Trivia from songs

Love grows. (But actually I don’t know this. Nobody knows but you.)


How come we never got it off on that revolution stuff?

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?

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?

Midnight at the oasis.

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?

Midnight at the oasis (by Maria Muldaur) is correct.

Love and be loved in return? (But maybe that is the greatest thing, not the best.)

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?

He’ll give you a five pound note if you have his kind of detergent pack.

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?

West Virginia, where country roads take me home to.

Who was gettin’ itchy?

Where did Marty fall in love with a Mexican girl? And what was her name?

Memphis.

St. Peter I can’t go because…

Where are you thinking of traveling if the weather’s good there, in the fall?

What was the man in the aberdeen coat?

Memphis. And Papa would have shot him if he knew what he’d done.

I don’t know, but the guy next to him…wearing the gabardine suit…is a spy, and his bowtie is really a camera.

Where are you thinking of traveling if the weather’s good there, in the fall?

Alberta.

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?

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?

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?

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?)