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1960s Lyrics Quiz |
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Set your time machines and return with us to the 1960s. It was a decade of change - The Vietnam War, civil unrest, campus protests, Johnson's Great Society, the British Invasion, and a man on the moon just to name a few. The 1960s also gave us many great songs, and that's what this page is all about.
Below are 230 lines from songs of the 1960s. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify the title and artist for each of these songs. We will send answers upon request.
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| 1 | The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls | 2 | Baby, listen baby, don't you treat me this way | 3 | No phone, no pool, no pets | 4 | I can't do what ten people tell me to do | 5 | Daddy's just sleeping and mama ain't around. | 6 | I'm just mad about saffron | 7 | My buddies and me are getting real well known | 8 | Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty | 9 | Bring a nickel, tap your feet | 10 | I don't need no money, fortune or fame | 11 | For the morning will bring joy for every girl and boy | 12 | Don’t want your kisses, that’s for sure | 13 | Take me for a trip upon your magic swirling ship | 14 | She could not leave a number but I know who placed the call | 15 | Baby, there's nothin' hard about love | 16 | Maybe someday you'll see my face among the crowd | 17 | I heard somebody whisper, 'Please adore me' | 18 | Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head | 19 | I don't care what your daddy do | 20 | A wave out on the ocean could never move that way | 21 | Doing the best things so conservatively | 22 | Sympathy and trust abounding | 23 | Nature's taking over my one-track mind | 24 | The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds | 25 | The sun is a-risin' most definitely | 26 | I can tell we know each other very well | 27 | I'll be over at ten, you told me time and again | 28 | 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky | 29 | I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise | 30 | Well meet me baby down at 45th street | 31 | I got a feelin' he's gonna put you down | 32 | She's got high-heel shoes and an alligator hat | 33 | I was born in a crossfire hurricane | 34 | The cats don't bug him cuz they know better | 35 | Her lovin' is the medicine that saved me | 36 | My independence seems to vanish in the haze | 37 | I'll have to put your flat feet on the ground | 38 | He's never near you to comfort and cheer you | 39 | So keep it up, quench my desire | 40 | Birds all sing as if they knew | 41 | Take the world in a love embrace | 42 | Man you know you're in trouble plenty | 43 | Every night I watch the light of the house up on the hill | 44 | And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said | 45 | Whoa whoa they start spinning every Friday night | 46 | I don't believe you, you're not the truth | 47 | But it ain't happened yet, so girl, you better think twice | 48 | Come on everybody take a trip with me | 49 | As I walk through this world | 50 | It's easier than learning your A-B-C's | 51 | And he's cute in his mohair suit | 52 | But like a honey bee stings, you've gone and left my heart in pain | 53 | Trading my time for the pay I get | 54 | My love and me as we sing | 55 | Talking 'bout your troubles and you never learn | 56 | I'll be right here and I ain't gonna run | 57 | It's right that I should care about you | 58 | Good sense, innocence, crippling mankind | 59 | Lemonade pie with a brand new car | 60 | But he doesn't even know that I exist | 61 | If you don't want me, don't lead me on girl | 62 | Now your daddy don't mind, and your mommy don't mind | 63 | As we stroll by the sea together | 64 | I was feeling kind of seasick | 65 | I'd like to thank you for waiting patiently | 66 | I know just what to say, I answer right away | 67 | It's so nice to have you back where you belong | 68 | It's only right to think about the girl you love | 69 | Let's not be L-seven, come and learn to dance | 70 | I've been for a walk on a winter's day | 71 | Pulled down the shade went to the kitchen for a bite | 72 | Oh when we walk, it seems like paradise | 73 | While riding I think of us, dear | 74 | I told her all the things I'd been dreaming of | 75 | Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo | 76 | I don't remember what day it was | 77 | Before it's earned, our money's all been spent | 78 | I met a little boy named Billy Joe | 79 | This is an invitation across the nation | 80 | Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud | 81 | My own beliefs are in my song | 82 | I finally passed out in her front yard | 83 | I was thinking 'bout a shortcut I could take | 84 | Now I'm not one that gets around | 85 | Other people stared as if we were both quite insane | 86 | Whatever happened to Tuesday and so slow | 87 | The roller-coaster ride we took is nearly at an end | 88 | It's the one that made you fall in love with me | 89 | You can make this beggar a king, a clown or a poet | 90 | Calling a name that's lighter than air | 91 | We'll make 'em turn their heads every place we go | 92 | Better take it easy, 'cause the place is on fire | 93 | She'll find the note I left hanging on her door | 94 | Hush my darling don't fear my darling | 95 | And you're forever talking on the phone | 96 | Ever since he touched my hand I knew | 97 | Take it from me, she's a better catch | 98 | Girl, you keep me thirsty for another cup of wine | 99 | Up to the moment when we said our first hello | 100 | Moons and Junes and ferris wheels | 101 | But she's the best girl I've ever had | 102 | Yes and I ain't saying you ain't pretty | 103 | And I would gladly teach you if I could only reach you | 104 | I hate to wake you up to say goodbye | 105 | I got the lips that’ll knock you out | 106 | Don't you ever feel sad, lean on me when times are bad | 107 | I'm going where the sun keeps shining | 108 | Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred | 109 | I feel nice, like sugar and spice | 110 | Her name drives me insane | 111 | If a fella looks at you, it's for sure your little eye will be a-winkin' | 112 | If that guy's got