Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.oldies From: marc@world.std.com (Marc Dashevsky) Subject: GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ #93 (GOLQ93) Message-ID: Organization: Mystic Valley Software Associates, Inc. Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 01:59:18 GMT I am posting this on behalf of Howard Teitelbaum . Please direct your comments and entries to him. -- GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ #93 Welcome to the next installment of the Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz series. If you do not have the official GOLQ Rules (a posted copy of the rules should follow a posted copy of this quiz on most sites), then you may retrieve them via anonymous ftp from the remote directory "bobcat.bbn.com:/pub/golq/FAQ" in the file "rules". There have been no recent changes to the rules. If you want GOLQs and their Results/Answers sent directly to you via e-mail, just send a message to golq-request@world.std.com consisting only of the word "subscribe" in the body, not the subject, of the message. Good luck to all! -- Howard Teitelbaum (hat@bell-labs.com) --> Answers must be received by 5:00 PM EDT on Tuesday, June 11, 1996. <-- E-mail (DO NOT POST) answers to: hat@bell-labs.com Please note my new e-mail address above. Do not send mail to my old address (hat@floyd.att.com), as it may not reach me. Try to e-mail early since I don't know how long it takes to get here. Since entries occasionally get delayed or lost due to Internet problems, I will send acknowledgment by e-mail as soon as possible after receiving your entry. If you don't get a response from me within 2-3 business days, you can call me at (201) 386-6816 (M-F, 9-5 EDT). ______________________________________________________________________________ Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #93 (Songs #01 - #25 were from 1956 through 1969) Due 5:00 PM EDT, Tuesday, June 11, 1996 ______________________________________________________________________________ Who's trippin' down the streets of the city? Smilin' at everybody she sees Who's reachin' out to capture a moment? #01) She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored She'll do a hundred and forty in the top end floored #02) I'm an ol' poor boy and I'm a long way from home I'm an ol' poor boy and I'm a long way from home I'll never be happy, 'cause everything I ever did was wrong #03) When we met, the world was bright Now I'm crying every night #04) Woke up this morning I was feeling quite weird Had flies in my beard My toothpaste was smeared #05) I need you true I hope you do, too I'm telling you, darling I'll never let you go #06) We'll never say goodbye He made a promise He'll never make me cry Every time we kiss good night Feels so good to hold him tight #07) Moonlit water will sing Of the tender love you'll bring We will be sweethearts Yes, forever #08) Breakfast where the news is read Television children fed Unborn, living, living dead Bullet strikes the helmet's head #09) She's gone and found somebody new He may be happy now, but soon ... #10) She comes on like she's so high-class and well-bred But I never saw a girl with such a swelled head She's got herself a mighty long wait She thinks I'll ask her for a date #11) Money, I don't have any I'm down to my last penny But darling, don't cry over me #12) Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby Don't you know my love is true Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey Get up off-a that money #13) It hurts me so To see you when you're cryin' All he's doing, doing, doing, doing's Handing you a line #14) Do you ask why I'm sighing, my son? You shall inherit what mankind has done In a world filled with sorrow and woe If you ask me why this is so I really don't know #15) Well, if you ever go Darling, I'll be oh so lonely I'll be sad and blue Crying over you, dear, only #16) Woh-oh, give me back my ring, woh-oh Woh-oh, I ain't gonna let you keep a thing #17) Well, I'm his girl back home, and on a weekend leave I'm the very first one that he runs to see We find a lot of things to do But pretty soon, the weekend's through #18) Prince or pauper, beggar man or king Play the game with every blow you bring #19) I got a lock of your hair And a bullfrog's eye And if you break my heart You better say goodbye #20) I went hiking with Joe Spivey He developed poison ivy You remember Leonard Skinner He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner #21) Each night before you go to bed, my baby Whisper a little prayer for me, my baby #22) The reason why I ask this question I used to be the same old way When I decided to straighten up I found it was a little too late #23) I was walkin' down the street When this boy started following me Though I ignored all the things he said He moved me in every way With his collar unbuttoned By my side he was struttin' #24) Some may come and some may go It will surely pass When the one that left us here Returns for us at last We are but a moment's sunlight Fading in the grass #25) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIE-BREAKERS: I said, "Now, sweetheart, why don't you be my wife?" Baby, that would be oh so nice For you and I were meant to be But that too you just can't see #T1) I remember when you fell from the eyes of my love You made me reconsider what I fool I've been And swear to God I'll stray no more by all the stars above #T2) ______________________________________________________________________________ Please answer the following questions (append your answer to the line): Name(s) = E-mail address = Age(s) [will be published if answered] = Number of people (including you) who contributed to your answers = ______________________________________________________________________________