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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Wild Thing
Hang on Sloopy
Louie Louie - if you know what I mean!
Little Red Riding Hood
Wild Thing
Hang on Sloopy
Louie Louie - if you know what I mean!
Little Red Riding Hood

"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!"