Songs from a Traveler
Since I have to get up at 3:30 a.m. Saturday, and as you read this I'm (hopefully) on a plane but possibly sitting around an airport waiting on it, there won't be any real posting today. Play with this repeat of the song meme if you like. mp3 player on random, first line of the first 25 songs. You're supposed to guess the song and the artist, which is sometimes very hard - which makes up for the gimme titles, I suppose.
(struck through if guessed correctly; italics if song right)
Added a second line to the unguessed ones...
1
2 Endlessly blue above me, Endlessly blue beneath, The buoyancy of belief
3 I'm not gonna talk about doubts and confusion on a night when I can see with my eyes shut (ummm, this is repeated a lot so I'm skipping to) I’d never been to Ayrshire, I hitched down one Saturday, Sixty miles to Kilmarnock To see Hibernian play
4 Rowers gliding along the river, Canadian geese crap along the bank, The back wheel of my bike begins to quiver - The chain is wrapped around the crank
5
6 As I leave my single life behind Thoughts are kind of spinning in my mind - First I think about you, then I think about me loving you
7 Well I was born up north of Great Slave, 1898, And I rode near all my life on a ranch near Devil's Gate
8 Come on, baby, let's get out of this town, I've got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down. There's a chill in my bones, I don't want to be alone
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10
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12 Some say you've got to lose to win, Any moment now our luck will stumble in And claim us at the Lost and Found, And help us all get our feet back on the ground
13 Make a hole with a gun perpendicular To the name of this town on a desktop globe Exit wound in a foreign nation Showing the home of the one this was written for
14 Last night I waved goodbye, now it seems years; I'm back in the city, where nothing is clear But thoughts of me holding you bringing us near
15
16 I can see there ain't no room for me You're only holding out your heart in sympathy: If there's another man, Well girl, I understand, Go on and take his hand
17 There comes a time when all of us must leave here, There's nothing Sister Mary can do To keep me here with you
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19 Won't need no shadow man runnin' the government, Won't need no stinkin' war, Won't need no haircut, won't need no shoe shine
20 On the day that I went away Goodbye was all I had to say, Now I, I want to come again and stay, Oh my my, Smile and that will mean I may
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23 There's a young man that I know, Just turned 21, Comes from down in southern Colorado
24
25 When it's love you give (I'll be a man of good faith) then in love you live. (I'll make a stand. I won't break) I'll be the rock you can build on, Be there when you’re old, to have and to hold
Labels: meme, miscellaneous
6 Comments:
Well I'll shoot the big fat sitting ducks (barring any tricky covers) -
9. Birdhouse in your soul -- TMBG
10: Love Hurts -- Nazareth
11: V'là l'bon vent, v'là l'joli vent -- by any Canadian?
18: I won't back down -- Tom Petty
21: Here comes the sun -- The Beatles
24: Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk -- Rufus Wainwright
(walking to the steam-powered radio uphill, both ways, in the snow ...)
5: Neil Young, "Helpless"
22: George Harrison (unless it's Ringo), "What is Life?"
Ah, silly wishydig. Had you read Ridger's comment here, you'd know that 10 is probably not Nazareth....
5. ...unless it's the k.d.lang cover, from "Hymns of the 49th Parallel".
My, my. I can't do much with this list at all. 5, 10, 21, and 22 are the only ones I recognize.
Well I thought 8 was Jude Cole's Start the Car, but it wasn't
Which really doesn't add anything to the conversation, but I didn't want to be left out since TMBG was already identified.
Geek alert - 15 is the theme from the Witch Hunter Robin anime, and 1 is from the Annie Lennox song that ends Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy, which I believe was called Into The West.
I'm slightly ashamed that those are the only two left that I know...
So far, all the songs that have been guessed are right, though not all the artists.
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