So You Think You Know 70's Music?

 

Well, it only took almost a decade to finish it...but it's finally done. So, here is a lyrical quiz, to test your knowledge of music from the Seventies.

Your challenge is to figure out the name of the song, and the artist, from the snippet of lyric provided. All the artists are different - you will likely see the same one as part of a group and then again by themselves, or by themselves and also as part of a duet; but those all count as different artists for the purposes of the quiz. There is even a group-duet on here - two groups who are each on here by themselves, and then again where both groups got together to do one song.

There are songs from just about every genre, though of course back then there were really only three sections in any given music store - Pop/Rock, Country, and Soul.

Clicking on the musical notes on the far left will play the same snippet of song that the lyric is from, without revealing the answer...just in case you'd like a little hint. They also open in a new window, so you may need to turn off your pop-up blocker to use them. And the answer links will give you the answer for that line. Both make use of Javascript, so if they don't work you will need to enable scripting for the site.

Even though this is a lyric quiz, I would be remiss if I didn't include a few of the hit instrumentals from this decade as well. They're at the very end.

Also, I put an incredible amount of blood, sweat and tears (pun intended) into this quiz - so please don't repost it without crediting me as the author. If you want to post some feedback, or ask a question, there is also a message board here for that.

Thanks, best of luck to you...and Keep On Truckin!

