ray Charles

As a quick aside, how about acts with stone in their names? The Rolling Stones, of course. The Stone Ponies and Stone Temple Pilots, Cliffie Stone and His Orchestra, Kirby Stone Four, Lew Stone and Stonebolt, those last four all of whom I've never heard of before, till I found them on Lyrics World.

Butch: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" by Bob Dylan

I heard this song on the radio the other day - it's fun, isn't it?

Shame on you, MarkN for forgetting to mention the Stone Roses!!! [They defined the 90s, they did!] Funnily enough, they also had songs with the word "stone":
Elephant Stone
Made of Stone

Oh, and another one:
Talking Heads - "Once in a Lifetime"
Under the rocks and stones / There is water underground

Clannad: Newgrange
Mysterious ring, a Magical Ring of Stones

Chris de Burgh: The Leader
A circle of stones on the head of a hill

Stretching the credibility a little, another band with the word "stone" in their name might be the Mighty Mighty Bosstones....

How could we forget:
Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls"
You got a heart of glass or a heart of stone?

Oooh! That one goes under "songs that refer to other songs", too!

Journey-"Stone in Love"

Mark, you can console yourself with the thought that you beat me to posting "Stoney End". I should have thought of that one quickly since it's my favorite Streisand song.

Well, ok, Butch. I'll let you off easily this time. I'm in a good mood.

Third Stone from the Sun - Jimi
Stone Free - Jimi
Stone Cold Crazy - Queen
Taxi - Harry Chapin "I go flyin' so high, when I'm stoned"

cazbob - I once heard the William Shatner version of "Taxi" - it is absolutely hilarious.

Man, we forgot all about "Turn to Stone" by ELO!

And we should all be ashamed of it, too, Sven. I know I am.

Too Rolling Stoned - Robin Trower
And it Stoned Me - Van Morrison

I can't think of the name of the Doors song, but the lyrics go something like "Out here on the perimiter, there are no stars, out here we is stoned, immaculate."

"Stone of Love" - Blue Oyster Cult (Hey! I'm gonna try to find a B.O.C. song for every one of these words!)
"That's the Way of the World" - Earth, Wind and Fire ("With a heart of stone")
"(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman" - The Kinks ("I looked in the mirror/What did I see?/A nine stone weakling with knobbly knees.")
"I Got Stoned and I Missed It" - Jim Stafford
"Check My Machine" - Paul McCartney ("Sticks and stones may break my bones")
"Meet The Flintstones" ("They're the modern Stone Age family.")
"I Wanna Be a Flintstone" - The Screaming Blue Messiahs
"I Never Cry" - Alice Cooper ("Take a heart/Take a heart of stone/Open it up/But don't you leave me alone") (One of all time favorite songs, too.)
"The Last In Line" - Dio ("We are fire/We are stone")
"Stones In My Passway" - Robert Johnson

Those are all I can think of off the top of my head.

What a HUGE head ... !!

And three more "stone" bands:

Stone Fury
Stone Temple Pilots
Sly and the Family Stone.

And three more "stone" songs:

"Heart of Stone" - The Rolling Stones
"Stoned Soul Picnic" - The Fifth Dimension
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone - The Sex Pistols (Well, they did cover it! Okay, so we know it better The Monkees.)

