NMLQOTM #11

Quiz #11

Welcome to NMLQOTM #11, the mid-March edition of your bi-monthly lyrics quiz. Your challenge, this time, is to identify the titles and artists for the 27 songs I've presented below. Theme detectives rejoice! There's a common theme lurking amongst all 27 songs, and theme-identification is the tie-breaker of first resort.

By now, you know that I'm a miserly point-giver. You'll earn the full 20 points for song and artist only if you provide the exact information contained on the record release. As always, I'm practically giving these answers away by listing the 27 songs in alphabetical order by artist.

All songs in this quiz were released between 1957 and 1989. Many are top forty hits - a few are not.

If you are new to the NMLQOTM - or even if you've played a while now - it's always helpful to review the official rules. Note that precision counts when it comes to scoring the submissions - be sure to give the exact song title and the exact artist attribution for each song; dot your "i"s and cross your "t"s! Watch your p's, q's, commas and "the"s!

The submission deadline for this quiz will be Friday, March 24th at 11:59 pm (eastern).

Answers, Results & Commentary for Quiz #11

You know I got to show you
Nobody else before you
Ever gave me such a beautiful feelin'
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And when you've got nothing to lose
Nothing to pay for
Nothing to choose
Am I unwise to open up your eyes
To love me
02>

When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
When I'm by myself
Nobody else can say goodbye
03>

Now when I start making love to my woman
I don't stop until I know she's satisfied
And I can always tell when she gets satisfied
'Cause when she gets satisfied she starts calling my name
04>

And then one winter day
His hand led her away
She left you here drowning in your tears
05>

You
Telling me the things you're gonna do for me
I ain't blind and I don´t like what I think I see
06>

The sleepin' pill I took
Was just a waste of time
I couldn't close my eyes
'Cause you were on my mind
07>

If I could
Maybe I'd give you my world
How can I
When you won't take it from me
08>

And Mama hollered out the back door
"Y'all remember to wipe your feet"
09>

I've got no excuses for being your fool
I never thought that it would be forever
But after so much time together
I've come to depend on you
10>

He's a charmer and he'll charm her
With money in manners that I've never learned
He's a leader and he'll lead her
Across many bridges he's plannin' to burn
11>

Those schoolgirl days
Of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind
I know they will still live on and on
12>

You are my whole, babe
My heart and my soul, babe
I'd have nothing to show, babe
If you should go
13>

Come bring me your softness
Comfort me through all this madness
14>

I'll make you happy, baby
Just wait and see
For every kiss you give me
I'll give you three
15>

They've forgotten when they were young
And the way tried to be free
All they say is "This young generation
Is just not the way it used to be"
16>

Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
17>

And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
18>

Well, I've just found me a brand new box of matches
And what he knows
You ain't had time to learn
19>

William's hands were shaking
As he took his glass of wine
And I could see we both felt the same
And when his eyes met mine
20>

My motto's always been
"When it's right, it's right"
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night
21>

What's the sense in sharing
This one and only life
Endin' up
Just another lost and lonely wife
22>

I need you
By me
Beside me
To guide me
To hold me
To scold me
23>

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
24>

We were ring-around-the-rosie children
There were circles around the sun
25>

Why can't he see
How blind can he be
Someday he'll see
That he was meant for me
26>

Thirteen month old baby
Broke the lookin' glass
Seven years of bad luck
The good things in your past
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