Post a line from a song & see if anyone knows the song without using Google...Part 6

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Post a Line or Two From a Song and See if Anyone Knows the Song Without using Google


1) "I bought a '30 Ford wagon and we call it a woody"" (answered)

2) "I've been living out of my suitcase for as long as I remember.. Life's the same, it doesn't change, It's a Gibson or a Fender" (answered)

3) "Tried Peggy Sue, Tried Betty Lou, Tried Mary Lou but I knew she wouldn't do" (answered)

4) "She don't eat no mashed potatoes, She don't eat no buttered scones.
She don't eat no carbohydrates, She's gonna' look like......" (answered)

5) "I won't take all that they hand me down/ And make out a smile though I wear a frown/ And I'm not going to take it all lying down" (answered)

6) "Pick you up at eight, and don't be late?" (correct)

7) "Well she's got her daddy's car and she's cruisin' through the hamburger stand now" (answered)

8) "When I take her to the track she really shines" (answered)

9) "I feel so broke up, I want to go home" (answered)

10) "I'm a twin-pipe Papa and I'm feelin' fine/ Hey man dig, that was a red stop sign" (answered)

11) "You women have heard of jalopies/ You've heard the noise they make" (answered)

12) "We always take my car, 'Cause it's never been beat/ And we've never missed yet with the girls we meet" (answered)

13) "I was cruising in my Sting Ray late one night" (answered)

14) "I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler/ About working all summer just-a trying to earn a dollar" (answered)

15) "What you gonna do tonight, When you need some loving hands to hold you tight"

16) "Well, I love you so, And I'll never let you go"

17) "Though you're nearest to my heart/ Please don't ever say we'll part"

18) "We could buy a trailer/ If we bought a trailer/ We could go to Vegas"

19) "I wake up every morning about 7 O'clock/ Catch the 9:02 and I make several stops"

20) "Your body functions but your hair's a disgrace/ You shouldn't let it hang all over your face"

21) "Oh when we walk, It feels like paradise/ And when we talk, it always feels so nice" (answered)

22) "She's a melody in search of the words 'I love you'/She's a rose with no room to grow/She's a light in the night with nowhere to shine"

23) "If you don't come soon, I'll be wearing a shroud"

24) "Hadn't of been for Grayson, I'd have been in Tennessee" (answered)



Unanswered lyrics from Part 5
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181143241

[surrealAmerican]

1. # 1 is Surf City

I always thought it was "a '34 wagon".
... oh, and #4 is "Skin and Bones" - the Kinks.

[red dog 1]

16. I always thought it was "I got a '34 wagon & we call it a woody" too

You got "Skin and Bones" right too....Great but little known Kinks song.

[underpants]

2. Just add water, stir in lime

The story is a sad one, told many times
The story of my life in trying times
Just add water, stir in lime
How the west was won and where it got us

[underpants]

3. #4 Flaming Lips "Vaseline"??

[red dog 1]

17. "Flaming Lips"?

# 4 is from The Kinks' "Skin and Bone"

[LeftishBrit]

4. (24) Tom Dooley

This time tomorrow, reckon where I'll be. Hadn't of been for Grayson, I'd have been in Tennessee.

[red dog 1]

18. Absolutely!

[Sanity Claws]

5. 12 is a Beach Boys song

I get around or something like that

[red dog 1]

19. "I Get Around" is correct!

A truly great Beach Boys song!

[ZZenith]

6. #6 Venus and Mars Rock Show?

[red dog 1]

20. No, it's from a '50s song

Hint: "The day the music died"

[Haggis for Breakfast]

103. "Bye bye Miss American Pie.

Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry . . . "

[ZZenith]

7. #9 Sloop John B?

[red dog 1]

21. Correctamundo!

What a great song!

[kydo]

8. #3, #6, #7, #9, #12 #14

#3 Barbara Anne
#6 Chantilly Lace
#7 Fun Fun Till her Daddy takes the t-bird away
#9 John B Sloop
#12 I get around
#14 Summer Time Blues

[oberliner]

14. Those were pretty much the only ones I knew also

[red dog 1]

22. Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

You got 'em all right!

[# 7 is "Fun Fun Fun"]

[ZZenith]

9. #14 Summertime Blues?

[red dog 1]

23. Yes!

Eddie Cochran began playing drums as a schoolboy, then taught himself guitar and piano, and he also wrote songs....very talented guy!

