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April 05, 2012 01:53:10pm |
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GratefulDead
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Re: Today's GD Lyrics Trivia Question - Softball |
Fascinating! All I can say is that nobody has guessed the one I had in mind yet. I think this one is only in two songs.
HINT: In one case, they are the first four words of the song.
This post was modified by snow_and_rain on 2012-04-05 20:53:10
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Lou Davenport |
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April 05, 2012 02:11:00pm |
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Re: Today's GD Lyrics Trivia Question - Softball |
"Gone are the days" in Crazy Fingers and at the beginning of Brown Eyed Women. I came by that one honestly by asking myself what lyrics snow_and_rain had been publicly discussing on this site in the past day.
The second one I found was "I take my time" in Friend of the Devil and Easy Wind.
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snow_and_rain |
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April 05, 2012 06:40:44pm |
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Re: Today's GD Lyrics Trivia Question - Softball |
Au contraire... "If I had a" is just as meaningful and deep as any of Hunter's other lyrics. The longing for things out of reach, for powers beyond our means, is a timeless and universal dilemma of human existence.
IF I HAD A HAMMER (The Hammer Song)
words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
If I had a hammer
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land
I'd hammer out danger
I'd hammer out a warning
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
If I had a bell
I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening
All over this land
I'd ring out danger
I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
If I had a song
I'd sing it in the morning
I'd sing it in the evening
All over this land
I'd sing out danger
I'd sing out a warning
I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
Well I've got a hammer
And I've got a bell
And I've got a song to sing
All over this land
It's the hammer of justice
It's the bell of freedom
It's the song about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land
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Lou Davenport |
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April 05, 2012 07:07:43pm |
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Re: Today's GD Lyrics Trivia Question - Softball |
I meant in contrast to my efforts to game the system by finding generic phrases and then Googling them.
I agree that "If I had a" is archetypal, and gains from the very fact of being so open-ended. Completing it is like the realization of a dream. If I had a squid...
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