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Music lyrics 1

Name the artist and title

1. Ya'll act like you never seen a white person before, jaws all on the floor like Pam and Tommy just burst in the door

Eminem – The real slim Shady

2. There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure 'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings

Led Zep – Stairway to heaven

3. "Two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl"

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

4. I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay. Aint it sad.

ABBA - Money Money Money

5. “What about elephants, have we lost their trust? What about crying whales ravaging the seas"

Michael Jackson – Earth song

6. “And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more”

Simon and Garfunkel – The sound of silence

7. Seems like everybody's got a price, I wonder how they sleep at night. When the sale comes first, And the truth comes second. 

Jessie J – Price Tag

8. "And what he told me, I'll never forget, until my dying day."

Cliff Richards - Bachelor boy

9. Slip inside the eye of your mind, Don't you know you might find A better place to play

Oasis – Don’t look back in anger

10. 'You had my heart, and we'll never be worlds apart Maybe in magazines but you'll still be my star"

Rihanna - Umbrella

Music lyrics 2

Name the artist and title

1. A church house gin house, A school house outhouse. On highway number nineteen. The people keep the city clean

Cher - Nutbush city limits 

2. Too many shadows, whispering voices. Faces on posters, too many choices.

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

3. I heat up, I can’t cool down 

Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra 

4. Let’s play twister, let’s play risk

REM - Man on  the Moon

5. And when I touch you I feel happy inside, It's such a feeling

Beatles – I want to hold your hand

6. “Disco dancing with the lights down low"

Girls aloud – Sound of the Underground

7. ‘Steve walks warily down the street, with the brim pulled way down low’?

Another one bites the dust - Queen

8. The good people of the world are washing their cars on their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing as best they can in skirts in suits

Sheryl Crow – All I wanna do

9. ‘It’s 7 o’clock and I want to rock, want to get a belly fully of beer’

Saturday nights alright for fighting - Elton John

10. Oh is this the way they said the future’s meant to be or just 20 thousand people standing in a field?

Pulp – Sorted for E’s and whizz

Music lyrics 3

Name the artist and title

1. "She smiled at me on the subway. She was with another man".

James Blunt - You're Beautiful

2. “They smelt of pubs and Wormwood scrubs”

The Jam – Down at the tube station at midnight

3. “This hit, that ice cold, Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold”

Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars

4. “She never drinks the water and makes you order French Champagne”?

Ricky Martin - Living la vida loca

5. "I was dreaming of the past. And my heart was beating fast“

John Lennon - Jealous guy

6. “My lover’s got humour, she’s the giggle at a funeral.”

Hozier - Take Me To Church 

7. “Is it getting better or do you feel the same?”

U2 - One 

8. “Poor old Johnny Ray sounded sad upon the radio.”

Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen 

9. "She keeps Moet et Chandon in her pretty cabinet”

Queen - Killer Queen

10. “Now if there’s a smile on my face its only there trying to fool the public.”

Tears of a clown – Smokey Robinson

Music lyrics 4

Name the artist and title

1. "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane"

Jerry Lee Lewis - Great balls of fire

2. "I've made up my mind, don't need to think it over. If I'm wrong I am right, don't need to look no further"

Adele - Chasing Pavements

3. You say you love me, I say you crazy, we're nothing more than friends. You're not my lover, more like a brother. I known you since we were like ten, yeah

Marshmello & Anne Marie - Friends

4. “I've been spinning out for time, Couple women by my side. I got sinnin' on my mind, Sipping on red wine.”

Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream

5. I've paid my dues time after time, I've done my sentence but committed no crime

Queen - We are the champions

6. "It's on America's tortured brow, That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow. Now the workers have struck for fame, 'Cause Lennon's on sale again."

