Month: November 2007

The Friday Random Guess 10:

  1. Their small-town eyes will gape at you
  2. There’s a reckless feeling in your heart as you head out tonight
  3. Heads turn when you hit the room
  4. Let your legs loll on the lino
  5. Tear me apart, including this old heart
  6. Blue morning, blue morning, wrapped in strands of fist and bone
  7. They stencilled their drum heads and guitars with their names
  8. I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
  9. So roll me over, over, over while you turn your head
  10. Oh ladies, pleasant and demure, sallow-cheeked and sure

There’s even something approaching a theme this week, even if it did sort of need to be shoehorned in there for a couple of the lyrics. (Can you guess it?)

Anyway, that’s what these are: song lyrics. You guess the song title and band, and we all clap and cheer uproariously when you get it right. Sound like fun? Good, because that’s how it works. Oh, and we did this last week, too, if you were wondering how that played out.

As always, best of luck!

I was getting the following error message in my e-mail program: “Recipient address rejected: need fully-qualified address.”

It was easily fixed — I needed to remove an “x” I’d accidentally typed on the cc line — but it should tell you something about me that my first thought was, “You don’t hyphenate compound modifiers if one of them’s an adverb.”

Wait — today’s Friday, isn’t it? I’ve already lost track. Anyway, here’s the Random Guess 10:

  1. “Carry On Wayward Son” by the Oak Ridge Boys (orig. Kansas), guessed by Betty
    Once I rose above the noise and confusion
  2. “New York City” by They Might Be Giants
    We met in the springtime at a rock and roll show
  3. “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Peter, Paul and Mary, guessed by Kim
    There’s so many times I’ve let you down
  4. “Dreaming My Dreams” by the Cranberries
    And there’s no other place that I’d lay down my face
  5. “Ballad of Ira Hayes” by Johnny Cash
    And their land grew crops of weeds
  6. “When Doves Cry” by the Be Good Tanyas (orig. Prince), guessed by wormbrain
    Maybe you’re just like my mother
  7. “Long Black Veil” by New Riders of the Purple Sage (orig. Johnny Cash), guessed by Betty
    Oh, the scaffold is high and eternity’s near
  8. “The Soldiering Life” by the Decemberists
    The call to arms you liken to a whisper, I liken to a radio
  9. “I Feel Fine” by the Beatles, guessed by Eric
    Baby says she’s mine, you know
  10. “The Chimbley Sweep” by the Decemberists
    “O lonely urchin!” the widow cried

If you don’t know how it works, just watch how others do it and you’ll figure it out.

I know I haven’t been terrific lately about posting answers, but I will get around to it, hopefully sometime tomorrow. It’s just…well, it’s a little bit of tedious copy-and-pasting. And that’s always assuming I can remember where I saved the right answers…

Anyway, for now, and as always, good luck!

Update: Okay, at long last, here are last week’s answers. And here are the answers from the week before that. I think I’m all caught up now.