(Quiz) What song is this line from ?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:20 PM

2 Steve Miller "The Joker"

4 That David Bromberg song about the girl in the sideshow rent ...

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:21 PM

...sideshow tent...

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:01 PM

Buggerit, I'd GOT 'All Around My Hat' too, even before the hint.....& am real surprised no-one else did.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:04 PM

" Sharon" . That was the David Bromberg song ...

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 04:01 PM

1. Bottle Of Wine - Tom Paxton
2. The Joker - Steve Miller
5. Eve Of Destruction - written by PF Sloane - Sung by BArry McGuire

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Bassic
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 04:13 PM

write braille get jailed, jump bail, join the army, if you fail, Subteranean Homesick Blues, Dylan

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:16 PM

The dog shat in the tucker box ten miles from;;;;;;
The bigwigs are all up a tree.
In euclid and grammar they taught me to write.
but flies upon the union jack I never saw before.
THE answer toFlash companyS BERRY BROWN STEED is Thomas or wWilly of the winesbury

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:49 PM

It would be somewhat simpler if new lines added were to begin with new numbers so as to differentiate the first line enumerated #2 from the second and thrid, etc.

Back to your regularly scheduled program.

Great thread, Divis.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 07:04 PM

...not trying to hijack Sweeney's thread, just augment it...

HINTS:   3' is more R'n'R than folk, 6' likely known mostly by their faithful fans.

The line quoted from "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" is important to that song. It makes "who's to blame" a little less clear and makes the song more thought-provoking.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 07:23 PM

Pat Sky's rendition of that song is GREAT.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bobad
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 07:27 PM

I agree, it is my favorite.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST,Rowan
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 03:55 AM

The dog shat in the tucker box ten miles from;;;;;;
Actually, five miles from Gundagai

The bigwigs are all up a tree.
When the bigwigs are brought, to the bankruptcy court
what hope for a squatter like me?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: melodeonboy
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 06:47 AM

Go on then; see if you can work out where these lines are from (the first one is country; the others are folk):

1. Somebody spread the rumour that you had lost your life, least that's the way I heard it and what I told my wife

2. Her eyes are like the setting sun, her teeth as white as pearl

3. Water drinkers are dull arses

4. (For) I'll crow like a cock and I'll carol like a lark

5. ....to buy a hunk of bacon and a lump of mouldy cheese

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 08:57 AM

never mind the dog shitting in the tucker box must be bad whether your 5 miles or 10 from gundegai..
   my 3 was the limerick rake .
    4 was seven drunken nights.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 10:36 AM

What fond delight will steal upon me...
    Dumbarton's Drums
I can see the share-crop farmer as he wipes his sweaty brow
    The Banks Are Made of Marble.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 11:08 AM

1 - they called us generals nasty names (England)

2 - you took your sacrifice to the gods of war (Scotland)

3 - two days past eighteen (USA)

All the best

Oggie

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

Melodeonboys 3 - the rest of the line is 'in the light that is coming in the morning' I'm not sure of the offical title

4 is Hopping down in Kent.

Captain Birdseye's black and white pudding line is from the song I know as 'For the closing of the Door' - the first line is It fell about the Martinmas time.

Most of the lines though, I do not know. I seem to be becoming an anachronism, with people asking me which cd does that song come from, and I directing them to search words on paper in Cecil Sharpe House.

Anne

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 12:44 PM

Oggie, your 1st is from 'The Battle of Sowerby Bridge'.

No idea about your other 2!

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Old Guy
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 01:48 PM

Divis: You got 'em both now try this one:

[Warning may have adult content]

So I whipped off her bloomers and stiffed my thumb. And applied rotation on her sugar plumb

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: BB
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 02:59 PM

3. Water drinkers are dull arses - Come Me Lads
4. (For) I'll crow like a cock and I'll carol like a lark - Sydney Carter's John Ball

2 - you took your sacrifice to the gods of war (Scotland) - sounds like one of Dick Gaughan's, but I can't remember the title.

A fun thread, but can I make a request that the person who sets the questions gives us all at least 24 hours before posting the answers? I only saw this thread for the first time tonight, having been away for a couple of days - and I only look at Mudcat once a day anyway!

Barbara

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 04:13 PM

Paul

Right about the first one - I'm currently having a de-clutter and transfering my vinyl to CD and came across the Swan Arcade LP in the further reccesses of my collection - then realised I'd not played it in too many years!