Now some final more "plays":
"Hey 'Mr. Tambourine Man' play a song for me." - The Byrds/Bob Dylan
"Listen while I play/'My Green Tambourine'" - The Lemon Pipers
"Big League" - Tom Cochrane and Red Rider ("My boy's gonna play in the Big League.") (Great song.)
"Dreams" - Fleetwood Mac ("Play it the way you feel." "Players only love you when they're playing.")
"Take It Away" - Paul McCartney ("Take it away/Want to hear you play/Til the lights go down.")
"The Stars That Played With Laughing Sam's Dice" - Jimi Hendrix (Everyone has made a big deal about The Beatles' "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds" being an reference to LSD. Jimi topped them with this song. The song's title is an acronym for STP and LSD. Knowing Hendrix, this was probably intentional.)
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - Steely Dan ("We could stay inside and play games/I don't know.")
"My Ding-a-Ling" - Chuck Berry ("I want you to play with my ding-a-ling.")
"The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" - The Andrew Sisters ("When he played reveille")
"Playing Your Song" - Hole
"Sister Christian" - Night Ranger ("Don't You know those boys don't wanna ply no more with you.")
"We're Not Gonna Take It" - The Who ("Pick up my guitar and play.")
"Space Invader" - Uncle Vic ("I'd sell my mom/For a chance to play.")
"Kinko the Clown" - Ogden Edsel ("Kinko had some handcuffs on/His eyes were full of tears/He said, 'I'll be back to play with you/Sometime in 20 years.'")
"I Wish" - Stevie Wonder ("Caught you playing 'doctor' with that girl.")
"Large Time" - Atlanta Rhythm Section ("We played Macon, Georgia with Lynyrd Skynyrd.")
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" - The Charlie Daniels Band ("He played 'Fire On the Mountain', 'Run Boys, Run'/'The Devil's In the House of the Rising Sun'/'Chickens in the Breadpan, Picking Out Dough'/"Granny Will Your Dog Bite"/"No, Child, No.")
"Travellin' Band" - Creedence Clearwater Revival ("Playing in a travellin' band.")
"Inmates (We're All Crazy)" - Alice Cooper ("And it's not like we thought we was right/We just played with the wheels/Of the passenger train/That crashed on the tracks one night.")
"Rock and Roll Is King" - Electric Light Orchestra ("Now here I'm gonna stay/When that music starts to play.")
"Loser Gone Wild" - ELO ("I don't care if violins don't play.") (Ironic, isn't it?)
"Across the Border" - ELO ("When the wind is blowing/Softly through the streets/Of a little town/And the music's playing.")
"Mr. Blue Sky" - ELO ("It stopped raining/Everybody's in a play.")
"Only the Lonely" - The Motels ("It's like I told you/Only the lonely can play.")
"H.R. Pufnstuf" ("Come and play with me, Jimmy. Come and play with me.")
"Animaniacs Theme" ("We have pay or play contracts.")
"Late In the Evening" - Paul Simon ("I learned to play some lead guitar.")
"I Love Rock and Roll" - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts ("Played my favorite song.")
"I Play the Drums" - The Brain Surgeons
"The Ballad of Curtis Lowe" - Lynyrd Skynyrd ("Play me a song, Curtis Lowe.")
"At Seventeen" - Janis Ian ("We all play the game.")
"A.M. Radio" - Everclear ("It was a different game being played back when I was young.")
"This Used to Be My Playground" - Madonna
"Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny)" - Elton John ("Can't you come out to play in your empty garden?")

There! I'm through playing! (Hey, I thought of them, might as well list them!)

Ooops! I see Stone Temple Pilots and "Stoned Soul Picnic" have already been mentioned. Sorry!

Okay. One more:

"Stone Crazy" - Buddy Guy (I'm talking Blues with a buddy of mine and happen to see this song on one of my CDs.)

BTW, Craig, just so you'll know, Alan Parson's "Games People Play" appears on the album, Turn of a Friendly Card. It's the song that starts off with the lines, "Where do we go from here/Now that all of the children are grown up?/And how do we spend our time/Knowing no one gives us a dam*?"

Hey, that IS the song I thought it was! I just wonder why I remember that The Alan Parsons Project did it. On the other hand, wasn't that song something of a hit for a while? I remember it getting radio airplay (perhaps that explains why I vaguely remembered who did it), and I think there was a music video I once saw part of, around the same time. Oh, well, thanks all the same.
Now I wonder if that's the song Blitz was asking about in the 29 April 2002 post that started this whole line of thinking...

And just for clarity's sake, the "Games People Play" by Joe South is a completely different song. It starts off;
Oh the games people play now
Every night and every day now
Never meaning what they say now
Never saying what they mean

Sorry, Craig, I didn't know there was another song with the same title.

No worries, Butch... I didn't know there were two songs with that title, either!

Yeah, I first heard Alan Parson's "Games People Play" on the radio on a fairly regular basis. I'd call it a hit. The Turn of a Friendly Card album had two other hits, btw - "May Be a Price to Pay" and "Time". "Time", of course, was the big hit.

