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helvirago ([personal profile] helvirago) wrote2005-05-25 11:42 pm
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Lyrics quiz answers

1. I never was known to treat no one man right/ I keep them working hard both day and night.
-"Wild Women Don't Have the Blues," Ida Cox (among many, many others)
2. And should I go/ You won't say so/ I know it's true
-"New Favorite," Alison Krauss & Union Station
3. Mister God, For his squad/ A marine, For his queen/ A G.I., For his cutey-pie/ Is not.
-"Too Darn Hot," Ella Fitzgerald (for one) -- really surprised no one got this!
4. Will there be any freight trains in heaven/ Any boxcars in which we might hide?
-"Hobo's Meditation," Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris (how's that for a trio?)
5. Let's chronicle the dark side of a life/ Did you ever keep the date with the steel side of the knife?
-"As Girls Go," Suzanne Vega
6. Some things are just pictures/ They're scenes before your eyes/ And don't look now/ I'm right behind you
-"Coolsville," Laurie Anderson
7. Don't you know/ Honey, nobody ever gonna love you/ The way I try to do.
-"Cry Baby," Janis Joplin
11. Eat me/ In the space/ Within my heart/ Love you for God/ Love you for the Mother
-"Black Milk," Massive Attack
12. My whole life's been a torrid affair/ Cause I've had too many bottles of gin
-"The Wine," Clare Fader
14. So keep your candles burning/ And make her journey bright and pure
-"Into My Arms," Nick Cave
15. It doesn't have a floor/ it's kind of small/ but there's no wall between us here
-"Battle Room," Michael Penn
18. Well I've been faithful/ And I've been so good/ Except for drinking/ But he knew that I would
-"Jesus Gonna Be Here," Tom Waits
19. Train game, moss monster, playin' down in the woods of bamboo/ Mr. Black Snake ate all the bad snakes, Mr. Black Snake'll eat you too
-"Main Road," Lucinda Williams
20. I visit Magherclocher/ On Middletown heights I stand/ Beneath me lies the ocean wide/ and Machergallon strand
-"The Green Fields of Gaothdobhair," Clannad