Lyrics meme

[pedanther]

Here are the answers to the lyrics meme from last month, a bit later than I originally intended to post them:


1.
There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
-- "The Elements", Tom Lehrer
(identified by sqbr, thedarlingone)

2.
That is no country for old men
The young in one another's arms
-- "Sailing to Byzantium", Paul Kelly (a setting of the poem by Yeats)

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
-- "A Spoonful of Sugar", from Mary Poppins
(identified by thedarlingone)

4.
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go
Come on! Oh baby don't you wanna go
-- "Sweet Home Chicago", blues standard, here performed by The Blues Brothers

5.
You always said that I'd be back again
That I'd come running to you in the end
-- "Not Alone Anymore", The Traveling Wilburys

6.
When you're standin' alone with the mountains and the sea
Where the arms of the world open wide
-- "All His Children", Henry Mancini

7.
[TITLE] like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
-- "Morning Has Broken", hymn, here performed by Cat Stevens
(identified by sqbr, thedarlingone)

8.
[TITLE]
I gotta right to feel low down
-- "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues", blues standard, here performed by Louis Armstrong

9.
This the way
I always dreamed it would be
-- "I Can Hear Music", The Beach Boys

10.
Again, I was on my to London, through towns and villages that were blackened ruins, totally silent, desolate, deserted.
-- "The Artilleryman Returns", from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
(identified by igenlode)

11.
I'm like Humpty Dumpty
Up on the garden wall
-- "I'm Building Up to an Awful Let-Down", Fred Astaire

12.
I never traveled further north than old Van Cortlandt Park
And never further south than the aquarium
-- "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block", from Life Begins at 8:40, here performed by Ella Fitzgerald

13.
[TITLE] [TITLE]
That was the mite with the large appetite
-- "Oliver! (Reprise)" from Oliver!, original cast recording
(identified by igenlode)

14.
Imagine life were a [TITLE]
There'd be music all the time
-- "Silent Movie", Frenchy and the Punk

15.
Around the shores of England, that stretch toward the sea
There dwell an ancient people, and they labour mightily
-- "The Fishermen of England", from The Rebel Maid, here performed by Peter Dawson

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

17.
Valjean, at last we see each other plain
Monsieur le maire, you'll wear a different chain
-- "The Confrontation", from Les Miserables, 10th Anniversary concert recording
(identified by thedarlingone)

18.
They gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia
Saying Steve, you're way behind time
-- "The Wreck of the Old 97", folk song, here performed by The Seekers

19.
Come on and hear [TITLE] man cry
Any yam today?
-- "The Yam", Fred Astaire

20.
Ladies and gentlemen, I take pride in introducing
The greatest show on earth
Liza Elliott's Gargantuan Three-Ring Circus
-- "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)" from Lady in the Dark, Danny Kaye

21.
When the summer sun is shining on Australia's happy land
Round countless fires in strange attires in many southern bands
-- "The Aussie Bar-B-Q", Eric Bogle
(identified by fred_mouse)

22.
[TITLE]
Wearing sandals, lighting candles by the sea
-- "(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica", Tom Lehrer

23.
Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner
But he knew it couldn't last
-- "Get Back", The Beatles with Billy Preston
(identified by thisbluespirit)

24.
I saw you today
She's lovely, you're such a heavenly pair
-- "Angels Don't Fall in Love", The Bangles

25.
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
-- "Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen
(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
-- "Long Haired Country Boy", Charlie Daniels

27.
When I'm with you, I shake inside
My heart's all tangled up, my tongue is tied
-- "I Get Weak", Belinda Carlisle

28.
He's a born undertaker's mute
I can see him in his black silk suit
-- "That's Your Funeral", from Oliver!, original cast recording
(identified by igenlode)

29.
Ain't it a glorious day?
Right as a morning in May
-- "Jolly Holiday", from Mary Poppins
(identified by thedarlingone)

30.
[TITLE]
Could supply my sky of blue?
-- "After You - Who?", Fred Astaire

Bonus round:

1.
[TITLE]
[TITLE]
[TITLE]
-- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child", spiritual, performed here by Paul Robeson


This is a fairly representative sample of my music collection, although once again the Charlie Daniels entry is a song I don't like from the album I bought solely for "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".

I'm amused to note that this time round the list includes both the Tom Lehrer patter song "The Elements" and one of its inspirations, the Danny Kaye patter song "Tchaikovsky (and other Russians)" -- although the latter was harder to spot, because the recording I have includes the two-and-half-minute recitative lead-in from the stage show, and I gave the opening lines of the recitative instead of the opening lines of the patter song ("There's Maliszewski, Rubinstein, Arensky, and Tchaikovsky..."). Though I don't know if anybody now would have recognised it even if I had started there.

Comments

[igenlode]

I should have spotted "The Fishermen of England" -- I even have the Peter Dawson recording sitting about three feet away from me -- but I'm afraid I simply don't recognise the verse at all. (It sounded vaguely like a Kipling lyric to me.)