 
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 1. The night is young, and full of possibilities…well, come on, and let yourself be free
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 2. Before I go insane, I hold my pillow to my head, and spring up in my bed, screaming out the words I dread…
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 3. He was born on a summer day, 1951
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 4. I can see all obstacles in my way
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 5. Suddenly, the day turns into night...far away from the city
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 6. Like walkin' in the rain and the snow, when there's nowhere to go...when you're feeling like a part of you is dying
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 7. I was captured by your style...but I could not catch your eye
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 8. Ocean lady...child of nature, friend of man
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 9. I remember all my life, raining down as cold as ice
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 10. When I get off of this mountain, you know where I wanna go...straight down the Mississippi River, to the Gulf of Mexico
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 11. My mother, God rest her soul...couldn't understand why the only man she had ever loved had been taken
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 12. Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood...why should you care, if you're feeling good?
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 13. One floor below me, you don't even know me...I love you
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 14. Lordy, mama...light my fuse
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 15. If you give a little more than you're asking for, your love will turn the key
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 16. And though you want to last forever, you know you never will…and the goodbye makes the journey harder still
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 17. Then one by one, the stars would all go out…then you and I would simply fly away
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 18. Did you know I'd go to sleep and leave the lights on, hoping you'd come by and know that I was home and still awake
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 19. And when I'm gone, there'll be one child born in this world to carry on
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 20. Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose
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 21. All around my hometown, they're trying to track me down
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 22. Try to remember the magic that we shared…in time, your broken heart will mend
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 23. Them Creole babies…thin and brown, and downright lazy
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 24. I met a devil woman, she took my heart away
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 25. Oh, mirror in the sky…what is love?
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 26. And I kept on lookin' for a sign in the middle of the night…but I couldn't see the light, no, I couldn't see the light
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 27. I got something that sho' nuff set your stuff on fire
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 28. Nothing lasts forever, but the earth and sky
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 29. Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul…I want to get lost in your rock-n-roll
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 30. So I took off my hat, and said, "Imagine that…me working for you"
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 31. When the lights go down, I'm holding you so tight…got you in my arms, and it's paradise until the morning light
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 32. Girl, you're getting that look in your eyes, and it's starting to worry me
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 33. Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip and see…take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me
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 34. Thirteen month old baby, broke the looking-glass
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 35. Oooh, when I'm alone with you, I get a feeling through and through, telling me that love is coming on
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 36. You, you belong to me, now…ain't gonna set you free, now…when those girls start hanging around, talking me down
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 37. Took away our ways of life…the tomahawk and the Bowie knife…took away our native tongue, and taught their English to our young
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 38. Didn't I hear you cry this morning…didn't I feel you weep…teardrops falling down on me, like rivers in my sleep
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 39. I've got more important things to do, than spend my time growing old with you
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 40. It's written in the moonlight, and painted on the stars
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 41. He's got this dream about buying some land, he's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
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 42. Soft and low, the music moans…I can't stop thinking about you
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 43. Where can you find pleasure, search the world for treasure, learn science, technology
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 44. Her and Bobby were stepping out…her and Bobby didn't know I'd found out
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 45. What's it like inside the bubble, does your head ever give you trouble?
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 46. I'd rather live in his world, than live without him in mine
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 47. But in the gray of the morning, my mind becomes confused...between the dead, and the sleeping, and the road that I must choose
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 48. Open up your window, let some air into this room…I think I'm almost choking from the smell of stale perfume
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 49. If you need me, let me know…gonna be around…if you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down
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 50. Wouldn't you give your hand to a friend…maybe it's not the end
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 51. Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice
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 52. Hand me down my walking cane, hand me down my hat…hurry now and don't be late, cause we ain't got time to chat
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 53. Falling in love is such an easy thing to do, and there's no guarantee that the one you love is gonna love you
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 54. Little light a-shining through the window, lets me know everything's all right
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 55. Think of me, you know that I'd be with you if I could…I'll come around to see you once in a while…or if I ever need a reason to smile…and spend the night, if you think I should
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 56. He's just as proud as he can be, of his anatomy…and he's gonna give us a peek
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 57. There's a port on a western bay, and it serves a hundred ships a day…lonely sailors pass the time away, and talk about their homes
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 58. Let me tell you, it's always cool…and the boss don't mind sometimes, if you act the fool
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 59. Making my entrance again, with my usual flair…sure of my lines…no-one is there
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 60. Prepare yourself, you know it's a must…gotta have a friend in Jesus
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 61. I don't know what I'd do without you, babe, don't know where I'd be…you're not just another lover, no, you're everything to me
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 62. Close your eyes and dream, and you can be with me…'neath the waves, through the caves of owls…long forgotten now
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 63. Strolling along country roads with my baby, it starts to rain, it begins to pour
