# 70's Lyrics Quiz \[Game Over\]

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 5, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401 "2010-05-05T13:52:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/41 "2010-05-06T21:53:04Z")

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> [@kunilou](#):
>
> That’s the way it always sounded to me, and this site agrees with me.
> 
> [Linky](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Me-Bobby-McGee-lyrics-Janis-Joplin/DB4A0F6EDA995B334825695900340DC4)
> 
> As for your :eek:, you’d have to talk to the composer about it. My guess is he wanted a two-syllable word.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not doubting it, I just can’t believe I’ve never noticed that particular word. Kind of seems like something that should jump out at you.

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**Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/42 "2010-05-06T21:54:51Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
>
> Harpoon
> 
> is a slang term for
> 
> a harmonica

Certainly makes more sense than the conventional meaning.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/43 "2010-05-07T04:18:40Z")

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1. sound
2. razor
3. firelight
4. FBI
5. melody
6. Spain
7. cruel
8. supernatural
9. 29
10. dancer
11. jester
12. Dolores
13. confidence
14. lovin’ (WAG)
15. Yasgur
16. Sadie (WAG)
17. crystal
18. Richard Pryor
19. hesitate
20. comfort
21. shadow
22. corridor
23. guitar
24. silicone
25. runner
26. deserters
27. colitas
28. paradise
29. illusion
30. stash
31. fandango
32. jokers
33. devil
34. summit
35. tango
36. suicide
37. distant
38. security
39. insane
40. halo
41. pasture
42. silhouette
43. Redwood
44. skin
45. Mayfair
46. sing
47. Judgement (WAG)
48. song (WAG)
49. obstacle
50. curtain

My guess is I got at least five and maybe 8 wrong – I made five WAGs and there are three or four others that seem right but might be wrong. Q21 has two words that could fit in that spot except for the following verse, and I’m not sure which word goes with that verse. Anyone who doesn’t know the answer to 27 should turn in their Doper papers immediately. OK, I’m ready to look at answers now.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/44 "2010-05-07T04:45:55Z")

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Most of the ones I stumbled on were difficult for others as well although I feel a bit dumb on 7, 10 and 50. (I guess I never figured out what they were saying on 37.) There seems to be no consensus so far on #25–everyone’s got a different guess-- and only 2 people agree on 44, but I believe those two are correct. After looking at the other answers I’ll adjust and say I got 11 wrong.  
Great thread! I might want to make up my own questions sometime.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/45 "2010-05-07T11:39:25Z")

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Some of these will be bothering me for days now.

[spoiler]

1. sounds
2. 
3. moonbeam
4. melody
5. Spain
6. cold
7. supernatural
8. seven
9. showgirl
10. jester
11. 
12. confidence
13. 
14. Yasgar’s
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. message
20. face
21. 
22. 
23. sinister
24. 
25. 
26. colitas
27. paradise
28. illusion
29. dash
30. fandango
31. jokers
32. devil
33. 
34. disco
35. 
36. 
37. mine
38. sweet
39. 
40. 
41. 
42. Harlem
43. 
44. 
45. sing
46. 
47. 

49.obstacles  
50. [/SPOILER]

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/46 "2010-05-07T12:02:37Z")

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> [@palindromemordnilap](#):
>
> and only 2 people agree on 44, but I believe those two are correct.

Funny, I count 5 people including myself. And yes, we’re right on that one.

Incidentally

The subject of that song was the same inspiration for the stage musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/47 "2010-05-07T13:34:30Z")

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> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#):
>
> No it doesn’t.
> 
> There is a distinct difference between which verb the subject in question is doing around the singer’s door at any given chorus. The verb corresponds consistently with the noun that the singer doesn’t want to see, IIRC.
> 
> So as worded, there is only one answer. The hard part is remembering which is which.

:smack:I stand corrected. I was going from memory and forgot the hanging/knocking difference.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/48 "2010-05-07T17:32:29Z")

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> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#):
>
> Funny, I count 5 people including myself. And yes, we’re right on that one.

My laziness – I reviewed everything quickly, and didn’t take the time to look at the ones that used individual spoilers for each question.

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/49 "2010-05-07T18:48:05Z")

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Surprised no one has gotten this one. Though I can’t say I checked really closely.

1. I will remember you  
Your

silhouette

will charge the view  
Of distance atmosphere  
Call it morning driving thru the sound and  
Even in the valley

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**Post date:** [May 7, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/50 "2010-05-07T18:58:04Z")

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> [@5\_time\_champ](#):
>
> Surprised no one has gotten this one. Though I can’t say I checked really closely.
> 
> 1. I will remember you  
> Your
> 
> silhouette
> 
> will charge the view  
> Of distance atmosphere  
> Call it morning driving thru the sound and  
> Even in the valley

[ahem…cough…nudge]

Refer to post #32.

