100 Songs Meme
Feb. 28th, 2008 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinLovingly ripped off from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deltashade
STEP ONE) put your music on random
STEP B) post the first lyric of the first a lot of songs
STEP III) make the peons who read your journal guess the songs WITHOUT CHEATING
1. When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky...
2. The winter here's cold, and bitter.
3. A Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair.
4. Oh, come and dance with me, my baby.
5. Jesus, I am overjoyed to meet you face to face.
6. Darken the city, night is a wire.
7. And if I die today, I'll be the happy phantom.
8. The time has come to be a lover from the Argentine.
9. Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
10. I remember the day that he came in, windy cold and damp.
11. Driving in my Saab, on my way to Ireland.
12. At the watering holes of the well-to-do, a detect I resistance to our heroine's style.
13. I'm sailing away my own true love, sailing away in the morning.
14. One for the morning glory, two for the early dew...
15. Give it up for me, please.
16. It's bad luck to say good luck on opening night.
17. I'll tell my ma when I go home the boys won't leave the girls alone.
18. There's a land that is fairer than thee.
19. My heart is low, my heart is so low, as only a woman's heart can be.
20. High is the moon tonight, hiding its guiding light, high.
21. McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed.
22. Moving forward, using all my breath.
23. A place where nobody dared to go, the love that we came to know...
24. Squint your eyes and look closer, I'm not between you and your ambition.
25. Oh, Mario, sit here by the window, stay here till we reach Idaho.
26. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms which I gaze on so fondly today...
27. I wish I could go back to college, life was so simple back then.
28. She thinks but alone, in a noiseless room.
29. Well, he lit you up like Amber Waves in his movie show.
30. I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green...
31. If you don't treat me better, maybe I'll just run away
32. Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?
33. Every finger in the room is pointing at me.
34. Oh, they tell me of a home far beyond the skies.
35. Every time I see your face I get all wet between my legs.
36. You'll remember me when the west wind moves among the fields of barley.
37. As I was walking through Dublin City, about the hour of twelve at night...
38. Oh, erin gra ma chroi, you're the dear old land to me.
39. Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night.
40. Dear Elle, he's a lucky guy, I'm like, gonna cry, I've got tears coming out of my nose.
41. It's an honor and a privilege, a duty I perform, with due sense of decorum, and with pride.
42. There's been some confusion over rooming here at Shiz.
43. I was young, I knew everything... she a punk who rarely ever took advice.
44. Leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do.
45. She's addicted to nicotine patches.
46. It's good, isn't it grand, isn't it great, isn't it swell, isn't it fun, isn't it?
47. I can show you the world, shining, shimmering, splendid.
48. Well, I'm on the Downeaster Alexa, and I'm cruising through Block Island Sound.
49. Sé mo laoch mo Ghile Mear.
50. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Maria, dominus tecum.
51. This was a triumph. I'm making a note here -- HUGE SUCCESS.
52. I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me.
53. The minstrel boy to the war hath gone, in the ranks of death you will find him.
54. I know my love by his way of walkin', and I know my love by his way of talkin'.
55. I hear your voice on the wind.
56. Of all the money that e'er I spent, I spent it in good company.
57. Sunday is gloomy, and my hours are slumberless dear as the shadows I live with are numberless.
58. We skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels across the floor.
59. You know that it would be untrue, you know that I would be a liar...
60. He's just a hero in a long line of heroes, looking for something attractive to save.
61. I've heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord...
62. Every time I look at you, I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand.
63. No one's picking up the phone... guess it's me, and me.
64. An old man came courting me, hey ding-doorum down.
65. There's no time for us, there's no place for us.
66. One pills makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.
67. Down once more to the dungeons of my black despair, down we plunge to the prison of my mind.
68. I met my love by the gas works wall.
69. Feels like I'm standing in a timeless dream of light mists, of pale amber rose.
70. Let the farmer praise his grounds, let the huntsman praise his hounds...
71. Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach.
