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{{short description|Genre of songs}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2018}}A list song, also called a laundry list song or a catalog song, is a song based wholly or in part on a list.{{r|“Hischak 2002“|p=xiii}}{{r|“Citron 1997“}}{{r|“Hischak Robinson 2009“}}{{r|“Konas 1993 p. 287“}}{{r|“The Musical Mainstream 1979 p. 63“}}{{r|“Forbes 2013 p. 34“}} Unlike topical songs with a narrative and a cast of characters, list songs typically develop by working through a series of information, often comically, articulating their images additively, and sometimes use items of escalating absurdity.{{r|“McLamore 2017 p. 532“}}{{r|“Hale-Evans 2006“}}The form as a defining feature of an oral tradition dates back to early classical antiquity,{{r|“Worthington 1996“}}{{r|“MacKay 1999 p. 63“}} where it played an important part of early hexameter poetry for oral bards like Homer and Hesiod.{{r|“Montanari Tsagalis Rengakos 2009 p. 172“}}{{r|“Skinner 2012“}}In classical opera, the list song has its own genre, the catalogue aria, that was especially popular in Italian opera buffa and comic opera in the latter half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leporello’s aria ({{Literal translation|“Little lady, this is the catalogue“}}), also nicknamed The Catalogue Aria,{{r|“Vigeland 2009 p. 178“}}{{r|“Sadie Smith Royal Musical Association 1996 p. 500“}} is a prominent example, and often mentioned as a direct antecedent to the 20th-century musical’s list song.{{r|“McLamore 2017 p. 22“}}{{r|“Out 2004 p. 19“}}{{r|“Croxall 1956 p. 57“}}{{r|“McBrien 1998 p. 48“}}The list song is a frequent element of 20th-century popular music and became a Broadway staple.{{r|“Hirsch 2002 p. 171“}} Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Noël Coward, and Stephen Sondheim are composers and lyricists who have used the form.{{r|“Savran 2012 pp. 533–548“}}{{r|“Swayne 2007 p. 59“}} The very first commercial recording of a Cole Porter tune was his list song “I’ve a Shooting Box in Scotland” originally from See America First (1913).{{r|“Citron 1993 p. 283“}}{{r|“Mynott 2009“}} Berlin followed soon after with the list song “When I Discovered You” from his first complete Broadway score Watch Your Step (1914).{{r|“Mordden 2010 p. 53“}}Porter would frequently return to the list song form, notable examples include “You’re the Top” from the 1934 musical Anything Goes,{{r|“Redmond 1981 p. 60“}}{{r|“Hischak 1991 p. 60“}}{{r|“Flinn 1997 p. 389“}} “Friendship”, one of Porter’s wittiest list songs, from DuBarry Was a Lady,{{r|“Larkin 1999“|p=483}} and “Farming” and “Let’s Not Talk About Love” both from Let’s Face It! (1942), and both written for Danny Kaye to showcase his ability with tongue-twisting lyrics.{{r|“Patinkin Patinkin 2008 p. 242“}} In “You’re the Top”, Porter pays tribute to his colleague Irving Berlin by including the item “You’re the top! You’re a Berlin ballad.“{{r|“Whitfield 2001 p. 96“}}{{r|“Corbett 1998 p. 24“}}{{r|“Everett Laird 2009 p. 25“}}Irving Berlin would likewise often write songs in the genre; notable examples include “My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl” from Face the Music (1932), a list song that starts off with a sequence of {{em|negative}} similes,{{r|“Magee 2012 p. 168“}} “Outside of That I Love You” from Louisiana Purchase,{{r|“Magee 2012 p. 197“}} and “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)” a challenge-duet, and Berlin’s starkest antithesis-driven list song,{{r|“Magee 2012 p. 233“}} “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun”,{{r|“Magee 2012 p. 232“}} and “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly”,{{r|“Nachman 2016 p. 145“}} all three from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun.{{anchor|List of list songs}}Examples of list songs, and their composers/performers, include the following. Songs are in alphabetical order by title (omitting the definite article where not important to the title).{{horizontal TOC|align=center|nonum=yes}}

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• “&” (Tally Hall)

