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1. From what song do you hear these lyrics?
"I met you on somebody's island
You thought you had known me before
I brought you a crate of papaya
They waited all night by your door
You probably wouldn't remember
I probably couldn't forget"
2. What song gives us these lyrics?
"You know where you are
You're in the jungle baby
You're gonna die
In the jungle"
3. Which song opens with these lyrics?
"Whoa, thought it was a nightmare, low, it's all so true
They told me, don't go walkin' slow, the devil's on the loose"
4. In what song would you hear these lyrics?
"No sun will shine in my day today; (no sun will shine)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play:
(that high yellow moon won't come out to play)
I said (darkness) darkness has covered my light,
(and the stage) And has changed my day into night, yeah.
Where is the love to be found? (oo-ooh-ooh)
Won't someone tell me?
'Cause my (sweet life) life must be somewhere to be found -
(must be somewhere for me)"
5. What song gives us these lyrics?
"Get down - get down
Get down - get down
Get down - get down
Uh, get it
Feel the funk y'all
Let it flow"
6. Which song contains these lyrics?
"She can't love me, I can't love her
Cause they say we're the wrong color
Staring, gloating, laughing, looking
Like we've done something wrong
Because we show love strong, get real, come on
Calling us names too bad to mention
But we pay them no attention
For color blind are inner feelings
If we feel happiness"
7. In what song would these lyrics be heard?
"Walking through forests of Palm Tree Apartments
Scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents
Down by the waterhole, drunk every Friday
Eating their nuts, saving their raisins for Sunday
Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows
They're fast but they're lazy and sleep in green meadows"?
8. Where would you hear these lyrics?
"Rousseau walks on trumpet paths
Safaris to the heart of all that jazz
Through I bars and girders-through wires and pipes
The mathematic circuits of the modern nights
Through huts, through Harlem, through jails and gospel pews
Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine
Through Europe and the deep deep heart of Dixie blue"
9. From what song would these lyrics be found?
"I was wondering in the darkness, in the middle of the night
Mmmhmmm, mmmhmmm
The moon began to shine, I saw a clearing ahead
Mmmhmmm, mmmhmmm
But what's that going on, I think I'm outta my head
Mmmhmmm, mmmhmmm.
Chorus:
Chooka chooka hoo la ley
Looka looka koo la ley."
10. What song gave us these lyrics?
"Down In Eutaw, Alabama in 1965
A young man about 21 no different
Then you or I
He's catchin' catfish and gettin' drunk
But Uncle Sam called, he called him up
Sent him out to Vietnam
That young man
Got his life turned upside down
Turned his smile into a frown
Robbed that king of his crown
For an ideal he didn't even know about"
Source: Author
Ilona_Ritter
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