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Bank Holiday music quiz!
You lucky people! For your bank holiday pleasure (yes, it's a bank holiday, we're at a loose end again) we offer you our megatastic first lines music quiz.
These are the first lines of the songs on our afternoon's play list. In cases where the first line contains the title of the song, we have offered you another line.
Title and artist, please. Remember! Sometimes it's not the original: you need to guess which version we are most likely to have on our playlist.
1. Everytime you wake in the mornin’/and you start to cry
2. One morning fair/I took the air
3. He was a boy/She was a girl
4. It’s a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor
5. I thought I heard her calling my name
6. Now look at them yo-yos/That’s the way to do it
7. A long long time ago
8. Ever since my baby left me/Hey fellas have you heard the news?
9. City girls just seem to find out early
10. My friends know what’s in store
11. His father was a dancer before him
12. We see what comes to pass/You can bury us in your earth, or place us behind glass
13. I wear the same shoes as anyone
14. Just coz I ain’t never ’ad no nothin’ worth havin’ - no, never
15. Let me bring you love from the field
16. Won’t you fetch another white girl to play with in the sand
17. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
18. My daddy left home when I was three
19. See how the child reaches out instinctively
20. Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
21. Radha-ramanahari
22. The devil he taught me to roll
23. And she feeds you tea and oranges
24. People I was sittin this morning with this on my mind/Said there ain’t no livin man who gone around the world three time
25. Well I’m waiting for something to take place/Something to take me away from this race
26. Oh I’m still missing my other half/Ah it must be something I did in the past
27. Big wheels keep on turnin’/Carry me home to my kin
28. Naughty boys in nasty schools/Headmasters breaking all the rules
29. Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
30. Well I woke up today/And the world was a restless place
31. Betty came by on her way/Said she had a word to say
32. Unfolding enveloping missiles of soul/Recall senses sadly
33. It was slow day/And the sun was beating on the soldiers by the side of the road
34. Is happiness real?/Or am I so jaded?
35. Emily tries but misunderstands
36. Oh GI Joe put your gun away
37. If I worked my hands in wood/would you still love me?
38. Ten years living in a paper bag
39. Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together
40. Said to the man at the railroad station/“I want a ticket, just for one”
41. Young teacher, the subject, of schoolgirl fantasy
42. I’d like to help you doctor yes I really really would
43. O where are you now/pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?
44. I begged her not to go and I begged her on my bended knee
45. Baby here I am/I’m the man on the scene
46. The killer awoke before dawn/He put his boots on
47. I’m the trouble starter/Fucking instigator
48. I see a red door and I want it painted black
49. Shiny shiny shiny boots of leather
50. Then something struck me as if it came from up above
51. I was born long ago/I am the chosen, I am the one
52. Two weeks in a Virginia jail
53. Every day I have to look to the sun/To see where it was that I have come from
Answers on Monday!
These are the first lines of the songs on our afternoon's play list. In cases where the first line contains the title of the song, we have offered you another line.
Title and artist, please. Remember! Sometimes it's not the original: you need to guess which version we are most likely to have on our playlist.
1. Everytime you wake in the mornin’/and you start to cry
2. One morning fair/I took the air
3. He was a boy/She was a girl
4. It’s a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor
5. I thought I heard her calling my name
6. Now look at them yo-yos/That’s the way to do it
7. A long long time ago
8. Ever since my baby left me/Hey fellas have you heard the news?
9. City girls just seem to find out early
10. My friends know what’s in store
11. His father was a dancer before him
12. We see what comes to pass/You can bury us in your earth, or place us behind glass
13. I wear the same shoes as anyone
14. Just coz I ain’t never ’ad no nothin’ worth havin’ - no, never
15. Let me bring you love from the field
16. Won’t you fetch another white girl to play with in the sand
17. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
18. My daddy left home when I was three
19. See how the child reaches out instinctively
20. Well my heart knows me better than I know myself
21. Radha-ramanahari
22. The devil he taught me to roll
23. And she feeds you tea and oranges
24. People I was sittin this morning with this on my mind/Said there ain’t no livin man who gone around the world three time
25. Well I’m waiting for something to take place/Something to take me away from this race
26. Oh I’m still missing my other half/Ah it must be something I did in the past
27. Big wheels keep on turnin’/Carry me home to my kin
28. Naughty boys in nasty schools/Headmasters breaking all the rules
29. Zephyr in the sky at night I wonder
30. Well I woke up today/And the world was a restless place
31. Betty came by on her way/Said she had a word to say
32. Unfolding enveloping missiles of soul/Recall senses sadly
33. It was slow day/And the sun was beating on the soldiers by the side of the road
34. Is happiness real?/Or am I so jaded?
35. Emily tries but misunderstands
36. Oh GI Joe put your gun away
37. If I worked my hands in wood/would you still love me?
38. Ten years living in a paper bag
39. Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together
40. Said to the man at the railroad station/“I want a ticket, just for one”
41. Young teacher, the subject, of schoolgirl fantasy
42. I’d like to help you doctor yes I really really would
43. O where are you now/pussy willow that smiled on this leaf?
44. I begged her not to go and I begged her on my bended knee
45. Baby here I am/I’m the man on the scene
46. The killer awoke before dawn/He put his boots on
47. I’m the trouble starter/Fucking instigator
48. I see a red door and I want it painted black
49. Shiny shiny shiny boots of leather
50. Then something struck me as if it came from up above
51. I was born long ago/I am the chosen, I am the one
52. Two weeks in a Virginia jail
53. Every day I have to look to the sun/To see where it was that I have come from
Answers on Monday!
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9 is "Lying Eyes" by The Eagles.
37 may be "If I Were a Carpenter", but my failing memory can't bring the singer's name to mind.
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37 is 'If I Were A Carpenter'. We discussed the relative merits of Joan Baez and Robert Plant, although it was the second we were liestning to.
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I've got a version by the Four Tops. It's rather good.