(Quiz) What song is this line from ?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 08:54 AM

She tore it up and threw it in my face just for a laugh.
Up on Cripple Creek (The Band)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 08:48 AM

8. Aunt Natasha drives the tractor, Grandma runs the cream extractor.
   Wow! Is that obscure. I can't spell it, but it's from the Russian song "Hey, Jonkoya"

And I'm still waiting for an answer to my earlier post:
"You are living in the free world. In the free world you must stay."

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 05:49 AM

Chazratz - Your latest - number 1 is Tom Lehrer -My Home Town , and number 6 is Flanders and Swann -Have Some Madeira M'Dear

And despite what any web site says , Steve Gillette DID write Darcy Farrow - He and Cindy are doing a UK tour at the moment !

Old Guy - All the way home I held a grudge - Chuck Berry - No particular place to go

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 05:06 AM

Oggie - Si Kahn is a cracking writer , but All Used Up was written by Utah Phillips !!

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 04:22 AM

Frogprince, I don't know who wrote Darcy Farrow, but John Denver's credited with it here and here.

Hint for my as yet unsolved riddles: 3 of those songs were actually penned by Catters!!

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 03:11 AM

my number one was Donal og.
someoneback there had, dont let the deal go down.
1. A BILLYGOAT PISSING IN AN OLD TIN CAN

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 03:03 AM

Here are the ones from my last night's list which no one identified:

2. She told me not to play around but I done let that deal go down. (I can't believe no one got this one: Hank Williams, "Move It on Over.")

3. I know for certain that you have a right to be free. ("I'm Too Far Gone," the version I heard was by Emmylou Harris--but it was probably a cover.)

7. Now the big three have departed but not so the cult they started... ("Oh,Doctor Freud"--I don't know the writer or who might have recorded it)

9. Ain't i always nice to your kid sister? (Tompall Glaser, "Put Another Log on the Fire")

10. This wimmen's liberation is a-goin' to yer head. (Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman and his Texas Jew-Boys,) "Put Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns into Bed")


And here are a few more

1. Nobody could ignore that little girl next door, she sure looked sweet in her first evening gown.

2. When you were a boy did the Cheyenne and Sioux refuse to play nicely with you?

3. Got a lot of ice and snow here half as cold as all the people I've found.

4. Your woman says "Hey, Pedro, you're actin' crazy like a clown."

5. I was tokin' on a number, listenin' to the radio.

6. The evil gin does would be hard to assess.

7. We're playin' cards, writin' home, and havin' lots of fun...

8. Aunt Natasha drives the tractor, Grandma runs the cream extractor.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 01:57 AM

2,4 and 5 were easy. For the others, they're both by Peter Cape:
1.My love's hair was golden, like snowgrass in summer.

3.But I'll sing out as I go by your window, just to show you you're the one
Robyn

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 01:12 AM

That's T and it rhymes---Trouble--Music Man

Can't no high-toned---16 Tons

Brand new house--Who Do You Love? (I think)

All the way home---No Particular Place to Go

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 12:31 AM

LF 2 - Si Kahn 'All used up'

All the best

Oggie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Old Guy
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 12:26 AM

Chazkratz got Fiddler on the roof and A day in the Life.

That's T and it rhymes with P and it stands for Pool.

Cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line.

She tore it up and threw it in my face just for a laugh.

I got a brand new house on the roadside, Made out of rattlesnake hide.

All the way home I held a grudge. (or held her fudge)

A cat's meow and a cow's moo, I can recite 'em all,

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 12:25 AM

pdq --7-- "Reason to Believe"?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 12:22 AM

"Why should I call your name when you're..."--Wasted Days and Wasted Nights--Freddy Fender.

And earlier--can't remember whose-- "Ain't I always nice to your kid sister?"--Put Another Log on the Fire--Tompall Glaser, I believe.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST,oldhippie
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 10:28 PM

LF8 - Come Away Melinda ?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bobad
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 09:13 PM

"A handful of gimme and a mouthful of much obliged."

