# Musical Questions

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 29, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587 "2013-10-29T20:13:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/141 "2013-11-18T14:15:22Z")

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1. I’m a peaceful man

> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> And a new set:
> 
> 1. What did Johnny used to carry his guitar in?
> 2. What do you do when you chicken at the hop?
> 3. Where did you catch arthritis?
> 4. In the morning what were the parking tickets like?
> 5. What did Rose and Valerie scream?
> 6. What do some folks inherit?
> 7. What made up his bed?
> 8. And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
> 9. Swimming through sick lullabies, what am I choking on?
> 10. What did the A&R man say?

1. A gunney sack
2. Chalypso
3. At a rythm review
4. Just like flags stuck on my windscreen
5. Maxwell must go free
6. White lace and feathers they made up his bed
7. alibis
8. I don’t hear a single.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/142 "2013-11-18T14:23:27Z")

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> [@Sparky812](#):
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> 1. I’m a peaceful man
> 
> 2. A gunney sack
> 
> 3. Chalypso
> 
> 4. At a rythm review
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> 5. Just like flags stuck on my windscreen
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> 6. Maxwell must go free
> 
> 7. White lace and feathers they made up his bed
> 
> 8. alibis
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> 9. I don’t hear a single.

Okay, these were too easy. Good job.

That just leaves:  
71. Where does my man hang out? Looking for a street name and a landmark.

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/143 "2013-11-18T14:28:07Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Okay, these were too easy. Good job.
> 
> That just leaves:  
> 71. Where does my man hang out? Looking for a street name and a landmark.

Ha! My first thought here was , “hey, I know that one!”

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/144 "2013-11-18T14:53:42Z")

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> [@Sparky812](#):
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> Paris, it’s the “missing” last verse to Honky Tonk Women.

Correct! Now get naked and stroll down a boulevard.

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/145 "2013-11-18T17:08:07Z")

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1. What was the first Beatles song Johnny heard?
2. My apartment is cold and I’m exhausted… what time is it again?
3. Just what did I see in my own dreams?
4. What does the cowboy think about at his fire?
5. With what does William drive them silly?

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/146 "2013-11-18T17:10:22Z")

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> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> Okay, these were too easy. Good job.
> 
> That just leaves:  
> 71. Where does my man hang out? Looking for a street name and a landmark.

on Alvarado Street by the Pioneer chicken stand?

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/147 "2013-11-18T17:32:19Z")

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Yep.

> [@Sparky812](#):
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> 1. What was the first Beatles song Johnny heard?
> 2. My apartment is cold and I’m exhausted… what time is it again?
> 3. Just what did I see in my own dreams?
> 4. What does the cowboy think about at his fire?
> 5. With what does William drive them silly?

1. Love Me Do, I think it was
2. The reflection of my warped mind staring back at me.
3. His star shooter (shimmy shuffle down).

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/148 "2013-11-18T17:57:05Z")

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1. Love Me Do, I think it was **YEP**
2. [del]The[/del] reflection\*\*(s)\*\* of my warped mind staring back at me. **Close enough**
3. His star shooter (shimmy shuffle down) **Close but not quite.**

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**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/149 "2013-11-18T17:59:02Z")

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> [@Sparky812](#):
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> 1. What does the cowboy think about at his fire?

Women and glasses of beer.

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/150 "2013-11-18T18:58:35Z")

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> [@Sparky812](#):
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> 1. His star shooter (shimmy shuffle down) **Close but not quite.**

His star shoe shimmy shuffle down

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**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/151 "2013-11-18T21:43:49Z")

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I want to try:

1. What happened to all the people we used to know?
2. What did I pray in my letter to God?
3. Why does Ethel want to wake Jacob?
4. When I was walkin’ down the street, what did I see out the corner of my eye?
5. Why am I now jacking off?
6. Two hours later, where was I found?
7. What would they do if Adolph Hitler flew in today?
8. I am of the universe. What about my mother and father?
9. I know I’m a poor boy. What did my mother and father do?
10. What is the poor boy’s phone number back home? [Different poor boy]

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/152 "2013-11-18T21:46:55Z")

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1. He’s got to tidy his room now.

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/153 "2013-11-18T23:14:39Z")

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1. My mother was a tailor  
My father was a gamblin’ man

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/154 "2013-11-18T23:29:11Z")

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> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#):
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> 1. What would they do if Adolph Hitler flew in today?
> 2. What is the poor boy’s phone number back home? [Different poor boy]

1. They’d send a limousine anyway.
2. Tidewater 4-1009

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**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/155 "2013-11-19T02:35:43Z")

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1. They’re an illusion to me now  
(“Tangled Up in Blue,” Bob Dylan)
2. Smokin in the Boys Room
3. My mother was of the sky, my father was of the earth  
(“Yer Blues,” The Beatles)

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/156 "2013-11-19T03:11:01Z")

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> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#):
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> Women and glasses of beer.

Correct

> [@42fish](#):
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> His star shoe shimmy shuffle down

Yes, I would also have accepted his “star-shine shimmy shuffle smile”

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/157 "2013-11-19T03:20:50Z")

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Here’s what’s left right now, I believe

1. My apartment is cold and I’m exhausted… what time is it again?
2. What did I pray in my letter to God?
3. When I was walkin’ down the street, what did I see out the corner of my eye?
4. Why am I now jacking off?

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**Author:** ![President\_Johnny\_Gentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@President\_Johnny\_Gentle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/President_Johnny_Gentle)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/158 "2013-11-19T04:11:26Z")

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1. I pray He can make it better down here. (I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer.)

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/159 "2013-11-19T19:37:12Z")

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> [@Sparky812](#):
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> ?  
> 100) Why am I now jacking off?

Because there’s no better place for jackin’ it than San Diego?

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-questions/672587/160 "2013-11-19T19:38:29Z")

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1. a pretty little thing approachin’ me

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