72. In Banbridge Town near the County Down one morning last July.
73. This old man I've talked about broke his own heart, poured it in the ground.
74. Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, and he shows them pearly white.
75. Raven hair, and ruby lips... sparks fly from her finger tips.
76. Is love so fragile, and the heart so hollow...
77. He deals the cards as a meditation, and those he plays never suspect...
78. When we wore a heart of stone, we wandered to the sea.
79. Give it to me, don't give it away, don't think about what the others say.
80. Who would steal on Sunday? Who'd make them believe make-believe?
81. As I cam in by Auchendoun just a wee bit fae the toon
82. Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides, figures dance around and around.
83. I walk along the city streets you used to walk along with me.
84. We are not yet wed, and we are nearly at the end.
85. Hello, Mr. Zebra...
86. I wear my sunglass at night so I can, so I can watch you weave and breathe your story lines.
87. Don't breathe too deep, don't think all day. Dive into work, drive the other way.
88. Phaorah, he was a powerful man, with the ancient world in the palm of his hand.
89. The water is wide, I can't swim over and neither have I wings to fly.
90. My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind and my father won't slight you for your lack of kind"
91. When you've got it, flaunt it... step right up and strut your stuff.
92. Come all you loyal heroes, where ever that you be.
93. The cocks are crowing, daylight is appearing. It's drawing nigh to the break of day.
94. The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload.
95. Galway girls don't use no comb.
96. Dream all you want, my darling, of every lustful situation.
97. How can I be sure when your intrusion is my illusion?
98. You think that I go home at night, take off my clothes, turn off the lights.
99. True, you ride the finest horse I've ever seen.
100. Oh, was you ever on the Congo River?
deltashadeSTEP ONE) put your music on random
STEP B) post the first lyric of the first a lot of songs
STEP III) make the peons who read your journal guess the songs WITHOUT CHEATING
1. When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky...
2. The winter here's cold, and bitter.
3. A Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair.
4. Oh, come and dance with me, my baby.
5. Jesus, I am overjoyed to meet you face to face.
6. Darken the city, night is a wire.
7. And if I die today, I'll be the happy phantom.
8. The time has come to be a lover from the Argentine.
9. Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
10. I remember the day that he came in, windy cold and damp.
11. Driving in my Saab, on my way to Ireland.
12. At the watering holes of the well-to-do, a detect I resistance to our heroine's style.
13. I'm sailing away my own true love, sailing away in the morning.
14. One for the morning glory, two for the early dew...
15. Give it up for me, please.
16. It's bad luck to say good luck on opening night.
17. I'll tell my ma when I go home the boys won't leave the girls alone.
18. There's a land that is fairer than thee.
19. My heart is low, my heart is so low, as only a woman's heart can be.
20. High is the moon tonight, hiding its guiding light, high.
21. McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed.
22. Moving forward, using all my breath.
23. A place where nobody dared to go, the love that we came to know...
24. Squint your eyes and look closer, I'm not between you and your ambition.
25. Oh, Mario, sit here by the window, stay here till we reach Idaho.
26. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms which I gaze on so fondly today...
27. I wish I could go back to college, life was so simple back then.
28. She thinks but alone, in a noiseless room.
29. Well, he lit you up like Amber Waves in his movie show.
30. I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green...
31. If you don't treat me better, maybe I'll just run away
32. Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?
33. Every finger in the room is pointing at me.
34. Oh, they tell me of a home far beyond the skies.
35. Every time I see your face I get all wet between my legs.
36. You'll remember me when the west wind moves among the fields of barley.
37. As I was walking through Dublin City, about the hour of twelve at night...
38. Oh, erin gra ma chroi, you're the dear old land to me.
39. Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night.