A

• “’A’ You’re Adorable” (Sid Lippman, Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise){{r|“Hischak 2002 p. 1“}}
• “A Boy Without a Girl” (1960) by Anthony Newley{{r|“Bardsley 2003 p. 76“}}
• “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” (Bob Dylan){{r|“Manhire 2000 p. 91“}}
• “A Little Priest” by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler from (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street){{r|“McLamore 2017 p. 407“}}{{r|“DC Metro Theater Arts 2018“}}
• “A Little Something Refreshing” (Eric Stefani), performed by No Doubt
• “A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara’d Into Submission)” (Paul Simon), performed by Simon and Garfunkel
• “A13 Trunk Road to the Sea” by Billy Bragg, first released in 1991 on The Peel Sessions Album; based on “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” by Bobby Troup
• “Ah, Paris!” by Stephen Sondheim, a geographical list song for the 1971 musical Follies{{r|“Banfield 1993 p. 179“}}
• “All I Really Want to Do” a song written by Bob Dylan and featured on his Tom Wilson-produced 1964 album, Another Side of Bob Dylan{{r|“Rizzolo 1996 p. 202“}}
• “Area Codes” (Ludacris){{r|“Hess 2009 p. 309“}}
• “Around the World” (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• “Art Eats Art” (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) lists many historical arts figures{{r|“Classic Pop Magazine 2017“}}
• “A Well-Dressed Hobbit” (Rie Sheridan Rose, Marc Gunn)
• “Ain’t Got No” (from the musical Hair){{r|“Nielsen Ybarra 2012“}}
• “All My Ex’s Live in Texas” (George Strait and Whitey Shafer)
• “American Bad-ass” (Kid Rock)
• “All the Words in the English Language” from Animaniacs
• “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)“{{r|“Magee 2012 p. 233“}}
• “s:The Mikado/As some day it may happen|As Some Day It May Happen]]” (from The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan){{r|“Knapp 2006 p. 256“}}
• “At Long Last Love” by Cole Porter, for his 1938 musical You Never Know{{r|“Furia 1992 p. 138“}}{{r|“De Lisle 1995_aBof9“}}
• “At the Hop” (Danny and the Juniors) lists many popular dances of the late 1950s.

B

• “The Bad Touch” (Bloodhound Gang) lists many euphemisms for sexual acts.
• “The Bare Necessities” from the animated 1967 Disney film The Jungle Book.{{r|“Hischak Robinson 2009“}}
• “Bahay Kubo” (traditional) lists vegetables found in the surrounding of a farm.
• “Before He Cheats“{{r|“Forbes 2013 p. 34“}}
• “The Begat” (Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg){{r|“University of Kansas 2006 p. 50“}}
• “Better Than Anything” (David “Buck” Wheat & Bill Loughborough) lists all the things love is better than.
• The Big Bamboo (traditional Caribbean)
• “Black Boys” from the musical Hair{{r|“Knapp 2006 p. 161“}}
• “Blue” from the 2014 musical (Heathers: The Musical) with music, lyrics, and a book by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy{{r|“O’Keefe 2018“}}
• “BOB, a song on Poodle Hat” (“Weird Al” Yankovic) lists palindromes, in a parody of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” by Bob Dylan.
• “The Booklovers” (The Divine Comedy){{r|“Gander Bailey Keller 2007 p. 5-79“}}{{r|“Buckley Buckley Furmanovsky Rough Guides (Firm) 2003 p. 1852“}}
• “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)” interpolates Vogue by Madonna, listing black cultural icons and ballroom houses
• “Brothers and Sisters” (Blur)BOOK, Roach, M., Nolan, D., Damon Albarn – Blur, Gorillaz and Other Fables, John Blake Publishing, 2015, 978-1-78418-791-0,books.google.com/books?id=P3YuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT163, 3 August 2018, 163

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• “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” (Cole Porter) from Kiss Me, Kate{{r|“Post Post 2013“}}{{r|“Hischak 2013 p. 113“}}
• “But In The Morning, No” (Cole Porter) from DuBarry Was a Lady

C

• “California Girls” (The Beach Boys)
• “Can U Dig It” (Pop Will Eat Itself)
• “Carol Brown” (Flight of the Conchords)
• “Cherry Pies Ought to Be You” with music and lyrics by Cole Porter for his 1950 musical Out of This World{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=196}}
• “Coda: I Have A Dream” (King Crimson)
• “Chop Suey,” music by Richard Rodgers, words by Oscar Hammerstein II, introduced by Juanita Hall and Patrick Adiarte in Flower Drum Song
• “Coded Language” (Krust / Saul Williams)
• “Collection of Stamps” (I’m from Barcelona)
• “Come Back To Me” with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner for Burton Lane’s On a Clear Day You Can See Forever{{r|“Ruggeberg 1984“}}
• “Come Together” (The Beatles){{r|“Let Me Tell You About The Beatles 2011“}}
• “Come To the Supermarket In Old Peking” (Cole Porter)
• “Comedy Tonight” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Stephen Sondheim{{r|“Guernsey 1985“}}{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=131}}
• “Conga!”, music by Leonard Bernstein, words by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, introduced by Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town
• “Could I Leave You?” by Stephen Sondheim for the 1971 musical Follies{{r|“Banfield 1993 p. 179“}}
• “Count It Up” from Field Music’s 2018 album Open Here{{r|“musicOMH 2018“}}
• “Cuntry Boner” (Puscifer)

