Tell, Told, Tale
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Short version of rules
Without using a search engine to find one, write down at least eight words of a song containing the word (or the topic, if it's a general topic).
If it's the newest word, play once, and wait for another player to play before you go again.
On older words, you can play over and over without waiting!
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50 comments:
Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Beauty and the Beast
just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
Gilligan's Island theme song
Be sure it's true
When you say "I Love you"
It's a sin to tell a lie
(composer unknown; wonderfully sung by Fats Waller)
Tell her about it
Tell her all your crazy dreams
Billy Joel
When I was just a young boy
My mama told me, Son
Always be a good boy
Don't ever play with guns
Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash
Don't tell me you love me,
Don't tell me
I don't want to know
Night Ranger
I hear the telephone that hasn't rung
You gotta tell me you're coming back to me
The Rolling Stones
Be a good little boy, and you'll get a new toy
Tell grandma you fell off the swing
Hell Is For Children ~ Pat Benatar
...you were always on my mind.
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died...
Willie Nelson
Mama told me not to come
She said, That ain't the way to have fun, son
Three Dog Night
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now
Everclear
I'd fly away to that merry green land
And tell what I have seen
"Henry Lee," a ballad in which a bird witnesses the disposal of a body down a deep, deep well...
My mama done told me
When I was in knee pants
My mama done told me,
Son,
A woman will sweet talk
And give you the big eye
But when the sweet talkin's done
A woman's a two face
A worrisome thing
Who'll lead you to sing
The blues in the night
(Arlen/Mercer)
(Remember when Bugs Bunny sang this in one of his cartoons?)
Tell me more, tell me more.
Did you get very far?
Summer Nights from Grease
Mama told me when I was young
Come sit beside me, my only son
Simple Man ~ Lynyrd Skynyrd
If I told you I loved you, would it move you enough to even act as if you've heard?
Plain White T's
I know the routine
Put another nickel in that old machine
I'm feeling so bad
Won't you make the music
Easy and sad
I could tell you a lot
But a gentleman's got to be true to his code
So make it one for my baby
And one more for the road.
(Arlen/Mercer)
I've got to tell you my tale of how I loved and how I failed.
I hope you understand.
History by The Verve
People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one
Danny's Song ~ Kenny Loggins
Don't write a letter when you want to leave
Don't call me at 3 AM from a friend's apartment
I want to choose
How I hear the news
Take me to a park
That's covered with trees
Tell me on a Sunday, please.
(Andrew Lloyd Weber)
Nobody told me there'd be days like these
strange days indeed
most peculiar mama...
---John Lennon
Tell me why, tell me why
Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself
When you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell
Neil Young
My mama told me
You better shop around
Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby?
Superstar
The Carpenters
Mama sent me to the store
Told me not to stay
Fell in love with a pretty little girl
And could not get away
Chawin' Chewin' Gum (old song, New Lost City Ramblers sang it)
here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
but my god it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
Breathe ~ Anna Nalick
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills
I Will Buy You A New Life ~ Everclear
People let me tell you 'bout my best friend
The Courtship of Eddie's Father theme song
And you tell me over and over and over again, my friend
That you don't believe we're on the even of destruction
Now you're standing here telling me how you have grown
Here Come Those Tears Again
Jackson Browne
My sister told her I kissed a soldier
"Rubber Dolly"
Tell me why the stars do shine
Tell me why the ivy twine
Chiquitita tell me the truth
I'm a shoulder you can cry on
ABBA
Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
And you can tell that man there with you
He'll have to go
"He'll Have to Go," Ray Price or somebody, C&W, 60's
Seems she forgot all about the library like she told her old man now...
"Fun, Fun, Fun," The Beach Boys
If she finds that I've been 'round to see you
Tell her that I'm well and doing fine
Herman's Hermits, "Mrs. Brown"
Have I told you lately that I love you...
Well darlin' I'm tellin' you now
Jim Reeves and others
Tell me why-y-y-y you cried
And why you lie-ie-ied to me.
The Beatles
Please Mrs. Avery I just want to tell her goodbye
Sylvia's Mother
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend
Nights in White Satin
Moody Blues
And all I can do
Is keep on telling you
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
Meat Loaf
Mama she done told me
Papa done told me to
Son, that gal you're foolin' with she aint no good for you
But it's alright
Elvis sang it very early on
The buzzard told the Monkey, you are choking me
Release my neck and I will set you free
The Monkey looked the Buzzard right dead in the eye
And said You're story's so touching, but it sounds just like a lie
Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
"Straighten up and fly right"
Once upon the road
I came upon a lad
Singing in a voice three times his size
When I asked him why
He told me he was sad
And singing always made his spirits rise
(Lerner/Lowe, from "Camelot")
Every time I try to walk away
Something makes me turn around and stay
And I can't tell you why
The Eagles
Tell your children
Not to do what I have done
House of the Rising Sun
most famously by The Animals
I just want to say, wow! What an education to read the history of some of these songs.
Wake up, little Susie, wake up!
What are you gonna tell your ma?
What are you gonna tell your pa?
What are you gonna tell your friends when they say
Oooh-la-la?
(Paul Simon)
How to handle a woman
Mark me well, I shall tell you, sir
The way to handle a woman
Is to love her
Simply love her
Merely love her, love her, love her.
(Lerner/Lowe, from "Camelot")
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