(Quiz) What song is this line from ?

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Old Guy
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:43 PM

Ain't no use a-talkin', we're gonna make a change,
There's always a liniment for every mangy.
The liniment for hard times is castin' my vote
And gettin' rid of them who rocks the boat.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:43 PM

Oops I meant Leaving London too late as usual alas and alack a day.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:46 PM

LF 11 Last Train and Ride Ralph McTell

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Snuffy
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:53 PM

LF20 should say Ireland, not UK - Raglan Road

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:53 PM

LF14 "If I could beg , steal , or borrow , a ticket on some ship
            or plane" (US)

             Alamo Mission    Peter Rowan               (maybe just close?)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:55 PM

LF 12 - Lazlo Faher as recorded by Tony Capstick I think

oggie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Snuffy
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 12:55 PM

For she's worth a quarter million afloat and at the dock

Never seen it written down before. I've always heard it as

For she's worth a quarter million a-floatin' at the dock

But I don't suppose it makes much difference anyway

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 01:48 PM

LF12 He will rob you of your flower , then he'll send me to the
          gallows   (UK - Ish) -- Anathea (recorded by Judy Collins)

LF17    Another night and its going to be a long one ,she draws the
          shade and hangs her head to cry (US) - Lying Eyes (Eagles) -- too easy

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Old Guy
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 02:16 PM

I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:46 PM

Sounds like Gilbert & Sullivan.

Is that from "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General?"

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 05:18 PM

LF 19 But we had so much fun, we were glad that we came.
We fed all the animals and gave each a name,

Me and the elephant by Benny Whitehead

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 05:22 PM

Nobody recognises this?
3.But I'll sing out as I go by your window, just to show you you're the one
OK, time's up!
Peter Cape's Rainbird in the ti-tree.
Robyn

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

LF15 is from "Life Gits Teejus, Don't It"--I don't know who first recorded it.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 06:38 PM

'Life Gits Teejus..." was written by Carson Robison who may have recorded it first.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 06:40 PM

Avec mon parapluie en mon bras
Toutes les femmes disait

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 06:47 PM

Last two of Terry's latest bunch:

LF13 And they knew as they went they were hot on the scent by
the scent of Corrall number five (UK)
Lavender Cowboy - Harold Hersey

LF15 I'd have to wash and comb my hair - and thats just wasted
effort (US)
Robinson Carson - Life Gets Teejus' Don't It

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 06:49 PM

Sorry, just realized that 15 had been guessed..

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 07:33 PM

So which is it, Carson Robison or Robinson Carson?

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 07:44 PM

...the former...trust me on this one...

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 08:59 PM

"Lazlo Faher" and "Anathea" are variants of the same song.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 09:12 PM

Laszlo Feher - I have as translated from Hungarian by Bert Lloyd !
and Anathea IS the same song !

Me and the Elephant - written by Gene Cotton - Or at least that was the name on the single I bought in 1974 !

And Lavender Cowboy was written by Paddy Roberts !

That cleared ALL of mine !! I am being TOO easy ! must get some Obscure stuff for you !!

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 09:25 PM

I still have some open:

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

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"

These can't really be that hard. Some of the artists are Jackson Browne, Robert Earl Keen, Jethro Tull and The Grateful Dead!

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 10:26 PM

Jumping back in again--some of these should be easy, others not so--but isn't that the way the game works?

CK 1--They chipped the ice right off the corpse and sloshed it in their beer.

CK 2--She is only a young girl who ventured down life's stormy path ill-advised.

CK 3--You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses.

CK 4--It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim.

CK 5--They've beautiful shapes nature never designed.

CK 6--From under her velvet gown she drew a gun and shot him down.

CK 7--...I was looking from bottle to bottle for something unfoolish to say...

CK 8--Jack Johnson wanted to get on board, but the captain said "I don't carry no coal."

CK 9--I was blinded by the glare of your headlights...

