Guess the song!
The first lines (usually) of the first 50 songs to come up on shuffle in my itunes library. If you can, name the (original) artist and song, or, in the case of a song from a Broadway musical, the song title and the show. A lot of these are pathetically easy, a few pretty obscure. To be nice, I skipped the ones in very obscure languages. Until about the halfway point, I also skipped the ones where the name of the song was in the first line, because that's lame. After the halfway point, I started picking from those songs the first line not including the song title.
1. Look down, look down, don't look 'em in the eye.
2. Beloved, gaze in thine own heart: the holy tree is growing there.
3. As a young boy, Michael helped his mother cook.
4. Take it on the chin, take one more for me.
5. Step inside, walk this way.
6. Putting all the vegetables away, that you bought at the grocery store today.
7. Love took a long time, it followed me here.
8. Little Lottie thought of everything and nothing.
9. Excuse me, but can I be here for a while?
10. Whatever happened to fair dealing, and pure ethics, and nice manners?
11. I don't wanna lie around with this feeling anymore. Every time you push me, you just push me out the door.
12. Every time you raise your voice, I see the greener grass.
13. Wasting time, Annie. Knew you could.
14. This is the day, the day of the death, the death of the matinee.
15. If you see me walkin down the line, with my favrite honky-tonk in mind, well I'll be here around suppertime.
16. I was feelin' no pain around midnight.
17. They're trying to build a prison, they're trying to build a prison.
18. He burned down a house one night, he had a loaded six-pack gun.
19. Fear no more the heat of the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. (Hint: if you know the name of the play from which these lyrics come originally, then you know the name of the song.)
20. You ain't got no kind of feeling inside.
21. We like to go down to the church, and drink some holy water.
22. It's good, isn't it grand, isn't it great...?
23.I've got a little black book with my poems in. Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in.
24. Well, beat me up, beat me down, mess me up beyond all recognition.
25. You see, my dear, every royal family (by its nature) has a little price that it must pay.
26. They paved paradise, put up a parking lot. (Disgustingly easy)
27. Sun is gonna shine in my, Lord, gonna shine in my back door someday.
28. You got a lotta nerve, to say you are my friend.
29. God on high, hear my prayer. In my need, you have always been there.
30. In a haze, a stormy haze, I'll be round, I'll be loving you always.
31.I cannot disguise all the stomach pains and the walking of the canes
32. As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent, you asked for the latest party.
33. Bright light almost blinding, black night still there shining.
34. Taking every cue from every ad girl, and hopelessness is easy when it's a fad, girl.
35. See the young man sitting in the old man's bar, waiting for his turn to die.
35. If you ever find a way to forgive me, and if you ever find a way to put this all to rest, because I'm hanging on your dress now like a little boy ...
36. Every single one of you goddamn bitches ain't never gonna know the law!
37. And here in the gloom of my lonely room, we're dancing like we used to do.
38. When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me ...
39. Yesterday, a child went out to wander.
40. I thought that love was strange, I couldn't figure out what it was all about.
41. You don't care for me, I don't care about that. You got a new fool, hah, I like him like that.
42. That there, that's not me. I go where I please.
43. Will I ever get to, to where it is that I am going?
44. Here's a hint of gold, stuck into a tooth.
45. I wasn't there for you, I wasn't there for you. I know weather's gonna be fine.
46. When ink and pen in hands of men inscribe your form, bipedal “P”, they draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability.
47. Walkin' in the park just the other day, baby, whaddaya think I saw?
48. If a person should ever like a person, then a person should like you.
49. Mama, take this badge from me.
50. Well, the fact of the matter: there ain't no facts involved.
1. Look down, look down, don't look 'em in the eye.
2. Beloved, gaze in thine own heart: the holy tree is growing there.
3. As a young boy, Michael helped his mother cook.
4. Take it on the chin, take one more for me.
5. Step inside, walk this way.
6. Putting all the vegetables away, that you bought at the grocery store today.
7. Love took a long time, it followed me here.
8. Little Lottie thought of everything and nothing.
9. Excuse me, but can I be here for a while?
10. Whatever happened to fair dealing, and pure ethics, and nice manners?
11. I don't wanna lie around with this feeling anymore. Every time you push me, you just push me out the door.
12. Every time you raise your voice, I see the greener grass.
13. Wasting time, Annie. Knew you could.
14. This is the day, the day of the death, the death of the matinee.
15. If you see me walkin down the line, with my favrite honky-tonk in mind, well I'll be here around suppertime.
16. I was feelin' no pain around midnight.
17. They're trying to build a prison, they're trying to build a prison.
18. He burned down a house one night, he had a loaded six-pack gun.
19. Fear no more the heat of the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. (Hint: if you know the name of the play from which these lyrics come originally, then you know the name of the song.)
20. You ain't got no kind of feeling inside.
21. We like to go down to the church, and drink some holy water.
22. It's good, isn't it grand, isn't it great...?
23.I've got a little black book with my poems in. Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in.
24. Well, beat me up, beat me down, mess me up beyond all recognition.
25. You see, my dear, every royal family (by its nature) has a little price that it must pay.
26. They paved paradise, put up a parking lot. (Disgustingly easy)
27. Sun is gonna shine in my, Lord, gonna shine in my back door someday.
28. You got a lotta nerve, to say you are my friend.
29. God on high, hear my prayer. In my need, you have always been there.
30. In a haze, a stormy haze, I'll be round, I'll be loving you always.
31.I cannot disguise all the stomach pains and the walking of the canes
32. As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent, you asked for the latest party.
33. Bright light almost blinding, black night still there shining.
34. Taking every cue from every ad girl, and hopelessness is easy when it's a fad, girl.
35. See the young man sitting in the old man's bar, waiting for his turn to die.
35. If you ever find a way to forgive me, and if you ever find a way to put this all to rest, because I'm hanging on your dress now like a little boy ...
36. Every single one of you goddamn bitches ain't never gonna know the law!
37. And here in the gloom of my lonely room, we're dancing like we used to do.
38. When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me ...
39. Yesterday, a child went out to wander.
40. I thought that love was strange, I couldn't figure out what it was all about.
41. You don't care for me, I don't care about that. You got a new fool, hah, I like him like that.
42. That there, that's not me. I go where I please.
43. Will I ever get to, to where it is that I am going?
44. Here's a hint of gold, stuck into a tooth.
45. I wasn't there for you, I wasn't there for you. I know weather's gonna be fine.
46. When ink and pen in hands of men inscribe your form, bipedal “P”, they draw an altar on which God has slaughtered all stability.
47. Walkin' in the park just the other day, baby, whaddaya think I saw?
48. If a person should ever like a person, then a person should like you.
49. Mama, take this badge from me.
50. Well, the fact of the matter: there ain't no facts involved.