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 64. Like a rubber-necked giraffe, you look into my path…well, maybe you're just too blind to see
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 65. I know I keep you amused…but I feel I'm being used
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 66. I don't need a whole lots of money…I don't need a big, fine car…I got everything that a man could want, I got more than I could ask for
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 67. Well, you're where you should be all the time…and when you're not, you're with some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
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 68. I met all the girls, and I loved myself a few, and to my surprise…like everything else that I've been through, it opened up my eyes
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 69. There are times when a woman has to say what's on her mind, even though she knows how much it's going to hurt
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 70. He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine
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 71. Ever since I met you…seems I can't forget you…the thought of you keeps running through the back of my mind
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 72. Some people say I've done all right for a girl
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 73. I've never had a dream that made sweet love to me
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 74. We've been together, since way back when…sometimes, I never wanna see you again
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 75. When I think about those nights in Montreal…I get the sweetest thoughts of you and me…memories of love above the city lights…
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 76. To avoid complications, she never kept the same address
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 77. I want to go where the people dance...I want some action...I want to live
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 78. I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long...like a worn-out recording of a favorite song
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 79. Suitcase and an old guitar, and something new to occupy my mind, mind, mind
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 80. Baby, if I think about you, I think about love...darling, if I live without you, I live without love
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 81. Have you never been happy, just to hear your song...have you never let someone else be strong
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 82. To look in the mirror, in total surprise...at the hair on your shoulders, and the age in your eyes
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 83. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
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 84. I keep falling in and out of love with you
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 85. And all your friends, they're calling you a fool...cause you don't know a good thing when you've got it in your hand
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 86. Danger, danger...when you taste brown sugar
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 87. You always smile, but in your eyes, your sorrow shows
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 88. Did you think I'd crumble, did you think I'd lay down and die...oh, no, not I
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 89. And the story it told of a river that flowed, made me sad to think it was dead
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 90. Sail on, silver girl...sail on by...your time has come to shine, all your dreams are on their way
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 91. Turned the stone and looked beneath it..."Peace on Earth" was all it said
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 92. Hey, shadow, summertime blues...jump up and down in your blue suede shoes
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 93. Seventy-three men sailed her, from the San Francisco Bay
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 94. So he takes a ladder, steals the stars from the sky...puts on Sinatra, and starts to cry
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 95. Baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you...now come on down and do what you've got to do
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 96. Tonight I'm gonna break away, just you wait and see
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 97. No cigarettes, no sleep...no light, no sound...nothing to eat, no books to read
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 98. And the sons of Pullman porters, and the sons of engineers, ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steel
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 99. But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
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 100. He spoke through tears of fifteen years, how his dog and him traveled about
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 101. Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice…and before you know it, get to feeling good…you've simply got no choice
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 102. Buy me a ticket on the last train home tonight
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 103. I'm a boy, and I'm a man
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 104. Cause I'm the number one fan of the man from Tennessee
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 105. Watching as the pretty panties run
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 106. We sing about beauty and we sing about truth, at ten thousand dollars a show
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 107. Little boy blue, and the man in the moon
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 108. Well, your friends with their fancy persuasion, don't admit that it's part of a scheme
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 109. See, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun
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 110. Just snap your fingers and I'm walking, like a dog, hanging on your leash
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 111. There's been a hoot owl howling by my window now, for six nights in a row
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 112. I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with
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 113. Mississippi moon, won't you keep on shining on me
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 114. They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound
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 115. And if they shout, don't let it change a thing that you're doing
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 116. Cross the highways of fantasy...help me to forget today's pain
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 117. As I remember, your eyes were bluer than robin's eggs...my poetry was lousy, you said
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 118. There's a girl right next to you...and she's just waiting for something to do
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 119. Like a picture she was laying there...moonlight dancing off her hair
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 120. Every day in your indigo eyes...I watch the sun set, but I don't see it rise
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 121. You can rely on the old man's money
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 122. In the backroom, she was everybody's darling
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 123. How's your life been going on…I got a wife now, for years we've been going strong…oh no...there's just something that I've got to say; sometimes when we make love, I still can see your face…
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 124. Sometimes late at night, when there's nothing here except my old piano, I'd almost give my hands to make you see my way
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 125. Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman but talked like a man
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 126. I got silly and I found a frog, in the water by a hollow log, and I shook it at her, and said, "This frog's for you…"
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 127. And I said I didn't like the way he got things done, sleeping on the job
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 128. It's a fool's game…nothing but a fool's game…standing in the cold rain, feeling like a clown
