Music Meme Answers - December

Sorry this is late, I had a heck of a weekend and I just crashed yesterday!

Music Meme / Writing Prompts -- December

 

This is how it works, as always.  Set iTunes, your Ipod, or other music device to "shuffle" or "random", then write down the first line of every song played for 10 - 20 songs.  I'm going to list 15 here.  Then, guess or try to figure out what the song is and artist singing it are.  Answers will be posted in one week.  Also, the quoted lines may be used as inspiration for fanfic.  If you complete a fanfic using the prompt as your starting point or idea, please let me know and provide a link to the story.  Thanks and have fun!

 

1.  "Chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chain, chian, chain of fools. For five long years, I thought you were my man."

 Sorry that's "Chain of Fools", The Commitments, The Commitments Soundtrack
Also, the original was Aretha Franklin.  Sorry for the confusion.

 

2.  "Come-on baby, leave some change behind, she was a *itch but I'd don't care, she brought our food out on time, what a funky "red" (unclear) in her hair."

 "Waitress", Live (Band name), Throwing Copper, Alternative Rock

 

3.  "We'll build on this rock, towers so high, let your voice surround me, light my life to carry on."

 "The Big Rock", Máire Brennan, Perfect Time, New Age

 

4.  "There you go, slipping away into a state of grace."

 "State of Grace", Billy Joel, Storm Front, Rock

 

5.  "She can kill with a smile, she wound with her eyes."

 "She's Always a Woman to Me", Billy Joel, Greatest Hits Vol. 1, Rock

 

6.   Give Away number 1  (Sorry, it's in French.)  "Diggy Diggy Lo", Eddie LeJeune, Cajun Spice, Music from South Louisiana, Cajun/Zydeco

 

7.  Give Away number 2 (Instrumental) "Enlightment", Malcolm Clarke, Doctor Who - The Five Doctors, Soundtrack

 

8.  "Hush now, don't explain, you're my joy and pain."

 "Don't Explain," Sinéad O'Connor, A Woman's Heart (Disc 2), Irish Folk (Ireland)

 

9.  "In Yarmouth town, there lived a man, he had a little tarvern by the Strand, and the landlord had a daughter fair, pretty little thing with golden hair."

 "Yarmouth Town", Great Big Sea, Sea of No Cares, Irish Folk (Canada)

 

10.  "I'll be all smiles tonight, I'll be all smiles tonight.  Tho' my heart be grey tomorrow, I'll be all smiles tonight."

 "I'll Be All Smiles Tonight", Martha McBride / The Chieftains, Down the Old Plank Road, Bluegrass

 

11.  Give Away number 3, "76 Trombones", John Williams:  Boston Pops Orchestra, Encore! (Disc 2), Classical

 

12.  "They're red, they're white, they're brown, they get that way underground.  There can't be much to do, so now they have blue ones too."

 "Potato", Cheryl Wheeler, Laugh Tracks Vol. 1, Folk

 

13.  "Life's a show and we all play our parts."

 "Something to Sing About," The Cast of  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Once More, With Feeling (Buffy:  The Musical), Soundtrack

 

14.  Give Away number 4, "Battles", Clannad, Legend (The Robin of Sherwood Soundtrack), Soundtrack

 

15.  Give Away number 5, "Thunderbirds Main Titles", Barry Gray, Thunderbirds Soundtrack

 

16.  "When the moon on a cloud cast night.  Hung above the tree tops height."

 "Samian Night,"  Loreena McKennitt, Parallel Dreams, Irish Folk (Canada)

 

17.  "Way-hey and away we go donkey riding, donkey riding.  Riding on a donkey."

 "Donkey Riding" (live), Great Big Sea, Road Rage (Live), Irish Folk (Canada)

 

18.  "When your day is done, and the night - the night is yours alone." (Warning:  Cover version)

 "Everybody Hurts", Paul Anka, Rock Swings, Pop

Original REM

 

19.  "I don't mind confining that I make stupid mistakes.  Been misled and misguided, and I'm easily led astray."

 "Stumbling In", Great Big Sea, Sea of  No Cares, Irish Folk (Canada)

 

20.  "Flew in from Miami, BOAC, didn't get to bed last night, all the way the paperback was on my knee - man, I had a dreadful flight."

"Back in the USSR,"  The Beatles, 1967-1970 (disc 2), Rock

Enjoy!
--Olivia