Some more "stones" to unturn:

"Rolling Stone" - Muddy Waters (The song that gave Mick & Keef the name for their band.)
"Like a Rolling Stone" - Bob Dylan (No one else thought of it?)
"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" - The Temptations
"Philadelphia Freedom" - Elton John ("I used to be a rollin' stone, y'know.")
"Rock Rap" - Whimsical Will (Sampson) (The guy who provided the voice of Spock as a boy in the Animated Star Trek ep, "Yesteryear".) ("And the moral of the story/A rolling stone/Can sure mess up his life.")
"All the Young Dudes" - Mott the Hoople ("And my brother's back at home/With the Beatles and the Stones.")
"Crocidile Rock" - Elton John ("Holding hands and skimming stones.")
"Stepping Stone" - Jimi Hendrix
"Stone Cold Believer" - .38 Special
"Showdown" - Electric Light Orchestra ("She came up to me like a friend/She blew in on the Southern wind/Now my heart is turn to stone again.") (Actually, it's the first time Jeff Lynne used the phrase, "turn to stone".)

Next word?

In the previous post of mine, it should be "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John. We regret the error.

Time for a tricky one... how about "table"? (It's actually not as hard as you think.)
Here's one to start off with:

The Beautiful South - "The Table"

The Eagles, "Hotel California"
"And at the master's table,
they gather for the feast,
they stab it with their steely knives,
but they just can't kill the beast!"

"Dear Heart" by Andy Williams
A single room, a table for one

Third Rate Romance, Low Rent Rendevous
Sitting at a tiny table in a ritzy restaurant ...

Billy Joel, Scenes From an Italian Restaurant:

We'll get a table near the street
In our old familiar place...

Petula Clark's I Know A Place:
At the door there's a man who will greet you
Then you go downstairs to some tables and chairs

Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
"You never count your money,
When you're sittin' at the table".

I stand corrected on "Hotel California". The word is "Chamber", not "Table".

OK, I've been dying to try this one, 'cause I have some really good references for it: How about Rain?

As in:

Rainy Day People - Gordon Lightfoot

I Wish it Would Rain Down - Phill Collins

and of course

Rainy Night in Georgia - Ray Charles

Purple Rain, by whatever Prince is calling himself on this particular day. Do I get bonus points for the fact that it's a song, album and movie title?
There was a group around 1990 called Rain People. If you've never heard of them, I guess that shows you how popular they were. (I know, we're talking song titles, not group names.)

"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" by The Fortunes
"It's Raining Again" by Supertramp
"I Wish It Would Rain" by The Temptations
"Raindrops" by Dee Clark
"The Rain, The Park, and Other Things" by The Cowsills
"Rainy Days and Mondays" by The Carpenters

Okay, I'll stop for now.

"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" - BJ Thomas (theme from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
"Walking In the Rain", by Johnny Ray (funny thing is I was reading this very song just the other night!)
"Singin' In the Rain" - Gene Kelly, title track of some movie he was in but whose name escapes me at the moment.
"Here Comes the Rain Again" - The Eurythmics
"Rain" - The Beatles
"Rain" - Madonna
"The Rain" - Oran "Juice" Jones
"Rain Dance" - The Guess Who
"Rain on the Roof" - The Lovin' Spoonful
"Rain on the Scarecrow" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"Rain Rain Go Away" - Bobby Vinton
"Rain, Rain, Rain" - Frankie Laine & The Four Lads
"Rainbow" - Russ Hamilton
"The Rainbow Connection" - Kermit the Frog
"Rainin' in My Heart" - Slim Harpo
"Raining In My Heart" -Buddy Holly
"The Rains Came - Sir Douglas Quintet
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - Bob Dylan
("Rainy Night In Georgia" was also done by Brook Benton.)

"MacArthur's Park" - originally by actor Richard Harris, then a decade later as a big disco hit for Donna Summer (Someone left the cake out in the rain).

"I Made It Through The Rain" - Barry Manilow
"A Day Without Rain" - Enya

"I Believe in Father Christmas" - Emerson, Lake and Palmer (But instead it just kept on raining/A veil of tears for the virgin birth)

"Dreams" - Fleetwood Mac (Thunder only happens when it's raining)

And by Marillion:
"Bitter suite" - (The habit of the windswept thumb and the sign of the rain)
"One fine day" - (Listenin' to the pouring rain/Waiting for the world to change)
"Waiting to Happen" - (You came and brought the rains here)

Africa - Toto (I bless the rains down in Africa)

I know this falls under Misunderstood Lyrics, but I always thought that that line was, "I miss the rains down in Africa."

