Lyrics quiz

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Just for the sake of, y’know, whatever, I’ve decided to do a lyrics quiz.

I stuck every song on my laptop into Winamp, put it on shuffle, pressed play and have posted the first line of the first 40 tracks it played.

(Well, kinda. Some of them were instrumentals and some had nothing but the title in the first two lines so they didn’t count.)

Now you need to guess which song the lines are from. Some of them are covers so there are bonus points for the right version. Unless you just put down every singer of the song in question. Cos that’s cheating.

Have fun!

1) I have a tale to tell, Sometimes it gets so hard to hide it well

2) Hey there, here I am, I’m the man on the scene

3) I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders

4) Barbarisms by Barbaras, With pointed heels, Victorious, victorieas, kneel.

5) The last that ever she saw him, Carried away by a moonlight shadow

6) I get high when I see you go by, My oh my.

7) Ready Or Not, Here I Come, You Can’t Hide, Gonna Find You and Take it Slowly

8) Helping the kids out of their coats, But wait the babies haven’t been born oh

9) Brian, the babe they called Brian, he grew, he grew, and grew,

10) Sun, Take some time, get away

11) I wonder why, I don’t know what you see

12) All day I’ve faced the barren waste, Without the taste of water

13) Well, he was the Sax Man from the state of Tennessee, First set in with the band at the ripe old age of three, weeks old

14) This here’s a tale for all the fellas, Try to do what those ladies tell us

15) Here I am, I’m the master of your destiny, I am the one the only one, I am the god of kingdom come

16) I love you, but I gotta stay true

17) All I want to be is washed out by the sea, No death star over me

18) On my own, Pretending he’s beside me

19) These mist covered mountains, Are a home now for me

20) All this feels strange and untrue, And I won’t waste a minute without you

21) On the floors of Tokyo, A-down in London town’s a go go

22) Looking out, Across the night-time

23) Well, I feel pretty good, and I guess that I could

24) They made a statue of us, and put it on a mountaintop

25) I’m infected, By your genetics

26) Something has changed within me, Something is not the same

27) Counting all different ideas driftin away, Past and present they don’t matter

28) Been there, done that, messed around, I’m having fun, don’t put me down

29) Tha spirit of Jackson, Now screams through tha ruins

30) We are not your sinners, Our voices are for real

31) Inflammation of the foreskin reminds me of your smile, I’ve had ballanital shancroids for quite a little while

32) At least you know, you were taken by a pro

33) I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats

34) Don’t tell me not to live, just sit and putter, Life’s candy and the sun’s a ball of butter

35) Joan was quizzical; Studied pataphysical, Science in the home

36) I like big butts and I can not lie, You other brothers can’t deny

37) I died, So many years ago

38) Blake says no one ever really loved him, They just faked it to get money from the government

39) It’s not, What you thought

40) Last night I got served a little bit too much of that poison, baby, Last night I did things I’m not proud of and I got a little crazy

Oh, and all notes on this entry will be private so you can’t copy someone else’s answers.

Will