# Music Quiz - Name Popular Song Given Brief Lyric **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 4, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697 "2023-03-04T02:25:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/1 "2023-03-04T02:25:06Z")
**Taken from the “Best Single Lines in Rock Music” thread, can you identify the song and group of any of these fairly popular songs (mostly rock or pop) over many decades?** > [@Best single lines in rock lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-lines-in-rock-lyrics/975262): > > Best single lines in rock lyrics. My #1 nominee is from “Year of the Cat” by Al Stewart: She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain Just pure loveliness. I’m also partial to “Echoes” by Pink Floyd: And through the window in the wall come streaming in on sunlight wings a million bright ambassadors of morning My personal favorite single line in rock has to be from “The Great Curve” by Talking Heads: The world moves on a woman’s hips A world of light… she’s… 1. Have you come here to play Jesus To the lepers in you head? 2. If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? 3. Elvis was a hero to most 4. You don’t need to be a Weather Man To know which way the wind blows 5. The only girl I’ve ever loved Was born with roses in her eyes 6. And every handout in every town And every lock that ain’t locked When no one’s around 7. I played the pump and took the hump And watered whiskey down 8. I was once like you are now/ and I know that it’s not easy/ To be calm when you’ve found/ Something going on 9. Did they get you to trade/ Your heroes for ghosts? 10. His Majesty signed/ With his own rubber stamp 11. Take a sad song and make it better 12. Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies 13. We sick and tired of your ism-schism game Dyin’ an’ goin’ to Heaven in a Jesus name 14. We used to mix Hen with Bacardi Dark And when it kicks in you can hardly talk 15. Adolph builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it 16. To love another person is to see the face of God 17. Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 18. But you don’t really care for music, do ya? 19. Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard 20. Fat Charlie the Archangel sloped into the room 21. It was the myth of fingerprints, that’s what that old army base was for 22. Emancipate yourself from mental slavery 23. It smelled like turpentine it looked like India ink 24. Don’t know about you, but I am une Chien Andalusia 25. Little did I know that you were Romeo you were throwing pebbles 26. Desmond takes a trolley to the jeweller’s store 27. No you can’t go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone 28. There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in 29. And leaning on your window sill He’ll say one day you caused his will To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter 30. Daylight come an’ I wanna go home 31. I’ve been to Hollywood, I’ve been to Redwood I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold 32. Some folks inherit star-spangled eyes 33. Or in the parking lot, circling, screaming, “I don’t give a fuck!”/ With his windows down and his system up 34. And found my cleanest dirty shirt 35, To die by your side us such a heavenly way to die 1. Standin’ in the sunlight laughing’ hiding’ behind a rainbow wall 2. The buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees 3. And the wise men don’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick 4. Does anybody really know what time it is? 5. Don’t go changing to try to please me 6. And I wondered how the same moon outside this chinatown fair; could look down on Illinois and find you there 7. Just a stranger on the bus ,trying to make his way home. 8. I dreamed I saw Ray Charles last night and he could see just fine 9. Take another shot of courage, wonder why the right words never come 10. A band is blowing Dixie double-four time, you feel alright when you hear that music ring 11. I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song, I just can’t remember who to send it to 12. Orangutans are skeptical of changes in their cages, and the Zookeeper is very fond of rum 13. She said it’s really not my habit to intrude, furthermore I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued 14. But she wants to be sure, ‘cause you know sometimes words have two meanings 15. And you wanna grow up to be just like them: Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers Pickpockets, peddlers and even panhandlers 16. I’ve been stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out 17. How I would push my fingers through your mouth to make those muscles move that made your voice so smooth and sweet 18. You know that I have from the start, so build me up, Buttercup 19. Wherever he laid his hat, was his home 20. Don’t criticize what you can’t understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command 21. Never badder than bad 'cause the brother is madder than mad at the fact that’s corrupt like a senator 22. It’s a monumental big screen kiss, it’s so deep it’s meaningless 23. I may be mad, I may be blind, I may be viciously unkind, but I can still read what you’re thinking 24. Then they send me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, oh responsible, practical 25. Work very hard, but I’m lazy, I’ve got a lot of songs but they’re all in my head / I’ll get a guitar and a lover who pays me 26. When he knew for certain only dying men could see him he said all men would be sailors then 27. My thoughts are many miles away, they lie with you when you’re asleep, and kiss you when you start your day 28. I drank forty cups of coffee just waiting for you to get home 29. And you won’t make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night, we weren’t lovers like that and besides, it would still be alright 30. I walk through her hills 'cause she knows who I am, she sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy 31. I’ve just seen a face I can’t forget the time or place 32. And it’s hard to hold a candle In the cold November rain 33. And Superman unrolls a suit before he lifts But I’m not the kind of person that it fits 34. Hush my darling, don’t fear my darling, the lion sleeps tonight 35. Moon lights up the night, I light up when you call my name 36. Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules, then came the trains and the trucks with their loads 37. Sippin’ on gin and juice (laid back), with my mind on my money and my money on my mind) 38. You can’t start a fire without a spark 39. When the drinks finally hit her, she said, "I’m no quitter” but I finally quit living on dreams 40. I’m not big on social graces, think I’ll slip on down to the oasis 41. And I loved you when our love was blessed, and I love you now there’s nothing left but sorrow and a sense of overtime 42. He will speak these words of wisdom like a sage, a man of vision though he knows he’s really nothing but the brief elaboration of a tune 43. Everybody talkin’ to their pockets, everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stem rose 44. Well, the mouse ate the crumb then the cat ate the crust, now they’ve fallen in love and they’re talking in tongues 45. and she gave you tea and oranges that came all the way from China 46. Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa, or is this your way to hide a broken heart? 47. Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waiting for the train, and was feeling as nearly faded as my jeans 48. And feeling good was good enough for me 49. All the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone , they were waiting for me when I thought that I just can’t go on 50. You can say that I’ve grown bitter but of this you may be sure, the rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor 51. Hank Williams hasn’t answered yet , but I hear him coughing all night long 52. Hear that lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue to fly 53. That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away then sinply pretend that you can build them again 54. Let me hold you tight like rain and sunshine on a rainy day; let me hold you tight and arms, tight and arms you lost your chance, come so close that I might see the crash of light come down on me 55. Telling my whole life with his words, killing me softly with his song 56. Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white 57. She parks her car outside of my house and takes her clothes off, says she’s close to understanding Jesus 58. Love is a temple, love the higher law, you ask me to enter but then you make me crawl, and I can’t be holding on 59. We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when… 60. I can be handy mending a fuse when the lights have gone 61. Will you read my book, it took me years to write - will you take a look? 62. When you say she’s looking good she acts as if it’s understood 63. Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall 64. Another day breaks and the last one’s gone, you dig deep just to carry on 65. Dark eyes and careless hair, you were fashionably sensitive but too cool to care 66. So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways 67. Do you listen to music or do you just skim through it? (Some tougher Canadian songs) 1. The girls are out to bingo and the boys are getting stinko and we’ll think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night 2. The legend lives on from the Chippewa down of the big lake that they call Gitchi Gumee 3. And that’s awful close but that’s not why I’m so hard done by 4. I’ve had to give way and dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers, their manners are fine, but their feet are of clay for there’s none with the style of my log driver 5. You with the jaundiced eyes, drunk on your own reflection propped up with desks and flags 6. You’ll have to excuse me I’m not at my best, I’ve been gone for a month, I’ve been drunk since I left ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/2 "2023-03-04T02:31:54Z")
Some songs may have been covered by several people. Posting video links to songs is encouraged but optional. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/3 "2023-03-04T08:00:05Z")
Tough ones - I’m clueless on most of them. -1. One - U2 -4. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan -11. Hey Jude - The Beatles -12. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - The Beatles -15. Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel -19. You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon -26. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - The Beatles -30. Day-O - Harry Belafonte -31. Heart of Gold - Neil Young -32. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival -36. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison -38. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull -39. (That’s the title) - Chicago Transit Authority -40. Just The Way You Are- Billy Joel -42. One of Us - Joan Osborne -45. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits -48. Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon -49. Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin -51. Big Time - Peter Gabriel -54. Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations -55. The Times They Are A’ Changing - Bob Dylan -59. The Logical Song - Supertramp -73. Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen -74. Lucille- Kenny Rogers -82 & 83. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin -90. Killing Me Softly - Robert Flack (or the Fugees) -93. One - U2 -94. We’ll Meet Again - Vera Lynn -95. When I’m Sixty-Four - The Beatles -96. Paperback Writer - The Beatles -98. A Day In The Life - The Beatles -104. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot I probably got some of these wrong, either title or act. ETA: Spoilered for other contestants ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/4 "2023-03-04T08:14:20Z")