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 09:12 PM

John Denver didn't write Darcy Farrow; Steve Gillette wrote it after his sister Darcy was kicked in the head (not fatally) by a horse.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 08:40 PM

...I have two still un-answered:

3'                "And why should I
                   Call your name
                   When you're to blame
                   For making me Blue"

hint 1:   is more R'n'R than folk    hint 2: by only 'ethnic' singer named in this quiz

6'                "Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills,
                   One man gathers what another man spills."

hint 1: likely known mostly by their faithful fans    hint 2: group played 3500+ live concerts

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...some new ones:

7'   "Knowin' that you lied
       Straight-faced while I cried"

8'   "It's what you look like
       and not what you are"

9'    "These are just some sorry kids
       ... they ain't the ones"

10'   "You would stand to gain and I to lose"

11'   "She's a gal with a portable past"

12'   "I think we'd be better off
         ta just run her off this place"

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 08:25 PM

I don't think so, PDQ. Think country. Think stunning woman with gray hair, primarily known for her backup singing.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 08:15 PM

*3. I know for certain that you have a right to be free.

   ...from a variant of Cocaine/Coacine Blues/ Take A Whiff On Me...?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 07:36 PM

LF5 Catch the Wind (Donovan)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 07:35 PM

LF5   For me to have you now would be the sweetest thing   -(UK)
             Catch the Wind (Donovan)
LF7   Words like when you're older must appease him   - (USA)
             The Circle Game (Joni Mitchell)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 07:35 PM

Terry's:

LF 1 When the call comes again, they will not answer - (AUS)
All The Fine Young Men (Eric Bogle & John Munro)

LF4 A rumble of rock and the walls close round - (UK)
Springhill Mine Disaster (Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 07:16 PM

OK - Try these !!

LF 1 When the call comes again , they will not answer - (AUS)

LF2   Young people reaching for power and gold have no respect for anything old - USA)

LF3   She was shining out like a light in the night - (UK)

LF4   A rumble of rock and the walls close round   - (UK)

LF4   It's hard to explain why I'm leaving once again   - (USA)

LF5   For me to have you now would be the sweetest thing   -(UK)

LF6   Then never despise the soldier lad thouh his staion be
          but low -   (UK)

LF7   Words like when you're older must appease him   - (USA)

LF8   There's someone in a pretty dress , she's all grown up like
          you - (USA)

LF9    Rock-a-bye baby the dark and the light    - (UK)

LF10   If when the moon's a toothy smile you meet a whirling
            wind   -   (UK)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 07:15 PM

e Sally Gee

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:56 PM

Geordie - a is Pub With No Beer

          b is Poisoning pigeons in the Park

          c is Roseville fair

          d is Darcey farrow

          e has me beat !!

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:53 PM

Captain Birdseye's:

2. I'll purchase a cow that will never run dry
Limerick Rake (Trad.)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:47 PM

Geordie's:

a. There's nothin' so lonesome, morbid or drear (Oz)
A Pub With No Beer by (Dropkick Murphys)

c. Their drifting tunes seemed to fill the air (US)
The Roseville Fair (Bill Staines)

d. Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet through his brain (US)
Darcy Farrow (John Denver)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:37 PM

Geordie's Answers!

1. The Blaydon Races by Geordie Ridley
2. We Stayed Awake by Huw Williams
3. Jimmy Newman by Tom Paxton
4. It's Alright Ma - Bobby the Zim (Canny answer and spot on PDQ)
5. Cushie Butterfield - Trad (Tyneside)

try these

a. There's nothin' so lonesome, morbid or drear (Oz)
b. But there's one thing which makes Spring complete for me, And makes every Sunday a treat for me (US)
c. Their drifting tunes seemed to fill the air (US)
d. Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet through his brain (US)
e. The caste in her eye makes her look shy and I wish we never had parted (UK)

Good Luck

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:24 PM

My list from last night, half correctly identified, half not, as identified by asterisks before the number:

1. I saw your other man today, wearin' my brand new shoes. (correctly identified by bfdk as Commander Cody's "Down to Seeds and Stems"

*2. She told me not to play around but I done let that deal go down. (I can't believe no one got this one")

*3. I know for certain that you have a right to be free.

4. Yer tellin me that I'm not moral enough to go out and shoot women and children...
(correctly identified by Little Robyn: Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant")

5. I ain't no fool, I'm goin' to school... (another bfdk ID: "Draft Dodger's Rag," Phil Ochs)

6. These love affairs is hard to bear... (still another bfdk identification although we differed in details "Leavin' Home" as recorded by The New Lost City Ramblers)

*7. Now the big three have departed but not so the cult they started...

8. Little children wept and cried as the waves swept o'er the side. (correctly identified by Captain Birdseye as "The Titanic")

*9. Ain't i always nice to your kid sister?

