folly

lack of good sense or judgment

Heard in 35 songs (61M+ combined views) — most famously in "Ooh Ahh (My Life Be Like)" by Grits.

Updated September 26, 2026

Songs Featuring “folly”

Grits - Ooh Ahh (My Life Be Like)

Time: 0:51

Rollin' down hills 'cause life's a hastle

Encircled by my folly like a moat surround a castle

Stay afloat, catch a second wind

Grits - Ooh Ahh (My Life Be Like)

Migos - Freak No More

Time: 1:08

She wonderin' how she gon' take care the baby

She workin' at Folly, walkin' around naked

She tellin' me she wanna tie up the knot (huh?)

Migos - Freak No More

Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page

Time: 0:32

And confess your love, your love

As well as your folly?

And can you kneel before the king

Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page

Nas - Everything

Time: 4:26

I would change everything, oh yeah

Watch me as I walk through the folly, golly, New York to Saudi

In Italy, I'm Eduardo Wiccari

Nas - Everything

Young Thug - Money

Time: 0:00

Some people say it's folly, but I'd rather have the lolly

With money, you can make a smash

Young Thug - Money

Joni Mitchell - Barangrill

Time: 0:58

Well, some say it's in service, they say, "Humble makes pure"

You're hoping it's near Folly, 'cause you're headed that way for sure

And you just have to laugh, 'cause it's all so crazy

Joni Mitchell - Barangrill

Diana Ross - The Boss [12" Remix]

Time: 1:05

Guide in my pocket for fools

Folly and fun

Love had to show me one thing

Diana Ross - The Boss [12" Remix]

David Bowie - Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)

Time: 1:51

For I know that you have a son

Oh, folly, Sue

♪

David Bowie - Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)

Black Sabbath - The Writ

Time: 2:32

Yeah came through

Your folly finally got to spend with a gun

A poisoned father who has poisoned his son, that's you

Black Sabbath - The Writ

Tech N9ne - I Been Thru A Lot

Time: 0:49

I been broken not enough to be sorry and flee (to be sorry and flee)

Even though people think I'm full of folly and glee (full of folly and glee)

I sit in the bathroom and I cry, so nobody can see (nobody can see me)

Tech N9ne - I Been Thru A Lot

UB40 - Don't Let It Pass You By

Time: 6:19

We don't deal with Isim Scisim

Deal with folly-dolly

We don't deal with folly-dolly

UB40 - Don't Let It Pass You By

Wu-Tang Clan - Ya'll Been Warned

Time: 1:35

John Bizzi, Ghost Deini, Rollie Finger and them toolies yo

Stainless Bobby, boy, you have an english folly

To try to detain the slang that we can to polly

Wu-Tang Clan - Ya'll Been Warned

tobyMac - Life on It

Time: 0:09

Everybody needs somebody

Don't try and fake the folly

Anytime it cuts we all bleed

tobyMac - Life on It

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Sunset Boulevard

Time: 1:32

And if I'm honest, I like the lady

I can't help being touched by her folly

I'm treading water, taking the money

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Sunset Boulevard

Dolly Parton - Christmas on the Square

Time: 1:26

Christmas on the square, nothing ordinare

It's a holly, Dolly, Christmas folly

I had to get that in there (Why not?)

Dolly Parton - Christmas on the Square

Pink Floyd - The Narrow Way, Pt. 3

Time: 1:55

♪

You know the folly was your own

But the force behind can't conquer all your fears

Pink Floyd - The Narrow Way, Pt. 3

Dennis Brown - Words of Wisdom

Time: 0:53

In laughter the heart is sorrowful,

Your folly is your reward.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than feasting where there is wrath.

Dennis Brown - Words of Wisdom

R.E.M. - Old Man Kensey

Time: 0:59

Flexes his elbow taut and free

(That's my folly) I believe

Drink up the lake, Kensey's awake

R.E.M. - Old Man Kensey

Wire - I Should Have Known Better

Time: 1:04

To ignore my warning

Could be your folly

The judgement is harsh

Wire - I Should Have Known Better

Sean Paul - Get With It Girl

Time: 1:20

Yuh, nuh dilly, yuh, nuh dally

Yuh, nuh old battry dolly gal, yuh, nuh play folly

Just boomflick it cau yuh itally and vitally put together

Sean Paul - Get With It Girl

Laura Mvula - Let Me Fall

Time: 0:24

I followed empty dreams for you

I wait, out of the folly fields

Don't try to save me now

Laura Mvula - Let Me Fall

Beck - O Maria

Time: 0:31

'Cause everybody knows

The fabric of folly is fallin' apart at the seams

And I've been lookin' for a good time

Beck - O Maria

Barenaked Ladies - Elf's Lament

Time: 0:11

I'm a man of reason and they say, "'Tis the season

To be jolly," but it's folly when you volley for position

Never in existence has there been such a resistance

Barenaked Ladies - Elf's Lament

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hand On My Back

Time: 1:40

When I was younger how I took my time

Folly and wisdom form points on a line

From one to another with space in between

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Hand On My Back

Weezer - The LA Sound

Time: 0:26

And there's three flights of stairs

But such is the folly of youth

Yeah

Weezer - The  LA Sound

Eddy Arnold - Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

Time: 1:09

Johnny wants a pair of skates Susie wants a dolly

Nelly wants a storybook, she thinks dolls are folly

As for me my little brain isn't very bright

Eddy Arnold - Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

Frank Sinatra - I Wouldn't Trade Christmas

Time: 0:13

It's time for the holly

The fun and the folly

And all of that jolly jazz

Frank Sinatra - I Wouldn't Trade Christmas

Public Enemy - Evil Way

Time: 1:54

Run run run but you cannot hide

From the folly

Hello Dolly

Public Enemy - Evil Way

The Human League - Shameless

Time: 0:53

I was the catch of the night

Made a folly out of caution

Made a rapturous desire

The Human League - Shameless

Belle and Sebastian - The State I Am in

Time: 3:08

Oh, and desperation is the devil's work

It is the folly of a boy's empty mind

Oh, and now I'm feeling dangerous

Belle and Sebastian - The State I Am in

Jimmy Buffett - Time to Go Home

Time: 0:19

Hey now, mein host, don't be so melancholy

You've made the most out of Amy Ball's folly

You went crazy, ran off with an actress and didn't get rich

Jimmy Buffett - Time to Go Home

Soundgarden - Attrition

Time: 1:36

On the cliff above stormy waves can't decide to climb or drown

Up is folly and down disgrace

Under thumbs over written the ladder is poison have to

Soundgarden - Attrition

Norah Jones - World of Trouble

Time: 0:04

It starts off slow with a kiss of folly

And you don't see it as more

Norah Jones - World of Trouble

Billie Holiday - Sentimental and Melancholy

Time: 1:10

That's better described as just feeling blue

I suppose that it's just my folly to keep it alive as I do

But it's a kind of sugar-coated misery

Billie Holiday - Sentimental and Melancholy

Wynton Marsalis - He and She

Time: 3:22

You, me, and you and me

What folly do sophic blues men find

When a man think he know a woman mind?

Wynton Marsalis - He and She