List song

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A list song is a song based wholly or in part on a list. List songs typically develop by working through a list, sometimes using items of escalating absurdity.

Examples of list songs (and their composers/performers) include:

• "My Favorite Things" (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
• "'A' - You're Adorable" (Sid Lippman, Buddy Kaye and Fred Wise)
• "I've Been Everywhere" (Geoff Mack/Lucky Starr)
• "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" by Bobby Troup
• "Elephant Talk" (King Crimson)
• "Waters of March" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
• "I'm Still Here" (Stephen Sondheim)
• "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional)
• "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Bob Dylan)
• "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel)
• "Can U Dig It" (Pop Will Eat Itself)^{[citation needed]}
• "It's the End of the World As We Know It" (R.E.M.)^{[citation needed]}
• "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors lists many popular dances of the late 50s
• "Vogue" (Madonna)
• "You're the Top" (Cole Porter)
• "The Elements" (Tom Lehrer)
• "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" (Reunion)
• "The Begat" (Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg)
• "Moments to Remember" (Robert Allen and Al Stillman)
• "Zip" (Rodgers and Hart)
• "Plane Too" (Loudon Wainwright III)
• "God" (John Lennon)
• "Lost Property" (The Divine Comedy)
• "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" (Cole Porter)
• "I Started a Blog Nobody Read" (Sprites)
• "88 Lines About 44 Women" (The Nails)
• "Pepper" (Butthole Surfers)
• "La Vie Boheme" (Jonathan Larson)
• "MfG" (Die Fantastischen Vier)
• "Telefonbuchpolka" (Georg Kreisler)
• "Green Grow the Rushes, O" (Traditional)
• "The Rattl'n Bog" (Traditional)
• "The Green Grass Grows All Around" (Traditional)
• "Start Button" (Private Thoughts in Public Places featuring Streamer, on As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2)
• "To Kokoraki" (the Cockerel) (Flanders and Swann)
• "Done Too Soon" (Neil Diamond)
• "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Paul Simon)
• "Mambo No. 5" (Lou Bega)(Performed by Lou Bega and Perez Prado)
• "Thou Shalt Always Kill" (Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip)
• "Bike (song)" (Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd)
• "Eclipse" (Pink Floyd)
• "What Shall We Do Now?", (Pink Floyd) in the film of Pink Floyd: The Wall
• "We Care a Lot" (Faith No More)
• "It's Grim Up North" (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu)
• The chorus of "Tam Pierce" (Widdecombe Fair) lists all the people accompanying the narrator to the fair.
• A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall (Bob Dylan)

Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:

• KoKo's List Song from The Mikado
• "Tchaikovsky" (Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin)
• "The Major-General's Song" (Gilbert and Sullivan)