CK 10--Give me your love, the love that you denied me.


Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 10:32 PM

CK 8 is one of many songs about The Titanic. Lead Belly's, I think.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 10:48 PM

Pretty damned quick of you, pdq. You're right: Fare Thee, Titanic, Fare Thee Well.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 12:05 AM

CK 3--You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses.

... And the pig got up and quickly walked away.

(Can't recall the title, but it's about the drunk and the pig in the gutter.)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 12:08 AM

CK 4--It missed, and falling on the bed, the liquor scattered over Tim.
Finnegan's Wake

CK 5--They've beautiful shapes nature never designed.
The Mountains O' Mourne (Percy French)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 01:18 AM

CK 2--She's More To Be Pitied

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 01:32 AM

CK-10 Take Back Your Gold

By Monroe Rosenfeld, who's been described as a melodic kleptomaniac--sure enough, this song seems to be at least partly lifted from a hymn called "I Would Be True"

He also has another claim to fame--"generally credited with having invented the term "Tin Pan Alley"--per Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs.

The phrase in the book is "The love that you'd deny me"--but I imagine it's the one.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Old Guy
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 01:47 AM

Right Genie. From the Pirates of penzance

I'm a demolition derby a hefty hunk of steamin' junk.

You must have been Mr. Olympian
With all that amplitude
How come you always load your Pentax when I am in the nude

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 02:56 AM

CK 2 is indeed from "She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured," like CK 10, "Tale Back Your Gold," an 1890's or so tear jerker. CK 3's title is "The Inebriate and the Pig," but the pig was more polite: He got up and _slowly_ walked away.

CK 4 is indeed from "Finnegan's Wake" and CK 5 from "The Mountains of Mourne."

CK 8, as I said above is from "Fare Thee, Titanic," and is indeed by Lead Belly, composed after John Lomax told him about Jack Johnson's rejection as a passenger on the ill fated liner, as I recall the story. It might have been Pete Seeger, though, who told him.

That leaves CK 6 (I thought this would go quickly--it's by a very famous pop composer); CK 7 likewise. I figured someone might remember CK 1, but was pretty sure that CK 9 would go unidentified for a while...although I posted the lyrics to the 'cat a few years ago.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 04:20 AM

Sorry, it seems I got the first and last names for LF15 mixed up.. Didn't realize the homepage where I found it listed last name before first..

For LF13 Lavender Cowboy I found this info: "LAVENDER COWBOY (Harold Hersey / Arr. Paddy Roberts) Paddy Roberts - 1959". Now, being in doubt as to who of these persons was actually the author, I checked more homepages and found this in the digitrad, so I assumed I had the right name. Sorry again.

My humblest apologies.

Bente

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 04:48 AM

CK 6--From under her velvet gown she drew a gun and shot him down.
Miss Otis Regrets has the line "And from under her velvet gown she drew a gun and shot her lover down". Is that the song you're thinking of?

Given the hint, CK 9--I was blinded by the glare of your headlights.. must then be YOU'RE A DETOUR ON THE HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 07:57 AM

Last call for these two

OG 1 when a man gets married his race is run (Trad, learnt from a 'mad' Ranter)

OG 3 'one son drives a long limousine' (Texan singer songwriter)

All the best

oggie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 08:21 AM

Here we go again ! Possibly a bit more obscure !

LF21 But some old bloke soon spotted Pa and after him they ran   (UK)

LF22 Old loves lose young feelings but new ones they gain    (UK)

LF23 Like a bolt from the blue came a Hullaballo    (UK)

LF24 Tell it to tomorrow today will take its time    (UK)

LF25 Remember the war against Franco thats where each of us
             belongs    (US)

LF27 They have a heavenly choir and a military band there )US)

LF28 But I wish you'd change you mind if I asked you one more
               time    (CAN)

LF29   I'll kiss yours if you kiss mine   (US)

LF30    You can make bread and I can make wine , we can ask our
               friends to stay    (UK)


There you go !

