h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me, hit me
Je t'adore, ich leibe dich
Hit me, hit me, hit me

[Ian Dury and the Blockheads]

I got rhythm, I got music
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?
I got daisys, in green pastures
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more?

Old man trouble
I don't mind him
You won't find him 'round my door
I got starlight
I got sweet dreams
I got my man
Who could ask for anything more ?

Loadsa people

Sorry about the spello - that's what comes of copying stuff!!

Should read 'daisies' of course

I'll tell you why I wanna dance.
It ain' the sweetness in the music~
I like the sweetness in the music,
But that ain' why I wanna dance.
It's sumpin' thumpin' in the bass,
A bumpin' underneath the music.
That bump-bump-bumpin' under music
Is all I need
To start me off.
I don't need nothin' else to start me off.

Beat out that rhythm on a drum,
Beat out that rhythm on a drum,
Beat out that rhythm on a drum,
An' I don' need no tune at all!
Beat me that rhythm on a drum,
Beat me that rhythm on a drum,
Beat me that rhythm on a drum,
An' I don' need no tune at all!

[Oscar Hammerstein - from the film Carmen Jones 1954]

Tuggin' a rhythm to the vision that's in my head
Tuggin' a beat to the sight of you lyin'
So delighted with a new understandin'
Something about a little evil that makes that
Unmistakable noise I was hearing
Unmistakable sound I know so well

from A Perfect Circle > 'Thinking Of You'

Get a shot of rhythm and blues
With just a little rock n' roll on the side
Just for good measure

Need a pair of dancin' shoes
With your lover by your side
Don't you know you're gonna have a lot of pleasure

[Wrongly attr. to The Beatles, who covered a lost American original]

Callin' out, around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat?
Summer's here, and the time is right
For dancin' in the street

They're dancin' in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
Up in New York City

All we need is music
Sweet music
There'll be music everywhere

Amongst others - Bowie and Jagger

I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before.
I'll never know
What made it so exciting;
Why all at once
My heart took flight.
I only know when he
Began to dance with me
I could have danced, danced, danced all night!

[Julie Andrews, My Fair Lady 1956]

I remember the night I held you so tight,
As we danced to the Wiener Schnitzel Waltz.
Your lips were like wine (if you'll pardon the simile),
The music was lovely and quite Rudolf Frimly.
I drank wine, you drank chocolate malts,
And we both turned quite green
To the strains of the Wiener Schnitzel Waltz.

[Tom Lehrer]

Well, she's the gal in the red blue jeans
She's the queen of all the teens
She's the w-woman that I know
She's the woman that (scream) loves me so.
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby
Be Bop A Lula I don't mean maybe
Be Bop A Lula she's my baby doll, my baby doll, my baby doll.
(Let's rock)

[Gene Vincent]

Ooh
Baby love, my baby love
I need you, oh how I need you
But all you do is treat me bad
Break my heart and leave me sad
Tell me, what did I do wrong
To make you stay away so long

The Supremes

Hey
Did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world
And of you did was she cryin' cryin'

Hey
If you happen to see the most beautiful girl that walked out on me
Tell her I'm sorry
Tell her I need my baby
Oh won't you tell her that I love her

I'll never let you see
The way my broken heart is hurtin' me
I've got my pride and I know how to hide
All my sorrow and pain
I'll do my crying in the rain

Ah-Ha

Broken lines broken strings
Broken threads broken springs
Broken idols broken heads
People sleeping in broken beds
Ain't no use jiving
Ain't no use joking -
Everything is broken.


[Bob Dylan]

I know a cat named Way-out Willie
He's got a groovy little chick named Rocking' Lily
Yeah, rock & rolling Suzie Q
Does that crazy old hand jive, too

Hand jive, hand jive, hand jive
Do that crazy hand jive

Various

When I see him walking
Makes no sense to me
My cat is everywhere
We watch him on TV

My cat is amazing
He can play the guitar
He may not be an actor
But he's a pussy superstar

[from Jack Off Jill > 'my Cat']

The wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is
I'm the only one

Body of a wolf
Legs of a horse
Eyes of a priest
Mind of a wasp
Hair of a chimp
Postman’s shins
Claws of a crab and a buffalo anus

We are the mutant people see our strange thorns
We are the mutant people
Never ask any more

[from the Mutant Anthem by The Mighty Boosh]

Well I saw the thing coming out of the sky
It had one long horn and one big eye
I commenced to shakin' and I said oo-wee
It looks like a purple people eater to me
It was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater
Sure looks good to me

[Sheb Woolley: One-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater]

When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky
Through the mist of a memory you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh
In the still of the night once again I hold you tight
Though you're gone, your love lives on when moonlight beams
And as long as my heart will beat, lover we'll always meet
Here in my deep purple dreams
Here in my deep purple dreams

Jimmy Dorsey, the Osmonds and many others