Song meme

[dr_whom]

People seem to be enjoying the guess-songs-by-their-first-lines meme (first seen by me recently apud tiamat360), so here's my version of it. I post the first lyrics of randomly chosen songs; you get to guess what songs they are. When you get them right, I'll add the titles here. I omit songs that I've already seen used in this meme.

All done!

Answers are below.

1. I may not always love you...
2. Every day a little death...
3. Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain.
4. Run, freedom, run!
5. Here's to us!
6. You can get anything you want...
7. Lovely Rita Metermaid!
8. Is this the real life?
9. Hold me close and hold me fast.
10. You can't take three from two; two is less than three.
11. Why did he look at her that way?
12. I am a man with an ordinary head.
13. Thousands on board...
14. Join us! Leave your field to flower.
15. Oh, there's no fire in the fireplace!
16. Ain't this the kind of weather...?
17. A little slower, and please keep the fingers curved as nice and high as you possibly can.
18. Remember?
19. We are the Folk Song Army!
20. Look at the stars; / look how they shine for you.
21. A good bit of me sleeps underneath / in the bed of my soul, lying next to belief. / If I stay where I lay, I might turn away...
22. The sun sinks low.
23. I lit out from Reno; I was trailed by twenty hounds.
24. A public-service announcement followed me home the other day.
25. Some enchanted evening...
26. I can't sing a note!
27. Money makes the world go around.
28. Let us be lovers; we'll marry our fortunes together.
29. Gotta sing sing!
30. Whatever happened to fair dealing?

...and, following clauclauclaudia, a bonus one for each song whose title appears in the excerpted line:

31. How do you come out of numbingly humble beginnings...?
32. First there was nothing; then there was something; / it was the world.
33. You wanna lose your only friend? Well keep it up; you're doing fine.
34. A salute to the man on the deck of that ship.
35. It's time for me to be on my way, I know.
36. Rock! Rock! Rock! / The water running down that pipe...
37. Come gather round, people, wherever you roam.
38. All the leaves are brown.


Answers follow:

1. "God Only Knows", the Beach Boys
2. "Every Day a Little Death", A Little Night Music
3. "Skullcrusher Mountain", Jonathan Coulton
4. "Run, Freedom, Run", Urinetown
5. "Old Friends", Merrily We Roll Along
6. "Alice's Restaurant", Arlo Guthrie
7. "Lovely Rita", the Beatles
8. "Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen
9. "La vie en rose", the Louis Armstrong version
10. "New Math", Tom Lehrer
11. "Impossible", A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
12. "Easter Island Head", Throat Culture
13. "To Be a Captain", Titanic
14. "Magic to Do", Pippin
15. "Happiness Hotel", The Great Muppet Caper
16. "What a Game!", Ragtime
17. "Piano Lesson", The Music Man
18. "Remember", A Little Night Music
19. "The Folk Song Army", Tom Lehrer
20. "Yellow", the Logarhythms
21. "Everywhere I Go", the Logarhythms
22. "The Sun Won't Set", A Little Night Music
23. "Friend of the Devil", the Greatful Dead
24. "Bad Day", R.E.M.
25. "Some Enchanted Evening", South Pacific
26. "Where Tina Gets It From", Ruthless!
27. "Money", Cabaret
28. "America", Simon and Garfunkel
29. "Prisoners of Love", The Producers
30. "Class", Chicago
31. "Make the Most of Your Music", Follies
32. "It Was the World", Songs to Wear Pants To
33. "Nobody's Side", Chess
34. "Journey On", Ragtime
35. "Temptation", Billy Joel
36. "The Biggest One", They Might Be Giants
37. "The Times They Are a-Changin'", Bob Dylan
38. "California Dreamin'", The Mamas and the Papas


There's a lot of these that I don't think I'd be able to get. 32 is definitely the hardest.

Comments

Re: It Was The World

[notachnai.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do, from both a theatrical and a puzzling perspective. I have been enjoying your puzzles tremendously, and discussed some of them with dr_whom. Thank you for providing such fun!