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A list song is a song based wholly or in part on a list. List songs typically develop by working through a list, sometimes using items of escalating absurdity.

Examples of list songs (and their composers/performers) include:

• "My Favorite Things" (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
• "Elephant Talk" (King Crimson)
• "Waters of March" (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
• "I'm Still Here" (Stephen Sondheim)
• "Twelve Days Of Christmas" (Traditional)
• "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Bob Dylan)
• "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Billy Joel)^{[citation needed]}
• "Can U Dig It" (Pop Will Eat Itself)^{[citation needed]}
• "It's the End of the World As We Know It" (R.E.M.)^{[citation needed]}
• "Vogue" (Madonna)
• "You're the Top" (Cole Porter)
• "The Elements" (Tom Lehrer)
• "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" (Reunion)
• "The Begat" (Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg)
• "Zip" (Rodgers and Hart)
• "Plane Too" (Loudon Wainwright III)
• "God" (John Lennon)
• "Lost Property" (The Divine Comedy)

Many patter songs fall into this genre such as:

• KoKo's List Song from The Mikado
• "Tchaikovsky" (Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin)
• "The Major-General's Song" (Gilbert and Sullivan)