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Thread #6043 Message #34827
Posted By: Joe Offer
14-Aug-98 - 01:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Whiskey, Whiskey (from Rita Coolidge)
Subject: Searching for songs
Well, Rose, didn't the link I provided lead you straight to the lyrics of the song? I just tried it, and it worked for me. Click here for the master search page of the International Lyrics Server. You'll note that there are many different ways to search. I often use the fulltext search function that's similar to the one we have here, and I search for a distinctive phrase from a song, rather than for the title. In this case, "milk of mercy" seemed to be a very distinctive phrase. Sure enough, it pulled up the right song on the first attempt. If I had done a title search like you did under "whiskey whiskey", I would have come up with nothing until I entered "Whiskey, Whiskey" punctuation and duplicate words can throw you off, since various search engines handle them differently. Words with varieties of spellings will throw you off, too - "whiskey" brings up too many songs, and "whisky" too few - both here and at the International Lyrics Server (here, though, you can enter whisk* and get the best of both worlds). That same trick of searching for a distinctive phrase also works very well at my favorite Web search engine, http://hotbot.com/. Just make sure you set it for "exact phrase." Other good places to search for lyrics are