Boney M Songs that were re-worked into Boney M. titles
 Frank Farian's right hand Hans-J?rg Mayer (aka Georg Reyam) sought out songs from all over the world and rewrote them for Boney M.
The first Boney M. recording Baby Do You Wanna Bump was reworked from Prince Buster's Al Capone.
Ma Baker features the melody line of a Tunesian folk melody.
Rasputin features elements of a Turkish traditional.
Nightflight to Venus with its characteristic drums, the rock guitar theme, and the march interludes, was rewritten from Cozy Powell's 1974 #1 hit Dance With the Devil.
Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday was a rewrite of Polly Wolly Doodle.
I'm Born Again a cover of an Irish traditional, 'Buachaill An Eireann M?'
Their song Train to Skaville / That's Boonoonoonoos (rec. 1980, released 1981) is partly inspired by the 1980 #1 hit Pop Muzik by M (the walking bass, the rap parts, and Bo Bo Bo Boonoonoonoos >< Pop Pop Pop Muzik).
Exodus (Noah's Ark 2001) (1984) features a guitar theme borrowed from The Temptations' Papa Was a Rolling Stone while the chorus borrows from Bob Marley's Exodus.
Sample City (1985) features the same chord pattern as I Can't Stand the Rain, the Ann Peebles classic and a 1977 hit single for Farian's soul band Eruption.
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