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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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Elvis, Elvis, let me be
Keep that pelvis far from me...
...I'm Sandra Dee
from Grease
Ooo wee ooo I look just just like Buddy Holly
Uh oh and you're Mary Tyler Moore
"Buddy Holly" by Weezer
I tried to be like Grace Kelly (mm hmm), but all her looks were too sad (ahhh ahhh), so I tried a little Freddie (mmm hmm), I've gone identity mad!
Grace Kelly-Mika
There once was a man
His name was Magellan
A Portuguese skipper
The girls found him cute
Animaniacs song about Magellan, to the tune of Git Along Little Dogies
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
We didn't start the fire
Now it's 10 years we've been on our own,
And moss grows on a rolling stone,
But that's not how it used to be,
When the jester sang to the king and queen,
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean...
Don Maclean - American Pie
"Daddy, won't you take me back to Mullenberg County,
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?"
"I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking.
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away."
--John Prine
Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth and Alexanders, King and Graham Bell
Done Too Soon ~ Neil Diamond
Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas
with Waylon and Willie and the boys
...Hank Williams pain songs...
Have you seen my old friend Martin;
Where has he gone?
--"Abraham, Martin, and John" about Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy.
Marvin, he was a friend of mine,
And he could sing a song,
His heart in every line...
Nightshift - The Commodores
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming;
We're finally on our own.
--"Four Dead in Ohio," Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes
O Flower of Scotland,
When will we see
Your like again,
That fought and died for,
Your wee bit hill and glen
And stood against him.
Proud Edward's army
And sent him homeward
Tae think again.
Flower of Scotland - The Corries (refers to King Edward II, defeated at Battle of Bannockburn, 1314).
The noble duke of York
He had a thousand men...
(I'm just copying other people's ideas today, riding on the coattails of others. :-)
After killing Jason off
And countless screaming Argonauts
Birdhouse in my Soul - They Might Be Giants
Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
Elton John Candle in the Wind
So long,
Frank Lloyd Wright
I can't believe your song was done so soon
I barely heard the tune.
I remember
Frank Lloyd Wright
All of the nights we'd harmonize 'til dawn
I never laughed so long
So long,
So long.
(Paul Simon)
And there was General Washington
On his prancing stallion,
Giving orders to his men,
I guess there were a million.
--Yankee Doodle Dandy
On a cold December evening
I was walking through the Christmas tide
When a stranger came and asked me
If I'd heard John Lennon died.
So the two of us went to this bar
And we stayed to close the place,
And every song we played was for
The Late Great Johnny Ace,
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(Paul Simon)
...I know our mythic history,
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's...
A Modern Major General - Gilbert and Sullivan
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A southern man don't need him around, anyhow
Sweet Home Alabama
Ra ra Rasputin
Lover of the Russian Queen
Rasputin - Boney M
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Woo-hoo.
--"Mrs. Robinson," Simon & Garfunkel, from "The Graduate."
Turn on the TV
Shut out the lights
Roy Rogers is riding tonight
Elton John/Bernie Taupin
I perform like Mike
Any one - Tyson, Jordan, Jackson
Notorious B.I.G
In a hall, on a wall, in a house in Rosita
A poster's held up by two nails and a pin
It's her Daddy, the actor, 'bout to die with his boots on
He's the man standing up there, beside Errol Flynn
He got third or fourth billing at the end of each picture
"And that don't mean much", he would say with a grin
But he'd hold her hand tight as he pointed his name out
Only four or five names down below Errol Flynn
(Amanda McBroom)
He painted matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs...
And Lowry said that's just the way they'll stay
Matchstick Men (not sure who it's by? About artist D.S. Lowry)
Jack scratched his head and
Did his best James Dean.
--"Jack and Diane" by Johnny Cougar, aka John Mellencamp
I could have told you, Vincent
That this world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you.
--"Vincent," about Vincent vanGogh, by Don McLean
but now I'm all grown and my dreams came true
Santana champagne from him to you
The Lonely Island
Daniel Boone was a man;
He was a big man.
--Lyrics from the TV show.
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played;
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us, we had it made--
Those were the days.
And you knew who you were then--
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
--"Those Were the Days," theme song for "All in the Family" TV show.
Davy, Davy Crockett,
King of the wild frontier!
--Another TV theme song
I got married to the widow next door.
She's been married seven times before.
And every one was a Henry. (Henry!)
Never was a Willie or a Sam. (Or a Sam!)
I'm her 8th old man, I'm Henry;
Henry the 8th I am.
--Silly song from the 1970s; "Henry" is pronounced "Hen-er-ee."
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