Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:12:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #160 From: Jyrki T Ilva GOLDEN OLDIES LYRICS QUIZ (GOLQ) #160 Welcome to the next installment of the Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz series. We expect that this will be a challenging quiz for most of the entrants, but there are connections between many of the songs, and this may provide some help. Good luck! Jyrki Ilva & Pekka Halonen ** Entries must be received by 5:00 PM EST (GMT-5), Tuesday, Aug 1, 2000. ** E-mail (DO NOT POST) answers to: ilva&cc.helsinki.fi [replace '&' with '@'] Try to e-mail early, since entries occasionally get delayed or lost due to Internet problems. We will send acknowledgment by e-mail as soon as possible after receiving your entry. 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If you want GOLQs and their Results/Answers sent directly to you via e-mail, just send e-mail to golq-request@world.std.com consisting only of the word "subscribe" in the body, not the subject, of the message. _______________________________________________________________________________ Golden Oldies Lyrics Quiz #160 (Songs #01 - #25 were from 1955 through 1969) Due 5:00 PM EST, Tuesday, August 1, 2000 _______________________________________________________________________________ Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today We just touched ground on an international runway Jet propelled back home from overseas to the USA New York, Los Angeles, oh how I yearned for you Detroit, Chicago, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge Got along just to be at my home back in old St. Louis #01) I'll never know what made you run away How can I keep searchin' When dark clouds hide the day I only know there's nothing here for me Nothing in this wide world left for me to see #02) When I told you one time that I was a shoe shine boy Every word I said, I meant Name me any other country you can start as a shoe shine boy And shake hands with the President #03) I recall your kisses The times I held you tight Now when I come to see you You're sittin' in the light Missin' all the things that we dreamed of #04) I'm gonna treat you so sweet and kind I'll drive her right out of your mind And you won't know her if you meet Walk right by her on the street Because I want you and need you so Poor Suzy will have to go #05) He's a kind of frogman wearing twenty pounds of counter-weight And sinking in the sea like a stone He's a kind of soldier, got no sense of direction They send him in the jungle alone #06) Can't you hear them singin' Mmm, I'm going home one of these days I'm going home see my woman Whom I love so dear But meanwhile I got to work right here #07) If you see me comin', better step aside A lot of men didn't, a lot of men died One fist of iron, the other of steel If the right one don't get you, then the left one will #08) A young man rode with his head held high Under the Texas sun And no one guessed that a man so blessed Would perish by the gun Lord, would perish by the gun #09) Saw you were marchin' with Robert E. Lee You held your head a-high tryin' to win the victory You fought for your folks but you didn't die in vain Even though you lost they speak highly of your name #10) Can a kid without a cent Get a break and maybe grow up to be President #11) Your mother tells me that you're not at home Each time I call you on the telephone Oh, I'm so lost and alone #12) And if a job is hard to find And we have to stand in the welfare line I've got your love and you know you got mine #13) I heard that you're gonna leave me And there are rumors baby, yeah, it's another girl, yeah I work my fingers, down to the bone, yeah Tryin' to make you, a happy home, yeah #14) Think of all the hate there is in Red China Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama #15) Oh please, don't that sun look good goin' down Yeah please, don't that sun look good goin' down Don't that old moon look lonesome When your baby's not around #16) People don't you understand The child needs a helping hand Or he'll grow to be an angry young man some day #17) Sometimes you hurt me baby I don't know why I'll always love you baby Till the day I die But when you look at fellows Baby I get jealous I only live my life for you #18) You tell me that marches won't bring integration But look what it's done for the voter registration Be thankful our country allows demonstrations Instead of condemning make some recommendations #19) You know there just ain't no tellin' What a satisfied woman might do #20) Woke up this morning, my head was so bad The worst hangover that I ever had What happened to me last night That girl of mine she loved me so right #21) I'd lower all the taxes Just to suit your taste I'd bring home all the fellows Fightin' over in Vietnam #22) I love you baby like a flower loves the spring I love you baby like a robin loves to sing And I love you baby like a schoolboy loves his pie #23) Going to a movie only makes me sad Parties make me feel as bad When I'm not with you #24) Behind I left a woman So, so dear to me I'm off to fight a war That they say would make me free #25) Tie-Breakers: It's been so long since I've been gone And I just stopped to write And oh I hope these words will comfort you-u Some dark and lonely night Don't you know my love is real Don't you know just how I feel (how I feel) #T1) And hey Pop, my girlfriend's only three She's got her own videophone And she's a-takin' L.S.D. And now that we're best friends She wants to give her bit to me But what's the matter daddy, how come you're turning green Can it be that you can't live up to your dreams? #T2) _________________________________________________________________________ Please fill in the following information (append at the end of each line): Name(s) = E-mail address = Age(s) [will be published if provided] = Number of people (including you) who contributed to your answers = _________________________________________________________________________