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 129. And he's quick with a joke, or to light up your smoke, but there's someplace that he'd rather be
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 130. Out of work, I'm out of my head, out of self-respect, I'm out of bread...I'm underloved, I'm underfed, I wanna go home
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 131. If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal...if her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
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 132. You left in the rain, without closing the door...I didn't stand in your way
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 133. The brakes are good, the tires...fair
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 134. They would not listen, they did not know how...perhaps they'll listen, now
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 135. Got to keep on dancing, keep on dancing
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 136. Mama says she's worried, growing up in a hurry
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 137. The door was open, and the wind appeared...the candles blew and then disappeared...the curtains flew, and then he appeared, saying, "Don't be afraid"
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 138. Dialed about a thousand numbers lately, almost rang the phone off the wall
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 139. I wanna stick around until I can't see straight
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 140. Never could believe the things you do to me...I never could believe the way you are
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 141. All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado...trying to keep up a smile to hide the tears
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 142. Newborn eyes always cry with pain, at the first look at the morning sun
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 143. My mama used to dance for the money they'd throw
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 144. This lady she asked me if I would be her man...and you know that I told her, I'd do what I can
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 145. Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn
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 146. You put me high up on a pedestal...so high that I could almost see eternity
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 147. Let's move before they raise the parking rate
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 148. If I could only see that familiar sunrise through sleepy eyes, how happy I'd be
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 149. On the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true
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 150. If your broken heart should need repair, then I'm the man to see
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 151. Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
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 152. He came ridin in on the sunrise, on a hot west Texas day…a fancy man, in a painted wagon, with some fancy things to say
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 153. Lovers appear in your room each night, and they whirl you across the floor...but they always seem to fade away, when your Daddy taps on the door
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 154. The morning-after blues, from my head down to my shoes
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 155. Staring blindly into space...getting up to splash my face...wanting just to stay awake...wond'ring how much I can take
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 156. With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats, you can't say we're satisfied
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 157. Something inside has died, and I can't hide, and I just can't fake it
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 158. Let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms...let me lay down beside you, let me always be with you
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 159. No-one else can make me feel the colors that you bring...stay with me, while we grow old, and we will live each day in springtime
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 160. Once, I said I wanted you, I don't remember why...I often wonder if it's true that you could make me cry
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 161. Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
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 162. Into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown...like a dog without a bone, an actor out on loan
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 163. Well, the kids don't eat, and the dog can't sleep, there's no escape from the music in the whole damn street
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 164. And she's tryin' to make a devil out of me
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 165. The problem is all inside your head, she said to me...the answer is easy, if you take it logically
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 166. Do you love waking up next to me, as much as I love waking up next to you?
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 167. In and around the lake...mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
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 168. Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting...little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
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 169. You can't plant me in your penthouse...I'm going back to my plow
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 170. When evening rolls around and it's time to go to town, where do you go to rock and roll?
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 171. You say you feel so empty, that our house just ain't a home...cause I'm always somewhere else, and you're always there alone
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 172. If you've got a problem, I don't care what it is...if you need a hand, I can assure you this…
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 173. Inventing lovers on the phone..who call to say, 'come dance with me'...and murmur vague obscenities
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 174. With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground
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 175. He say, one more job oughta get it...one last shot, 'fore we quit it...one for the road
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 176. I really learned a lot, really learned a lot...love is like a flame that burns you when it's hot
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 177. For you are beautiful...and I have loved you dearly, more dearly than the spoken word can tell
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 178. Then I lost myself in a familiar song...closed my eyes, and I slipped away
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 179. And I dreamed I saw the bomber-death planes riding shotgun in the sky...turning into butterflies above our nation
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 180. I'd rather hurt you honestly, than mislead you with a lie
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 181. And I'm telling you son, well, it ain't no fun...staring straight down a forty-four
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 182. My Maserati does 185...I lost my license, now I don't drive
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 183. They stand so low, you got to pick 'em up, just to say hello
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 184. Grab that cash with both hands, and make a stash
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 185. She was a black-haired beauty, with big dark eyes
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 186. And the first one said, to the second one there...'I hope you're having fun'
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 187. Cause we were barely seventeen, and we were barely dressed
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 188. You can check out any time you like...but you can never leave
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 189. Strumming my six-string, on my front porch swing
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 190. Must be the season when that love-light shines all around us
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 191. People go just where they will...I never noticed them until I got this feeling that it's later than it seems
