Stay The Fuck In Line

I wish I'd written this song a week ago, but I'd never even heard the phrase until this afternoon.

The phonological ambiguity that is "Stay the fuckin' line" is a happy accident, but I think it adds some texture.

Suitable for singing in queues, with s/fuck/heck/ for the more mannered sorts.

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posted by cortex (29 comments total)

Lyrics:

Stay the fuck in line, [brother, mother, grandfather/grandma, neighbor]
Stay the fuck in line, [sister, father, granddaughter/grandson, stranger]
You gotta vote, vote, vote
Yeah it's democracy on the line
So everybody stay the fuck in line

You gotta flex your voting muscles
Or you lose them
You can't stand up for your choices
Unless you choose them
posted by cortex at 4:20 PM on November 4, 2008 [3 favorites]

Pete and Woody would be proud.
posted by RussHy at 4:24 PM on November 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

Yay we're all singing this here in Vermont, more swearing please.
posted by jessamyn at 4:33 PM on November 4, 2008

Nice and fun.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:40 PM on November 4, 2008

Oh hell, we're singing it in London Ontario. (Election or no, we like a good fucking line!)
posted by ~ at 4:48 PM on November 4, 2008 [2 favorites]

Shall I teach it to my preschool-age children? Maybe...
posted by The corpse in the library at 4:54 PM on November 4, 2008

This might be our generation's 'We Shall Overcome.'

*wipes a single tear from eye*
posted by stet at 5:02 PM on November 4, 2008

xorry rules.
posted by cortex at 5:43 PM on November 4, 2008

CHOOON!
posted by Jofus at 5:46 PM on November 4, 2008

we listened to it again. yay!
posted by jessamyn at 5:49 PM on November 4, 2008

This is more the greatest thing in history.
posted by xorry at 5:57 PM on November 4, 2008

HOly shit that's awesome. You sound like you should be in the Asylum Street Spankers.
posted by notsnot at 6:28 PM on November 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

YES.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:31 AM on November 5, 2008

Hell yea, man! What a great and timely effing song! WTG! (way to go?)
posted by snsranch at 4:17 PM on November 5, 2008

Stay the bloody in queue! Or...

This rules.
posted by ORthey at 10:47 AM on November 6, 2008

super great! aches for a mandolin break.
posted by dan g. at 11:14 AM on November 7, 2008 [1 favorite]

Hell yeah. Stay the fuck in line.
posted by ageispolis at 4:30 PM on November 8, 2008

That sounds almost exactly like an MDC song. (that's praise, by the way. I wore an MDC hat on election day).
posted by nowonmai at 10:08 PM on November 13, 2008

How did I miss this? This was great.
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:03 PM on May 17, 2009

Time to put this back in rotation.
posted by nile_red at 7:28 PM on July 14, 2012

Humming this all week!
posted by nile_red at 5:15 AM on November 5, 2012

Everyone! One more time!
posted by The corpse in the library at 10:02 AM on November 7, 2016 [1 favorite]

I have had this stuck in my head nonstop for the past week.
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:55 PM on November 8, 2016 [1 favorite]

Everybody! One more time!
posted by The corpse in the library at 8:39 AM on November 6, 2018 [4 favorites]

It occurred to me today that all my favorite Metafilter traditions are things you can annoy people by singing, and I think I'm okay with this.
posted by nebulawindphone at 10:21 AM on November 6, 2018 [4 favorites]

I am too lazy to rerecord this as "Stay The Fuck Inside" right now, but just change the lyrics in your head.
posted by cortex at 10:58 AM on March 23, 2020 [6 favorites]

This machine, does it kill fascists? Sure hope so
posted by caution live frogs at 9:20 AM on November 5 [3 favorites]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who still revisits this.
posted by miratime at 2:11 PM on November 5 [2 favorites]

Was singing it to myself last night.
posted by jessamyn at 12:41 PM on November 6 [1 favorite]