Meme Lemming: Lyrics Meme

[partly]

I've seen this meme floating about. I thought I'd play even though I don't think most of my songs would be recognizable. I was surprised, though. I had more "popular" songs show up on the list then I expected. I was also surprised that I didn't get repeats of artists -- I have entire CDs on here and expected to get some repeats. Even though this isn't the computer that has all my old-time country, I had been looking forward to having most of these songs be country songs that no one heard of. That didn't work out! *pout*

Rules:
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random. iTunes on my iBook
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song. (Skip the instrumentals, the remixes and the mashups) I could only use about every 5th song, because this machine is mostly soundtracks
My added Step: If the title of the song is in the first line, replace it with "insert title here".
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

1. Here I am again in this mean old town, And you’re insert title here And where are you when the sun goes down insert title here
   
2. I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known, don't know where it goes, but it's home to me and I walk alone
   
3. I was standing by my window, on one cold and cloudy day when I saw that hearse come rolling for to carry my mother away - imbri6, May the Circle be Unbroken (in this case sung by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, with help from Johnny Cash).
   
4. I believe that there's a right and I believe that there's a wrong, that north and south, black and white can somehow get along
   
5. And I'll be the train that keeps on rollin' up up around the bend, I'll be the voice that you hear callin', howlin' on the wind
   
6. Johnny was born in a mansion, somewhere in the County of Clare, Rosie was reared by the roadside, somewhere in County Kildare
   
7. I'm through with standin' in line to clubs I'll never get in, It's like the bottom of the ninth, And I'm never gonna win
   
8. Pack up all my care and woe, here I go, singing low insert title here - wiliqueen, Bye, Bye Blackbird (in this case, sung by Sammy Davis, Jr.)
   
9. I took her daddy’s old two-horse trailer, I patched a place in the floor that was bare
   
10. I'll tell you a story that happened to me one day as I went down to Cork by the sea - imbri6, Johnny Jump Up (in this case sung by Seelie Court)
    
11. Well, I came a long way to be here today and I left you so long on this avenue, and here I stand in the strangest land not knowing what to say or do
    
12. Once there was a prairie, where bison million stood, hobo wolf sang to the moon that life was wild and good.
    
13. Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath insert title here.If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less insert title here.
    
14. I got an ol’ blue shirt and it suits me just fine, I like the way it feels, so I wear it all the time
    
15. Lights go down, it's dark, the jungle is your head can't rule your heart a feeling so much stronger than a thought - finabair, Vertigo (by U2)
    
16. She said she had a golden box of memories, some that she would haul me out and hold me to see if I was still breathing
    
17. There's too much work and I'm spent, there's too much pressure and I admit, I got no time to move ahead, have you heard one thing that Ive said
    
18. There's insert title here, rain on the plain and an eerie kind of sadness on the highway today
    
19. Campfire coffee from a tin cup in my hand sure warms the fingers when it's cold, playing an ol' guitar, a friend I understand, it sure smoothes the wrinkles in my soul
    
20. 2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake, "Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
    

I may do the "Movie Quote Meme" later, because more poeple could play that one.

Comments

[imbri6.livejournal.com]

3 - Circle (may the circle be unbroken)
10 - Johnny Jump Up

Others seem familiar but not enough for me to grab a title...

[partly.livejournal.com]

Absolutely right.

I knew that Johnny Jump Up was going to be guessed right away. And Circle is one of my all time favorite songs.

Yay!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

8. Bye Bye Blackbird

That's all I got. But almost everyone I know stumped me. :-)

[partly.livejournal.com]

Correct!

I'm terrible at this meme. Partly becasue my taste in music is quite different than a lot of my flist and partly because I just don't have a memory for such things. I can sing along to a song (although there are those who would rather I not) and lyrics are the main reason I listen to most songs, but I just can't place the words without the music.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Several of these sound familiar but the only one I think I can ID without a lot more thought is:

15) Vertigo, by U2

[partly.livejournal.com]

Right-o!

Several of these sound familiar. Heh. I probably made you listen to all of them at some point or another. If I really wanted to, ah, challenge you, I would have quoted all the country tunes that I used to wake up to!