...ten thousand dollars/At the drop of a hat/I'd give it all gladly if our live could be like that....

If you had any songs in your life I think that the memories they are tied to will be evoked when you hear them. Some will be trivial, and some non-existent. But the others will return full bore and take you back to other, not necessarily better, times.

For example, "Lili Marlene" will bring back to me memories not of WW2, but of standing on a drill floor with the rest of my National Guard unit, being sent on "up to two years Federal Active Duty." Why they played "Lili" I'll never know, but they did. I can't remember the other songs that were played -- marches, probably -- but the disjunction of playing something probably 95% of the guys never heard of as they prepared to go off to Vietnam was what struck me at the time and which I remember now.