Lyrics Quiz

Each of the following is a first line from a certified Classic rock song (though not all are Classic Rock ™). Without looking them up, how many can you identify ?

  1. I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds
  2. Hey, here is the story: forget about the trouble in life
  3. After all the jacks are in their boxes
  4. Well there's a light in your eye that keeps shining
  5. She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
  6. What a drag it is getting old
  7. In the morning you go gunnin for the man who stole your water
  8. Have you seen her? So fine and pretty
  9. Half a mile from the county fair, and the rain came pouring down
  10. Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face

Hint 1: These are listed in alphabetical order by artist.
Hint 2: They are all sung by men.
Hint 3: The newest song is from the mid-90's.

You can click here for the answers. But give it a good try, first!

6 thoughts on “Lyrics Quiz”

  1. Mike

    1. Friend of the Devil — Dead
    2.
    3. Wind Cried Mary — Jimi
    4.
    5
    6. 19th Nervous Breakdown (too easy) — Stones
    7.
    8.
    9. And It Stoned Me — Van
    10.

    Man, that’s not too good. Only 4. But somehow, many of those look familiar.

  2. Mike

    No!!!!

    I meant Mother’s Little Helper.

    I swear I didn’t look it up. And serves me right for saying “too easy”!!! ;-)

  3. Shog9

    Got 5 & 6 (Nirvana’s “Heart-shaped box” and the Stones’ “Mother’s Little Helper”… which i thought was called “Red Door”).
    I suck at this game… ;)

  4. Bobby Lightfoot

    Wow! This is black diamond stuff. Let’s see…

    1.
    2.
    3.
    4. “Fool In The Rain”- Zep’s In Through The Out Door
    5. “Heartshaped Box”- Nirvana’s In Utero
    6. “Mother’s Little Helper”? But is that “what a drag it is getting up”? What do I know…
    7. “Do It Again”- the most oblique of all of Steely Dan’s oblique lyrics. Is it about reencarnation?
    8.
    9. Has to be Van Morrison. By alphabetical elimination
    10. “Yours Is No Disgrace” by Yes

    Woah. Congrats on stumping a chastened rock trainspotter.

  5. cleek

    heh. i can stump the pros

    But is that “what a drag it is getting up”?

    i hear “old”, and at least two of the internet lyric sites agree with me. but, i’ve been wrong on lyrics before – my wife will never let me live down mishearing a line in Tom Petty’s “Here Comes My Girl”:

    Yeah man, when I got that little girl standing right by my side
    You know, I can tell the whole wide world, shove it

    i always heard “shout it”, not “shove it”.

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