Contributors to this entire thread should be locked in a room and forced to listen to Afternoon Delight and Muskrat Love for several hours as punishment.
How can you have over 300 posts and not mention "Indiana Wants Me" by R. Dean Taylor.
"If a man ever need dyin', he did,
No one had the right to say what he did about you,
And it's so cold and lonely here without you.
Outside the law is comin'
I stand so tired of runnin'
Indiana wants me,
Lord I can't go back there . . .
I wish I had you . . . to talk to"
(Police sirens and "come out with your hands up, we have the place surrounded" in the background).
Shudder. Just shudder when you turn on your local 70s station. It could be playing right now.
My sister had a 45 of Indiana. What horrible drek.
What? No one wants a song about a DEAD DOG called "Shannon"???
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Ode to Billy Joe. I suppose to some people that was a good song, but it used to make me retch.
Running from the law songs. How about -
"I shot the sheriff
But I did not shoot the depyouty"
Can't remember the rest of the lines, mercifully.
Also ANYTHING by Barbra Streisand. She could take the world's best song and make it sappy.