40. Dear Elle, he's a lucky guy, I'm like, gonna cry, I've got tears coming out of my nose.
41. It's an honor and a privilege, a duty I perform, with due sense of decorum, and with pride.
42. There's been some confusion over rooming here at Shiz.
43. I was young, I knew everything... she a punk who rarely ever took advice.
44. Leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do.
45. She's addicted to nicotine patches.
46. It's good, isn't it grand, isn't it great, isn't it swell, isn't it fun, isn't it?
47. I can show you the world, shining, shimmering, splendid.
48. Well, I'm on the Downeaster Alexa, and I'm cruising through Block Island Sound.
49. Sé mo laoch mo Ghile Mear.
50. Ave Maria, gratia plena, Maria, dominus tecum.
51. This was a triumph. I'm making a note here -- HUGE SUCCESS.
52. I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me.
53. The minstrel boy to the war hath gone, in the ranks of death you will find him.
54. I know my love by his way of walkin', and I know my love by his way of talkin'.
55. I hear your voice on the wind.
56. Of all the money that e'er I spent, I spent it in good company.
57. Sunday is gloomy, and my hours are slumberless dear as the shadows I live with are numberless.
58. We skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels across the floor.
59. You know that it would be untrue, you know that I would be a liar...
60. He's just a hero in a long line of heroes, looking for something attractive to save.
61. I've heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord...
62. Every time I look at you, I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand.
63. No one's picking up the phone... guess it's me, and me.
64. An old man came courting me, hey ding-doorum down.
65. There's no time for us, there's no place for us.
66. One pills makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.
67. Down once more to the dungeons of my black despair, down we plunge to the prison of my mind.
68. I met my love by the gas works wall.
69. Feels like I'm standing in a timeless dream of light mists, of pale amber rose.
70. Let the farmer praise his grounds, let the huntsman praise his hounds...
71. Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach.
72. In Banbridge Town near the County Down one morning last July.
73. This old man I've talked about broke his own heart, poured it in the ground.
74. Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, and he shows them pearly white.
75. Raven hair, and ruby lips... sparks fly from her finger tips.
76. Is love so fragile, and the heart so hollow...
77. He deals the cards as a meditation, and those he plays never suspect...
78. When we wore a heart of stone, we wandered to the sea.
79. Give it to me, don't give it away, don't think about what the others say.
80. Who would steal on Sunday? Who'd make them believe make-believe?
81. As I cam in by Auchendoun just a wee bit fae the toon
82. Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides, figures dance around and around.
83. I walk along the city streets you used to walk along with me.
84. We are not yet wed, and we are nearly at the end.
85. Hello, Mr. Zebra...
86. I wear my sunglass at night so I can, so I can watch you weave and breathe your story lines.
87. Don't breathe too deep, don't think all day. Dive into work, drive the other way.
88. Phaorah, he was a powerful man, with the ancient world in the palm of his hand.
89. The water is wide, I can't swim over and neither have I wings to fly.
90. My young love said to me, "My mother won't mind and my father won't slight you for your lack of kind"
91. When you've got it, flaunt it... step right up and strut your stuff.
92. Come all you loyal heroes, where ever that you be.
93. The cocks are crowing, daylight is appearing. It's drawing nigh to the break of day.
94. The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload.
95. Galway girls don't use no comb.
96. Dream all you want, my darling, of every lustful situation.
97. How can I be sure when your intrusion is my illusion?
98. You think that I go home at night, take off my clothes, turn off the lights.
99. True, you ride the finest horse I've ever seen.
100. Oh, was you ever on the Congo River?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:22 am (UTC)tl;dr;ng
no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:32 am (UTC)9. Scarborough Fair, knowing you possibly not the S&G version
