How Many Songs Do You Know? REALLY?

     Hello again all.  Trying to convalesce from Post Concussion Syndrome is no fun.  I was taken to the Emergency Room from work the other day because of severe dizziness and sudden fatigue all based off of the concussion I apparently DID suffer on Sunday.  So, as I have been ordered to stay home and rest, I figured I'd throw the iPod on shuffle and relax.  Dangerously enough, that got me thinking.....

     I thoroughly enjoy singing.  I am somewhat decent at it, and find myself singing along to many songs that come on the radio, or the iPod, or whatever.  I also used to be a regular karaoke singer,  Not as much now, but still, on occasion, I will go to a bar, let people get drunk, and believe they're being entertained.  I kid, but I really do enjoy it. 

     When I sing karaoke, I pick songs that I know by heart, because I find it very difficult to sing and read at the same time.  I will pick things that I know most of, if I only need a word here and there, but for the most part, I don't look at the monitor.  I also get this awful feeling when I hear people butcher the words to songs, so I try to make sure if I really like a song, and want to sing it, I will learn the lyrics.  I have even gone online and searched for the lyrics to songs that I like to make sure I don't butcher them.

    I sat back as I listened to my iPod and realized just how many songs I could sing word for word.  I load a lot of full albums onto my iPod, and I have at last count 2,730 "songs" on it.  Some of them are instrumentals, and some tracks are no more than 30 seconds, but as I listen to the wide array of music that shuffles through, I don't know if I'm like Rain Man, or just very musically diverse, but I can go from singing a beautiful Josh Groban song to ripping into a Disturbed song, then back to singing the entire soundtrack of West Side Story or In The Heights.

     I have to be honest.  I don't remember all my niece's and nephew's birthdays, but I can sit here as I am now, and sing along to "The Girl Is Mine" by Michael Jackson and Sir Paul McCartney. 

     Everybody sings along to something - whether they do it in public, in the car, or in the shower.  If I had to guess, I could conservatively say I know the lyrics to over 1000 songs.  I want to know how many - honestly - you know the lyrics to, and what weird obscure ones do you know?  I can sing "The Streak" by Ray Stevens.  Most of you don't even know that one!

     So - hit me up @billwinters18 on Twitter, comment on Facebook, or right here.  If you have any lyrics you're not sure about, let me know - if I don't know them, I'll look them up because that's what I do!!

     Nice - Bruno Mars with Cee-Lo Green and B.O.B.!!!  Yes, I'm singing along!!!  "I'll Be Waiting On The Other Side" - and I sure will!!