Lyric puzzles

[dherblay]

Ever since the meme went around in May, I've regretted not putting up a bunch of lyrics from unidentified songs which readers could then guess. It's fair to say that this has gnawed at my heart. I enjoyed, despite my poor showing, the guessing games posted by lynnmonster and Chad Orzel, but I think my favorite set had to be the one by tahnan. Instead of

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[anneth]

10) Warren Zevon (?), "Hit Somebody" "There were Swedes to the left of him/Russians to the right/A Czech at the blue line looking for a fight/brains over brawn/that might work for you/but what's a canadian farmboy to do?/What else can a farmboy from Canada do?" That was awesome! I've never done one of those before.

[dherblay]

So glad you enjoyed it!

[anneth]

6) So, um... I translated this one, and got "you can take me/(somewhere)/I'm a full-grown man/but I ain't afraid to cry" and googled it, because it wasn't familiar. I got Beck, Sex Laws, "I'll let you be my chaperone/at the half-way house/I'm a full-grown man/but I'm not afraid to cry." Is that right?

[dherblay]

That is very much correct. Obviously, I may have taken some liberties with that one!