Lyrics meme

[pedanther]

I've just finished a long-overdue reorg of my music collection, and I have a new music player with a better shuffle function than the old one, so this seems like an appropriate moment to have another go at the old Lyrics Shuffle Meme.

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few lines of the first thirty pieces of music that come up, with the title, if it appears, redacted. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless internet denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating. For musical songs, the name of the musical is acceptable in place of the artist. Leeway is also given for traditional ballads, jazz standards, etc.


1.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
(identified by sqbr, thedarlingone)

2.
That is no country for old men
The young in one another's arms

3.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun
You find the fun, and snap! the job's a game
(identified by thedarlingone)

4.
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go

5.
You always said that I'd be back again
That I'd come running to you in the end

6.
When you're standin' alone with the mountains and the sea
Where the arms of the world open wide

7.
[TITLE] like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
(identified by sqbr, thedarlingone)

8.
[TITLE]
I gotta right to feel low down

9.
This the way
I always dreamed it would be

10.
Again, I was on my to London, through towns and villages that were blackened ruins, totally silent, desolate, deserted.
(identified by igenlode)

11.
I'm like Humpty Dumpty
Up on the garden wall

12.
I never traveled further north than old Van Cortlandt Park
And never further south than the aquarium

13.
[TITLE] [TITLE]
That was the mite with the large appetite
(identified by igenlode)

14.
Imagine life were a [TITLE]
There'd be music all the time

15.
Around the shores of England, that stretch toward the sea
There dwell an ancient people, and they labour mightily

16.
I remember when I was a lad, times were hard and things were bad
But there's a silver lining behind every cloud
(identified by thedarlingone)

17.
Valjean, at last we see each other plain
Monsieur le maire, you'll wear a different chain
(identified by thedarlingone)

18.
They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia
Saying Steve, you're way behind time

19.
Come on and hear [TITLE] man cry
Any yam today?

20.
Ladies and gentlemen, I take pride in introducing
The greatest show on earth
Liza Elliott's Gargantuan Three-Ring Circus

21.
When the summer sun is shining on Australia's happy land
Round countless fires in strange attires in many southern bands
(identified by fred_mouse)

22.
[TITLE]
Wearing sandals, lighting candles by the sea

23.
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
(identified by thisbluespirit)

24.
I saw you today
She's lovely, you're such a heavenly pair

25.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
(identified by sqbr, thedarlingone)

26.
People say I'm no good, and crazy as a loon
'Cause I get stoned in the morning and get drunk in the afternoon

27.
When I'm with you, I shake inside
My heart's all tangled up, my tongue is tied

28.
He's a born undertaker's mute
I can see him in his black silk suit
(identified by igenlode)

29.
Ain't it a glorious day?
Right as a morning in May
(identified by thedarlingone)

30.
[TITLE]
Could supply my sky of blue?


Skipped: 16 instrumentals, 3 choral works in Latin (where even if I could have made out the words I didn't think anybody would be able to pin them), and 1 audio book chapter


Bonus round!

This was the very first track to come up in the shuffle. If you can identify it, you win the game immediately:

1.
[TITLE]
[TITLE]
[TITLE]