24. 32 Flavors, Ani DiFranco
26. Believe Me If All These Endearing Young Charms, traditional
30. Whip-Smart, Liz Phair
33. Crucify, Tori
35. Flower, Liz Phair
36. Fields of Gold, Sting
43. Freshmen, Verve Pipe
45. Spark, Tori (sensing a theme here)
47. A Whole New World, from the little mermaid
48. Some Billy Joel song I only know from reading Girl's Bike Club.
50. Ave Maria, guessing the artist an exercise in futility
59. Light my Fire, the Doors
61. Hallelujah, originally by L. Cohen but probably the Jeff Buckley version
63. Hey Jupiter, Tori
66. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane/Starship/Something
68. Dirty Old Town, the Mountain Goats
73. Feed the Tree, Belly
74. Mack the Knife, who knows what version
77. That one Sting song from the credits of The Professional, name unknown.
85. Mr Zebra, Tori
that's all I can take
no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:23 am (UTC)9. Canticle - Simon y Garfunkel
16. You Never Say Good Luck on Opening Night - The Producers
27. I Wish I Could Go Back To College - Avenue Q
35. Flower - Liz Phair
40. Omigod You Guys - Legally Blonde
42. What is This Feeling? - Wicked
46. Nowadays - Chicago
47. A Whole New World - Aladdin
50. Ave Maria - like, everyone
61. Hallelujah - ditto
67. Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer - Phantom of the Opera
71. The Boys of Summer - cover or original? I dig the Ataris one, tbh.
74. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darrin/Michael Bublé
87. What You Own - Rent
98. Extraordinary - Liz Phair
\o/
91. When You Got It - The Producers
no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:35 am (UTC)The Boys of Summer is the Bree Sharp cover, for instance, and Mack the Knife is Jerry Orbach.
no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:39 am (UTC)9. "Scarborough Fair," Simon and Garfunkel
22. "Melt With You," Modern English
24. "32 Flavors," Ani DiFranco (though that might be a cover, I'm not sure if that really happened or I dreamed it...)
36. "Fields Of Gold," Sting
43. "The Freshmen," The Verve Pipe
47. "A Whole New World," Aladdin soundtrack
61. "Hallelujah," everybody ever in the history of ever
71. "Boys Of Summer," Don Henley
73. "Feed The Tree," Belly
86. "Sunglasses At Night," Cory Hart, I think?
98. "Extraordinary," Liz Phair
no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:52 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:40 am (UTC)3. Bryan Bowers -- The Scotsman
Lad, I don't know where ya been but I see you won first prize!
27. Avenue Q Soundtrack -- I Wish I Could Go Back To College
39. Fleetwood Mac -- Rhiannon <3!!!
43. The Verve Pipe -- The Freshman
48. Billy Joel -- The Downeaster Alexa (which I have memorized as all people born on Long Island are required to do)
65. Queen -- Who Wants To Live Forever?
66. Jefferson Airplane -- White Rabbit
71. Bryan Adams -- Boys of Summer
74. Mack the Knife
83. Naked Eyes -- Always Something There To Remind Me
86. Corey Hart -- Sunglasses At Night
no subject
on 2008-02-29 03:53 am (UTC)3. And you could tell from the way he walked that he'd drunk more than his share!
9. Man, it doesn't work if the title is right in the lyric.
17. THEY PULL MY HAIR, THEY STOLE MY COMB, BUT THAT'S ALRIGHT WHEN I GET HOME
26. Again with the title right in the lyric! But specifically it's the song that Bugs Bunny always plays and he misses the top note because the piano is rigged to explode. :D
32. Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
35. EVERY TIME YOU PASS ME BY I HEAVE A SIGH OF PAIN
43. Now I'm guilt-stricken sobbin' with my head on the floor.
47. TELL ME PRINCESS, NOW WHEN DID YOU LAST LET YOUR HEART DECIDE?
61. But you don't really care for music, do ya?
66. ASK ALICE (DOOMP DOOMP DOOMP) WHEN SHE'S TEN FEET TALLLLLLLLL (I love that song!)
79. My skin's getting clear my hair's so bright, all you do is fuck me every day and night!
98. But I burn letters that I write... to YOU, to MAKE you love meeeeeee!
no subject
on 2008-02-29 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
on 2008-03-02 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2008-06-10 07:42 am (UTC)48: Downeaster Alexa -- Billy Joel
72: Star of the County Down -- Traditional Irish, but the version I'm most familiar with is by Scott Hendricks (AKA Axel the Sot)