It's not "I miss the rains down in Africa?" Boy, the things that get cleared up on these boards! (And I'm not kidding this time; I really have thought it was "miss" all these years.)

"Red Rain" - Peter Gabriel
"The Rain In Spain Falls Mainly On the Plain" - Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady

The Weather Girls - "It's Raining Men" [yeah, not anymore it ain't - everyone]

They actually called themselves 'The Weather Girls'? Sheesh.

Their original name was Two Tons of Fun.

I can see why. No, really I can.
Obviously doesn't apply to Geri Halliwell then...

...who, before anyone gets upset at that gratuitous Spice Girls reference, did a rather competent cover of said Weather Girls song for the film "Bridget Jones's Diary".

Here are four more tables:

"Our love is alive/And so it so it begins/Foolishly laying our hearts on a table/Stumblin' in" - "Stumblin' In" - Leather Tuscadero and Chris Norman (Okay, so it's Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman...)
"I've looked under chairs/I've looked under tables" - "The Seeker" - The Who (One of my favorite Who songs, too)
"The doctor came in/Stinking of gin/And proceeded to lie on the table" - "Rocky Raccoon" - The Beatles
"When tables collapse/And floors have filled/The party's over" - "Magna of Illusion" - Blue Oyster Cult

Now in honor of the weather here in Dallas, some rain songs.

"Rain Song" - Led Zeppelin (duh!)
"November Rain" - Guns N' Roses
"No Rain" - Blind Melon
"Louisiana Rain" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Kentucky Rain" - Elvis Presley (Probably my favorite Elvis song [and I'm not a fan of E's]. It surprises me that Elvis never gets mentioned on these boards, though.)
"Rain On the Scarecrow" - John Cougar Mellencamp
"I Can't Stand the Rain" - Anne Peebles/Tina Turner
"I Can't Stop the Rain" - Peter Criss
"Rain When I Die" - Alice In Chains (Slightly ironic one, eh?)
"I Hope It Rains At My Funeral" - Tom T. Hall ("Then I'll be the only one dry.")
"Laughter In the Rain" - Neil Sedaka (MarkN missed this one?)
"Kingdom of Rain" - The The
"Beautiful Rain" - BoDeans
"Pray for Rain" - Ten Hands
"So. Central Rain (Sorry)" - R.E.M.
"Rainy Jane" - Davy Jones
"A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" - Bob Dylan
"Naked In the Rain" - The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Who did the song "Rain in the Summertime" in the early 1990's? (I... love to feel the rain in the summertime. Oh, I... love to feel the rain on my face.") I think it was their only big hit, and I'd know the name if I saw it (duh!).

Hey! I just remembered something just after I posted. I made several compilation tapes off the radio back then (late 1980's-early 1990's), and that song was on one of them. It's The Alarm, and I guess that wasn't their only hit; it's just the only song of theirs I can remember right now.

And for songs with "rain" in the lyrics:

