Lyrics meme answers

[pedanther]

Here are the answers to the lyrics meme, including several I'm astonished my friendslist didn't get:


1. Freude, schöner Götterfunken / Tochter aus Elysium
("Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.)

2. [title] / You can't have your love and cheat it
("You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It", Fats Waller.)

3. If you wanna make me happy / Here's all you gotta do
("La La I Love You", Don McLean)

4. [title] is run with precision / A British home requires nothing less
("A British Bank", from Mary Poppins. Identified by justice_turtle)

5. [title] / While I still believe the meaning of the word
("I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love", Peter Allen)

6. Pa started in a-runnin' / When he heared the whistle blow
("Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma", Spike Jones and His City Slickers)

7. I feel like a spinning top or a [title] / The spinning don't stop when you leave the cradle
("Dreidel", Don McLean)

8. [title] / [title] / Someone's calling
("Chloe", sung here by Spike Jones and His City Slickers)

9. My bills were all due / And the babies need shoes
("Busted", sung here by Johnny Cash)

10. You can go, but [title] / You can go, but while you're working
("Be Back Soon" from Oliver!)

11. Ooh, I've had sleepless nights / Toss and turn / Wake up burning for what you inspire
("Walking Down Your Street", The Bangles)

12. When I see you on the street / I lose my concentration
("If We Try", Don McLean)

13. No-one to walk with / All by myself
("Ain't Misbehavin'", Fats Waller. Identified by swordznsorcery)

14. Poor Jacky's on the street with a bottle of grog / [title]
("Hard Hard Times", Eric Bogle)

15. Can somebody change? / It's possible
("Reviewing the Situation (reprise)" from Oliver!. Identified by splanky)

16. After seven years behind these bars together / I'll miss you more than a brother when you go
("Send a Picture of Mother", Johnny Cash)

17. Grr arrgh
(End credits from Once More With Feeling. Identified by swordznsorcery)

18. Sometimes you walk like an angel / Sometimes you walk like a man
("Like a River", Kasey Chambers)

19. Have you seen the well-to-do / Up on Lenox Avenue?
("Puttin' On the Ritz", sung here by Fred Astaire. Identified by swordznsorcery)

20. Calling all brothers / The world around
("Let the Mothers Step Up", Eric Bibb)

21. [title] and it's growing light / I look out my window and remember the night
("Saturday Morning", Harry Chapin)

22. De la paisible nuit / nous rompons le silence
("Cantique de Jean Racine", sung here by the mouse chorus from Babe. This is the one I mentioned where the track fades in partway through the first verse.)

23. A British nanny must be a general / The future Empire lies within her hands
("The Perfect Nanny", from Mary Poppins. Identified by justice_turtle)

24. When marimba rhythms start to play / Dance with me, make me [title]
("Sway", sung here by Rosemary Clooney. Identified by swordznsorcery)

25. I found him by the railroad track this morning / I could see that he was nearly dead
("Give My Love to Rose", Johnny Cash)

26. And if she asks you why / You can tell her that I told you
("Castles in the Air", Don McLean)

27. Yeah, baby / Yeah, I been drinking
("Guilty", sung here by the Blues Brothers)

28. Wise men say / Only fools rush in
("Can't Help Falling in Love", sung here by Andy Williams. Identified by justice_turtle)

29. [title] / Left me a mule to ride
("She Caught the Katy", sung here by the Blues Brothers)

30. Hey man / Where you going with that load of nothing in your hand?
("Going Down to Liverpool", The Bangles)

Comments

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

If I'd been on LJ lately, I think all I'd have got would have been the Mary Poppins ones and maybe "Ain't Misbehavin'".

[igenlode.livejournal.com]

"Be Back Soon" I really should have spotted, particularly given the earlier identification of "Reviewing the Situation": in mitigation I plead that it's very disorienting having the words from the title missing out of that first couplet...

[pedanther]

It is disorienting, isn't it? I'm not sure I like this version of the meme as much. (Last time it came around, the rule was to skip entirely any songs where the title appeared in the opening lines. That meant a more restricted set of songs, but at least the players got a full quote to work with.)