Songs identifiable from two or three words

“Imagine…”

“Sara spelled without…”

“Carry on…”

“Up and down…”

“Two all-beef…”

“See the tree…”

“I was working…”

“In my mind…”

“Baby hair, and…”

I was going to go with “I was born an original sinner…”

And I was thinking “I was born one morning when the sun didn’t shine…”

Day-oh! Day-ay-ay-oh!

Goodbye, Norma Jean

There’s a lady…

Remember when you…

Goodbye Yellow…

Some people call…

Discussion of Todd Rundgren in the Prince thread made me think of:

“And there’s more…”

  1. She grew up…

  2. They pulled in… to Nazareth (I thought it was “I” pulled in?)

  3. We’ll be fighting… in the streets

  4. Lights out tonight…

  5. With a purple…umbrella and a 50 cent hat

  6. Well, it’s eight…o’clock on a Saturday

  7. Just got home…

  8. Lines form on…my face and hands

For single words, what about:

Yesterday…
Help!..

All the leaves
A wop bop
From the halls
Hot town, summer
How many roads
I can’t get
I am he
Let me take
Little surfer, little
O beautiful for
One pill makes
O say, can
The continent of
There’s something happening
When the truth
You need coolin’

Hello, it’s me.

Which brings us to the biggest selling single in history:

Goodbye, England’s rose

Purple haze. . .
One two three (several songs)
Riders on the. . .
I shot the. . .

Layla
Lola

Not really:

Layla:

What will you …

Lola:

I met her …

You ain’t nothin’. . .
Start me up. . .
Sugarpie, honeybun. . .
I got sunshine. . .
Stop! In the. . .

A stick, a stone

Heard it through the grapevine you don’t even need three words, when that intro riff come son you just know whats coming,

Dum der rum dum, der der der der

Maybe theres a whole thread in songs you know without words or music - just the incoming beat pattern.

:smack: At least you knew what song it was from just two words :smiley:

These mist covered…

Hey there people

Don’t Bogart that

Gimme an “F”

She loves you

Wild Thing

That great intro, then “Jesus Christ”

“Hello lamppost” - how many times does that combination appear elsewhere?