Song A song had at least a chord , a set of lyrics and some music , to which those lyrics were sung , or at least read to . ( PROSE : " Oh No It Isn ' t ! " ) Culture . On Terra Alpha it was the law that everyone be happy , including their songs ; these needed to be " songs about sunshine and furry animals " and not about the " blues " . ( TV : " The Happiness Patrol " ) Both the Tenth ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) and Eleventh Doctor s ( TV : " The Beast Below " ) claimed that people with whom he and his companion s had interacted with sang or would write songs about them following their meetings . The Tenth Doctor claimed , after returning Donna Noble to her mother and grandfather , that " there are people living in the light , and singing songs of Donna Noble , a thousand million light years away " . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) Cultural songs . Several cultures and species had specific groups who passed on tales through song . The Menoptera spoke to Barbara Wright of " song - spinners " who sang of the beauty of the Temple of Light . ( TV : " The Web Planet " ) Similarly Avram was a travelling singer – a songsmith , who travelled around Mesopotamia telling his stories . ( PROSE : " " ) Several species and individuals had or received songs that were both telepathic and prophetic . The Ood sang songs like this , ( TV : " Planet of the Ood " , " The End of Time " ) whilst Saul intoned and projected messages as songs . ( PROSE : " " ) The Sisterhood of Karn had what Solon termed a " song of death " for when they began to make ready to sacrifice the Fourth Doctor to the sacred flame . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " ) On New Earth in New New York on the Motorway , the people trapped in the decades long traffic jam held their society and faith together through the songs and hymns . ( TV : " Gridlock " ) The Ice Warrior s sung the Songs of the Red Snow . ( TV : " Cold War " ) Other cultures used songs to comment on society , such as Plasticine ' s " Dissent Is Good " , a song about freedom of speech and action , sung by and composed with the assistance of Bernice Summerfield . ( PROSE : " No Future " ) Whilst on Tyler ' s Folly the SSSSSSS Nazi troopers sang obscene songs about Austria n milkmaids in groups around the canned campfires and drank plastiflagon s of Saknusseinm Pils . ( PROSE : " Down " ) The Sittuun did not have songs or even music . Charlie liked human music . ( PROSE : " Night of the Humans " ) Language . " Song " could also be used as a term for an oft repeated phrase or style . mocked the Third Doctor , saying , " Your usual song of death and disaster ? I do wish you ' d learn a new tune , " as the Master prepared to unleash Kronos on the Doctor . ( TV : " The Time Monster " ) It could also be used to signal a change in opinion to " sing a different song " , as Styggron claimed of Guy Crayford when he objected to the killing of the Fourth Doctor . ( TV : " The Android Invasion " ) Similarly it could also be used to denote a small sum , that something like a house could be sold for a small amount – " a song " . ( PROSE : " Who Killed Kennedy " ) Alternatively some languages , such as those of the Gamma Forests , used " song " in place of similar words like " melody " . ( TV : " A Good Man Goes to War " ) Certain species spoke in a language of song ; the Krakenites had songs of identity , interpreted by non - Krakenites as a series of clicks and booms . ( PROSE : " Dreamstone Moon " ) The Twelfth Doctor revealed that babies thought that laughter was singing . ( TV : " The Girl Who Died " ) Songs and language . also liked to quote lyrics of songs to people , idly commenting to Jo ( while she was his prisoner ) , " Miss Grant , you had better prepare yourself for a long stay . I ' m afraid it ' s not a very comfortable place , but as the old song says , ' Be it ever so humble , there ' s no place like home . ' " ( TV : " Frontier in Space " ) Likewise , Cassandra O ' Brien . Δ17 taunted the guests on Platform One who were trapped about to be burnt and killed , " How did that old Earth song go ? ' Burn , baby , burn ' . " ( TV : " The End of the World " ) Biological . Chimeron babies made noises that were part - song , part - defence mechanism against the Bannermen . ( TV : " Delta and the Bannermen " ) Harrison Chase believed that plants respondeded to music , composing a " song for plants " especially for them . ( PROSE : " Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom " ) Emotion . Vincent van Gogh could see a sadness in Amy , saying . " Oh , Amy . I hear the song of your sadness . You ' ve lost someone , I think " , seeing Amy Pond ' s loss of Rory , even if she at the time did not know herself . ( TV : " Vincent and the Doctor " )