The opening riff to 'Sweet Child O' Mine' instead?

Beat's Old Black Joe.

Dos yo chain hang low? ^

When I was a kid, it was our GARBAGE truck that played music - a tinny version of "Fur Elise" to be precise. To me that song will always be "the garbage truck song."

Now living in Illinois, I've heard "the ice cream truck song" too, never knew what it was called until I read TFA though.

I'd be perfectly happy to hear Turkey in the Straw from my local ice cream truck, all it ever plays is The Entertainer - which would be fine, but I actually liked that song at one point, and now I can't stand to hear it anymore because the ice cream/drug van drives through the neighborhood EVERY DAY PLAYING THE SAME DUMB SONG.

Rusty Shackleford: "That'd be a fun one, to go to court over Turkey in the Straw"

Especially when it came out in evidence that the original lyrics and title were "Old Zip Coon," and it was a relic of the old minstrel shows.

Not to mention its Old World origin, the Saxon 'Pict Up A Pole'.

Ice cream trucks need to play King Diamond.

Our Ice Cream truck Played "Dixie"

Here in El Paso, a lot of the ice cream trucks play "Little Brown Jug". I wonder how many of the mothers realize that their kids are running to catch up with someone playing a drinking song?

In my neighborhood, the ice cream truck plays the theme from "The Sting". Every farkin' day, the theme from "The Sting". It makes me want to rip the speakers out of the truck.

Hey pretty baby save the whales......

FloydA: For some bizarre reason, the ice cream truck in my neighborhood plays Christmas carols.

Same thing here. In the dead of summer, here he comes blasting "We Three Kings of Orient Are", and other such selections. I thought it was a South Carolina type thing. One gets used to strangeness down here.

sheilanagig: Sim Tree: Our city did this when one such truck decided 'more is better', dialed it up to 11, and could be heard continuously, throughout the entire neighborhood subdivision, no matter where exactly he was, all day every day.

So why can't municipalities take this approach to assholes who install car stereos that are so loud that they shake pictures off the walls in houses a block away? Can't they outlaw car stereos beyond a certain wattage in city limits? That would actually be useful lawmaking.

What I like is the new(ish) trend of hooking the car's horn up the stereo so in addition to the earth-shaking bass you get heavily distorted treble as well. Because I want to hear your "flipped and screwed" remix of an already terrible song through your f*cking HORN.

That said, I'm sort of surprised that the bastion of liberal thought that is Fark seems to be okay with a War on Ice Cream Truck Music. I expected more fist-shaking at iguana lady, really.

FTFH: "City declares war on ice cream truck music."

Is the tag still in a tryptophan coma, or something?

/hates that shiatty muzak

Carbaugh gave Steven John Hopkins, 46, a $93 ticket. Hopkins had broken Largo city ordinance 16-99(a), which bars trucks from using amplifiers or loudspeakers to sell or advertise.

Ok, so no speakers or amplifiers are allowed then ... hmmm. I'll just put a flat-bed trailer on the ice cream truck, with a live drummer playing an acoustic drum kit, while I drive and play a trumpet, alternating it with a megaphone. Add the German Shepard barking out the window, and we just might have success. Oh, and give the drummer one of those referee-grade whistles to blow, while he's playing the drums.

It's the wiggers playing xyz rap "music" so loud it loosens body panels. that iratate me. Oh and people who install glass packs and echo tips on diesel trucks.

kill all ice-cream vans with FIRE!!!

I'm in the process of having our local ice-cream vendor from selling his wares here because not only is the music on so loud you can hear it from a good mile away in any given street, but the a*hole in question parks outside mine DAILY, 7 days a farking week playing the same farking tune. I can't have any windows open, I can't watch tv or have or take any phone calls at home in the hour period he's usually outside and yes, if anyone wants to declare war on ice-cream vendors - START ON MINE!!!

The a*hole in question wears a stripey teeshirt and drives around in a blue & white ice-cream van playing 'all the nice girls love a sailor' LOUDLY.

I would SO love for that idiot to be silenced on a permanent basis!!

I dnrtfa but I will now...

Ours plays "Pop Goes the Weasel." If he doesn't shut the fark up it's gonna be pop goes the driver. I mostly telecommute and it's fantastic hearing that idiotic song over long, serious conference calls with ten people around the world >:-( I'm wearing out the damned mute button.

The one in my old neighborhood blasted gangster rap.

Confabulat: I sometimes have wondered what it must be like the BE the ice cream truck driver. He has to listen to that all day long. I wonder what that does to your psyche after a few months. Damn I'd drink a lot too.

wildlifer: It's the wiggers playing xyz rap "music" so loud it loosens body panels. that iratate me. Oh and people ignorant jackasses who install glass packs and echo tips on diesel trucks ANYTHING.

Sorta fixed that for you. Or me, whichever.

We had an ice cream man that played Black Sabbath IV for several months. The 70's were... different for kids.

"What is your opinion of a society that considers 'Turkey in the Straw' to be one of the pillars, as it were, of its culture?"

"Who thinks that?" the old man asked worriedly.

"Everyone! Especially folksingers and third-grade teachers. Grimy undergraduates and grammar school children are always chanting it like sorcerers". Ignatius belched. "I do believe that I shall have another of these savories."

I'd get the biggest bell I could, put it on top of the truck and bang it like crazy.

Sure, you would be breaking a law, but not the ice cream truck law.