Lyrics meme

[nmg]

From swisstone and various others:

1. Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play!
2. Pick your favorite lines from the first 25 songs that play!
3. Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from!
4. Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly!

The lyrics

1. It's wrong to wish on space hardware
   zotz and bibliogirl
2. He always beat me at Subutteo / Cos he flicked a kick and I didn't know
   zotz, bibliogirl and flickgc
3. Pitsea, Thundersley, Hadleigh, Leigh-on-sea, Chalkwell, Prittlewell, Southend's the end of you
   swisstone
4. They smelled of pubs and Wormwood Scrubbs / And too many right wing meetings
   zotz
5. Take control of the population boom / It's in your living room / Keep a generation gap / Try wearing a cap
   swisstone
6. How can it be that we can say so much without words? / Bless you and bless me, bless the bees and the birds
   zotz and bibliogirl
7. It's a good thing you don't have bus fares / They would fall through a hole in your pocket / And you'd lose them when there's snow on the ground
   bibliogirl
8. I have every comfort and every sport / And my residence is at Hampton Court
   john_callaghan
9. Now I lay me down to sleep / I hear the sirens in the street / All the dreams are made of chrome / I have no way to get back home
   killtest
10. There are people going to the stratosphere / Soldiers fighting with the Cong
    killtest
11. There's brown bread, white bread, all sorts of wholemeal bread / It comes in funny packages with writing on the side
    bibliogirl has half the answer, but killtest named the band
12. My monster in black tights / You're everything a freak like I likes
13. Mother! I can never come home again, because I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire
    zotz, bibliogirl and flickgc
14. The question doesn't matter / The answer's always "aye" / The best view of all / Is where the land meets the sky
    killtest
15. Get a taste for home taping / Fetishists of map-making
    bibliogirl
16. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stemmed rose
    zotz and bibliogirl
17. I wish today could be tomorrow / The night is dark, it just brings sorrow anyway
    bibliogirl
18. The juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot / A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
    killtest
19. Underfoot the ground is patched / With climbing arms of ivy wrapped / Around the manzanita stark and shiny in the breeze
    killtest
20. From your ankle up I'd say you sure you are sweet / From that down there's just too much feet
    ias
21. Black car drives through the town / Some guy from the top estate / Left a note for a local girl / And yet he had it all on a plate
    killtest
22. Long distance information, get me Jesus on the line / I need communion, confirmation, absolution for my crime
    killtest
23. Five years ago, I was a four stone apology / Today, I am two separate gorillas
    swisstone
24. Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out / Come and keep your comrade warm
    bibliogirl and flickgc
25. Voyez / Ces oiseaux blancs / Et ces maisons rouillees
    killtest

Comments

[john-callaghan.livejournal.com]

8 is "London Is The Place To Be" - I've got it somewhere, and can't remember who recorded it (Google says Lord Kitchener, but I'm sure I'd remember if it was him).

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Nicely done, sir! I didn't think anyone apart from Isobel was likely to get that. The original (and as far as I'm aware, only) recording is by Lord Kitchener from some time in the early 1950s.