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 192. You got to lose, to know how to win
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 193. Reflections in the waves spark my memory...some happy, some sad
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 194. There's a feeling I get, when I look to the west...and my spirit is crying for leaving
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 195. When I was young, I never needed anyone...and making love was just for fun...those days are gone
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 196. Feed the babies, who don't have enough to eat...shoe the children, with no shoes on their feet
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 197. Falling in love was the last thing I had on my mind...holding you is a warmth that I thought I could never find
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 198. You're the only light this empty room has ever had
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 199. You say he satisfies your mind, tells you all of his dreams...I know how much that means to you
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 200. Now if I'd known they'd line up just to see him...I'd have taken all my money, and bought me a museum
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 201. Well, you say you've got the blues, you've got holes in both your shoes…yeah, you're feeling alone and confused
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 202. Burning, you keep my whole body yearning
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 203. But if you want to know how I really feel, just get the cameras rolling, get the action going
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 204. There and then all my dreams will come true dear…there and then I will make you my own
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 205. Young and old are doing it, I'm told…just one try, and you too will be sold
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 206. Would you believe this man has gone as far as tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars, and he voted for George McGovern for President
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 207. Ain't it good, ain't it right, that you are with me here tonite…music playing, our bodies swaying in time
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 208. I know it's hard believing the words you've heard before…but darling, you must trust them just once more
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 209. In your arms, I feel so safe, and so secure…and every day is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
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 210. We have a chance to find the sunshine…let's keep on looking for the light
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 211. Like a rose, under the April snow…I was always certain love would grow
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 212. She knows she's built, and knows how to please...sure enough to knock a strong man to his knees
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 213. 'Cause your love is better than any love I know…it's like thunder, lightning…the way you love me is frightening
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 214. With you I'm not shy, to show the way I feel…with you I might try, my secrets to reveal
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 215. The sergeant cried, "We've got to hang on, boys…we've got to hold this piece of ground"
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 216. Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me…Daddy, please don't, we're gonna get married
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 217. How's your new love, are you happy…hope you're doing fine…just to know it means so much to me
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 218. What is it good for…absolutely nothing
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 219. When a man named Al Capone tried to make that town his own…and he called his gang to war, with the forces of the law
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 220. Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June, in a Kenworth pulling logs…cabover Pete with a reefer on, and a Jimmy hauling hogs
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 221. Way down deep inside, I know that it's all wrong…your eyes keep tempting me, and I never was that strong
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 222. No-one knows who she is, or what her name is…I don't know where she came from, or what her game is
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 223. And if you get hurt (if you get hurt) by the little things I say…I can put that smile back on your face
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 224. Let her cry, for she's a lady…let her dream, for she's a child
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 225. Don't know why, I'm surviving every lonely day…when there's got to be no chance for me…my life would end, and it doesn't matter how I cry
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 226. I'm a lonely dreamer on a highway, in the skies
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 227. I got it in the bedroom, and I got it in the hall…I got it in the bathroom and he hung it on the wall
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 228. Love to hear percussion
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 229. Oh I, I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room…and I, as I recall it ended much too soon
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 230. You know that your love is my love, my love is your love, our love is here to stay
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 231. My name is Michael, I've got a nickel…I've got a nickel, shiny and new
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 232. Do you remember back in old L.A. when everybody drove a Chevrolet…whatever happened to the boy next door - the suntanned, crew-cut all-American male
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 233. I'm here to do whatever I can…be it early morning, late afternoon, or at midnight, it's never too soon
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 234. My motto's always been, when it's right, it's right…why wait until the middle of a cold dark night?
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 235. And we flock just like birds of a feather, I won't tell no lie…all of the people around us, they say, 'Can they be that close?'
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 236. Lazy day in bed, music in my head…crazy music playing, in the morning light
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 237. As we lay at midnight's hour, and feel love's hidden power…so strong and bold as life unfolds the mystery to me
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 238. Dance to the music, all night long…everyday people sing a simple song…Mama's so happy, mama start to cry…Papa's still singing, you can make it if you try
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 239. Picket lines and picket signs, don't punish me with brutality
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 240. My eyes are not blue…but mine won't leave you, till the sunlight has touched your face
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 241. Never gonna stop, give it up...such a dirty mind...I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind
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 242. You'll find him anywhere, on a bus, in a bar, in a grocery store. He'll say, "Excuse me, haven't I seen you somewhere before?"
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 243. And their love that was more than the clothes that they wore, could be seen in the gleam of their eyes
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 244. Goin' in and out of changes, the kind that come around each day…my life has a better meaning, love has kissed me in a beautiful way
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 245. He's the hairy handed gent, who ran amok in Kent…lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
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 246. And God knows, if the world should end...your love is safe with me
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 247. Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men who need more than they get…daylight deals a bad hand to a woman who has laid too many bets
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 248. I'll be your belly dancer, prancer…and you can be my sheik
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 249. I must have been through about a million girls…I love 'em and I leave 'em alone
