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Country/Western Trivia (Random Singlets Edition)

UPDATE: Hmm. Looks like the rest aren't going to get answered so the answers are filed in. Oddly, my good buddy Julie didn't get the rest of the answers from the same song she got two from. All of the odd ones except the last are from the same song.

I know I've leaned heavily on Rock 'n Roll for a few weeks, so I thought I'd flip back over to my country side. A couple of days ago, a song from the far distant past popped into my head, a song which is just a sort of one-hit-wonder type so far as I know. And I thought, "Hey, that would make a kinda cool trivia category, singlets from a way long time ago."

And then I couldn't think of any others.

[sigh]

See, when I think of, say, a particular artist/band/group/whatever, I can at least search on it to find other songs I know but I can't think of off the top of my head. Kind of hard to search on "random singlet songs from my childhood" and get any meaningful results.

So I had to cheat by searching through my half-vast CD collection for songs that I remember from many years ago which might qualify for a singlets edition. Found some, but because I cheated this will be a cheating edition. Don't like that? Um, well, you know, tough noogies and all that. I'm old and my synapses are old and, um, I forgot where I was.

Oh yeah. Random singlets. Best I can do, kids. Sorry 'bout that. And some of you will no doubt notice that I've used a few of these before. Also, you may notice that some may not fall quite into the category of "country" or "western". And I may use multiple questions from the same song. Again, deal with it. I'm old and I can do what I want.

1) I've laid around and played around this town too long. What do feel like I need to do? [Julie: I feel like I've gotta travel on]

2) I wake up in the morning and I wonder why everything's the same as it was. What can't I understand? [Laura's Daughter: I can't understand why life goes on the way it does]

3) Summer's almost gone and winter's comin' on. What do I feel like I need to do? [Julie: I feel like I've gotta travel on]

4) If you play around, you lose your wife. What happens if you play too long? [Julie: You play too long you lose your life]

5) Papa writes to Johnny, but Johnny can't come home. Why not? [Answer: Bacause he's been on the chain gang too long]

6) Honey, if you won't let me be this, then I won't be your man at all. Be what? [Angie: Let me be your salty dog]

7) I want to see my honey. I want to see her bad. Why? [Answer: Because she's the best gal this poor boy ever had]

8) Until that mail train comes back, what will I do? [Answer: I'm gonna lay around the shack until the mail train comes back and then I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms]

9) Sheriff and police are riding after me. What do I need to do? [Answer: I gotta travel on]

10) I'll pay him back someday if he'll just give me a little swallow. Who is he, and what is he doing? [Answer: He's Dooley, and he's slipping up the holler, tryin' to make a dollar]

11) The pitty-pitty-patter of little bitty feet is going to do what? (And yes, I think this one is REALLY obscure so mega, nay, TERAkudos to anyone who gets it) [Answer: They're gonna pitty-pitty-patter through our house. Yes, it's an irritating little earworm but ever once in a while it floats back into my head and drives me frickin' batshit]

Posted by Ken S at April 27, 2008 05:34 PM | TrackBack (0) |