David Bowie - Life on Mars

7. "If I leave here tomorrow would you still remember me? For I must be traveling on, now cause there's too many places I've got to see"

Lynard Skynard - Free Bird

"8. Dear Slim, I wrote you but still ain't callin', I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom, I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em. There probably was a problem at the post office or somethin'"

Eminem - Stan

9. "Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping"

Simon and Garfunkle – The sound of silence

10. "And now, the end is near and so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear I'll state my case, of which I'm certain"

Frank Sinatra - My Way

Music lyrics 5

Name the artist and title

1. “I walked across an empty land, I knew the pathway like the back of my hand…”

Keane - Somewhere only we know

2. "Let me take the night, I love real easy and I know that you'll still wanna see me on the Sunday morning, music real loud. Let me love you while the moon is still out"

Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa - One Kiss

3. “She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge, She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College, that's where I caught her eye”.

Pulp – Common people

4. “Yeah, it's pretty clear, I ain't no size two, but I can shake it, shake it, like I'm supposed to do. 'Cause I got that boom boom that all the boys chase, and all the right junk in all the right places”

Meghan Trainor – All about that Bass

5. Out on the wiley, windy moors we'd roll and fall in green. You had a temper like my jealousy; too hot, too greedy”

Kate Bush – Wuthering heights

6. "Homegrown alligator, see you later. Gotta hit the road, gotta hit the road. The sun it changed in the atmosphere. Architecture unfamiliar. I can get used to this."

George Ezra - Shotgun

7. “She played the fiddle in an Irish band but she fell in love with an English man.”

Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl

8. She packed my bags last night pre-flight, zero hour nine a.m.”

Elton John - Rocket Man

9. “Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna throw it back to you.”

Oasis - Wonderwall

10. “Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world”

Journey - Don’t stop believing

Music lyrics 6

Name the artist and title

1. “Maybe I’m foolish, maybe I’m blind, thinking I can see through this and see what’s behind.”

Rag'n'none Man - Human

2. “Clock strikes upon the hour and the sun begins to fade”

Whitney Houston - I wanna dance with somebody

3. “There’s a fire starting in my heart, reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing me out the dark”

Adele - Rolling in the deep

4. “Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone”

Madonna - Like a prayer

5. “I never wanted to be your weekend lover, I only wanted to be some kind of friend.”

Prince - Purple Rain

6. “She’s got a smile that it seems to me, reminds me of childhood memories.”

Guns'n'roses - Sweet Child of mine

7. “We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when.”

David Bowie - The man who sold the world

8. “Well we were born within an hour of each other, our mothers said we could be sister and brother”

Pulp - Disco 2000

9. “I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window, I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind”

Tom Jones - Delilah

10. “Tommy used to work on the docks, union’s been on strike, he’s down on his luck, it’s tough.”

Bon Jovi - Livin' on a prayer

Music lyrics 7

Name the artist and title

1. “The club isn’t the best place to find a lover, So the bar is where I go”

Ed Sheeran - The shape of you

"2. Thank you for coming home. Sorry that the chairs are all worn. I left them here I could have sworn."

Spandau Ballet - Gold

3. "In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan. From Milan to Yucutan, every woman, every man"

Hit me with your rhythm stick - Ian Dury and the blockheads

4. It's bad bitch o'clock, yeah, it's thick-thirty. I've been through a lot but I'm still flirty (okay)

Lizzo - About damn time

5. "If I lay here, If I just lay here. Would you lie with me and just forget the world?"

Snow patrol - Chasing cars

6. "Living on free food tickets, water in the milk from a hole in the roof where the rain came through. What can you do, hmmm?"

Paul Young - Love of the common people

7. "When she was just a girl she expected the world but it flew away from her reach."

Coldplay - Paradise

8. "Is this the real life? is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality."

Queen - Bohemian rhapsody

9. "I hear the drums echoing tonight but she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation. She's coming in, 12:30 flight."

Toto - Africa

"10. You know the bed feels warmer sleeping here alone. You know I dream in colour and do the things I want."

Kelly Clarkson - Stronger

Music lyrics 8

Name the artist and title

1. "Sometimes I feel I've got to run away, I've got to get away from the pain that you drive into the heart of me."