MMM

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/51 "2010-05-09T02:56:53Z")

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Ones I know (or at least think I know) are in CAPS. Guesses are in regular case.

[spoiler]1. rain  
2. RAZOR  
3. trees  
4. fbi  
5. MELODY  
6. Venice  
7. cruel  
8. great  
9. TWENTY-NINE  
10. SHOWGIRL

1. JESTER

2. DOLORES

3. confidence

4. help

5. JUNIOR

6. KATIE

7. colorful

8. Jerry Reed

9. delay

10. love

11. face

12. tracks

13. HARPOON

14. sing-song

15. rounder

16. outlaws

17. COLITAS

18. PARADISE

19. illusion

20. dash

21. FANDANGO

22. fools

23. devil

24. fantasy

25. tango

26. SUICIDE

27. VELVET

28. anything

29. lovely

30. chassis

31. PASTURE

32. face

33. Rome

34. bucks

35. Soho

36. sing

37. reckoning

38. song

39. OBSTACLES

40. mirror[/spoiler]

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/52 "2010-05-09T12:36:13Z")

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> [@5\_time\_champ](#):
>
> Surprised no one has gotten this one. Though I can’t say I checked really closely.
> 
> 1. I will remember you  
> Your
> 
> silhouette
> 
> will charge the view  
> Of distance atmosphere  
> Call it morning driving thru the sound and  
> Even in the valley

> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
>
> [ahem…cough…nudge]
> 
> Refer to post #32.
> 
> MMM

Bah refer to post #15!🙂

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**Post date:** [May 9, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/53 "2010-05-09T15:05:40Z")

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> [@Sparky812](#):
>
> Bah refer to post #15!🙂

indeed!

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**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/54 "2010-05-10T18:42:10Z")

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Bump!

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**Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/55 "2010-05-11T02:43:06Z")

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I can’t believe he gave us until **next** Sunday. **This** Sunday would have been soon enough.

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**Post date:** [May 12, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/70s-lyrics-quiz-game-over/538401/56 "2010-05-12T11:59:29Z")

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Who is this “he” you are speaking of? 😉  
\*\*\*I \*\*\*gave you until next Sunday because of the time I need to score the thing.

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Adding to **casdave** ’s list ('cause I am that kind of geek)

1. America - Horse with no name  
2.Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown  
3.John Denver. Rocky Mountain High  
4.The Hollies - Long, Cool Woman  
5.Billy Joel - Piano Man  
6.Elton John - Daniel  
7.Carole King (James Taylor wrote it) You got a friend.  
8. Top loader - Dancin’ in the moonlight (original but the better known version was by King Harvest)  
9. Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald  
10.Barry Manilow - Copa Cobana  
11.Don Maclean - American Pie.  
12. Paul Simon - Slip Slidin’ Away  
13.Simon & Garfunkle - Cecilia  
14.Derek and the Dominos - Layla  
15. Joni Mitchell (Matthews Southern Comfort, CSNY) - Woodstock  
16.Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show - Cover of the Rolling Stone  
17. Fleetwood Mac - Dream  
18.Jacson Browne - the Load Out  
19. Free - All right now  
20.Golden Earring - Radar Love  
21.The Guess Who - American woman  
22.Jethro Tull - Aqualung  
23.Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee  
24.Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (originally by Bruce Springsteen) - Blinded by the light  
25.Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love Song  
26.Bad Company - Bad Company (from the album Bad Company)  
27. Eagles - Hotel California  
28. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow taxi  
29.Moody Blues - Late Lament  
30.Pink Floyd - Money  
31.Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody  
32.Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle  
33.Santana - Black magic woman (written by Peter Green, performed by Fleetwood Mac)  
34.Bob Seger - Night Moves  
35.Bob Seger - Old Time Rock and Roll  
36.Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run  
37. Crosby Stills Nash (and sometimes Young) - Love the one you’re with  
38.Styx - Blue Collar Man  
39.Three Dog Night - Never Been To Spain  
40.T.Rex - Get it on (bang a gong)  
41.Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain way  
42.Yes - Roundabout  
43. Neil Young - Heart of gold  
44.ZZ Top - LaGrange  
45. Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London  
\<46.Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite\> (from the Giraffe board game)  
46\<a\>. Led Zeppelin - Black Dog  
47.Black Sabbath - War Pigs  
48.Dobie Gray - Drift Away  
49.Johnny Nash - I can see clearly now  
50. Stevie Wonder - Superstition

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…sorry…

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No worries! Just messin’ with ya…

I should get the scores up today.

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Way to go **Sparky**!!!

