From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: C&W Lyrics Quiz!
Reply-To: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 23:56:59 GMT

For those of you who are tired of the "***HOT NEW COUNTRY***" trend in
country music, here's a little lyrics quiz I put together that focuses
on some of the older country classics. I guess I don't know the exact
time frame of all these songs, but suffice it to say that they are all
"pre-Randy Travis". The songs are in alphabetical order by artist
(some songs may have been recorded by more than one artist; I'm after
the artist who fits alphabetically). Most of these are pretty easy, but
some of them are a little bit tough.

(Yes, I know that there is a rec.games.trivia group, but somehow this quiz
didn't seem to fit in there. I noticed a lot of questions here recently
about lyrics, so I threw this together for some fun).

PLEASE **MAIL** (DO **NOT** POST) your answers. I'll post the answers
on about the 24th of August.

Entry fee : $0.00
Prize     : $0.00

E-mail (**DO NOT POST**) answers to : marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
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 1. "When I hear that lonesome whistle
     I hang my head and cry"

 2. "You tell me to find someone else to love
     Someone who loves me too
     The way you used to do"

 3. "I work ten hours on a John Deere Tractor..."

 4. "...a place where even squares can have a ball"

 5. "Nobody ever knew it
     But I went out in the woods and I cried"

 6. "I got my first guitar
     When I was fourteen"

 7. "Long and lean, every young man's dream
     She turned every head in town"

 8. "I know every engineer on every train
     All of their children, and all of their names"

 9. "Well, there's more old drunks than there are old doctors
     So I guess we'd better have another round"

10. "The key to my heart
     You hold in your hands
     And nothing else matters"

11. "I hope life treats you kind
     And I hope that you have all you ever dreamed of"

12. "And you have the nerve to tell me
     You think that as a mother I'm not fit"

13. "Off to my right I see five mounted cowboys
     Off to my left ride a dozen or more"

14. "But you think I should be happy
     With your money and your name"

15. "I'll be looking for eight
     When they pull that gate"

16. "I see you're used to champagne
     But I'll buy you a beer"

17. "And the people would come from miles around
     Just to hear him make that rhythmic sound
     That filled their hearts with such a happy cheer"

18. "The silence of a falling star
     Lights up a purple sky"

19. "A moonlit pass that only she would know
     Still hears my broken song of love"

20. "I love you both
     And this will be pure H-E-L-L for me"

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Tie-breakers :

 A. "He'll steal your heart and then he'll steal your head"

 B. "...Way up on the great divide
     Truckin' on down the other side"
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Bob Marshall                     \\     "It ain't age
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    It ain't the years, boys,
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   It's the miles"
"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
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