[Harker]

36. Eddie Cochran was

somethin' else.

[skylucy]

10. #13 Deadman's Curve

[red dog 1]

24. You got it!

[skylucy]

11. #7 Fun Fun Fun

[red dog 1]

25. Yes!

[mikeargo]

12. #4 is the Kinks

"Skin and Bones"

[red dog 1]

26. Yes it is

[oberliner]

13. OK here are the ones I know

3. Barbara Ann
6. Chantilly Lace
7. Fun Fun Fun (not sure if that's the title)
9. Sloop John B
12. I Get Around (sensing a theme here)

That's all I got.

[LeftishBrit]

15. 14: Summertime Blues

[Flaleftist]

27. "He's not what you call a glamorous man."

[red dog 1]

40. "Someone To Watch Over me"?

(Just a wild guess)

[Flaleftist]

41. Nope. It's an 80s metal song.

[red dog 1]

42. I think I prefer Gershwin to an '80s metal band

It sounded like a lyric from George & Ira's "Someone To Watch Over me"

[Ciaphas Cain]

28. We do the most

You so dope, don't overdose
I'm so stoked, I need a toast
We do the most
I'm in the Ghost like I'm whippin' a boat
I got a reputation girl, that don't precede me
I'm one call away, whenever you need me
I'm in a G5
Come to the A side
I got a bad boy persona that's what they like
You love it
I love it too 'cause you my type
You hold me down and I protect you with my life

[red dog 1]

30. Welcome to DU!

[Ciaphas Cain]

31. Thank you

[better]

29. Don't say another word. Some things are better kept silent.

[Harker]

32. 11... "Rocket 88."

1... "Surf City", 8..."409."

[red dog 1]

33. Ding! Ding! Ding!

[Harker]

35. James Cotton rasped out a great version

of "88." Man, he could really blow that harp.

[red dog 1]

34. "I don't want to meet your kin, make you spin or do you in.."

[Harker]

38. "All I really Want to Do"

is to avoid losing sleep trying to hear these songs in my head.

[red dog 1]

39. I know what you mean!

"All I Really Want To Do" is a hard song to get out of your head sometimes.

[Flaleftist]

37. "Diamond Rottweiler"

[amerikat]

43. 21. Denise by Randy and the Rainbows?

The Blondie version is awesome.

[red dog 1]

44. Yes, that line is from "Denise" by Randy & the Rainbows, my favorite "one-hit-wonder"

Didn't know Blondie did a version of "Denise"...Thanks for those videos.

[red dog 1]

45. "I've been on the road nearly all my life...Been 'round the world 'bout a thousand times"

[red dog 1]

46. "Every little swallow, every chick-a-dee....Every little bird in the tall oak tree..

The wise old owl, the big black crow
Flappin' their wings singing go bird go"

[Harker]

79. "Rockin' Robin" n/t

[red dog 1]

92. Yep!

[red dog 1]

47. "Well, she handles all the big ones every year in Makaha....And all the surfers know her

from Rincon to Baha"

[red dog 1]

48. "A little man walked up and down...He found an eating place in town..

He read the menu through and through...To see what fifteen cents could do.."

[red dog 1]

49. "No more cows (no more cows) to be roping (to be roping) ..No more strays

(no more strays) will I see...Round the bend (round the bend) she'll be waiting (she'll be waiting)"

Hint: This song was made popular by a very famous singer who once sang it as a duet with another famous singer in a very popular 1959 western.

[red dog 1]

50. "The warden threw a party at the county jail"

[yardwork]

89. Jailhouse Rock.

[red dog 1]

93. Absolutely!

[red dog 1]

51. "Oh my darling, I love you, And I always will"

[yardwork]

99. It's an Elvis song but I can't remember which one...

[red dog 1]

122. Yes, it is an Elvis song.

Wanna' make a guess?

[yardwork]

129. Love Me Tender.

[Doc_Technical]

52. #10 "Transfusion"

by Nervous Norvus.

[red dog 1]

53. "Put the crimson in me, Jim son!"

[red dog 1]

54. "I met her in a club down in North Soho..Where you drink champagne and it tastes

just like cherry cola...C-O-L-A cola"

[yardwork]

90. LOLA Lola.

[red dog 1]

94. You got it!

[yardwork]

95. Love the Kinks.

[red dog 1]

96. Me too!

I saw them once at Winterland in San Francisco.