D

• “Datura” (Tori Amos)
• “Daves I Know” (Bruce McCulloch)
• “Destroy Rock & Roll” (Mylo)
• “Dinner with Friends” (Kacey Musgraves)
• “Disappointing” (John Grant)
• “DJ Bombay” (Michael V.) list down things that are sold by Indian nationals in the Philippines.
• “Do I Love You?” (Cole Porter) from DuBarry Was a Lady{{r|“Larkin 1999“|p=483}}
• “Done Too Soon” (Neil Diamond)
• “Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans” (Noël Coward){{r|“Citron 1997“}}
• “Don’t Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs Worthington” (Noël Coward){{r|“Citron 1997“}}
• “Do You Remember These” (The Statler Brothers)
• “DuBarry Was a Lady” (Cole Porter) from DuBarry Was a Lady{{r|“Larkin 1999“|p=483}}

E

• “Eclipse” (Pink Floyd)
• “Eight Easy Steps” (Alanis Morissette)
• “88 Lines About 44 Women” (The Nails){{r|“20160109salon“}}
• “The Elements” (Tom Lehrer){{r|“Nachman 2009 p. 127“}}
• “Elephant Talk” (King Crimson)
• “Endless Art” (A House)
• “Every Tube Station Song” (Jay Foreman)WEB, Foreman, Jay, 1 October 2013, Every Tube Station Song,youtube.com/watch?v=8jPyg2pK11M, YouTube,
• “Everybody Knows” (1988) by Leonard Cohen{{r|“Rolling Stone – Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage 2017“}}
• “Everybody Loves Raymond” (Lemon Demon)
• “Everything Is Alright” (Motion City Soundtrack)

F

• “Far Out” (Blur)
• “Farming” by Cole Porter from Let’s Face It! (1942){{r|“Patinkin Patinkin 2008 p. 242“}}
• “F.E.A.R.” (Ian Brown)
• “Female” from Keith Urban’s 2018 album Graffiti U{{r|“DeLuca Critic 2018“}}
• “50 Things You Should Think About to Stop You Doing Your Beans” (Kunt and the Gang)
• “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” (Paul Simon){{r|“Forbes 2013 p. 34“}}{{r|“20180716inews“}}
• “50 Ways to Say Goodbye” (Train)
• “52 Girls” (B-52s)
• “Forever Young” (Bob Dylan)
• “Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo” (The Bloodhound Gang)
• “Friendship” (Cole Porter) from DuBarry Was a Lady{{r|“Bloom 2013 p. 209“}}

G

• “Gee, Officer Krupke” by Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) and Leonard Bernstein (music) from West Side Story{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=198}}
• “Get Me Bodied” (Beyoncé)
• “Girl of 100 Lists” (Go-Go’s)
• “Gin Soaked Boy” (The Divine Comedy)
• “God” (John Lennon)
• “God Bless” (Combichrist) lists infamous murderers and cult leaders
• “Going Nowhere Slow” (The Bloodhound Gang) lists cities across the USA
• “Good Doctor” (Robbie Williams)
• “The Green Grass Grows All Around” (Traditional)
• “Green Grow the Rushes, O” (Traditional)

H

• “Hair” (from the musical Hair)
• “Hank Williams Said it Best” (Guy Clark)
• “Hardware Store” (“Weird Al” Yankovic)
• “Hashish” (from the musical Hair)
• “Hello” (The Beloved)
• “High Tech Redneck” (George Jones)
• “Hippopotamus” (Sparks)
• “Hot Topic” (Le Tigre)
• “How About You?” (Burton Lane/Ralph Freed){{r|“Paymer 1993“|p=414}}{{r|“Gordon 2014 p. 397“}}
• “Hungarian Goulash No. 5” (Lyrics by Alan Sherman, music is Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F♯ minor written by Johannes Brahms)
• “Hypersonic Missiles” - Sam Fender

