Memorize these and recognize 14.0% of all Song Lyrics clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ira Gershwin | 4 | His lyrics after the death of his brother George include "The Man Who Got Away", music by Harold Arlen |
| 2 | Mrs. Robinson | 3 | Simon & Garfunkel told her that "Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo, wo, wo" |
| 3 | downtown | 3 | In 1965 Petula Clark told us that "when you're alone and life is making lonely, you can always go" here |
| 4 | "Yesterday" | 3 | In this 1965 hit, The Beatles sang, "Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. There's a shadow hanging over me" |
| 5 | "Moon River" | 3 | Johnny told this river, "I'm crossing you in style someday" |
| 6 | rose | 3 | "I'm wearing second hand hats — second hand clothes — that's why they call me" this |
| 7 | Queen | 3 | "…you can jive having the time of your life ooh see that girl watch that scene diggin'" her |
| 8 | Love | 3 | "I need love, love to ease my mind, I need to find, find someone to call mine, but Mama said" these 4 words |
| 9 | (Lorenz) Hart | 3 | Oscar Hammerstein II & this other great partner of Richard Rodgers were classmates at Columbia |
| 10 | Yip | 2 | E.Y. Harburg, who wrote the words to "Over The Rainbow", had this nickname |
| 11 | The Police | 2 | "A year has passed since I wrote my note" in "Message In A Bottle" by this band, not "a year has passed since I broke my nose" |
| 12 | Taylor Swift | 2 | "Life was a willow & it bent right to your wind (oh)... I'm begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that's my man" |
| 13 | Strawberry Fields | 2 | "Let me take you down cause I'm going" here |
| 14 | spinning wheel | 2 | "What goes up must come down, ____ ____ got to go 'round" |
| 15 | S.O.S. | 2 | "So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me…" this |
| 16 | Rocky Raccoon | 2 | "Now, somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota, there lived a young boy named" this |
| 17 | Penny Lane | 2 | On this Liverpool street, "there is a barber showing photographs of every head he's had the pleasure to know" |
| 18 | Madonna | 2 | "Come on, vogue, let your body move to the music, hey hey hey" |
| 19 | La Vida Loca | 2 | Ricky Martin sang,"She's into superstitions, black cats and voodoo dolls", & no doubt she's livin' this |
| 20 | Joe | 2 | Hendrix: "Hey" this guy, "I heard you shot your old lady down...yes, I did, I shot her" |
| 21 | Jeanie (with the light brown hair) | 2 | "I dream of" her, "borne, like a vapor, on the summer air" |
| 22 | Hal David | 2 | After parting ways with Burt Bacharach, he wrote "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" |
| 23 | Cheers | 2 | Sitcom whose theme song begins, "Making your way in the world today takes ev'rything you've got" |
| 24 | Charlie Brown | 2 | He "walks in the classroom, cool and slow" & "calls the English teacher 'Daddy-O'" |
| 25 | Bernie Taupin | 2 | He & Elton John met when both answered an ad placed by Liberty Records in 1967 |
| 26 | a carpenter | 2 | "If I were" this "and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway? Would you have my baby?" |
| 27 | "Time After Time" | 2 | "If you're lost, you can look—and you will find me" |
| 28 | "The Long and Winding Road" | 2 | "It always leads me here, lead me to your door" |
| 29 | "Penny Lane" | 2 | "There beneath the blue suburban skies" |
| 30 | "Old Town Road" | 2 | 2019: "I got the horses in the back, horse tack is attached" |
| 31 | "Norwegian Wood" | 2 | "I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me" |
| 32 | "Love Me Tender" | 2 | "Never let me go. You have made my life complete, and I love you so" |
| 33 | "Livin' On A Prayer" | 2 | Bon Jovi: "Take my hand and we'll make it, I swear" |
| 34 | "Jailhouse Rock" | 2 | In this 1957 Elvis hit, "Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone" & "the whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang" |
| 35 | "I Will Always Love You" | 2 | 1992: "And I..." (hold the "I" for roughly 5 minutes & like this song, you too could be No. 1 for 14 weeks) |
| 36 | "I am the Walrus" | 2 | "I am the Eggman" |
| 37 | "Hey Jude" | 2 | "Na na na na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na..." |
| 38 | "Hello, Goodbye" | 2 | "You say yes I say no you say stop and I say go go go" |
| 39 | "Get Back" | 2 | "Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass" |
| 40 | "Eleanor Rigby" | 2 | "Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for?" |
| 41 | "Bad" | 2 | Michael Jackson: "The word is out you're doin' wrong, gonna lock you up before too long" |
| 42 | "All You Need is Love" | 2 | "Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love" |
| 43 | "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" | 2 | 1976: "You just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free" |
| 44 | the man that got away | 2 | "The winds grow colder and suddenly you're older and all because of" this |
| 45 | the child | 2 | "Mamma may have, papa may have, but God bless" this person "that's got his own!" |
| 46 | the ceiling | 2 | "Oh my darlin', knock three times on" this "if you want me; twice on the pipe if the answer is no" |
| 47 | Mr. Tambourine Man | 2 | "Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to" |
| 48 | in his kiss | 2 | A hit from 1964 suggests that "If you want to know if he loves you so" it's here |
| 49 | Christopher Columbus | 2 | "They all laughed at" this man "when he said the world was round" |
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