Gloria Jones/Soft Cell - tainted love

2. "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag,  drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?"

Katy Perry - Firework

3. “Up in the club, just broke up, I’m doing my own little thing. Decided to dip, but now you wanna trip, ‘Cause another brother noticed me”

‘Single Ladies (Put on a ring on it)’ – Beyonce

4. “Got a picture of you beside me, Got your lipstick mark still on your coffee cup”

‘Back For Good’ – Take That

5. “I’m off the deep end, watch as I dive in, I’ll never meet the ground”

‘Shallow’ – Lady Gaga

6. “In the day, we sweat it out on the streets, Of a runaway American dream, At night, we ride through mansions of glory, In suicide machines.”

‘Born To Run’ – Bruce Springsteen

7. “Girl, you know I want your love, Your love was handmade for somebody like me”

Ed Sheeran - Shape of you

8. “When I’m drivin’ in my car, and the man come on the radio, He’s tellin’ me more and more about some useless information, Supposed to fire my imagination”

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ – Rolling Stones

9. “Maybe I’m just too demanding, Maybe I’m just like my father, too bold”

Prince - When doves cry

10. “Lately, I’ve been, I’ve been losing sleep, Dreaming about the things that we could be”

Counting Stars’ – OneRepublic

Music lyrics 9

Name the artist and title

1. "I was sick and tired of everything when I called you last night from Glasgow. All I do is eat and sleep and sing wishing every show was the last show."

Abba - Super Trouper

2. "I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind There was something so pleasant about that place."

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

3. “Picture yourself in a boat on the river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies”

The Beatles, Lucy in the sky with diamonds

4. I used to rule the world. Seas would rise when I gave the word. Now in the morning, I sleep alone, Sweep the streets I used to own

Coldplay - Viva La Vida

5. I remember when we broke up the first time Saying, "This is it, I've had enough," 'cause like We hadn't seen each other in a month When you said you needed space (What?)

Taylor Swift - We are never ever getting back together

6. "Once I was seven years old, my mama told me, "Go make yourself some friends or you'll be lonely." "

Lukas Graham - 7 years

7. Naughty boys in nasty schools, Headmaster's breaking all the rules,. Having fun and playing fools, smashing up the woodwork tools

Madness - Baggy trousers

8. "Well I guess it would be nice if I could touch your body"

George Michael - Faith

9. Call me, call me by my name or call me by number. You put me through it. I'll still be doing it the way I do it. And yet, you try to make me forget who I really am, don't tell me I know best. I'm not the same as all the rest.

Chesney Hawkes - The One and only

10. "Young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground"

Village People - YMCA

Music lyrics 10

Name the artist and title

1. "There are places I remember all my life though some have changed, Some forever not for better. Some have gone and some remain."

The Beatles - In my life

2. "Look into my eyes – you will see what you mean to me. Search your heart, search your soul and when you find me you will search no more."

Bryan Adams - Everything I do (I do it for you)

3. "I got this feeling inside my bones, it goes electric, wavey when I turn it on"

Justin Timberlake - Can't stop the feeling

4. "As you promised me that I was more than all the miles combined, you must have had a change of heart like, halfway through the drive!

Noah Kahan - Stick Season

5. Where it began, I can't begin to know when, But then I know it's growin' strong. Was in the spring and spring became the summer. Who'd have believe you'd come along?

Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond

6. “It’s been seven hours and 15 days”

Sinead O’Connor – Nothing compares to you

7. "The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar. I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the civil war."

Paul Simon - Graceland

8. "Load up on guns, bring your friends. It's fun to lose and pretend she's over bored and self assured. Oh no. I know a dirty word"

Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit

9. "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold"

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven

10. Watching the people get lairy It's not very pretty I tell thee. Walking through town is quite scary. It's not very sensible either.

Kaiser Chiefs - I predict a riot

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