Team One
A Girl’s Gotta Do What a Girl’s Gotta Do, Mindy McCready
The first thing I did when you said Good-bye
Was sit myself down and have a real good cry
The next thing I did was put my red dress on
And go downtown dancing til the break of dawn
** Team 2 -**
Peace Frog, The Doors
Bloody Red sun of fantastic L.A.
Team #1:
Red Hill Mining Town - U2
Yeah you keep me holding on
In Red Hill Town
See the lights go down on
I’m hanging on
** Team 2 -**
Little Red Rooster, The Grateful Dead (and many others)
been no peace in the barnyard
Since my little red rooster’s been gone
Team One
Summer’s Coming, Clint Black
When the day gets cookin’ gonna grab my toys
And it really doesn’t matter which wave we’re on
Get to turnin’ up them good old boys
Crankin’ into the night, by the break of dawn
All the towns are red and I still see blonde
Team 2 -
Jack A Roe, The Grateful Dead
I see your waist is slender, your fingers they are small
Your cheeks too red and rosy to face the cannonball
Team One
Have Mercy, The Judds
The lipstick on your collar gives your game away
It’s strawberry red and mine’s pink rose
Team 2:
It was red and yellow and green and brown…
Joseph’s Coat (The Coat of Many Colors) - Webber/Rice (from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Team 1:
Cain decked the angel said “fuck you screw”
shook the garden’s dust from off his shoe
then he walked in the desert a mile or two
He came to the plain where the medlars grew
and he sat down on the burning sand
looked at the red on his brown right hand
and he spoke to the devil about his plans
out to the east of Eden*
Shriekback - Bastard Sons of Enoch*
Team 2 -
All Together Now, The Beatles
Black, white, green, red
Can I take my friend to bed
Pink, brown, yellow, orange and blue
I love you
Team 2:
I like coffee,I like tea
I like you baby next to me
You’re as cool as red hot lava
Jumpin’ East of Java
Jumpin’ East of Java - Brian Setzer Orchestra
Team #1:
Jimi HEndrix - REd House
There’s a Red House over yonder
That’s where my baby stays
There’s a Red House over yonder, baby
That’s where my baby stays
Team 2:
The sun sets on the water
Red and orange and yellow too
And I think about the way you loved me
And I don’t know what to do
Down at the Water - Animotion
Team 1:
On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand
Nick Cave - Red Right Hand
(Hoping I didn’t screw up the coding on this one!)
Team 2:
I cried all night for Sonny
'Til my eyes were dry
'Til the oceans overflowed
And the Red Sea turned blue
I cried all night for Sonny
I heard he was crying, too
Sonny Cried - Harry Connick, Jr.
Team #1:
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
red rain is coming down
red rain
red rain is pouring down
pouring down all over me
Team 1
“Blue Red and Grey”–The Who
Some people go for the sultry evening
Sipping cocktails in the Blue Red and grey
But I like every minute
Of the day
How’s about we go with my Team 1’er and not that, ahem, repeat?
Team 2:
And when you kiss me with your ruby red lips
It thrills me so I turn a back over flip
That’s Why I Love You So - Jackie Wilson
(We’re even, because Red Rain was a repeat.)
It’s amazing that we stay up all night with this stuff.
- ShibbOleth, who has been at work already for over an hour, but is still looking for a way to procrastinate