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 250. Maybe she'll find an island, with a shaded tree...just like the one in our backyard
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 251. I don't know how to handle it, it's more than I would dare, yeah…I would have tried to run from it, but it reaches everywhere
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 252. Feel her skin, feelin' silky smooth, color of cafe au lait…made the savage beast inside roar until he cried, 'More, more, more!'
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 253. On a warm summer's evening…on a train bound for nowhere…
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 254. There's an open road that leads nowhere, so just make some miles between here and there…there's a hole in my head where the rain comes in…you took my body and played to win
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 255. She's from Birmingham…way down in Alabam'…well, she's shakin that thing…boy, she makes me sing
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 256. Just let me know if you wanna go, to that home out on the range…they gotta lotta nice girls
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 257. When I saw you standing there, I 'bout fell out my chair…and when you moved your mouth to speak, I felt the blood go to my feet
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 258. She was the color of the Indian summer, and we shared the hours without number…until one day when the sky turned dark and the winds grew wild
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 259. The wind blew some luck in my direction, I caught it in my hands today
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 260. Thought I was out of luck, then ten seconds later…somehow we got stuck in the elevator
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 261. We meet every day at the same cafe, six-thirty I know she'll be there
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 262. The sleepin' pill I took was just a waste of time...I couldn't close my eyes 'cause you were on my mind
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 263. But that night, on our honeymoon…we stayed in separate rooms…
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 264. I put my faith in the people, but the people let me down...so I turned the other way, and I carry on, anyhow
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 265. Mickey Mouse says it's thirteen o'clock…well, that's quite a shock…but that's my boy
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 266. I'm gonna be leaving at the break of dawn...wish you could come, but I don't need no woman tagging along
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 267. Take the ribbon from my hair...shake it loose, and let it fall
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 268. Then the woman that she was, drove her on with desperation…and I saw as she went, a most hopeless situation
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 269. Wind was blowing, time stood still…eagle flew out of the night
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 270. What's the sense in sharing this one and only life…ending up just another lost and lonely wife…you count up the years, and they will be filled with tears
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 271. If he brings you happiness, then I wish you all the best…it's your happiness that matters most of all
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 272. But from that very first look in your eyes, I see you and I had but one heart…only our bodies were apart
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 273. I can tell you've been hurt, by that look on your face, girl…some guy brought sadness into your happy world
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 274. I've been to Hollywood…I've been to Redwood
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 275. Through the years, as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives…though the binding cracks, and the pages start to yellow - I'll be in love with you
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 276. Winter is here again, oh, Lord…haven't been home in a year or more…I hope she holds on a little longer
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 277. When the world is ready to fall on your little shoulders…and when you're feeling lonely and small, you need somebody there to hold you
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 278. I think about summer, my head was swimming…you wrote my name in the sand
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 279. I've got a song, I ain't got no melody…how am I gonna sing it to my friends?
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 280. I can't get used to living here, while my heart is broke…my tears I cried for you
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 281. Is it any wonder I reject you first?
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 282. Did I hear you say that there must be a catch…will you walk away from a fool and his money
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 283. Well, you're built like a car, you've got a hubcap diamond-star halo
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 284. I see your armor-plated breast has long since lost its sheen…and in your death-mask face, there are no signs which can be seen
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 285. Loving you whether…whether times are good or bad, or happy or sad
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 286. Yeah, they were dancing, and singing, and movin to the groovin…and just when it hit me, somebody turned around and shouted
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 287. Now, I don't need no superstar, cause I'll accept you as you are…you won't be denied, cause I'm satisfied with the love you inspire
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 288. No more speed, I'm almost there…gotta keep cool now, gotta take care
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 289. Everybody here is outta sight…they don't bark, and they don't bite…they keep things loose, they keep things alive
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 290. Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
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 291. I'm the red-ball express of lovin...diesel-powered, straight to you
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 292. Tell her I'm sorry…tell her I need my baby…oh, won't you tell her that I love her
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 293. Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some…tell me why you wanna lay there, revel in your abandon
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 284. Those cats were fast as lightning…in fact, it was a little bit frightening
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 295. Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right; they just seem a little weird
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 296. Quiet and blue like the sky, I'm hung over you…and if I can't find my way back home, it just wouldn't be fair
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 297. I can't help it, you're just so good-looking…I'm afraid somebody's gonna steal you away from me
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 298. Crystal ball on the table, showing the future, the past…same cat with them evil eyes, and I knew it was a spell she cast
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 299. All at once came a sound from the inside, then a beam made of light hit the ground…everyone felt the sound of their heartbeat; every man, every woman, every child
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 300. I've been to Georgia, and California, and anywhere I could run…took the hand of a preacher man, and we made love in the sun
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 301. But when you're walking down that street, and you ain't had enough to eat…the glitter rubs right off and you're nowhere
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 302. Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends…we're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside
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 303. Soon we'll be married and raise a family…in a cozy little home out in the country, with two children - maybe three
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 304. You're the woman I love, and I love what it's doin to ya
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 305. I'm in trouble, cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-talking ladies man
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 306. I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd…I felt he'd found my letters, and read each one out loud
