The Smiths song " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " refers to Caligula: " What she asked of me at the end of the day / Caligula would have blushed ".

" The song was carried to Appalachia by immigrants from England, where singers, not knowing what the lowland sea refers to, transformed it over generations from " lowland " to " lonesome ".

1972 ), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped " Human Bacon " by some butchery tool / ( He is you ) / Social Security took care of this lad.

Humor columnist Dave Barry frequently refers to the song line as a source of comedic value, particularly in his 1997 book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs.

* Shir ha-Shirim ( Song of Songs ), an esoteric book, that while seeming to be a love song, truly refers to the relationship between Jews and God.

" The song refers to the Mudd Club and CBGB, two popular New York nightclubs of the time.

( The Diffys, the main characters, are from this era ( 2121 ) before they crash in 2004 ; theme song refers to Phil as a " 22nd Century man ").

* Chip Hop ( rap ) artist MC Plus + refers to the Barber paradox in his song " Man Vs Machine " from the album Chip Hop.

The term " siren song " refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that, if heeded, will lead to a bad conclusion.

The French hip hop group Bisso Na Bisso's song " Dans la peau d ' un chef " refers to the corruption of African heads of state.

George Carlin referred to Dover, Delaware as the destination for an all-expenses paid holiday in a comedy routine spoofing a quiz show, and country music singer Garth Brooks refers to the city in the song " Cold Shoulder " on his 1991 album, Ropin ' the Wind.

The title refers to two bus routes that cross at this intersection ; in the song, the narrator is waiting at a bus stop.

* A verse of the song " Dancing " from the album Mask ( 1981 ) by the Bauhaus refers to Nijinsky "... Dancing on hallowed ground / Dancing Nijinsky style / Dancing with the lost and found ..."

In this song, he refers to himself as “ a slave to this black blade ”.

The folk song " Athens County " by Jonathan Edwards refers to Athens Ohio, where Edwards attended college in the 1970s.

In the Fatboy Slim song, " Weapon of Choice ", the line " If you walk without rhythm / You won't attract the worm ..." refers to the science fiction novel Dune.

The Canada in the song refers to Lower Canada, today's southern Quebec.

ZZ Top's song " Tush " uses the prosaic and risque meaning in exact equal portion, as in the band's native Texas " tush " has two meanings: when rhyming with " bush " refers to the female buttocks but when rhyming with " rush " is a slang term for " good enough " or " adequate ".

* On Survivor's 1983 album Caught in the Game, an atmospheric song named " Santa Ana Winds " refers to a disastrous woman.

* The artist Madonna refers in her song " Secret Garden " from the album Erotica to it being located somewhere in Fontainebleau.

* Third Eye Blind's song " Summer Town " refers to " Nabokov, Miller, and Tess " as the favorite fiction of the song's protagonist.

The song " The Ballad of Jack Eric Williams ( and Other Three-Named Composers )" from William Finn's song-cycle Elegies refers to him.

The song refers to the " pleasant valley " high suburban boredom factor then prevalent in the area, and cites local characters and places, some fairly well known.

The name of Ian Dury's first band, Kilburn & the High Roads, refers to this road, as does the Flogging Molly song, " Kilburn High Road " and the Shack song, " Kilburn High Road ".

There is also speculation about the relationship the song bears to " The Bold Fusilier " ( a. k. a. " Marching through Rochester "), a song sung to the same tune and dated by some back to the 18th century but first printed in 1900.

Two versions of the song ( fast and slow ), based on the original Parliament version, appear on the 1996 live Funkadelic release Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan – 12 September 1971.

The song also appears on a Bootleg DVD entitled " Rush, Caught In The Act " Which was recorded live by a 8mm film video recorder on May 15, 1975 at Rochester, New York by an avid fan, and produced on DVD.

At a 1975 Little Feat show in Rochester, New York, George said he was fired from the Mothers of Invention because he " wrote a song about dope.

On Oct. 18, 1975 at the Auditorium Theater in Rochester New York while introducing the song, George commented that he was asked to leave the band for " writing a song about dope. The band in 1975.

* Eddie " Rochester " Anderson, would occasionally sing the beginning of the song on the Jack Benny radio program.

* Columbus ( song ), a song by the band Kent from their album Tillbaka till samtiden

* 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d ' août.

* Sverige ( Kent song ), a song by Swedish rock group Kent

In 1998, what many in Sweden had been asking for became reality when Kent released an English version of Isola, featuring an extra song only available on the English version, " Velvet ".

Two more singles were released, " Palace & Main " and " Den döda vinkeln " ( The blind spot ) – the last one stirring up some controversy among Kent fans because Kent didn't release any b-sides along with it ( but still the single has a shorter version of the song ).

It also became the first song ever to replace " 747 " as the finale of a Kent concert.

On November 2, 2009 Kent auctioned off 100 limited physical copies of the song " 2000 " for charity.

On 7 July 2007, at the " Return to the Summer of Love Party ," at Hawkhurst, Kent, Difford and Tilbrook, each singing and playing acoustic guitars, played a seven song set.

Lennon was inspired to write the song by a 19th century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal, Rochdale, that he purchased in an antique shop on 31 January 1967, while filming the promotional video for " Strawberry Fields Forever " in Sevenoaks, Kent.

Young and Crosby were staying at a house near San Francisco when reports of the Kent State shootings arrived, inspiring Young to write the protest song " Ohio ", recorded and rush-released weeks later and providing another Top 20 hit for the group.

The second song, " Ohio ," was written in response to the deaths of four students at Kent State University.

The title has been adapted and parodied by many writers including Dylan Thomas in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Ogden Nash in his poem Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, Joseph Heller in Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, A. M. Klein in his poem Portrait of the Poet as Landscape, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts ' A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man, Grayson Perry's biography Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, punk band Dillinger Four's song Portrait of the Artist as a Fucking Asshole, and William Eastlake's Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses.

* In A Little Princess Shirley Temple sings a song titled " Knocked ' em in the Old Kent Road " by Albert Chevalier, of which the chorus gives a good idea of the sort of language that was used in the area: NB Albert Chevalier was the original performer of this song.

* The street is mentioned multiple times in the Madness song " Calling Cards ", a song about running an illegitimate business " in a sorting office in the Old Kent Road.

* It's also mentioned in the Girls Aloud song " Long Hot Summer ," in the line " running down that Old Kent Road " and the Bananarama song " Middle of Nowhere ," both written by production outfit Xenomania.

* " Old Kent Road " is the title of a song by London-based indie pop group Pipas.