I

• “I Can’t Get Started (With You)” (Ira Gershwin and Vernon Duke){{r|“Furia 2002“}}
• “I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven” (Tex Ritter)
• “I Get a Kick Out of You” by Cole Porter, first sung in the 1934 musical Anything Goes{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=198}}
• “I Got Life” (from the musical Hair)
• “I Like It” (Cardi B)
• “I Started a Blog Nobody Read” (Sprites)
• “If I Were a Boy (Beyoncé) {{r|“Forbes 2013 p. 34“}}
• “I’m Black/Ain’t Got No” from the musical Hair{{r|“Cohen Rosenhaus 2016“}}
• “I’m Proud of the BBC” (Mitch Benn)
• “I’m Still Here” (Stephen Sondheim){{r|“Paymer 1993“|p=48}}{{r|“Banfield 1993 p. 179“}}
• “I’m Trying” from Adam Gwon’s 2008 musical Ordinary Days{{r|“archive.jsonline.com 2016“}}
• “Imperfect List” (Big Hard Excellent Fish)
• “Ironic” (Bo Burnham)
• “Isang Linggong Pag-Ibig” (Imelda Papin)
• “It Ain’t Necessarily So” with lyrics by Ira Gershwin from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess{{r|“Cohen Rosenhaus 2016“}}
• “It’s an Elk” from the 2013 musical Bubble Boy with music and lyrics by Cinco Paul{{r|“Fierberg 2017“}}
• “It’s Grim Up North” (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
• “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” (R.E.M.){{r|“20160109salon“}}
• “I’ve a Shooting Box in Scotland” (Cole Porter) from See America First{{r|“Citron 1993 p. 283“}}
• “I’ve Been Everywhere” (Lucky Starr (original), Geoff Mack (U.S.A. adaptation))

J – L

• “Jung Talent Time” (TISM)
• “Kidney Bingos” (Wire)
• “Kokomo (song)” (The Beach Boys)
• “La Vie Bohème” (Jonathan Larson)
• “The Lady Is a Tramp” from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=198}}
• “Let ‘em In” (Wings)
• “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin)
• “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love” (Cole Porter){{r|“Citron 1997“|p=196}}
• “Let’s Not Talk About Love” by Cole Porter from Let’s Face It! (1942){{r|“Patinkin Patinkin 2008 p. 242“}}
• “Liaisons” by Stephen Sondheim from A Little Night Music{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=198}}
• “Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)” (Reunion)
• “Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise” (William Bolcom, performed by Joan Morris)
• “List of Films” (Nick Helm)
• “Losing My Edge” (LCD Soundsystem)
• “Lost Property” (The Divine Comedy)
• “Love Is...” (Bo Burnham)
• “Love Your Love the Most” Eric Church Lists everything he loves
• “Lower 48” The Gourds
• “Lydia the Tattooed Lady” by Groucho Marx from At The Circus

M

• “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” (Noël Coward)
• “Madamina, il catalogo è questo” (Mozart) (“The Catalogue Aria” from Don Giovanni)
• “Mambo No. 5” (performed by Lou Bega and Perez Prado)
• “Man on the Moon” (R.E.M.)
• “Manhattan” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
• “Marz” (John Grant)
• “Matangi” (M.I.A.)
• “Merry Christmas Everyone” (Shakin’ Stevens)WEB,www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/how-to-write-a-christmas-hit-and-get-rich-fingers-crossed-1.2461504, How to write a Christmas hit and get rich (fingers crossed), Freyne, Patrick, 12 December 2015, The Irish Times, 13 November 2023,
• “MfG” (Die Fantastischen Vier)
• “Miracles” (Insane Clown Posse)
• “Miss Sarajevo” (U2)
• “Mistletoe and Wine” (Cliff Richard)
• “Mr. Goldstone” (music, Jule Styne; lyrics, Stephen Sondheim)
• “? (Modern Industry)” (Fishbone)
• “Moments to Remember” (Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
• “Money for Dope” (They Might Be Giants)
• “Mope” (The Bloodhound Gang)
• “My Favorite Things” (Rodgers and Hammerstein){{r|“Parkinson 2010 p. 130“}}{{r|“Cohen Rosenhaus 2016“}}
• “My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)” (Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn) Big hit for Frank Sinatra extolling the virtues of Chicago.
• “My Funny Valentine” (Richard Rodgers){{r|“De Lisle 1995“}}
• “My Ship” (music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin){{r|“Roach Carlson 2009“}}