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 307. Gonna rock it up, roll it up, do it all, have a ball
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 308. There is trouble in the forest, and the creatures all have fled - as the maples scream, "Oppression!"; and the oaks just shake their heads
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 309. Easy as 1-2-3, or simple as Do-Re-Mi
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 310. I just might have a problem that you'll understand
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 311. Hey - wasn't it me who said that nothing good's gonna last forever…and wasn't it me who said let's just be glad for the time together
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 312. Crossing the highway late last night, he shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
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 313. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
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 314. There's nothing to it, just say you wanna do it…open up your heart, and let your lovin start…woman, take me in your arms
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 315. I wouldn't mind it, if I knew she really loved me too...but I'd hate to think that I'm in love alone, and nothing that I can do
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 316. Then we will go to sleep together, with the rocking of the water…dream of how our life will someday be
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 317. So if you're tired of the same old story…oh, turn some pages
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 318. There's one perfect fit, and sugar, this one is it
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 319. I tried to give you consolation, when your old man had let you down…like a fool, I fell in love with you…you turned my whole world upside down
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 320. And I don't remember church bells, or the money I put down...on the white picket fence and boardwalk, of the house at the end of town
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 321. Loving the free and feeling spirit, of hugging a tree when you get near it…diggin' the snow and the rain and the bright sunshine
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 322. Well, a man shall leave his mother, and a woman leave her home…they shall travel on to where the two shall be as one
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 323. Oh, I see her face everywhere I go…on the street, and even at the picture show
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 324. And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus…rollin down highway 41
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 325. Many months have passed us by…I'm gonna miss you, I can't lie…I've got ties, and so do you…I just think this is the thing to do
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 326. Sittin in the classroom, thinkin it's a drag…listening to the teacher, well, that just ain't my bag
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 327. You're everything I hoped for…you're everything I need
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 328. I can't seem to face up to the facts…I'm tense and nervous, and I can't relax…I can't sleep, cause my bed's on fire…don't touch me, I'm a real live wire
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 329. We take the pressure, and we throw away...conventionality, belongs to yesterday
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 330. Sitting in a tiny table, in a ritzy restaurant…she was staring at her coffee cup…he was trying to keep his courage up, by plying booze
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 331. Touch me, and I feel on fire…ain't nothing like a love desire…I'm melting like hot candle wax
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 332. You get too much, you get too high…not enough, and you're gonna die
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 333. Come on now, try and understand…the way I feel, when I'm in your hand…take my hand, come under cover; they can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now, can't hurt you now…
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 334. Guess it's over, the chips are down…pity all our bridges tumbled down…whatever chance we try, let's face it; why deny it's over
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 335. I'm in the mood…the rhythm is right…move to the music…we can roll all night
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 336. Something happened along the way, what used to be happy was sad…something happened along the way, and yesterday was all we had
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 337. If the illusion is real, let them give you a ride…if they've got thunder appeal, let them be on your side
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 338. Are we in love, or just friends…is this my beginning, or is this the end?
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 339. And in my hour of darkness, she is standing right in front of me; speaking words of wisdom…
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 340. They were asking if you were around, how you was, where you could be found…I told em you were living downtown, driving all the old men crazy
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 341. Seemed like the real thing, only to find…mucho mistrust, love's gone behind
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 342. Oh, say you'll always be my baby, we can make it shine…we can take forever, just a minute at a time
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 343. For a fee, I'm happy to be your backdoor man
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 344. You think I'm cute…a little bit shy…mama, I ain't that kind of guy
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 345. And we just flow together when the lights are low, shadows dancin' all across the wall…music's playin' so soft and slow, the rest of the world's so far away and small
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 346. So let's leave it alone, cause we can't see eye-to-eye…there ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy
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 347. It always seems to be a Monday...leftover memories of Sunday, always spent with you...before the clouds appeared, and took away my sunshine
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 348. What's these things you've been saying about me, behind my back…is it true you might want a better life, is it true you think there's these things I lack
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 349. My love...I'll never find the words, my love…to tell you how I feel, my love…mere words could not explain
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 350. All you gotta do is smile that smile, and there go all my defenses…just leave it up to you, and in a little while, you're messing up my mind, and filling up my senses
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 351. Just need a little brain salad surgery…got to cure my insecurity
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 352. And where are you now, now that I need you…tears on my pillow, wherever you go…I cry me a river, that leads to your ocean
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 353. I live my life like there's no tomorrow…and all I've got, I had to steal…least I don't need to beg or borrow…yes, I'm living at a pace that kills
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 354. Oh, I can't take another heartache, and though you say you're my friend, I'm at my wit's end
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 355. Our love is like a ship on the ocean…we've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
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 356. Tell me no secrets, tell me some lies…give me no reasons, give me alibis…tell me you love me, and don't make me cry…say anything, but don't say goodbye
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 357. It's not in the way you've been treating my friends…it's not in the way that you stay till the end…it's not in the way you look, or the things that you say that you do
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 358. People all over the world, join hands
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 359. You don't have to put on the red light - those days are over, you don't have to sell your body to the night
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 360. You are a genie…and all I ask for is your smile, each time I rub the lamp

