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Guys shouting “hey”

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I was compiling the playlist for my radio show earlier today (link below, since you asked), which included this track from The Yardbirds, and it occurred to me that back then in the sixties lots of songs had “hey” or “hey hey” or in extreme cases “hey hey hey” as part of the song.

OTTOMH I can think of The Kink’s “Dead End Street” and The Spencer Davis Group’s “Gimme Some Lovin’”. And of course Zep’s “Black Dog”. I thought maybe I could compile a whole 90 minute show of songs with guys saying “hey”.

And, are there any songs with girls saying/singing “hey”? I can’t think of any myself, but I’d love to include them, maybe even do a whole show of girls singing “hey” if there’s enough suggestions.

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  21. XTC- “Senses Working Overtime”

    Hey, hey, the clouds are whey
    There’s straw for the donkeys
    And the innocents can all sleep safely
    All sleep safely

  22. For “girls” (sic) shouting “hey”, try Sleater-Kinney’s “Sympathy”, from 2.30 onwards (one of my favourite songs of the noughties, as it happens)

    But while i’m here, I cannot pass The Fall backed by Gavin Friday:

  30. What about that mid 80s hideous satanic slice of aural effluvia about some demonic child called Mathew ?
    Didn’t that have Beelzebub chanting ‘hey’ in it ?

  41. Hey, hey, hey… here’s Taylor Swift

    “…. just think while you’ve been getting down and out about the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats of the world, you could’ve been getting down to this sick beat.”

    • I think – after some thought, and broad discussion on various social media platforms – that what Mousey is after here is not the use of “hey” as a word in the song (and certainly – heaven forbid – in the title), but an ejaculatory cry of “hey!”, with the syllable not pitched as a musical note, much as one might hail a friend on the other side of the street. “Hey! Gar!” – that kind of thing. Therefore your example here is invalid, and awaits Mousey’s stern censure.

      Cuh.

      • Well I’m not scared of Mousey and never have been. Apart from a couple of memorable occasions. Three to be precise.
        I wonder if my offering the kids’ shout of “Hey, teacher!” on Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 would appease his consternation and thus soften his admonishment? “Hey, teacher!” shout the semi-feral minors across the playground, in order to attract the said authority figure’s attention before subjecting him to the sort of menacing rebuke that one might expect from Mousey himself.

        • This raises an interesting point. The disaffected students (played here by commenters to this thread who feel themselves harshly and unfairly treated) clearly do vie for the attention of The Teacher (played here by Mousey) by raising their voices in a lusty cry of “HEY! TEACHER!”, but, if the memory of an old man (played here by me) who always thought the song was shit still serves, the lyric continues with the exhortation to “leave them kids alone!” Do “the kids” indeed refer to themselves, albeit ungrammatically, in the third person, or is their plaint – to be bafflingly “left alone” at school – taken up by the vocalist of the Pink Floyds? Could not some sort of argument be made by someone better acquainted with the educational system than I that if them kids were left alone less and (presumably) taught more this comment would have been made superfluous?

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