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 08:30 AM

Yup, bdfk, "seed" being me in an earlier incarnation. The wonders of the forum search engine, huh?

Charles (I accidentally posted this to the thread where I originally posted the song, so it has been gratuitously revived)

I noticed in that thread something I've noticed in some other revived threads--sometimes things come out backwards--the posting times indicate that the order of messages is a bit confused. I didn't notice until now that the late great Rick Fielding asked me a question I never answered, about the Born Once Gospel Singers (few of whom are religious, but we all love gospel music--and I'm the only member who calls us that).

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 08:36 AM

LF 23--5 Foot Flirt--Cyril Tawney

LF 25--Folk Song Army--Tom Lehrer

LF 28--4 Strong Winds--Ian Tyson

LF 29--Marching To Pretoria--(just a guess, could easily be wrong)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 08:46 AM

3 out 0f 4 Ron - LF29 is the error !! Try again !!

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 09:00 AM

LF 27 Forest Lawns - Tom Paxton

Oggie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bfdk
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 09:21 AM

LF22 Old loves lose young feelings but new ones they gain (UK)
Ralph McTell - First Song

LF24 Tell it to tomorrow today will take its time (UK)
Fog on the Tyne (Lindisfarne, but whether they also wrote it, I don't know)

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 03:03 PM

OK, I've been stumped for the first time on a song I actually know!   I should've gotten the "Miss Otis Regrets" line.   It rang a bell but I just couldn't put my finger on it.


Here are a couple more for you guys to ponder:

G-25 "He tucked his nightie 'round his knees and he drifted down to Hell."

G-26 "'This relationship is answering a basic need, and I'd like to have it legally guaranteed."

G-27 "You come home straight and you come home curly."

G-28 "She picked him up all in her arms and carried him to the town
And sent for a physician, who quickly healed his wounds."

G-29 "The fairest lass of Saginaw let tears of anguish flow,
But her moans and cries could not awake her true love ____"

G-30 "Sweet guinea pigs do it -- Buy a couple and wait!"

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: oggie
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 05:50 PM

G-27 'Speed of the sound of loneliness' or something similar - think I've heard as a duet John Prine & Nanci Griffiths.

All the best

Oggie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 07:25 PM

G-30 sounds like "Let's Fall in Love."

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 08:56 PM

CK 7--...I was looking from bottle to bottle for something I'm foolish to say...
    Kris Kristofferson, "The Silver Tongued Devil and I"

"You come home straight and you come home curly", sometimes you don't come home at all..
    Yes, John Prine wrote "The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 08:57 PM

Close, but not quite, chaskratz.

And, yes, Oggie, the "straight/curly" line is from John Prine's "Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness," which Nanci Griffith has recorded both with and without him.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 10:34 PM

No, Frogprince, "unfoolish" is correct. "I'm foolish" makes no sense there. Think about it: He wants to meet the girl in the bar, is trying to figure out how to approach her, what he can say, and doesn't want to say something foolish--it's a great image, as one knows who has spent his time in bars looking from bottle to bottle and who never had a "line." Besides, I used to have the song book which accompanied the album, which I still have.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Genie
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 01:15 AM

Frogprince and Chaskratz, I have a hunch you guys are thinking of the right song for the "guinea pigs" line, but you have the title wrong.

Genie

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: chazkratz
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 09:13 AM

Genie, I was thinking of the song which begins "The birds do it, the bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let's do it, let's fall in love." Is not the title of that song "Let's Fall in Love"?

And that's not the song Frogprince and I were quibbling about--that was CK 7 from my last list.

Charles

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 10:49 AM

G-26 I've heard--pretty sure Carly does it--I've heard her do it--but I sure can't remember what it's called. A feminist song--romantic tale-- but really updated.

Ends "And they tended to be happy--more often than not"--but I still can't remember what it's called.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 12:19 PM

Is G25 Harry Pollit ?
G