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1. Let's start with an odd one. In 'Ode to Billy Joe,' a casual dinner conversation reveals that the singer's secret boyfriend just killed himself. How did Billy Joe McAllister do himself in?
2. In another depressing song, the singer's parents forbid him to see his poor girlfriend. She responds by drowning herself 'in that dirty old river.' He ends the song by saying he'll do the same thing. What is the name of both the girl and the song?
3. In what morbid song by the Pogues do 'four score and three' drowned sailors return to get revenge on the one who betrayed them?
4. This song by Gordon Lightfoot deals with a freighter that sunk in the Great Lakes. What song contains the memorable line 'Superior, they said, never gives up her dead'?
5. Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson (along with Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings) sing a song about a man who's had many incarnations. In one life, he was a sailor who died when he was blown off the mast during a storm. What's the name of this song?
6. In this classic American folk song, the singer's love drowns while driving her ducklings to the water.
7. Johnny Richardson (aka 'The Big Bopper') wrote a very politically incorrect song about two Native American lovers who drown while swimming across a river to meet each other. What was the name of the song?
8. Merle Haggard sings how his love drowns in a river. What river?
9. Novelty singer Tom Lehrer sings a weird song about a girl who kills off her entire family. She drowns her father in the creek, and sends her brother off to Davy Jones. Which song is this?
10. Finally, who sang the song 'Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning?'
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