olivia_sutton | Writing Prompt Answers

Hi all,
Okay, it's been a week. Here are the answers to last week's quiz/writing prompt. But I'd love to see the same thing from you guys and gals out there!

Writing Prompt Answers

1. "In comes a train and the whole platform shakes, it stops with a shudder, a screaming of breaks, the parting has come, and my weary so legs, I'm leaving my Nancy-o."
Leaving Nancy, Hyland Paddy, Classic Irish Folk Vol. 2, Irish Folk (Ireland)

2. "There's a man who leads a life of danger, to everyone he meets he stays a stranger. With every move he makes, another chance he takes, odds are he won't live to see tomorrow."
Secret Agent Man, Johnny Rivers, Spy Magazine Presents Spy Music, Vol. 1, Soundtrack

3. "When I look up to the sky, I see your eyes, a funny kind of yellow."
Pictures of Matchstick Men, Status Quo, The Best of 60's Psychedelic Rock, Rock

4. "O Fortunia, ..." (sorry, it's in Latin, can't understand it)
Carmina burana: O Fortuna, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Classical Thunder 2, Classical

5. "When we're fighting in the streets, with our children at our feet, and the morals to be worshiped will be gone. And the men who spurred us on, sit in judgement of our own, they decide and the shotgun sings a song."
Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who, Who's Better, Who's Best, Rock

6. "Try to remember, the kind of September, when life was slow, and oh so mellow, try remember the kind of September, when grass was green and grain was yellow, try to remember the kind of September, when you were a tender and callow fellow, try to remember and if you remember, then follow, follow, follow."
Try to Remember, John Barrowman, Reflections From Broadway, Soundtrack

7. Instrumental: Tara's Theme - Gone With the Wind, John Williams: Boston Pops Orchestra, Encore!, Classical

8. "The thundering waves are calling me home to you, the pounding sea is calling me home to you."
The Old Ways, Loreena McKennitt, The Visit, Irish Folk (Canada)

9. Instrumental: The Awakening, Peter Howell, Doctor Who - The Five Doctors, Soundtrack

10. "Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, nothing you can do, that can't be done, nothing you can sing that can't be sung, nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game, it's easy." All You Need Is Love, The Beatles, The Beatles 1967-1970, Rock

11. "I'm going to lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside, I'm going to lay down my sword and shield, down by the riverside, and study war no more." Down by the Riverside (aka Study War No More), Peter, Paul, and Mary, Around the Campfire, Folk

12. "It's been a hard day's night and I've been working like a dog."
A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles, The Beatles 1962-1966, Rock

13. "It's the choices that you make, and the ones that you don't, that define what you will be. What you are and what you seek. All the promises you've kept and the ones that you break."
Choices, Heather Alexander, Freedom, Flight, & Fantasy, Filk

14. "She had a 'Do Not Disturb' hanging off her back, she looked taller than she was in her tapered slacks, calculated head of hair and cowboy boots, she said, 'I'm a country girl from down on 8^th Avenue', she bought a bottle of wine, two bananas, and a New York Times, the man behind the counter smiled, this time, can't blame him boys, I heard him sigh from the dirty white noise." Do Not Disturb, Patty Larkin, Angels Running, Folk (Really, it's Modern Folk, I just haven't gotten around to re-classifying it)

15. "I was born in a Dublin Street, where the Royal Drums do beat, and the loving English feet they tramped all over us, and each and every night when me father come home tight, he'd invite the neighbours outside with this chorus:"
Come Out Ye Black and Tans, Paddy Reilly, Rebels of Ireland: 16 Patriotic Irish Songs, Irish Folk (Ireland)

16. "When the dark wood fell before me, and all the paths were overgrown, when the priests of pride say there is no other way, I tilled the sorrows of stone."
Dante's Prayer, Loreena McKennitt, The Book of Secrets, Irish Folk (Canada)

17. "I don't need a shrink to tell me what to think, there ain't no missing link in my love life, it's all right, I ain't that uptight."
I'm Holding On To Love, Shania Twain, Come On Over, Country

18. "I'm have all my Wisdom teeth, two up top and two beneath, and yet I'll recognise, my mouth says things that aren't so wise."
Comin' Back Soon, (The Bereft Man's Song), Crash Test Dummies, The Ghosts that Haunt Me, Alternative & Punk

19. "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, with a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot, don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."
Big Yellow Taxi, Maire Brennan, Misty Eyed Adventures, New Age

20. "You came here from a distant shore, by your side a friend and an open smile."
Atlantic Shore, Maire Brennan, Maire, New Age

21. In Irish - No idea Gaoth Barra Na d'Tonn, Clannad, An Díolaim, Irish Folk (Ireland)

22. "I'm running down the road, trying to loosen my load, got seven women on my mind, four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, one says she's a friend of mine."
Take it Easy, The Eagles (live), Hell Freezes Over, Rock

23. "Holiday quiet on these streets, except some starving leaves that didn't fall with the fall, and now they clatter in vain, holiday sky, midnight clear, wind is high, hard to steer."
What About Everything? , Carbon Leaf, Indian Summer, "Pop" according to iTunes and I haven't gotten around to re-classifying it.

24. Instrumental/vocalising The Drunken Piper Natalie McMaster, Women of the World: Celtic II, Irish Folk (Ireland)

25. "Life's a show and we all play our parts, and when the music starts, we open up our hearts."
Something to Sing About, The Cast of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Once More, With Feeling (Buffy: The Musical), Soundtrack

Thank you for playing!
--Olivia Sutton