Name


Zann found my song. I can't embed it, but here's a link. It has a great counterpoint once it's all put together in the last pass.
http://www.sesamestreet.org/video_player/-/pgpv/videoplayer/0/f203d732-155e-11dd-a62f-919b98326687


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11/03/2011 12:01:00 AM
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You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did well, really, what's it to you?
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
Every time I walk through that door, it's the same damn thing
That bitch bends over and I forget my name. Ow!
Domino
KISS
I like my name
It suits me to a T
I like my name
It even sounds like me
A song from early Sesame Street that Bob and Olivia sang, and if anyone knows where it is online I'd love to listen to it repeatedly.
Like the singing bird or croaking toad...I got a name
Jim Croce
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name.
~ Doors
Her name was Lola
She was a showgirl
Copacabana
Barry Manilow
What's the name of the game
Does it mean anything to you
ABBA
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
The Rolling Stones
You don't remember, you don't remember, why don't you remember my name?
Paranoid Android
Radiohead
and there isn't any name that I can't rhyme...
The Name Game
Shirley Ellis
Old enough now to change your name
When so many love you is it the same?
It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game
Cowgirl in the Sand
Neil Young
I woke up in a Soho doorway...A policeman knew my name ... He said you can go sleep at home tonight ... if you can get up and walk away ...
Who Are You? - The Who
And by the way
Did she mention my name?
Gordon Lightfoot
I asked her her name,
and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
The Kinks
What's your name?
Who's your daddy?
Is he rich like me?
Time of the Season
Zombies
My name is Luka
I live on the second floor
Luka
Suzanne Vega
He calls his child Jesus
Cause he likes the name
Levon
Elton John
What's your name, little girl?
What's your name?
Lynyrd Skynyrd
One day my name and hers
Are going to be the same
"Bus Stop," The Hollies
And yes I guess they oughta name a drink after You
John Prine
Had a dog and his name was Blue
Betcha five dollars he's a good 'un too.
Well you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
But you never even call me by my name
Steve Goodman and John Prine wrote it
David Alan Coe made it famous
And her name is
G - L - O - R - I - A
Gloria!
Gloria!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Gloria - Van M0rrison
I can't reveal her name until she's mine
A Certain Girl
Warren Zevon
Never heard this before today - there's a video posted to the fb page of a friend who still hasn't revealed the name of his newest son (born Monday) :)
I call your name
but you're not there
was I to blame
for being unfair?
I Call Your Name
The Beatles
Just tell me what your name is!
It's Alice Uber Deutchland
It's Alice, it's Alice, it is my lucky day!
PDQ Bach
from Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice
Just because I asked a friend about you
Just because I spoke your name somewhere
"She Thinks I Still Care," (George Jones? Leon Russell, later.)
Passing trains that have no names
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles
City of New Orleans
Steve Goodman
Stop! In the name of love
Before you break my heart.
Stop in the Name of Love
Supremes
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
America
La dee da de dum, la dee da de dum,
What's the name of that song?
(another Sesame Street wonder)
Born with the moon in Cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Little Green
Joni Mitchell
And I won't tell no one your name
Goo Goo Dolls
B-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o
They got a little place across the track
the name of the place is I like it like that
I Like It Like That
various artists
One has my name
The other has my heart
(a country song from the 1960's or earlier)
There was a man named Johnny Sands
Who married Betsy Hague
And though she brought him house and land
She proved a terrible plague
(A humorous ballad about pretending to be blind, and death by drowning. It's hilarious.)
Eleanor Rigby
died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
The Beatles
Good one, Deb. I played twice in a row, all excited about thinking of Johnny Sands, so I'm out. I'll wait until tomorrow.
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Sorry for the foul, folks.
You could've been more
than a name on the door
on the thirty-third floor
in the air
Joni Mitchell
What's your name?
Is it Mary or Sue
Don't know artist
My boyfriend's name is Fatty
He comes from Cincinnati
with ten fat toes and a pickle in his nose,
that's way my story goes.
Children's clapping game song
(New one's up, so I've posted all the ones I'd thought of)
We did
"My boyfriend's name is Tony
He comes from the land of baloney
With pickles on his toes and a strawberry nose
And this is how my story goes.
They called you Tookie in High School, you didn't mind it to much
Kind of nice to have a nickname, kind of like they thought about it...you wish it'd had stuck with you and you didn't have to trade it in on some crazy lovers pet name..wind up hurting so much...
When I was a little boy
And my momma would call my name
I'd say now, "Who do, who do you think you're fooling?"
(Paul Simon)
Her name was Joanne
and she lived in a meadow
by a pond
Joanne
Michael Nesmith
so I gave you that name
and I said goodbye
and I knew you'd have to get tough
or die
Boy Named Sue
Johnny Cash (I think Shel Silverstein wrote this one)
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