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And that's the quiz! Hope you enjoyed taking it as much as I enjoyed making it. :)
 
   

It is amazing to me how enduring this simple quiz has proved to be - I created it (with 200 lyrics, no hint clips, and originally also no answers posted - you had to email me to get them) in 2000, and am surprised how many daily visitors it still gets, this long after first posting it.

I don't get nearly as many "Help me, what song is this?" requests as I used to - the proliferation of lyrics sites has meant that people can usually find what they're looking for with a little snippet of lyric that they remember.

But it seems like there are two songs that people either can't find, or can't remember enough of to find - I bet I've gotten at least one question every year on these two particular songs, so I'll post their full lyrics and also the first minute or so of the song in MP3 format.

Probably the top most-asked-about song over the years has been one from 1972, by Frank Mills: the song is called "Love Me, Love Me, Love".

Standing on the corner
Passing time away
I thought I heard the organ grinder
Singing as he played
He had a little monkey
With a little cup of tin
And he danced for joy
When someone put a penny in

He sang, love me, love me, love
Why did you ever leave me, girl
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever go
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever leave me, girl
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever go

I couldn't help but wonder
How the old man got his song
What a tragic tale of loneliness
How fate had done him wrong
Whatever made the old man
Want to brave the cold and rain
And tell the world his story
'Til death could ease the pain

He sang, love me, love me, love
Why did you ever leave me, girl
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever go
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever leave me, girl
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever go

I went back to the corner
To hear the old man play
A policeman said the old man died
One cold November day
I waited for a minute
Then sadly walked away
Though I couldn't see the old man
I'm sure I heard him sing

If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever leave me, girl
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever go
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever leave me, girl
If you love me, love me, love
Why did you ever go

Play MP3

 

The other most-asked-about is actually from 1981, though I also had myself always associated it with the 70's rather than the 80's. The song is "I Love You", by the Climax Blues Band; and I have to admit, this is probably one of my own top-ten most favorite songs of all time as well...

 

When I was younger man I hadn't a care
Foolin' around, hitting the town, growing my hair
You came along and stole my heart when you entered my life
Ooh babe you got what it takes so I made you my wife

Since then I never looked back
It's almost like living a dream
And ooh I love you

You came along from far away and found me here
I was playin' around, feeling down, hittin' the beer
You picked me up from off the floor and gave me a smile
And said you're much too young, your life ain't begun, let's walk for awhile

And as my head was spinnin' 'round
I gazed into your eyes
And thought ooh I want you

Thank you babe for being a friend
And shinin' your light in my life
'cause ooh I need you

As my head was comin' round
I gazed into your eyes
And thought ooh I want you

Thanks again for being my friend
And straightenin' out my life
'cause ooh I need you

Since then I never looked back
It's almost like livin' a dream
Ooh I got you

If ever a man had it all
It would have to be me
And ooh I love you

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