Let me know if this is already a thread, but I couldn’t find one.
What are some songs that mention yoyos or string that you know of? I often used to perform to Frank Sinatra’s “World on a String”
Any you can think of?
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Project Pat - Good Googly Moogly
Refraining from linking since it’s fairly explicit. This is the only song I can think of and for a really strange reason. While watching me throw, one of my friends somehow made the mental link of hearing about a yoyo in a song they listened to in high school. After a bit of searching online he found out it was this song. It’s kind of funny how basic things can dredge up old, forgotten memories of past media consumed sometimes.
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Pretty soon now
You know I’m gonna make a comeback
And like the birds and the bees in the trees
It’s a sure-fire smash
I’ll speak
To the masses throughout the media
And if you got anything to say to me
You can say it with cash
'Cause I got the trash and you got the cash
So baby we should get along fine
So give me all your money 'cause I know you think I’m funny
Can’t you hear me laughing, can’t you see me smile
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the yo-yo
Kung Fu
That was one of my good ones
Well what’s a few broken bones
When we all know it’s good clean fun
Skateboards
I’ve almost made them respectable
You see I can’t always get through to you
So I go for your son
I had a giant rubber shark and it really made a mark
Didja looka looka look it Alla blood
Give me all your money 'cause I know you think I’m funny
Can’t you hear me laughing, can’t you see me smile
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the yo-yo
Right now
I think I’m gonna plan a new trend
Because the line on the graph’s getting low
And we can’t have that
And you think you’re immune
But I can sell you anything
Anything from a thin safety pin
To a pork pie hat
'Cause I got the trash and you got the cash
So baby we should get along fine
Why don’t you give me all your money 'cause I know you think I’m funny
Can’t you hear me laughing, can’t you see me smile
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the yo-yo
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the hula-hoop
I’m the man
I’m the man that gave you the yo-yo
I’m the man
I’m the man
I’m the man
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Clipse - We got it for cheap (intro)
Puppets on the string like a yo-yo/Bouncing like a pogo, they praying I never go solo
(And he did go solo) Pretty sure Pusha has used yoyo metaphors more than once.
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I listened to so much Project Pat growing up in west Tennessee it’s not even funny and I never caught onto the lyric in question. And yes, it’s definitely an explicit song but the lyric in question for anyone wondering is “Make me go-go, up and down like a yo-yo.”
Thank you mable, made my morning.
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Bop Harvey “Dubmaster” 1990…wild live show in the day! and like a Yo-yo they will never go out of style.
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Of course there’s THE yoyo song.
Ivan
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You Can’t Play With My Yo-Yo
[Hook: Ice Cube & Yo-Yo ]
You can’t play with my Yo-Yo!
Don’t try to play me out, don’t try to play me out
Don’t try to play me out, don’t try to play me out
Ok. Yoyo is a person but I didnt know that growing up 
Passenger | Sword From The Stone
‘Cos I’m fine and then I’m not
I’m spinning ‘round and I can’t stop
I can’t do this alone
For time flies then it’s so slow
I’m up and down like a yoyo
I can’t do it on my own
And I’ve tried and I can’t pull the sword from the stone
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These are great!
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Basement Jaxx - Romeo
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I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba
Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda
S-O-D-A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log
I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said “yoda”
Y-O-D-A, Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda
And so on…
Lola, by the Kinks just in case you don’t know where Weird Al’s came from.
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Hammer, (Nothing, Nowhere)
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fantastic, lol
Butterfly - Mariah Carey 
Upper West - West Side Story
“Express to Soho, man I love that downtown
Just like a yo-yo, when I leave I’ll just come back around”
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Tiesto feat drake and post malone around 2 minutes drake says bouncing like a yo-yo