into your blood, go out and get him | 113 | And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining | 114 | I see you each morning, but you just walk past me | 115 | When he holds my hand I'm so proud | 116 | I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you | 117 | I lie here beside you just watching you sleep | 118 | I kept my cool, I ain't no fool | 119 | My lover stands on golden sands | 120 | Ain't gonna do you wrong, 'cause I don't wanna | 121 | There's a house party way across town | 122 | I tell my arms they'll hold someone new | 123 | I've waited so long for school to be through | 124 | Last night I met a new girl in the neighbourhood | 125 | Here's a man in evening clothes, how he got here I don't know | 126 | You can make the mountains ring, or make the angel's cry | 127 | I met him at the candy store | 128 | There's another before me, you'll never be mine | 129 | Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean | 130 | Well, this cat they're talkin' about, I wonder who could it be? | 131 | I couldn't unfasten her safety belt | 132 | All across the nation, such a strange vibration | 133 | I said that's the kind of girl I'd like to meet | 134 | Why was he holding her hand | 135 | Like the birds of a feather we stick together | 136 | I went east and he went west | 137 | Just 'bout five feet four from her head to the ground | 138 | Why do lies make my love stronger | 139 | I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink | 140 | Where the days are short and the nights are long | 141 | Make that girl love me when I put on some trash | 142 | You're always window shopping but never stopping to buy | 143 | We were out on a date in my daddy's car | 144 | Ain't got time to take a fast train | 145 | Oh, how you tried to cut me down to size | 146 | Nobody's right if everybody's wrong | 147 | Pardon the way that I stare | 148 | Fine little girl waits for me | 149 | I've got this love and I long to share it | 150 | Give him two arms to cling to | 151 | Someone, help me, help me, help me please | 152 | I hate to say it but I told you so, don't mind my preaching to you | 153 | I was just a fool too blind to see | 154 | You broke my heart 'cause I couldn't dance | 155 | It's the dance made-a for romance | 156 | Daddy, let your mind roll on | 157 | I'd like to thank the guy who wrote the song | 158 | The world is ours whenever we're together | 159 | Silver wings upon their chest | 160 | Since you've grown up your future is sewn up | 161 | How gentle is the rain that falls softly on the meadow | 162 | Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" | 163 | Outside I'm masquerading, inside my hope is fading | 164 | Maybe she will notice me but then what would I say | 165 | Just sweet sixteen, and now you're gone | 166 | The eastern world it is explodin' | 167 | I've even seen her maybe once or twice | 168 | Wond'ring what in the world did I do? | 169 | You take Sally and I'll take Sue | 170 | I gave that girl a hug, in the tunnel of love | 171 | Wonder if you know that you're putting on a show | 172 | Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer | 173 | See the marketplace in old Algiers | 174 | Now when your girl is gone and you're broke in two | 175 | Lord, we don't need another meadow | 176 | Wish you didn't have to go, no no no no | 177 | The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care | 178 | You said things that weren't very nice | 179 | But it's home, the only life I've ever known | 180 | I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain | 181 | You'll come to me when you want to settle down | 182 | She's gonna get a ticket now sooner or later | 183 | You're way on top now since you left me | 184 | This heart could not accept and pretend | 185 | We're caught in a trap I can't walk out of | 186 | She'll love you but she'll put you down | 187 | The music's fine like sparkling wine go and have your fun | 188 | Seemed the more I gave the less I got | 189 | Then spring became the summer | 190 | You tell me mistakes are part of being young | 191 | Those days of soda and pretzels and beer | 192 | We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too | 193 | Now I spend my time just making rhymes of yesterday | 194 | You say that you're at home when you phone me | 195 | We dance just as good as we walk | 196 | Now they never reopened that worthless pit | 197 | When the truth is found to be lies | 198 | You made me leave my happy home | 199 | Now the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and trunk | 200 | If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home | 201 | When you drop a coin you'll hear it sing | 202 | When you're close to me, I can feel your heart beat | 203 | He'd give up all his comfort, sleep out in the rain | 204 | The trees are drawing me near, I've got to find out why | 205 | The empty sidewalks on my block are not the same | 206 | Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain | 207 | Once upon a time there was a tavern | 208 | You said no strings could secure you at the station | 209 | Think love and wear a smile | 210 | You used to be my honey 'til you spent all my money | 211 | When I see you out and about it's just a crime | 212 | It wasn't me who changed but you, and now you've gone away | 213 | You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes | 214 | Well, I've just found me a brand new box of matches | 215 | There must be some word today | 216 | Then I went far away and you found someone new | 217 | You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you | 218 | What would I give for just a few moments | 219 | You gotta scream, scream, you know what I mean | 220 | The weather's warm but we'll play it cool | 221 | What was that promise that you made | 222 | Your're starting to criticize little things I do | 223 | I know that I am leaving my best friend | 224 | What's your name? Who's your daddy? | 225 | When the night has come and the land is dark | 226 | Love your daddy with all your might | 227 | Tell him I would die for him | 228 | There's no telling where love may appear | 229 | Why should our romance just keep on causing me such sorrow | 230 | But I wanna know for sure |
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