Saturday, August 13, 2005

Lyrics Quiz: America

In honour of my return to these shores, an American Lyrics Quiz. Hint: one of these is by Morrissey.

  1. She’s a good girl, loves her mama. Loves Jesus and America too.
  2. Oh but ain’t that America for you and me. Ain’t that America, we’re something to see baby. Ain’t that America, home of the free.
  3. Good morning, America, how are you? Don't you know me? I'm your native son.
  4. Take a jumbo across the water. Like to see America. See the girls in California. I’m hoping it’s going to come true, but there’s not a lot I can do.
  5. It’s on America’s tortured brow that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow. Now the workers have struck for fame ‘cause Lennon’s on sale again.
  6. Turn the key and slowly unlock the door, as a man breathes into a saxophone, and through the walls you hear the city groan. Outside is America.
  7. Holly came from Miami F.L.A. Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
  8. In Europe and America, there’s a growing feeling of hysteria, conditioned to respond to all the threats in the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets.
  9. Every child had a pretty good shot to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.
  10. It’s coming to America first. The cradle of the best and of the worst. It’s here they got the range and the machinery for change. And it’s here they got the spiritual thirst.
  11. In America, it brought you the hamburger. Well, America, you know where you can shove your hamburger. And don't you wonder why in Estonia they say, Hey you, Big fat pig, You fat pig, You fat pig.

1 comment:

Pat said...

Answers:
1. "Free Falling" - Tom Petty
2. "Little Pink Houses" - John Mellencamp
3. "City Of New Orleans" - Arlo Guthrie
4. "Breakfast In America" - Supertramp
5. "Life On Mars" - David Bowie
6. "Bullet The Blue Sky" - U2
7. "Walk On The Wild Side" - Lou Reed
8. "Russians" - Sting
9. "Allentown" - Billy Joel
10. "Democracy" - Leonard Cohen
11. "America Is Not The World" - Morrissey.

Eric is pleased to finally see a Billy Joel song in one of my lyrics quizzes.