[yardwork]

100. I never had the pleasure. Must have been a great show.

[red dog 1]

111. Actually, it was a disappointment.

They did all their songs in 4/4 time...It was like they were on speed or something....(But I still love The Kinks)

[ailsagirl]

106. I read that originally it was "Coca-Cola" but because of copyright concerns, Davies changed it

Love the Kinks!!!

[red dog 1]

55. "Bah bah bah bop com dap com dap oom wa wa wa"

[red dog 1]

56. "My pappy said son you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'"

[Harker]

80. if you don't stop drivin' that...

"Hot Rod Lincoln."

[red dog 1]

91. Yes indeed!

Great song!

[red dog 1]

57. "Early in the morning we'll be startin' out, some honeys will be coming along"

[red dog 1]

58. "You made...Me cry...When you said...Goodbye"

[Harker]

82. "Ain't that a Shame"...

My tears fell like rain.

[red dog 1]

88. You got it!

I miss Fats Domino..he just died last year I think.

He liked to sleep outside in his hammock and had eight kids.

He was worth $8 million, compared to Keith Richards, who is worth over $370 million.

[Harker]

105. I'm sorry to admit it, but news of his death surprised me.

I had wrongly assumed he was already dead.

[red dog 1]

59. "So when you're down on your luck, and you can't harmonize, find a girl with....."

[ornotna]

61. far away eyes

Mick Jagger

[red dog 1]

62. Yep!

Great song!

[ornotna]

60. When you brainwashed me with formulas of how I should be

Shaped me and raped me of my individuality
Schooled me and fooled me
Told me what I could and could not see
Took me and shook me
Of my urges to be free

[red dog 1]

63. "I'm gonna raise a fuss - I'm gonna raise a holler - About workin' all summer just

to try to make a dollar"

[Harker]

81. There ain't no cure for the...

"Summertime Blues."

[red dog 1]

87. Eddie Cochran it is.

[red dog 1]

64. "If you want to be somebody else, if you're tired of fighting battles with yourself,

if you want to be somebody else, "

[red dog 1]

65. "If I speak, she defends me...If I spring a leak, she mends me"

[Harker]

78. "Up on Cripple Creek"...

she's a drunkard's dream if I ever did see one.

[red dog 1]

86. You got it!

[red dog 1]

66. "Since she left me, I haven't been the same"

[red dog 1]

67. "Kris and Rita, and Marty Mull are playin' at The Troubadour...Get it on with

The Joy of Cooking, while the crowd calls out for more"

[red dog 1]

68. "I keep a close watch on this heart of mine..I keep my eyes wide open all the time"

[Harker]

77. "I Walk the Line" n/t

[red dog 1]

85. Yep!

(easy one)

[red dog 1]

69. "Once they got you, Man they'll never let you go"

[red dog 1]

70. "I got my suitcase in my hand"

[Harker]

104. "Love in Vain"

Stones cover of a Robert Johnson number.

[red dog 1]

112. Nope

[Harker]

116. Restless night and what do I get?

Noped again...

[red dog 1]

117. Here's a hint

It's a song by an artist you already got right.

[red dog 1]

120. Here's another hint: See replies # 88 and # 105

[Harker]

121. "Walkin' to New Orleans"...

I was too shaken up to reset my mind after Mick went down in flames.

[red dog 1]

123. "Walkin' to New Orleans" is correct!

[Harker]

124. Needed both hints.

Hardly a resounding ding!

[backtoblue]

71. #16

In the Still of the Night

[red dog 1]

72. Nope

Same song era, but a much faster song.

[red dog 1]

73. "They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band..It ain't what they call

rock and roll"

[Harker]

76. Your favorite guitarist's old band with "Sultans of Swing." n/t

[red dog 1]

84. Dire Straits it is!

[ailsagirl]

141. Harker already got this-- just wanted to add I loved Dire Straits!

[red dog 1]

74. "Ooowi, Ooowi baby, Ooowi, Ooowi Baby, Ooowi, Ooowi baby, Won't you let me take you on a.."

[Harker]

75. Sea Cruise... n/t

[red dog 1]

83. You got it!

I love the original version, as well as Dion DiMucci's version, which is also great.