All the best

Oggie

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

Hi

Sacrifice etc is not Gaughan - think groups, 1980's

All the best

oggie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:01 AM

"You took your sacrifice to the gods of war"
- Runrig (C. & R. MacDonald), Protect and Survive

"You took your sacrifice to the gods of war
Traded your children's lives for a mess of gold
And you beat your ploughshares into swords
Breathing free

Once in a lifetime.."

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:38 AM

Some of these are pretty obvious, some fairly obscure.

1. I saw your other man today, wearin' my brand new shoes.

2. She told me not to play around but I done let that deal go down.

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...

5. I ain't no fool, I'm goin' to school...

6. These love affairs is hard to bear...

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.

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: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 02:43 AM

5. I ain't no fool, I'm goin' to school...
Draft Dodger Rag (Phil Ochs)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 03:20 AM

no8 THE TITANIC, TO rum n coke re black puddings , Iknow a different version called JohnBlunt.herEs one.
three little children lying in their beds[american]

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 03:30 AM

Captain Birdseye: That's "Shortnin' Bread"--"two is sick and the other half dead"

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST,chazkratz
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 03:33 AM

Cap'n, I should have added that both you and bdfk are right.

Charles (and I'll be damned if I know what happened to my cookie--I had it earlier today)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 03:59 AM

4. Yer tellin me that I'm not moral enough to go out and shoot women and children... after littering?
Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant Anti Massacree

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST,chazkratz
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:24 AM

Rightcha are, Li'l Rob'n, although the title of the song is simply "Alice's Restaurant"--the movement he suggests it might start is the "Alice's Restaurant Anti-massacree Movement." There's one more pretty obvious one...

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:37 AM

Okay, here's a few from my list of favourites ;-)

bf1. There's a journey that we've never made
Never taken, always been afraid
(UK)

bf2. If you want to have a safe life then don't take risks
But you'll regret it in the future by realizing what you've missed
(AUS)

bf3. Don't talk to me about life's seasons
Don't ask me for answers, don't ask me for reasons
(AUS)

bf4. So they gave the corpse a sup, just to shut him up
And laid him on the bed without a prayer
(UK)

bf5. From Scotland's grey shores to the cold coast of Greenland
White Seas and Faroes they're making their way
(UK)

bf6. We've still got the tunes, fiddle strings and spoons
And if you've got the time, we've still got the rhymes
(US)

bf7. They share hearth and heather
They join the dance together
They shed their tears and joy
Then they're gone again forever
(US)

bf8. You're sweeter, stronger, decenter, you're spunkier than tae
(US)

bf9. I will travel lonely for this journey's only
Without thought of you
(UK)

bf10. And all ah did was ask her had her faither stayed at hame
The next ah ken was ah was in the midden
(UK)

bf11. For hundreds of years when the pipes gave the call
The Sinclairs have answered to fight or to fall
(UK)

bf12. Now he's forty going on eighty, with his eyes of hope bereft
And he told me this for certain, there's not many of us left
(UK)

bf13. My kitchen is filled with the smell of the sea
And the leaping green fishes my love brings to me
(AUS)

bf14. To throw a farmer's family out, that's the worst of any crimes
It was called the Great Depression, but I called it more hard times
(US)

bf15. But the year doesn't matter, there's always the drum
The guns and the government call men to come
(AUS)


NB: US (USA + Canada), UK (United Kingdom + Ireland)

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 04:53 AM

1. I saw your other man today, wearin' my brand new shoes
Down to Seeds And Stems Again - Commander Cody

6. These love affairs is hard to bear (shouldn't that be "are"?)
You're gonna miss me - Mike Seeger/Tom Paley/John Cohen/Dave Guard

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 07:26 AM

bf15. But the year doesn't matter, there's always the drum
The guns and the government call men to come
(AUS)
The year of the drum by Wendy Joseph.
We have the Wongawilli CD.
Robyn

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 12 Sep 06 - 07:46 AM

How do you go on New Zealand songs?
1.My love's hair was golden, like snowgrass in summer.
2.They were panning good dirt on the winding Shotover
3.But I'll sing out as I go by your window, just to show you you're the one.
4.Spend it in the winter or die of the cold.
5.Brackish water, putrid seal, we did all of us fall ill.
Robyn

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

Little Robyn - NOT too hot on NZ , but do recognise Paul Metsers' Farewell to the Gold (No 2) and No5 is Davey Laughston (sp)- The Sealing Song

And bfdk - The only one there I know , I have by The Clancy's - Whiskey You're the Devil ! ( No8) and I cant remember the name of the song for No13 , but i know a number of folk who sing it !

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.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...