Great One, must “I Wanna Be” be part of the song title itself, or does a song like The Undertones’ “Male Model” count because the title flows right out of “I Wanna Be”? If so, I’m standing tall (for however short a time).
I’ve been listening a lot to the western swing compilation Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys lately. I really didn’t know anything about western swing before, and the stuff on there is great.
Anyway there’s this great song by Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers:
I want to be a cowboy’s sweetheart
I want to learn to rope and to ride
I want to ride o’er the plains and the deserts
Out west of that great divide
I want to hear the coyotes howlin’
While the sun sinks in the West
I want to be a cowboy’s sweetheart
That’s the life I love the best
Frankly, mockcarr is winning this on obscurantist points: excellent, excellent call on the SBM tune. However, my wife — possibly the biggest Humans fan on the planet — disqualifies chickenfrank: the necessary phrase isn’t in the title.
…Your Man
…Sedated
…a Lifeguard
…adored
Oats, I laughed VERY hard when I read your answer. Thank you very VERY much.
Hey Saturn,
Glad you like it! Thanks.
Loved
Drive You Home
ZZ TOP!
Whoops — I guess “I Wanna Be Drive You Home” doesn’t quite work, does it? Oh, well. How about this one:
Your Lover
PRINCE!
…Black
(How did I get to that one before Mr. Mod?)
…Your Boyfriend
… your driver. (Chuck Berry)
…your beast of burden
[The only place that] I wanna be — Lavender Hill for me. (Kinks)
Well (Ramones)
Free (Monkees)
“I’ll NEVER be your beast of burden,” Sammy!
All of a sudden I’m Stones lyrics expert around here.
…a Cowboy (and you can be my cowgirl)
Great One, must “I Wanna Be” be part of the song title itself, or does a song like The Undertones’ “Male Model” count because the title flows right out of “I Wanna Be”? If so, I’m standing tall (for however short a time).
If that variation counts, I’m undercutting you with:
…famous, a star of the screen
I’ve been listening a lot to the western swing compilation Doughboys, Playboys, and Cowboys lately. I really didn’t know anything about western swing before, and the stuff on there is great.
Anyway there’s this great song by Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers:
I want to be a cowboy’s sweetheart
I want to learn to rope and to ride
I want to ride o’er the plains and the deserts
Out west of that great divide
I want to hear the coyotes howlin’
While the sun sinks in the West
I want to be a cowboy’s sweetheart
That’s the life I love the best
… alone. (Marlene Dietrich)
Judge rules it has to be to be in the title, although parentheses are acceptable.
Thank you, judges.
…a Girl (the pleasantly plump King Khan)
…lieve (a song written by Big Al Anderson and sung by Patty Loveless)
…Like You
With You
…Rich
…Your Joey Ramone
A Flintstone
a G
holy shit mockcarr, you just jogged some major lost memory for me.
screaming blue messiahs
wow!
…an Airborne Ranger
… Evil. (Eartha Kitt)
Told ya I wasn’t a lyrics guy. This is clearly some BDSM fantasy projection on my part. Sorry.
Move along.
Oh,
…Santa Claus (Ringo Starr)
I win!
Jackie Onassis.
Human Sexual Response
…loved by you (Ginger on Gilligan’s Island)
There’s an obscure Dylan song that turned up on the Biograph box. It has a great rhyme:
I wanna be your lover, baby
I wanna be your man
I wanna be your lover baby
I don’t wanna be hers
I wanna be yours
Frankly, mockcarr is winning this on obscurantist points: excellent, excellent call on the SBM tune. However, my wife — possibly the biggest Humans fan on the planet — disqualifies chickenfrank: the necessary phrase isn’t in the title.
A Bear (Descendents)
…Live (The Ramones)
Obscurantist points are cool, but who’s standing now?
Never mind that last one…I feel like HVB and his retracted ZZ Top nomination. Damn! I’ll be standing yet!
… Around (a Johnny Mercer song sung by Tony Bennett)
…Your Underwear (Bryan Adams – yuck!)
Robbie Fulks – I Wanna Be Mama’d
A Beatle (Glen Cornish and the Unbeatables)
Naked (Screeching Weasel; it’s on 1988’s Boogadaboogadaboogada); I think that takes the belt, no?