N

• “Name Game” (Shirley Ellis)
• “Napoleon” with lyrics by Yip Harburg and music by Harold Arlen from Jamaica{{r|“Larkin 1999“|p=316}}{{r|“Meyerson Harburg 1995“}}
• “Never Gonna Give You Up” (Rick Astley)
• “New Direction” (Sugar Ray) (lists things you can do to make yourself a better person)
• “New Math” (Bo Burnham)
• “New Rules” (Dua Lipa)
• “No Hay Nadie Como Tú” (Calle 13)
• “Not” (Big Thief)
• “Numb” (U2)
• “Nunal” (Vincent Daffalong)

O – Q

• “Occupation” (Sparks)
• “One By the Venom” (Finn Andrews)
• “One Hundred Easy Ways (To Lose a Man)” from Leonard Bernstein’s 1953 musical Wonderful Town{{r|“British Theatre 2017“}}
• “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer” (Rudy Toombs)
• “One More Minute” (“Weird Al” Yankovic)
• “One Week” (Barenaked Ladies)
• “Overdrive” (Eraserheads) mentions places in the Philippines.
• “Paren de Venir” (The Sacados)
• “Pencil Full of Lead” (Paolo Nutini)
• “Penny Lane“{{r|“Parkinson 2010 p. 130“}}
• “People Who Died” (Jim Carroll)
• “Pennsylvania” (The Bloodhound Gang)
• “Pepper” (Butthole Surfers)
• “Perfume” (Sparks)
• “The Physician” with music and lyrics by Cole Porter for his 1933 musical Nymph Errant{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=196}}
• “Plane Too” (Loudon Wainwright III)
• “Play with Me” (Extreme (band))
• “Pokerap” (Pokémon)
• “Polkamon” (“Weird Al” Yankovic)
• “Poor Young Millionaire” (Cole Porter){{r|“Library of Congress 1995 p. 26“}}
• “Porn Star Dancing” (My Darkest Days featuring Zakk Wylde and Chad Kroeger)
• “Portobello Road” (from Walt Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks)
• “Poster Child” (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• “The Pride” (Five Finger Death Punch)
• “Questions and Answers (The Three B’s)” from the musical On Your Toes (Rodgers and Hart)

R

• “Raise Up” (Petey Pablo)
• “Ramblin’ Man” (Lemon Jelly)
• “The Rattlin’ Bog” (Traditional)
• “Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3” (Ian Dury & the Blockheads){{r|“CD Review 1992“}}
• “Red” (Taylor Swift)
• “The Referee’s Alphabet” (Half Man Half Biscuit)
• “Rickets” (Deftones)
• “Rhode Island Is Famous For You” with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz from Inside U.S.A.{{r|“Larkin 1999“|p=309}}
• “Rock & Roll Heaven” (The Righteous Brothers)
• “Rock Lobster” (The B-52’s)
• “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” (Bobby Troup)
• “Royals” Lorde lists subjects of modern pop songs

S

• “Sad” (Bo Burnham)
• “The Saga of Jenny” with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark{{r|“Patinkin Patinkin 2008 p. 242“}}
• “Said the Hobbit to the Horse” (Marc Gunn)
• “The Sample Song” (Dorothy Shay)
• “Short Memory” (Midnight Oil)
• “Show Me What You Got” (Limp Bizkit)
• “Seven Curses” (Bob Dylan)
• “7 Things” (Miley Cyrus)
• “Sidekick Heaven” (Riders in the Sky (band))
• “Sinaktan mo ang puso ko” (Michael V.) lists down the hurtful things that his lover did
• “Sixteen Reasons“(Bill and Doree Post) (3 hit for Connie Stevens in 1960)
• “Slow Train” (Flanders and Swann)
• “Sodomy” (from the musical Hair)
• “Soldier’s Things” (Tom Waits)
• “Song for Whoever” (The Beautiful South)
• “Stairway to Cleveland (We Do What We Want)” (Jefferson Starship)
• “Starfish and Coffee”, (Prince)
• “Stars on 45” (Stars on 45)
• “Start Button” (Private Thoughts in Public Places featuring Streamer, on As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2)
• “The Stately Homes of England” by Noël Coward from his 1938 musical Operette{{r|“Citron 1997“}}
• “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (Bob Dylan)
• “Super Supper March” (Nigel Pilkington)