*10. This wimmen's liberation is a-goin' to yer head.


Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 06:16 PM

The first one is the song that made me a Beatles fan: "A Day in the Life"; the second, "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof, I think.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 05:57 PM

well done snuffy, the other two are irish.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 05:47 PM

3. The Devonshire Farmer's Daughter or many other Highwayman Outwitted songs

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 05:43 PM

1.black as a bootprint in a shining hallway.
2.Ill purchase a cow that will never run dry.
3. she stood there shivering and shaking, half frozen to death with the cold.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Old Guy
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 05:20 PM

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed.

When he told a joke you would chortle for days.

All day long I'd biddy-biddy-bum If I were a wealthy man.

Ive got fire water right on my breath
And the doctor warned me I might catch a death.

Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime.

But the education of no man or boy is complete
Until he has witnessed this shocking spectacle.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 03:38 PM

Yep...I was thinking that the line was from 'Bonny Gateshead Lass', I reckon...

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 03:32 PM

Ooops....its ME that got muddled then! I;ll have to try & find the song I was thinking of.

Apologies, particularly to Oggie!

Oh well, at least I get the 100th post...

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:55 PM

and when we got to the railway bridge the bus wheel flew off there

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:49 PM

Paul it has always been known as "Cushie Butterfield" to my knowledge, and is sometimes called the "Broken Hearted Keelman"
Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:45 PM

Not only is the thread getting hard to follow, the questions are getting a bloody sight 'arder.....for me anyway!

All I've got out of the last batch are 'Farewell To The Gold' & the one Oggy called 'Cushy Butterfield'...which isnt the right title, but I cant remember the right one! I know where you are coming from with calling it that though Oggy, they are both Geordie songs, 'from' Stu Luckley.

btw, Little Robyn, 'Farewell to the Gold' is very well known in UK because of Nic Jones' superb album 'Penguin Eggs' which of course takes its title from the line in 'Little Pot Stove', also on the album.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:07 PM

Geordie-Porgie - yup! I always did have eclectic tastes!

All the best

Oggie

PS your number 3 is 'Jimmy Newman' - are we all showing our age here? Is number 5 'Cushy Butterfield'?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 01:21 PM

"4. Even the President of the United States sometimes has to stand naked."

El Dylan in "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding"

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 01:09 PM

Geordie's Selection!!

1. We flew past Armstrong's Factory and up to the "Robin Adair" (UK)

2. Me, with my tired eyes and you full of life (UK)

3. The Night-nurse is gone and the sexy one's here. She tells us such beautiful lies (US)

4. Even the President of the United States sometimes has to stand naked (US)

5. ...And her cousin's a muck-man and they call him Tom Grey (UK)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 01:01 PM

Oggie! It's the first line from 'Travelling Soldier' By The Dixie Chicks - Unless aah'm mistaken

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 10:49 AM

You are living in the free world. In the free world you must stay. (US)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Flash Company
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 10:29 AM

It's hard keeping track of this thread!
Somebody back there got 'Dumbarton's Drums', but the Berry brown steed was 'Clerk Colvin', and the share-crop farmer line was from Tom Paxton, 'There's a rumbling in this land'.

FC

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 10:11 AM

bfdk - obviously right on Runrig.

One of mine left - ' Two days past eighteen' - Clue 'Return to the scene of the crime'

OK it's a bit cryptic but twas a good concert if not exactly folk. or bluegrass. (That's anothe clue)

oggie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST,chazkratz
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 09:12 AM

bfdk, right on "Seeds and Stems," close on the other: New Lost City Ramblers (no Dave Guard), title "Leavin' Home," original from Gid Tanner(?),

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 08:18 AM

bf8 Whiskey you're the Devil, correct, Terry ;-)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 08:15 AM

bf15. Year of the Drum is correct - lovely song ;-)

I saw Wongawilli at the Skagen Festival (Denmark) in early July this year, they were a great hit with the crowds. I wish I'd been able to get one or two of their CDs, but they'd sold out..

Robins NZ songs:
2. They were panning good dirt on the winding Shotover
Farewell to the Gold - Paul Metsers

4. Spend it in the winter or die of the cold.
Bright Fine Gold - Trad.?

5. Brackish water, putrid seal, we did all of us fall ill.
Davy Lawston - Trad.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 08:15 AM

my one was supposed to be single girl BY SAM MCGHEE, NOT SHORTNIN BREAD.