[red dog 1]

97. "She's as skinny as a stick of macaroni"

[Harker]

98. That'd be "Bony Moronie"

You oughta see her dancin' with her blue jeans on.

[red dog 1]

115. Yes!

"Oughta see her rock and roll with blue jeans on"

[DBoon]

101. Is #20 Rebel Rebel by David Bowie?

at least I didn't use Google

[red dog 1]

114. Nope

It's from a song written by a very prolific British songwriter in a very popular British band.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

102. #2 is "Room Service" by Bryan Adams.

[red dog 1]

113. Yes!

I was wondering if anyone would get that one.

(I'm a huge fan of Bryan Adams)

[ailsagirl]

107. OK-- here's an easy one

Sunday's on the phone to Monday

[red dog 1]

110. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - The Beatles

[ailsagirl]

118. Yep!

[ailsagirl]

108. She's so good-looking but she looks like a man

[surrealAmerican]

139. Polythene Pam

[ailsagirl]

140. Bravo!!

[red dog 1]

109. "Laying out another lie..Thinking 'bout a life of crime..That's what I'll have to do

To keep me away from you"

[red dog 1]

119. "Why don't you show me, cause I've tried and I've tried and I'm still mystified"

[red dog 1]

125. "Soon as three o'clock rolls around..You finally lay your burden down..

..Close up your books, get out of your seat
Down the halls and into the street"

[surrealAmerican]

135. Chuck Berry...

... I think that one's called "School Days".

[red dog 1]

136. "Up in the morning and off to school"

School Days is correct!

[GentryDixon]

126. Hello Darlin, it's been a long time. 🎶🎤

[backtoblue]

159. .

You're just as lovely...

[GentryDixon]

160. Yes!

This is my husband's ring tone.

[samnsara]

127. walla walla bing bang

[red dog 1]

128. Witch Doctor

[red dog 1]

130. "Everyone was there just a waitin' for me, there were plenty of Sting Rays and

X-KEs

[red dog 1]

131. "Now your daddy's in the den shootin' up the evening news..

..Mama's with a friend, lately she's been so confused"

[red dog 1]

132. "Just about a year ago, I set out on the road. Seekin' my fame and fortune,

Lookin' for a pot of gold"

[ailsagirl]

142. (Stuck in old) Lodi

CCR

[red dog 1]

133. "Please allow me to introduce myself"

[Bayard]

153. Sympathy for the devil

Stones

[red dog 1]

154. Yep!

[red dog 1]

134. "She drives real fast and she drives real hard...She's the terror of Colorado Boulevard"

[surrealAmerican]

137. Is that "the little old lady from Pasadena"?

[red dog 1]

138. It is.

[red dog 1]

143. "They're demonstrating outside, I think they're gonna' start the 3rd World War"

[surrealAmerican]

147. Kinks again ...

... Acute Schizophrenia Blues.

[red dog 1]

150. Yes!

I love that song!

[LeftishBrit]

144. No. 5 is the Kinks: 'I'm Not Like Everyone Else'

[red dog 1]

145. Correctamundo!

God I love that song!

[red dog 1]

146. "You got me so I can't think at night"

[surrealAmerican]

148. ... and more Kinks:

You Really Got Me.

[red dog 1]

149. Yep!

I think that was their first hit record.

[red dog 1]

151. "I've been in my mind, it's such a fine mind"

[underpants]

152. The power lines have floaters so the airplane don't look sad(mad)

At least that's what I hear. <---- that's not part of the lyrics

[Bayard]

155. Sweet like candy to my soul

Sweet you rock,
And sweet you roll.

[Bayard]

156. Rescue Me

Before I fall into despair

[red dog 1]

157. "Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head"

[red dog 1]

158. "Slip the juice to me, Bruce"

[red dog 1]

161. "I've been cheated, been mistreated"

[surrealAmerican]

162. When will I be loved.

Linda Rondstat, also the Everly Brothers.

[red dog 1]

164. You got it!

I love Linda's version best.

[red dog 1]

163. "I see trouble on the way..I see earthquakes and lightnin'..I see bad times today"

[red dog 1]

165. "I sit and watch the children play"

[red dog 1]

166. "you want my money..Yeah, but you just won't treat me right..You like to ball every morning

Don't come home till late at night"

[red dog 1]

167. "As I went walking that ribbon of highway..I saw above me an endless skyway"