A few that @SunUp didn’t get; 2 Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 9 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 10 When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd 18 Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen 25 Love Story - Taylor Swift 27 Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants 44 Tequila Sunrise - The Eagles 46 Fire and Rain - James Taylor 53 Build Me Up, Buttercup - The Foundations 66 I’ve Just Seen a Face - The Beatles 67 November Rain - Guns & Roses 68 Something Just Like This - Coldplay w/ the Chainsmokers 69 The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Pete Seeger 91 & 92 Round Here - Counting Crows 101 Your Woman - White Town ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/5 "2023-03-04T08:15:36Z")
1. One - U2 2. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 3. Fight the Power - Public Enemy 4. Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 10. When the Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd 11. Hey Jude - Beatles 12. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Beatles 13. 14. 15. Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel 16. 17. 18. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen 19. You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon 20. 21. The Myth of Fingerprints - Paul Simon 22. 23. Love Potion #9 - The Searchers 24. Debaser - The Pixies 25. 26. Obladi Oblada - Beatles 27. Istanbul - They Might Be Giants 28. 29. 30. Day-O (The Banana Song) - Harry Belafonte 31. Heart of Gold - Neil Young 32. Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival 33. 34. 35. 36. Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison 37. 38. Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull 39. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? - Chicago 40. Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel 41. 42. One of Us - Joan Osborne 43. 44. Tequila Sunrise - Eagles 45. Sultans 0f Swing - Dire Straits 46. Fire and Rain - James Taylor 47. At the Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel 48. 50 Ways to Leave Your Love - Paul Simon 49. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin 50. 51. Big Time - Peter Gabriel 52. 53. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations 54. Papa Was a Rolling Stone - The Temptations 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. The Illogical Song - Supertramp 60. 61. Suzanne - Leonard Cohen 62. 63. 64. 65. Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers 66. I’ve Just Seen a Face - Beatles 67. November Rain - Guns 'n Roses 68. 69. The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens 70. 71. Telegraph Road - Dire Straits 72. Gin & Juice - Snoop Dogg 73. Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen 74. Lucille - Kenny Rogers 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (2) 81. 82. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin 83. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin (2) 84. 85. 86. Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen 87. 88. 89. 90. Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack 91. Round Here - Counting Crows 92. She Talks to Angels - Black Crows 93. 94. We’ll Meet Again - Vera Lynn 95. When I’m 64 - Beatles 96. Paperback Writer - Beatles 97. Girl - Beatles 98. A Day In the Life - Beatles 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot 105. 106. 107. 108. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/6 "2023-03-04T11:09:23Z")
(All of the answers so far are right, very occasionally I was thinking of other versions.) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/7 "2023-03-04T11:35:01Z")
Here are a few more previously unanswered: 1. King of the Road – Roger Miller 2. Father & Son – Cat Stevens 3. Crazy Love, Vol. 2 – Paul Simon 4. Anthem – Leonard Cohen 5. Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash 6. Friends in Low Places – Garth Brooks 7. Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen 8. Tower of Song – Leonard Cohen 9. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Hank Williams mmm ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/8 "2023-03-04T12:06:57Z")
In the name of keeping the game going, I’ll submit some more lyric snippets from hit jams that come to mind; 1. This door won’t be open 'til your brothers or your sisters come 2. The birds like tender babies in your hands, and the old men playing checkers by the trees 3. I swear I saw a young boy down in the gutter, he was starting to foam in the heat 4. The idea you had of me, who was she? A never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you 5. The embers never fade in your city by the lake 6. Men weren’t meant to fly with clouds between their knees 7. I get along with old-timers 'cause my name’s a reminder of a pop song people forgot 8. There behind a glass stands a real blade of grass 9. On the sign it said “No Trespassing”, but on the other side it didn’t say nothing 10. You must try some of my purple berries, I’ve been eating them for six or seven weeks now, haven’t got sick once 11. Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive 12. The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway ---
