Lyrics quiz

Here you go. 30 songs for you to try abnd guess. A couple are covers so bonus points if you get the right artist as well (unless you just list all of ’em, cos that’s cheating).

Answers at the end of the week.

1) Maybe it’s the Third World
Maybe it’s his first time around

2) Only someone with the mind of a child says he’ll grow up
The seven and the avalanche you’re life will show up

3) Who give you work an’ why should you do it?
At fifty five minutes past eleven

4) But feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm,

5) Well this is my CV and I’ve got no one else to blame
So I will state, state my case, I will state it again

6) While the 666 got more tricks
Than the PD’s got bricks

7) And swore he’d be mine
When he came back last trip from the deep salty brine

8) Dis is from early infancy
Da talent give to me by God

9) Don’t You Judge Of My Composure
‘Cause I’m Lying To Myself

10) It doesn’t matter if you’re a grandma or a seven year old girl
They’ll treat you like the evil hard-bitten criminal scum you are

11) And youve been so busy lately
That you havent found the time

12) In the field your long hair flows
Down by the tail end of the tracks

13) I loved to hear the music, I was only five,
I listened as his fingers made the banjo come alive.

14) told the judge right to his face
We didn’t like to see this place

15) Someday the mountain might get ’em
But the law never will

16) Well life is for love
And they say that love is blind

17) A series of images against you and me
Trespass your torment if you are what you want to be

18) And she may cry but her tears will dry
When I hand her the keys to a shiny new Australia

19) It seems to be my fancy to make it with
Franky and Sue Ann

20) to keep their little heads from fallin’ in the snow
And I turned ’round and there you go

21) Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain’t comin’ back

22) There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke but uh

23) The nightmare that she should fear
Is the father you left alone.

24) So the room must listen to me
Filibuster vigilantly

25) Despite his great big muscles
And his really big ray gun

26) Who said it was over?
It’s as good as it gets

27) With eyes bigger than our bellies
We want to but we can`t look away

28) Poked a hole right into myself
And inside I found someone

29) Your every wish
Your every dream, hope, desire

30) And admit that the waters
Around you have grown

Will


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i started singing 1. before i even realized i was doing so. “you can call me al” by paul simon other than that, i recognize nothing. sad!

i started singing 1. before i even realized i was doing so. “you can call me al” by paul simon other than that, i recognize nothing. sad!

i started singing 1. before i even realized i was doing so. “you can call me al” by paul simon other than that, i recognize nothing. sad!

4. Me & Bobbie McGee 15. Dukes of Hazard Theme – Waylon Jennings That’s all I can manage without resorting to cheating. 🙂

4. Me & Bobbie McGee 15. Dukes of Hazard Theme – Waylon Jennings That’s all I can manage without resorting to cheating. 🙂

4. Me & Bobbie McGee 15. Dukes of Hazard Theme – Waylon Jennings That’s all I can manage without resorting to cheating. 🙂