(Quiz) What song is this line from ?

Subject: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 07:38 PM

In this quiz you get a line from a well known song, you can give a clue if you wish. Don't make them too difficult.
Here are a few for starters.

1. Our leaders are the finest men and we elect them again and again.

2. Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood and I don't care if the money's no good.

3.And though your jewel-encrusted blade has not been plundered still
the sea has washed across your face and taken of its fill.

4.If I could make days last forever If words could make wishes come true

5. This is my country and I sprang from her and I’m learning how to count upon her.

6.And at the age of thirteen I thought I was carrying the weight of the whole world on my shoulders.

Hope you like it, just something to get the brain thinking.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 07:42 PM

2. The Night they drove old Dixie down?:-) (Are these Cross-the-pond-centric or any ol' place?)

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 07:46 PM

1. What Did You Learn in School Today?               Tom Paxton

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bobad
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 07:48 PM

3. Conquistador

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From: CallyH
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 07:50 PM

4. Time in a Bottle    Jim Croce

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 07:54 PM

Will done all of you, bobad, you got the hard one, old favourite of mine. Only 5 & 6 to go. One a hit for a female American artist the other a male American artist. Now get thinking up a few more.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: bobad
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 07:58 PM

I remembered the song but don't know who did it.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:03 PM

Here are some more:




7. How the world fell on his shoulders down in Boulder I don't know.


8. Youll remember youre the one
That called on them to call on him
To get your favors done.

9. He was wined and speeched and honored, everybody shook his hand.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:05 PM

THEM chopping wood?

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:07 PM

A few more before I go to bed.
1.We'll go walking out while others shout of war's disaster. (UK)

2.And you know that peace can only be won when we've blown 'em all to kingdom come. (US)

3.`I will fix your rat if you'll take Jack my dog'' (US)

4.Look at him working, daring his socks in the night when there's nobody there. (UK)

5.Neither one will give in So we gaze at our eight by ten (US)


6.And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus Rollin' down highway 41.(US)

All songs my favourites. Well night folks from Ireland and thanks.
DS

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:10 PM

Procol Harum, bobad, Sorry you are right Gurney, it was them.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:11 PM

Number 5 in the first post: Buffy's "Soldier Blue".

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: John O'L
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:21 PM

pdq -

7 - Gorfon Lightfoot's Ten Degrees & Getting Colder

8 - Dylan's Wheels On Fire

9 - (I'm guessing) Paul Simon's Richard Cory?

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:25 PM

They were easy, medium, harder. Hint: #9 is written by a man who took his own life.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: John O'L
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:31 PM

Divis Sweeney's 2nd no. 4 is of course Eleanor Rigby and his 2nd no. 6 is driving me nuts - I know it's The Allman Bros., but I can't for the life of me think of the song

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From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:32 PM

"3.`I will fix your rat if you'll take Jack my dog'' (US)"

From "The Weight" by The Band.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:34 PM

Er, could you folks possibly mean 'fix your rack"?

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From: John O'L
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:35 PM

Ramblin' Man.

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From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 08:57 PM

2. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag, by Country Joe McDonald

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From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 10:56 PM

Second # 6:

"Ramblin' Man" by the Allman Brothers.

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From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 11:32 PM

5.Neither one will give in So we gaze at our eight by ten (US)

"The Games People Play". Joe South (?)

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Old Guy
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:19 AM

3.`I will fix your rat if you'll take Jack my dog'' (US)

It's rack not rat. Don't know the meaning.


a. I'm a union man now all the way.

b. O then, tell me Sean O'Farrell,tell me why you hurry so?

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: John O'L
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:44 AM

Opinion on the internet seems to be divided among 'rat', 'rack' and even 'rags'. It may or may not be interesting to note that there is a dog called a Rat Terrier, and another dog called a Jack Russell...

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 03:34 AM

Answers to two above
6.And at the age of thirteen I thought I was carrying the weight of the whole world on my shoulders. Was clarence Carter, Patches.

1.We'll go walking out while others shout of war's disaster. (UK)
Was Jethro Tull, Living in the past.

Old Guy,
a. I'm a union man now all the way.   Answer King Harvest.
b. O then, tell me Sean O'Farrell,tell me why you hurry so?
Answer, The rising of the moon.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 03:55 AM

5 was Buffy St Maries Soldier Blue.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 03:58 AM

And great song it was eric.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 04:51 AM

1
FAREWELL LOVE ME CANNY LASS
2 the liy of the valley the primrose of the dell.
3 the dolphin with a smile played a tiune upon his viol .
4 while beating off magellan straits.
heres two contemporary two traditional, all english.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 05:00 AM

Can only get one so far,
1. Whitby Whaler ?

