# Trivia from songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755 "2011-09-27T12:07:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/161 "2011-09-28T01:53:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > What happens where my Rosemary goes? Love grows. (But actually I don’t know this. Nobody knows but you.) * * * How come we never got it off on that revolution stuff? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/162 "2011-09-28T01:56:47Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I’m 64. Who’s sitting on my knee? Vera, Chuck and, um, Dave I think. (Actually, they will be on my knee, not yours, and my age when you are 64 is unspecified.) * * * What diet caused Sweet Jane to lose her sparkle? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/163 "2011-09-28T02:10:17Z")
Correct on all of: Love Grows where my Rosemary Goes, by Edison Lighthouse Cover of the Rolling Stone, by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show Tie a Yellow Ribbon, by Tony Orlando and Dawn A few more: Who does something that bounces me off the ceiling when I’m with her? After LA proved too much for the man, where did he go? When should you put your camel to bed, and where? ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/164 "2011-09-28T02:13:09Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > When should you put your camel to bed, and where? Midnight at the oasis. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/165 "2011-09-28T02:15:40Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > When should you put your camel to bed, and where? Midnight. At the oasis. No clue on the others. What does the guy dressed up as a Union Jack propose to give me, and what do I require in order to receive it? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/166 "2011-09-28T02:22:44Z")
Midnight at the oasis (by Maria Muldaur) is correct. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/167 "2011-09-28T02:28:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > What’s the best thing you could ever do? Love and be loved in return? (But maybe that is the greatest thing, not the best.) > [@Spoons](#): > > After LA proved too much for the man, where did he go? Georgia (On a midnight train.) * * * Do you recall a girl who’s been in nearly every song? What rumor about her am I asking you not to spread? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/168 "2011-09-28T02:37:17Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > What does the guy dressed up as a Union Jack propose to give me, and what do I require in order to receive it? He’ll give you a five pound note if you have his kind of detergent pack. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/169 "2011-09-28T02:53:35Z")
Picked up a boy just south of Mobile,where did he ride with us to? Life is old there. Three feet tall, so very small,I’m no trouble Who am I? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/170 "2011-09-28T03:08:48Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Life is old there. West Virginia, where country roads take me home to. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/171 "2011-09-28T03:27:26Z")
Who was gettin’ itchy? Where did Marty fall in love with a Mexican girl? And what was her name? ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/172 "2011-09-28T03:30:04Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Picked up a boy just south of Mobile,where did he ride with us to? Memphis. St. Peter I can’t go because… ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/173 "2011-09-28T03:30:38Z")
Where are you thinking of traveling if the weather’s good there, in the fall? What was the man in the aberdeen coat? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/174 "2011-09-28T03:34:47Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Picked up a boy just south of Mobile,where did he ride with us to? Memphis. And Papa would have shot him if he knew what he’d done. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/175 "2011-09-28T03:40:05Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > What was the man in the aberdeen coat? I don’t know, but the guy next to him…wearing the gabardine suit…is a spy, and his bowtie is really a camera. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/176 "2011-09-28T03:40:51Z")
Where are you thinking of traveling if the weather’s good there, in the fall? Alberta. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/177 "2011-09-28T03:45:48Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Who was gettin’ itchy? > > Where did Marty fall in love with a Mexican girl? And what was her name? John and Mitchy Out in the west texas town of El Paso Felina When the radical priest come to get me released, what magazine cover we all gonna be on? ---
**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:** [September 28, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/178 "2011-09-28T03:46:32Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > How come we never got it off on that revolution stuff? Despite what brother thinks, with his Beatles and his Stones, it’s a drag. Too many snags… We were in a small cafe, listening to the guitars play. But how tall were you? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/179 "2011-09-28T03:47:36Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > St. Peter I can’t go because… I owe my soul to the company store. * * * If Adolph Hitler (looking very relaxed) is playing the vibes, who is speaking, and playing the trumpet? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/180 "2011-09-28T03:50:12Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > When the radical priest come to get me released, what magazine cover we all gonna be on? Newsweek. * * * She has a house and garden. She lingers there. Where does she live? (And how well do I think I like it, so far?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755.md?page=10)