"Forgotten" - Linkin Park ("The rain then sends dripping/An acidic question.")
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Seasons don't fear the reaper/Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain.")
"This Ain't the Summer of Love" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Feel the sound and pray for rain.")
"Career of Evil" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Leave you kneeling in the rain/Kneeling in the rain.")
"Death Valley Nights" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Snow is cold/But so is rain.")
"I Am the Storm" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Run the gauntlet of my slashing rains.")
"Lonely Teardrops" - Blue Oyster Cult ("Vials of rain/To kill the pain.")
"Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya" - New England ("The rain is beating on my brain.")
"I'm A Believer" - The Monkees ("When I needed sunshine/I got rain.")
"Cuddly Toy" - The Monkees ("You're not the only choo-choo train/That was left out in the rain/The day after Santa came.")
"Black no. 1 (Little Miss Scare All)" - Type O Negative ("You wanna go out/'Cos it's rainin' and blowin'") (My favorite Type O song, too.)
"Love Reign O'er Me" - The Who ("God, I need a drink/Of cool, cool rain.")
"Fixin' A Hole" ("Where the rain gets in") - The Beatles
"Penny Lane" - The Beatles ("And the banker never wears a mac/In the pouring rain" "And the fireman rushes in/From the pouring rain")
"I Am the Walrus" - The Beatles ("You get a tan from standing in the English rain.")
"The Metro" - Berlin ("I emerged in London rain.")
"Londontown" - Wings ("Silver rain was falling/On the dirty grounds of Londontown.")
"Band On the Run" - Paul McCartney and Wings ("Well the rain exploded with a mighty crash...")
"Deliver Your Children" - Wings ("Well, the rain was a'falling/And the ground turned to mud.")
"The Man Who Couldn't Cry" - Johnny Cash ("Well, it rained for forty days and forty nights.")
"Five Feet High and Rising" - Johnny Cash ("Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain.")
"Down In It" - nine inch nails ("Rain, rain/Go away.")
"Raspberry Beret" - Prince and the Revolution ("Rain falling on the barn's roof")
"Thunder Island" - Jay Ferguson ("Caught by the rain/And blinded by the lightning")
"Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses ("And if they thought of rain/I'd hate to look into those eyes/And see an ounce of pain")
"Baby Step Back" - Gordon Lightfoot ("In the sky it looks rain.")
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot ("When afternoon came/It was freezin' rain...")
"Misunderstanding" - Genesis ("I waited in the rain for hours.")
"Watching Scotty Grow" - Bobby Goldsboro ("So let it rain/On my windowpane/I've got my own rainbow.")
"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes ("Getting caught in the rain.") (I HATE this song! Passionately! It's surprising that I'm even mentioning it. Worse is the fact that I even know any of the lyrics to it!)
"All of the Good Ones Are Taken" - Ian Hunter ("Out here in the rain/Can't you feel my pain?")
"Mlk" - U2 ("If the thunder clouds threatens rain/Let it rain/Let it rain on me.")
"Taxi" - Harry Chapin ("It was raining hard in 'Frisco.")
"Dixie Storms" - Lone Justice ("When I was younger/How I did wonder/What made the sweet Georgia rain/Make me feel so warm.")
"Texas Flood" - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble ("Dark clouds are rollin'/Man, I'm standing out in the rain.")

And now, for some rain songs by ELO:

"Showdown" ("Raining/All over this world.")
"Standing In the Rain"
"Big Wheels" ("Out here in the pouring rain.")
"Mr. Blue Sky" - ("It stopped raining.") (The last three are part of Out of the Blue's Concerto for a Rainy Day.)
"Nightrider" ("I remember somewhere in the rain.")
"I Need Her Love" ("I'm like someone left out in the rain.")
"Rain Is Falling"
"Evil Woman" ("There's a hole in my head/Where the rain gets in.")
"Do Ya" ("That is I think I'd like to save you/For a rainy day")

Craig, The Alarm had one other big hit (that I know of) - "Sold Me Down the River" (or was it called "Down the River"?) Anyway, that's the only song I heard on the radio. I do have one of their CDs, Declaration. It's not too bad.

(I'll shut up, now. )

Uhhh...I picked one of those 'too easy' words, didn't I?

Fire and Rain - James Taylor (Benn missed this one?)

Bus Stop - The Hollies
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain and shine (Benn missed this one, too?)

Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) - Melanie, with The Edwin Hawkins Singers
And if you do we could stay dry against the rain

From The Boss, Bruce Springsteen:
Cover Me
Outside's the rain, the driving snow
Streets of Philadelphia
At night I could hear the blood in my veins,
Black and whispering as the rain,
On the Streets of Philadelphia.

The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known) - Juice Newton
I only know that
When I’m with you
You’re my sunshine
You’re my rain

Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky and Our Gang
I must be home the sun is gone and I think it's gonna rain

And being in a good mood I can forgive Benn's mentioning the song that's amongst the most dreaded of all dreaded songs by Rupert Holmes.

Another "table" everyone:

George Michael - "Outside"
I think I'm done with the kitchen table, baby

[man, I KNEW I'd chosen a prohibitively difficult word!]

Remember 45RPM records? I actually have that annoying Rupert Holmes song somewhere with a box of stuff I never threw away. (The Dukes of Hazzard theme on 45 is in the same box.) The other song on the "Escape" 45 is worse sounding IIRC, but I don't recall if it's as lyrically insipid as "Escape."

Please don't ask me why I have the 45.

Derf, this thing is up to 148k. I think it's time for pt. 2.

(I rely upon Butch for you dial-up-56K people to notice a "drag" in loading speeds ... thanks dude)
I'll now end this thread and start a part 2 thread.