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I knew 37 out of 108. Slightly better than 1 out of 3. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/10 "2023-03-04T16:38:05Z")
1. There behind a glass stands a real blade of grass - ELP; Karn evil 9 2. On the sign it said “No Trespassing”, but on the other side it didn’t say nothing - Arlo Guthrie; This land is your land ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/11 "2023-03-04T18:12:09Z")
1. Closing Time - Semisonic? 2. Wooden Ships - Jefferson Airplane/CSNY ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/12 "2023-03-04T18:15:27Z")
1. MacArthur Park - Richard Harris/Donna Summer ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/13 "2023-03-05T16:13:27Z")
(Fresh lyrics, part 3) 1. She was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene 2. He said, “Call the doctor, I think I’m gonna crash” 3. That’s the way I wanted to stay, I always wanted to be that way– 4. Father gets up late for work, mother has to iron his shirt 5. From my heart and from my hand, why don’t people understand my intentions? 6. (Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you’re beautiful!) 7. I heard you on my wireless back in '52 8. Strangers waitin’, up and down the boulevard 9. Down at the Golden Cup, they set the young ones up 10. New car, caviar, four-star daydream 11. Well, I hear it’s fine, if you got the time and the ten to get yourself in 12. They burned down the gambling house, it died with an awful sound 13. Did you forget about me, Mr. Duplicity? 14. And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus 15. And papa would’a shot him if he knew what he’d done 16. Girl, you got me thirsty for another cup of wine 17. Exit light, enter night, take my hand, we’re off to never-never land 18. The boss said, “No dice, son, you gotta work late” 19. And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus 20. The head nurse spoke up, she said, “Leave this one alone” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/14 "2023-03-05T22:21:06Z")
-122. Life In the Fast Lane - The Eagles -124. Our House - Madness -125. Weird Science - Oingo Boingo -126. She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby -134. Ramblin’ Man - The Allman Brothers -137. Enter Sandman - Metallica -138. Summertime Blues - The Who (and a lot more) -139. Levon - Elton John -140. Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood and the Destroyers I should have gotten a bunch more of these, but missed either the title or the group. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/15 "2023-03-05T23:08:04Z")
I only knew two of Smapti’s and only six of Knoodler’s. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/16 "2023-03-07T02:02:26Z")
I will post these a few at a time. (answers 1-20) 1. Have you come here to play Jesus To the lepers in you head? _One, U2_ 1. If I just lay here Would you lie with me and just forget the world? _Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol_ 1. Elvis was a hero to most _Fight Tha’ Power, Public Enemy_ 1. You don’t need to be a Weather Man To know which way the wind blows _Subterranean Homesick Blues, Bob Dylan. Note the “Weather Men” were a 1960s countercultural group._ 1. The only girl I’ve ever loved Was born with roses in her eyes _Holland 1945, Neutral Milk Hotel_ 1. And every handout in every town And every lock that ain’t locked When no one’s around _King of the Road, Roger Miller and others, not really rock music?_ 1. I played the pump and took the hump And watered whiskey down _Sally Maclennane, The Pogues_ 1. I was once like you are now/ and I know that it’s not easy/ To be calm when you’ve found/ Something going on _Father and Son, Cat Stevens and others_ 1. Did they get you to trade/ Your heroes for ghosts? _Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd_ 1. His Majesty signed/ With his own rubber stamp _When The Tigers Broke Free, Pink Floyd_ 1. Take a sad song and make it better _Hey Jude, The Beatles_ 1. Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies _Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, The Beatles_ 1. We sick and tired of your ism-schism game Dyin’ an’ goin’ to Heaven in a Jesus name _Stand Up For Your Right, Bob Marley, reggae is not really rock music_ 1. We used to mix Hen with Bacardi Dark And when it kicks in you can hardly talk _Drug Ballad, Eminem_ 1. Adolph builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it _Games Without Frontiers, Peter Gabriel_ 1. To love another person is to see the face of God _Les Miserables, Beggars At The Feast/Finale_ 1. Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin _Dance Me To The End of Love, Leonard Cohen_ 1. But you don’t really care for music, do ya? _Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen and others, not all versions!_ 1. Why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard _Call Me Al, Paul Simon_ 1. Fat Charlie the Archangel sloped into the room _Crazy Love Vol.2, Paul Simon_ ---
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113 is special to me, so an easy one: Tonight, Tonight - (The) Smashing Pumpkins 133: You Oughta Know - Alaina Morisette ---
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knoodler 135: Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves - Cher ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-quiz-name-popular-song-given-brief-lyric/980697/19 "2023-03-09T15:42:57Z")
- actually - I’m going to take this offline and work on it. I’m supposed to be working!