1. Sparky812 48/50
2. koeeoaddi 46/50
3. Sigmagirl 43/50
4. swambear 41/50
5. Mean Mr. Mustard 40/50
6. kenobi 38/50
7. 42fish 38/50
8. palindromemordnilap 38/50
9. Suburban Plankton 37/50
10. Simmerdown 35/50
11. Leaffan 33/50
12. Spoons 32/50
13. pravnik 31/50
14. wheresgeorge04 30/50
15. Hoopy Frood 28/50
16. needscoffee 26/50
17. RTFirefly 26/50
18. Ellen Cherry 25/50
19. Rilchiam 24/50
20. kinilou 24/50
21. Thudlow Boink 22/50
22. Sternvogel 19/50
23. Blue Mood 16/50

\*\*Some of you answered lyrics that were from a different verse. They were counted as incorrect. \*\*

1. The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz  
And the sky with no clouds  
The heat was hot and the ground was dry  
But the air was full of SOUND

2. He got a custom Continental  
He got an Eldorado too  
He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun  
He got a RAZOR in his shoe

3. But the Colorado rocky mountain high  
I’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the sky  
The shadow from the STARLIGHT is softer than a lullabye  
Rocky mountain high

4. Saturday night I was downtown  
Working for the FBI  
Sitting in a nest of bad men  
Whiskey bottles piling high

5. Sing us a song, you’re the piano man  
sing us a song tonight  
Well, we’re all in the mood for a MELODY  
And you’ve got us feelin’ alright

6. They say SPAIN is pretty though I’ve never been  
Well Daniel says it’s the best place that he’s ever seen  
Oh and he should know, he’s been there enough  
Lord I miss Daniel, oh I miss him so much

7. Hey, ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend?  
People can be so COLD.  
They’ll hurt you and desert you.  
Well they’ll take your soul if you let them.  
Oh yeah, but don’t you let them.

8. We get it almost every night  
When that ol’ moon gets-a big and bright  
It’s a SUPERNATURAL delight  
Everybody’s dancin’ in the moonlight

9. In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,  
In the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral.  
The church bell chimed till it rang 29 times  
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.  
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down  
Of the big lake they call ‘Gitche Gumee’.  
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead  
When the gales of November come early!

10. Her name was Lola, she was a SHOWGIRL  
With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there  
She would merengue and do the cha-cha  
And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar  
Across a crowded floor, they worked from 8 till 4  
They were young and they had each other  
Who could ask for more?

11. Now, for ten years we’ve been on our own  
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone  
But, that’s not how it used to be  
When the JESTER sang for the king and queen  
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean  
And a voice that came from you and me

12. I know a man  
He came from my home town  
He wore his passion for his woman  
Like a thorny crown  
He said DOLORES  
I live in fear  
My love for you’s so overpowering  
I’m afraid that I will disappear

13. Celia, you’re breaking my heart  
You’re shaking my CONFIDENCE daily  
Oh, Cecilia, I’m down on my knees  
I’m begging you please to come home  
Come on home

14. 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

15. Well I am going down to YASGUR’s farm  
Going to join in a rock and roll band  
Goin’ to get back to the land to set my soul free

16. I got a freaky ole lady name a cocaine KATIE  
Who embroideries on my jeans  
I got my poor ole grey haired daddy  
Driving my limousine

17. Now here I go again, I see the CRYSTAL visions  
I keep my visions to myself  
It’s only me  
Who wants to wrap around your dreams and…  
Have you any dreams you’d like to sell?

18. We’ve got rural scenes & magazines  
We’ve got truckers on the CB  
We’ve got RICHARD PRYOR on the video  
We got time to think of the ones we love  
While the miles roll away  
But the only time that seems too short  
Is the time that we get to play

19. I said “Hey, what’s your name, baby?”  
maybe we can see things the same  
Now don’t you wait or HESITATE  
Let’s move before they raise the parking rate

20. When I get lonely and I’m sure I’ve had enough  
She sends her COMFORT comin’ in from above  
We don’t need no letter at all  
We’ve got a thing that’s called Radar Love

21. American Woman, get away from me  
American Woman, mama let me be  
Don’t come a knockin’ around my door  
Don’t wanna see your SHADOW no more  
Coloured lights can hypnotize  
Sparkle someone else’s eyes  
Now Woman, I said get away  
American Woman, listen what I say

22. He’s crawling down the CORRIDOR  
On his hands and knees  
Old Charlie stole the handle and  
The train won’t stop going  
No way to slow down

23. I pulled my HARPOON out of my dirty red bandana  
I was playin’ soft while Bobby sang the blues, yeah  
Windshield wipers slappin’ time, I was holdin’ Bobby’s hand in mine  
We sang every song that driver knew

24. Some SILICONE sister with a manager mister told me I got what it takes  
She said “I’ll turn you on sonny to something strong, play the song with the funky break”  
And go-cart Mozart was checkin’ out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside  
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride  
Asked me if I needed a ride

