Mother’s Day Compilations

Fed up with the assumption of advertisers that motherhood automatically means that you like soppy, sentimental drivel when it comes to music, I have come up with my own music compilation for Mothers’ Day. To make it a little more fun, it is in quiz form 😀

Feel free to post your answers – comments are moderated anyway and I will hold back anything that might be a spoiler, though I will approve general comments. Anyone can play and I will be impressed (possibly enough to give a prize) to anyone who gets them all right. Answers will be posted on Monday evening. Enjoy!

The following are all lyrics from my compilation, randomly selected from my Nano. Each excerpt is followed by the title of the track. You need to get the title, artist (or cover artist) and if you are a big girlie swot, the original release year will get you bonus kudos.  Here goes :

1. All you ever do is business you don’t like …

2. This is not The Greatest Song in the World, No/This is just a …

3. At first when I see you cry/ it makes me …

4. Who’s that man? Who’s that man? (I’ve no idea)/It’s …

5. If you wanna have a good time/Just give me a call…

6. I tread a troubled track, my odds are stacked/I’ll go …

7. And the music was loud/And the singer turned and he said to the crowd …

8. I can lock all my doors/it’s the only way to live/In …

9. It doesn’t matter what they say in the jealous games people play …

10. You make me sick because I adore you so/I love all the dirty tricks/And twisted games you play on me …

11. I don’t want you/To work all day/But I want you, to be true/And…

12. The bats have left the bell tower/The victims have been bled/Red velvet lines the black box …

13. And you don’t pull my strings/’Cos I’m a better man/Moving on to better things/Well, oh oh, I love her because…

14. Follow me, don’t follow me/I’ve got my spine, I’ve got my…

15. (Band name) took the music from the movie and put it to the ska/and came up with this song, it’s called: BA BA BA-BA-BA…

16. When they lay me down to die/Goin’ on up to the …

17. Wasn’t me she was foolin/’Cause she knew what she was doin’/When she told me how to…

18. I cannot put my finger on it now/The child is grown/ The dream is gone/but I have become…

19. I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone/I’m here to tell ya honey, that I’m…

20. It’s a nice day to start again/It’s a nice day for a….

I never said it was easy! 😉

Bonus question for anyone who has made it this far:

I have a lot of plays and audiobooks as well as music. Can you identify the play and author of this quote:

“It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”