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From: Paul from Hull
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 05:16 AM

Yep, Whitby Whaler, Divis (IS that the EXACT title, Cap'n?)

2nd is Bogey's Bonny Belle.

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From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:22 AM

Is 4. Magellan Storms And Mutiny ?

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From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:23 AM

third is the Sailors dream, fourth is the Gallant frigate Amphitrite.HERES SOME MORE .
The sun went down and the moon advanced.
Its first they eat the white puddings then they eat the black.
I dealther the ace but myself the poor Jack.
think ill wait till sunset.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:27 AM

3rd is 'The Game of All Fours'

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From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:28 AM

yes The Whitby Whaler by Richard Grainger. Sailors Dream by CAPTAIN B

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 07:35 AM

1.Your candle is burning the wheels are turning what you gonna do? (uk)

2.I remember holding you while you sleep, every day I feel the tears that you weep.

3.I like beer, and I like cheese I like the smell of a westerly breeze (UK)

4.The other night he brought me a fine diamond ring But he thought to have deprived me of a far better thing. (UK)

5. write braille get jailed, jump bail, join the army, if you fail. (UK)

6.Then I thought of Oxnard, just north of LA where I picked strawberries for many a day. (US)

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 07:43 AM

Sorry 5. should be (US).
2. Is (UK)

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:12 AM

1. "My Brother Jake" by Free.
2. "Day After Day" by Badfinger.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:26 AM

Ah a man who knows his music. Well done alanabit.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:35 AM

New #5 is "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (Bob Dylan).

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From: Cool Beans
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:36 AM

Why isn't this in Music up top? It's BS but it's musical BS.

Agreed, Mr. Beans. I have changed it...... Mudelf

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:40 AM

(I like beer, and I like cheese I like the smell of a westerly breeze ) A fine British guitarist, famed for a horror film score.

(The other night he brought me a fine diamond ring But he thought to have deprived me of a far better thing.) English folk group who enjoyed chart success mid 1970's. Female lead singer.

(write braille get jailed, jump bail, join the army, if you fail)
At Live Aid in 1985, he said don't forget the farmers at home.

(Then I thought of Oxnard, just north of LA where I picked strawberries for many a day)
He wrote this with his wife June in a hotel room after seeing a tramp at the doors of the hotel looking in at the dessert table.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:50 AM

Was thinking about including the song 98.6 by keith. Then again maybe not !
Good afrernoon Keith.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:51 AM

NO1 OF MY QUIZ WAS Isle of france
3 JohnBlunt 4 Sally free and easy. by cyril Tawney.

Subject: RE: BS: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:56 AM

Should of got Isle of France, well done Captain.

Please note that I have changed this to a music thread, and modified the name. Fun thread. .... Mudelf

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:18 AM

The term 'rack' means 'bed' or 'a place to sleep'. Similar slang includes 'sack' as ' hop in the sack' and 'crib', as in 'I got me a nice li'l crib downtown'.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: jaze
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:33 AM

6.-Patches-??

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From: jaze
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:36 AM

Sorry, just realized you already answered it-but I was right!

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Midchuck
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:38 AM

pdq's #9 is Ira Hayes by Peter LaFarge, I believe. (No, Johnny Cash didn't write it.)

Peter.

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Flash Company
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 11:16 AM

Midchuck, You just beat me to 'Ira Hayes', And I believe that Pete LaFarge was stuck for ages on that line. It was actually provided by Cisco Houston!

Try These:-

And he's mounted on his berry brown steed

What fond delight will steal upon me...

I can see the share-crop farmer as he wipes his sweaty brow

FC

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: pdq
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 11:48 AM

1'                "There's bugs in my bed
                   My Pants so old they shine"

2'                "Cause I'm a picker, I'm a grinner
                   I'm a lover and I'm a sinner"

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

4'                "The same rowdy crowd that was here last night
                   Is back again"

5.                "If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away,
                   There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave."

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

Subject: RE: (Quiz) What song is this line from ?
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:13 PM

Well I was happy enough with it in the other section, but you know best. I don't visit this section.


Here are the other answers.

3.I like beer, and I like cheese I like the smell of a westerly breeze (UK) On horeseback, Mike Oldfield.

4.The other night he brought me a fine diamond ring But he thought to have deprived me of a far better thing. (UK) All around my hat.

6.Then I thought of Oxnard, just north of LA where I picked strawberries for many a day. (US) Strawberry Cake, J. Cash.