25. I never had a damn thing but what I had I had to leave it behind.  
You’re the hardest thing I ever tried to get off my mind.  
Always something greener on the other side of that hill.  
I was born a WRANGLER and a rambler and I guess I always will

26. Rebel souls  
DESERTERS we are called  
Chose a gun and threw away the sun  
Now these towns  
They all know our name - 6-gun sound is our claim to fame  
I can hear them say  
Bad company

27. On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair  
Warm smell of COLITAS rising up through the air  
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light  
My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim  
I had to stop for the night

28. Late last night  
I heard the screen door slam  
And a big yellow taxi  
Took away my old man  
Don’t it always seem to go  
That you don’t know what you’ve got  
Till it’s gone  
They paved PARADISE  
And put up a parking lot

29. Cold hearted orb  
That rules the night  
Removes the colours  
From our sight  
Red is gray and  
Yellow white  
But we decide  
Which is right  
And which is an ILLUSION

30. Money, get away  
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.  
Money, it’s a gas  
Grab that cash with both hands and make a STASH  
New car, caviar, four star daydream,  
Think I’ll buy me a football team

31. I see a little silhouetto of a man,  
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the FANDANGO  
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright’ning me.  
(Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo, Galileo figaro  
Magnifico. I’m just a poor boy and nobody loves me.

32. Clowns to left of me, JOKERS to the right,  
Here am I stuck in the middle with you.

33. I got a Black Magic Woman.  
I got a Black Magic Woman.  
Yes, I got a Black Magic Woman,  
She’s got me so blind I can’t see;  
But she’s a Black Magic Woman and  
she’s trying to make a DEVIL out of me.

34. We weren’t in love oh no far from it  
We weren’t searching for some pie in the sky SUMMIT  
We were just young and restless and bored  
Living by the sword  
And we’d steal away every chance we could  
To the backroom, the alley, the trusty woods  
I used her she used me  
But neither one cared  
We were getting our share

35. Won’t go to hear them play a TANGO  
I’d rather hear some blues or funky old soul  
There’s only one sure way to get me to go  
Start playing old time rock n’ roll

36. In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream  
At night we ride through mansions of glory in SUICIDE machines  
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,  
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected  
and steppin’ out over the line

37. Well there’s a rose in the FISTED glove  
And eagle flies with the dove  
And if you can’t be with the one you love honey  
Love the one you’re with

38. Give me a job, give me SECURITY  
Give me a chance to survive  
I’m just a poor soul in the unemployment line  
My God I’m hardly alive  
My mother 'n father, my wife and my friends  
You’ve seen them laugh in my face  
But I’ve got the power and I’ve got the will  
I’m not a charity case

39. Well I never been to Spain  
But I kinda like the music  
Say the ladies are INSANE there  
And they sure know how to use it  
They don’t abuse it  
Never gonna lose it  
I can’t refuse it

40. You’re built like a car, you’ve got a hub cap diamond star HALO  
You’re built like a car, oh yeah  
You’re an untamed youth that’s the truth with your cloak full of eagles  
You’re dirty sweet and you’re my girl.

41. Spent the last year  
Rocky Mountain Way  
Couldn’t get much higher  
Out to PASTURE  
Think it’s safe to say  
Time to open fire

42. I will remember you  
Your SILHOUETTE will charge the view  
Of distance atmosphere  
Call it morning driving thru the sound and  
Even in the valley

43. I’ve been to Hollywood, I’ve been to REDWOOD  
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold  
I’ve been in my mind, it’s such a fine line  
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold

44. Well, I hear it’s fine if you got the time  
and the TEN to get yourself in.  
A hmm, hmm.  
And I hear it’s tight most ev’ry night,  
but now I might be mistaken.

45. He’s the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent  
Lately he’s been overheard in MAYFAIR  
Better stay away from him  
He’ll rip your lungs out, Jim  
I’d like to meet his tailor  
Werewolves of London

46. And you say you wanna go for a spin  
The party’s just begun, we’ll let you in  
You drive us WILD we’ll drive you crazy

46a. Hey, hey mama said the way you move,  
Gon’ make you sweat, gon’ make you groove.  
Ah-ahh child way ya shake that thing,  
Gon’ make you burn, gon’ make you STING.  
Hey, hey baby when you walk that way,  
Watch your honey drip, I can’t keep away.

1. Now in darkness world stops turning  
Ashes where the bodies burning  
No more war pigs have the power  
Hand of God has struck the hour  
Day of JUDGEMENT, God is calling

2. And when my mind is free  
You know a MELODY can move me  
And when I’m feelin’ blue  
The guitar’s comin’ through to soothe me

3. I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,  
I can see all OBSTACLES in my way  
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind  
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)  
Sun-Shiny day.

4. Very superstitious, writing’s on the wall  
Very superstitious, LADDER’s bout’ to fall  
Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin’ glass  
Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past

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