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Seen in many places.

Instructions

1. Open up your music player. Hit shuffle.
2. Record the first few words of the first 20 songs that come up that do not give away the name of the song. Skip instrumentals, but don't skip the embarrassing ones.
3. Make hapless LJ denizens guess the song names and artists. Google is cheating.
4. Least hapless LJ denizen wins admiration.

I modified this a bit as if I did as instructed it would have thrown up 70% opera arias known by their first lines. I took the play list I use for working out and shuffled that instead. I'm still surprised by how high a proportion of stuff I had to eliminate because the title was contained in the first line. Thus there are no 18th century gallery hymns in the following list.

1. In 1649, to St. George's Hill
2. As I walked out one May morning, one May morning so early (good luck with that!)
3. Stand up for victims of oppression for the tyrants fear your might
4. Someday boy you'll reap what you sow
5. As I walked out one day, one day, I met an aged man by the way
6. As it fell out upon one day
7. Come all of you workers who toil night and day
8. What costume shall a poor girl wear?
9. Show me a prison, show me a jail
10. There lived a maid in Scotland . All my love. All my love.
11. As I walked down by the riverside one evening in the spring
12. Down by a crystal spring where the nightingales sing
13. Oh I marched to the battle of New Orleans at the start of the early British war
14. What's the spring-breathing jasmine and rose ? What's the summer with all its gay train
15. He walked all over his own growing land from the New York island to the California sound
16. Ragged rose I'll cease to ride. A thousand days I've laid aside
17. I cried when they shot Medgar Evers, tears ran down my spine. I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
18. And the flag draped coffins are sailing home
19. My name is Duncan Campbell from the shire of Argyll
20. It being in spring and the small birds they were singing. Down by a shady arbour I carelessly did stray.

Date: 2011-11-17 04:12 pm (UTC)
zopyrus: roman woman with pearls (Default)
From: [personal profile] zopyrus
The only song I know for sure is the first one -- is it Karan Casey's "The World Turned Upside Down?"

Date: 2011-11-17 04:21 pm (UTC)
kore: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kore
Heh, I love all the walking and marching and straying.

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