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Thread #56680   Message #887480
Posted By: IanC
11-Feb-03 - 06:02 AM
Thread Name: Quiz: Un Autre Alphabet Quiz
Subject: Quiz: Un Autre Alphabet Quiz

Un Autre Alphabet Quiz!


Here's another complete alphabet, entirely made up of songs (all but one, I think, are in the
DT). Answers, as usual, on the forum.

A – Whilst perambulating one morning in May, he wishes the Queen would recall the troops.
B - North London official's daughter waits 7 years before travelling in search of her beau.
C - Malicious sibling causes a tragedy in Berkshire.
D - Mythical animal with too much of everything.
E - They're the best, because the rest's not worth twopence (or so they think).
F - In search of agrarian employment, the lad'll do whatever's required.
G - He went to Brighton. She didn't. Now he's missing her.
H - "Praise the lord", Al Jolson sang, "Begging is the life for me!"
I - Being the couple in the pretty ring time ... however the old bard prefers.
J - An ideal accompaniment for a tidy fire and a small apple.
K - Old campaigner lives happily on his pension, though you'd probably say he's badly damaged.
L - A tall antihero leaves blood everywhere, though it's his woman who burns.
M - Oh dear! He's like Dorothy's lion.
N – Caught on the way to the theatre with his wife, he admits to having a wild and wicked youth.
O - Subtractive song of seduction ends at the beginning, with ejaculation.
P - Hell on earth, or at least Australia. Even the blacksmith's sober.
Q - Jack's bought a basket of eggs, now he has to christen it.
R - Song extolling the virtues of Irish stew, sex and (at least in the DT) prison.
S - Straying in search of his scattered charges, he won't come home without a pretty girl.
T – He's the hammer man, whilst the boy has another job… more a mover than a shaker.
U - Weep for this garden implement, and bury it if you will.
V - The artist is neither legless nor armless, but suffers in common with Mark Anthony.
W - Norfolk fisherman's song, popularised by "The Dubliners".
X - A fine summer's day for a fight, though Napoleon may not have thought so.
Y - Liverpool folk song, by Rogers and Hammerstein!
Z - Western ballad in which it is demonstrated that education need not be a disadvantage.


If you do as well as for the previous quizzes, it should take about 3 - 5 hours or so, though I've noticed that there's less activity on Mudcat these days.
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Collaboration is strongly encouraged and comments about songs, tunes, writers, performers
(or anything else) are very welcome.

Good luck.
Ian