Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "I've stayed in every blue light cheap hotel
Can't win for trying
Dust off those rusty strings just one more time
Gonna make them shine
It all rolls into one
And nothing comes for free
There's nothing you can hold for very long
And when you hear that song come crying like the wind
It seems like this life was just a dream..."
What song is this from?
2. "Picture a bright blue ball just spinning, spinning free,
dizzy with eternity
Paint it with a skin of sky, brush in some clouds and sea
Call it home for you and me
A peaceful place, or so it looks from space
A closer look reveals the human race
Full of hope, full of grace, is the human face
But afraid we may lay our home to waste..."
What song is this from?
3. "Gideon came in with his eyes on the floor
Says, "you ain't got a hinge, you can't close the door"
Moses stood up a full six foot ten
Said "you can't close the door when the wall's caved in"..."
What song is this from?
4. "Well I ain't often right but I've never been wrong
It seldom turns out the way it does in the song
Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
What song is this from?
5. "I can't stay here much longer, Melinda
The sun is getting high
I can't help you with your troubles
If you won't help with mine
I gotta get down
I gotta get down
Gotta get down to the mine...
Make good money, five dollars a day
If I made any more I might move away..."
What song is this from?
6. "On the day that I was born Daddy sat down and cried
I had the mark just as plain as day, I could not be denied
They say that Cain caught Abel rolling loaded dice
Ace of spades behind his ear and him not thinking twice..."
What song is this from?
7. "Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac
I can tell by the way you smile, he is rolling back
Come wash the night-time clean
Come grow the scorched ground green
Blow the horn, tap the tambourine
Close the gap of the dark years in between
You and me______..."
What song is this from?
8. "First thing I remember knowing, was a lonesome whistle blowing
And a young man's dream of growing up to ride
On a freight train leaving town, not knowing where I'm bound
No one could change my mind..."
What song is this from?
9. "Well I met her accidently in St. Paul, Minnesota
And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl that southern drawl
Then I heard my dream went down back stream
cavorting in Davenport
And I followed you when you called..."
What song is this from?
10. "There's mosquitos on the river
Fish are rising up like birds
It's been hot for seven weeks now
Too hot to even speak now
Did you hear what I just heard?
Say, it might have been a fiddle
Or it could have been the wind
But there seems to be a beat now
I can feel it in my feet now
Listen, here it comes again..."
What song is this from?
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