T

• “Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)” with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by Kurt Weill lists the names of fifty-three composers of Tsarist and Soviet Russia{{r|“Mordden 1999 p. 14“}}
• The chorus of “Tam Pierce” (Widdecombe Fair) lists all the people accompanying the narrator to the fair.
• “Teachers” (Daft Punk)
• “Technologic” (Daft Punk)
• “Telecide” (The Tubes)
• “Telefonbuchpolka” (Georg Kreisler)
• “Ten Commandments of Love” (The Moonglows)
• “Ten Crack Commandments” (The Notorious B.I.G.)
• “That Is the End of the News” by Noël Coward from his 1945 musical revue Sigh No More{{r|“Citron 1997“}}
• “(Bo Burnham: Inside|That Funny Feeling)” (Bo Burnham)
• “That’s a Rectangle” (Storybots)
• “That’s Country Bro” (Toby Keith)
• “There Ain’t No Easy Run” (Dave Dudley)
• “There Is Nothing Like a Dame” (Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II){{r|“Konas 1993 p. 73“}}
• “These Foolish Things” (Eric Maschwitz and Jack Strachey)
• “They All Fall In Love” (Cole Porter)
• “They All Laughed” (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin)
• “They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!” (Sufjan Stevens)
• “Things I Won’t Get” (FFS)
• “Things In My Jeep” (The Lonely Island and Linkin Park)
• “Things to Do (I’ve Tried)” (David Byrne)
• “The Things You Left Behind” by The Nails (1986){{r|“20160109salon“}}
• “Third Uncle” (Brian Eno, Brian Turrington)
• “Thou Shalt Always Kill” (Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip)
• “Thou Shalt Not” with lyrics by Don Black and music by Jule Styne from Bar Mitzvah Boy{{r|“Larkin 1999“|p=48}}
• “Till the End of Time” (Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman){{r|“Hischak 2002“|p=371}}
• “To Keep My Love Alive” composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical A Connecticut Yankee{{r|“Citron 1997“|p=198}}
• “To Kokoraki” (the Cockerel) (Flanders and Swann)
• “Too Much Monkey Business” (Chuck Berry)
• “Transmetropolitan” (The Pogues)
• “Turn a Blind Eye” (Half Man Half Biscuit)
• “Turn! Turn! Turn!” (Pete Seeger, after King Solomon) (Ecclesiastes)
• “The Twelve Days of Christmas” (Traditional)
• “21 Things I Want in a Lover” (Alanis Morissette)
• “The Unthinkable” (Boom Bip)

U – W

• “Van Lingle Mungo” (Dave Frishberg)
• “Vinyl Records” (Todd Snider)
• “Vitamin” (Kraftwerk)
• “Vogue” (Madonna)
• “Vuelve” (Shakira)
• “Wakko’s America” from Animaniacs
• “Walk Away”, Franz Ferdinand
• “Waters of March” (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
• “Welcome to the Internet” (Bo Burnham)
• “We Care a Lot” (Faith No More)
• “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (Billy Joel){{r|“20160109salon“}}
• “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (Fall Out Boy)
• “We’re All Gonna Die!!!” (Baby FuzZ)
• “What a Wonderful World” (Thiele and Weiss)
• “When I Had a Uniform On” (Cole Porter){{r|“Library of Congress 1995 p. 26“}}
• “White Woman’s Instagram” (Bo Burnham)
• “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes” (George Jones)
• “Who’s Next” (Tom Lehrer) lists countries acquiring nuclear weapons.
• “The Whole World Lost its Head” (Go-Go’s)
• “White Boys” (from the musical Hair){{r|“Knapp 2006 p. 161“}}
• “Why Do the Wrong People Travel” by Noël Coward from the 1961 musical Sail Away{{r|“Citron 1997“}}
• “The Windmills of Your Mind” (Michel Legrand, Eddy Marnay, Alan and Marilyn Bergman)
• “Wish (Komm Zu Mir)”, From the film Run Lola Run (Thomas D)
• “Wishlist”, Pearl Jam
• “Wonderful World”, (Sam Cooke)

X – Z

• “Yakko’s World” from Animaniacs
• “You Are What You Wear” from American Psycho
• “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun” from Annie Get Your Gun{{r|“Magee 2012“}}
• “You’re Moving Out Today” (Carole Bayer Sager)
• “You’re the Top” (Cole Porter)
• “You’ve Seen Harlem at Its Best” by Ethel Waters
• “Zip” (Rodgers and Hart)

Patter songs

Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:

• KoKo’s Little list song from The Mikado (see “As Some Day It May Happen” above)
• “Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)” (Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin) (see “Tschaikowsky” above)
• “The Major-General’s Song” (Gilbert and Sullivan)
• “If You Want a Receipt” from Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan)

References

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