May 28, 2007
Musical Monday 05/28/2007
In last week's Haveil Havalim, Jack's Shack wondered where A Whispering Soul was. Would he return? Who knows?
But one thing I missed about A Whispering Soul, was his Musical Menu Mondays in which he'd offer up a story, a recipe and song lyrics for his readers to identify. Well, all I have here are song lyrics. The first two establish the theme. The rest have a common thread or two relating to that theme. Identify the songs and the theme. (Though I used Google to help me get the lyrics right, no fair using Google to identify the songs. I don't know lyrics the way A Whispering Soul does!) No guarantees that this will be a weekly feature.
1) My dreams they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be ... (corrected, see comment #3 below)
2) You're out riding fences ...
3) I'm looking for the king of 42nd Street
4) the tracks he saw while on his way to Andy's house
5) he was a future ex-husband ... can't you see?
6) we never saw 'em comin' til they read us both our rights
7) learned a lesson 'bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man
8) When two men go out to face each other, only one returns
9) I needed money 'cause I had none
10) little sister don't miss when she aims her gun
11) His name was Rico, he wore a diamond.
12) She dealt two cards, a queen and a three
13) Cause he was in the mood for a little confrontation.
14) he knows just exactly what the facts is
15) reflexes got the better of me
16) The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload
17) A scene badly written in which I must play
UPDATE: 18) ... playing poker on a losin' night
I forgot to mention that A Whispering Soul didn't object to my co-opting his idea. Thanks.
And whoops, I see the lyrics to 4 and 10 are for the same song.
Posted by SoccerDad at May 28, 2007 09:49 AM | TrackBack
Song Lyrics
Popular Music
I have a nightmare
Live action naqba cartoon
The speech: part II
Sixty nine years ago
Neat nasa pictures
Coming apart at the seams
Mixed message
Seventy seven years ago
Yossi harel
How to wean yourself from organic kool-aid
#14 is driving me nuts, I know this lyric, but the song and artist escape me.
#15 sounds vaguely familiar
16.I don't like Mondays
Most of the rest I am unfamiliar with.
Posted by: Laura at May 28, 2007 12:49 PM#'s 1 and 2 also sound familiar.
Posted by: Laura at May 28, 2007 12:52 PMI'm not going to give away any answers, however:
#1 Should it read "My dreams they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be"?
#9 Credit the Bobby Fuller Four not a cover version!
#11 Barf
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at May 28, 2007 01:31 PMAbout 14. "facts is" was an outrageous rhyme for "Texas" IIRC.
Posted by: Yitzchak Goodman at May 28, 2007 01:34 PMI am thinking, I am thinking...
Posted by: Jack at May 28, 2007 10:32 PM1. Behind Blue Eyes
2. Desperado
4. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, or some such thing.
7. Jim Croce - um, um, um - baddest man in the whole damned town...
10. See #4
11. Barf is right! Copacabana
And I feel as if I probably do know 8, 12(Kenny Roger's Know When to Hold 'Em?), and 13 (This one hurts - I know I know it).
So far:
1 Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
2 Desperado - Linda Rondstadt, The Eagles, Clint Black
4 10 The night the lights went out in Georgia - Vicky Lawrence
7 Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
9 (no title yet) - Bobby Fuller Four, The Clash
11 Copa Cabana - Barry Manilow - not many fans of his reading this
14 Take the money and run - Steve Miller Band (identified in an e-mail)
16 I don't like Monday - the Boomtown Rats
Some hints -
8 The title is the same as the name of a movie, but it wasn't on the movie's soundtrack.
13 At the time it was the #1 selling album of all time
15 The cover version is more famous than the original
17 The title song of a debut album of a famous group
And in general - there's a second Jim Croce song in there too.
3. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim"
8. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
12. "Dark Lady"
13. "Smackwater Jack"
15. "I Shot the Sheriff"
Here's one to keep with the theme of lawlessness (and to give anyone under 30 half a chance):
"I didn't have no teeth so I stole his gun"
I should have known 3, 13 and 15. Nice work, Malibu.
Drawing a blank with the teeth and gun lyric, but then again, I am >30.
Posted by: Gail at May 30, 2007 04:23 PMDon't worry, Gail, it's pretty obscure for us old farts: Beck's "Soul Suckin' Jerk". Here's an easy one instead:
"He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel"
Posted by: Malibu Stacy at May 30, 2007 06:40 PMEasy? Bah! You have me stumped yet again, Ms. Malibu.
Posted by: Gail at May 31, 2007 08:25 AM"He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel"
Pancho and Lefty.
Extra credit if anyone can tell me who wrote it.
Double extra credit if you can tell me what band has a close connection to that songwriter?
Hint: They're from Canada, eh?
Posted by: Mark at May 31, 2007 10:24 AMAnyone? Even the one who was listening to Townes Van Zandt sing it when she came up with the question? Or would that be unfair?
I'm guessing the Canadian band would be the same one for whom Townes wrote the eponymous "Cowboy Junkies Lament".
Posted by: Malibu Stacy at May 31, 2007 12:37 PMCool. Lemme know if you want a copy of "Live At The Old Quarter" and any Cowboy Junkies album you care to mention...
;o)>
Posted by: Mark at May 31, 2007 05:14 PM