lyrics quiz, go-round 90 squillion
Ganked from suffisaunce.
Step 1: put your music player on shuffle
Step 2: post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Check off the songs when someone guesses both artist and title correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up is cheating
(You don't have to guess the artist if it's a traditional or classical song. I've skipped instrumentals and songs not in English --ed.)
1. One morning as I rambled / upon the springtime
2. In Wakefield there lived a jolly pinder, / in Wakefield all on a green
3. Abroad for pleasure as I was a-walkin', / it was on a summer, summer calm and clear
4. O mistress mine, where are you roaming? (Peter Hamilton Dyer, "O Mistress Mine," guessed by kindkit)
5. I loathe that I did love / in youth that I thought sweet
6. Now my charms are all o'erthrown / and what strength I have's mine own (Loreena McKennitt, "Prospero's Speech," guessed by kindkit
7. There's a place I know / way down in Mexico / high in the old Sierra Madre (The Waybacks, "Compadres in the Old Sierra Madre," guessed by aris_tgd)
8. Mother cannot guide you / Now you're on your own ("No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods, guessed by suffisaunce and ladybretagne
9. On the twenty-third of March, me boys / we hoisted out of sail / Crying heaven above protect us / with a sweet and a pleasant gale
10. Ther is no rose of swych vertu / as is the rose that bar Jesu (Anonymous 4, "There is no rose," guessed by suffisaunce)
11. It was on one Monday morning just about one o'clock / When that great ship Titanic began to reel an rock (Pete Seeger, "The Titanic," guessed by rikibeth)
12. One morn in May when fields were gay / Serene and pleasant was the weather / I spied a lass and a very pretty lass / She was sweeping the dew from among the heather
13. Jolly shepherd, and upon the hill as he sat / So loud he blew his little horn and kept right well his gait
14. Alas, my love, you do me wrong / to cast me off discourteously ("Greensleeves" -- I have 14 versions of this; the one that came up just now is Loreena McKennitt's. Guessed by daharyn)
15. I know I got a long journey / Sing hallelujah
16. John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave (Pete Seeger, "John Brown's Body," guessed by garpu)
17. Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be (Monty Python, "Eric the Half-a-Bee," guessed by aris_tgd and arcadiaego)
18. My love is faren in the londe / Alas, why is he so? (Mediaeval Baebes, "Away," guessed by kindkit)
19. I live in a town called Millhaven / And it's small and it's mean and it's cold (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "The Curse of Millhaven," guessed by garpu)
20. You don't answer my call with even a nod or a wink / but you gaze at your own reflection (The Who, "Smash the Mirror," guessed by eleanoranne)
21. In South Australia I was born / Heave away, haul away / In South Australia 'round Cape Horn (A.L. Lloyd, "South Australia," guessed by rikibeth)
22. You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older (They Might Be Giants, "Older," guessed by ladybretagne)
23. On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day / With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray (Steeleye Span, "The Bonny Black Hare," guessed by reconditarmonia)
24. What would you think if I sang out of tune / Would you stand up and walk out on me? (The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," guessed by daharyn and garpu)
25. If I had another penny / I would have another gill / I would make the piper play / The bonny lass of Byker Hill (Martin Carthy, "Byker Hill," guessed by rikibeth)
Step 1: put your music player on shuffle
Step 2: post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Check off the songs when someone guesses both artist and title correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up is cheating
(You don't have to guess the artist if it's a traditional or classical song. I've skipped instrumentals and songs not in English --ed.)
1. One morning as I rambled / upon the springtime
2. In Wakefield there lived a jolly pinder, / in Wakefield all on a green
3. Abroad for pleasure as I was a-walkin', / it was on a summer, summer calm and clear
4. O mistress mine, where are you roaming? (Peter Hamilton Dyer, "O Mistress Mine," guessed by kindkit)
5. I loathe that I did love / in youth that I thought sweet
6. Now my charms are all o'erthrown / and what strength I have's mine own (Loreena McKennitt, "Prospero's Speech," guessed by kindkit
7. There's a place I know / way down in Mexico / high in the old Sierra Madre (The Waybacks, "Compadres in the Old Sierra Madre," guessed by aris_tgd)
8. Mother cannot guide you / Now you're on your own ("No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods, guessed by suffisaunce and ladybretagne
9. On the twenty-third of March, me boys / we hoisted out of sail / Crying heaven above protect us / with a sweet and a pleasant gale
10. Ther is no rose of swych vertu / as is the rose that bar Jesu (Anonymous 4, "There is no rose," guessed by suffisaunce)
11. It was on one Monday morning just about one o'clock / When that great ship Titanic began to reel an rock (Pete Seeger, "The Titanic," guessed by rikibeth)
12. One morn in May when fields were gay / Serene and pleasant was the weather / I spied a lass and a very pretty lass / She was sweeping the dew from among the heather
13. Jolly shepherd, and upon the hill as he sat / So loud he blew his little horn and kept right well his gait
14. Alas, my love, you do me wrong / to cast me off discourteously ("Greensleeves" -- I have 14 versions of this; the one that came up just now is Loreena McKennitt's. Guessed by daharyn)
15. I know I got a long journey / Sing hallelujah
16. John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave (Pete Seeger, "John Brown's Body," guessed by garpu)
17. Half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be (Monty Python, "Eric the Half-a-Bee," guessed by aris_tgd and arcadiaego)
18. My love is faren in the londe / Alas, why is he so? (Mediaeval Baebes, "Away," guessed by kindkit)
19. I live in a town called Millhaven / And it's small and it's mean and it's cold (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "The Curse of Millhaven," guessed by garpu)
20. You don't answer my call with even a nod or a wink / but you gaze at your own reflection (The Who, "Smash the Mirror," guessed by eleanoranne)
21. In South Australia I was born / Heave away, haul away / In South Australia 'round Cape Horn (A.L. Lloyd, "South Australia," guessed by rikibeth)
22. You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older (They Might Be Giants, "Older," guessed by ladybretagne)
23. On the fourteenth of May at the dawn of the day / With my gun on my shoulder to the woods I did stray (Steeleye Span, "The Bonny Black Hare," guessed by reconditarmonia)
24. What would you think if I sang out of tune / Would you stand up and walk out on me? (The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," guessed by daharyn and garpu)
25. If I had another penny / I would have another gill / I would make the piper play / The bonny lass of Byker Hill (Martin Carthy, "Byker Hill," guessed by rikibeth)