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I've wanted to do this for ages, as I always enjoy these when other people post them. And here we go! I give you the lyrics and you guess the song title and artist. (Though for some of these I own multiple versions by different artists). Shuffle has provided the song choices and the internet has provided the lyrics. Googling is cheating, though I think that the lyrics for #6 are not google-able.

1) I know a girl who's a jumpin' bean/She's got keys and a token when she hits the scene Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] timprov
2) mis días sin ti son como un cielo/sin lunas plateadas/ni rastros de sol
3) I've seen some years/But you're still my Caesar Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] beatriceeagle
4) What a curious life we have found here tonight/There is music that sounds from the street
5) Haul away you rolling king/Heave away! Haul away!/All the way you'll hear me sing Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] aedifica
6) In the ranks of death you will find him his father's sword he hath girded on Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] creogaudium and [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams
7) I want a head like the heads you see on Easter Island Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] zehlyi
8) Her hair in a fine mist floats on my pillow,/Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight.
9) Ships may come and ships may go/As long as the sea does roll./Each sailor lad just like his dad, Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] creogaudium and [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams
10) Before our innocence was lost,/You were always one of those,/Blessed with lucky sevens,
11) I have always thought that it's a crime,/So I will ask you once again. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] aedifica
12) Jane, sweet Jane/But he cannot do without it/Jane, Jane come to the glen Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] creogaudium
13) When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] timprov and [livejournal.com profile] othergoose
14) What care we for the wind, the weather/Let her go boys every inch is bearing home Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] creogaudium and [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams
15) Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes/It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] creogaudium
16) And I am a writer, writer of fictions/I am the heart that you call home/And I've written pages upon pages/Trying to rid you from my bones Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] othergoose
17) Don't tell me I can't fight/'cause I'll punch out your lights/And history seems to agree/That I would fight you for me. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] othergoose
18) I'm off for the morning train/To cross the bounding main/I'm off to my love with a boxing glove/10,000 miles away Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams
19) And what I figured out, what I figured out, what I figured out/Was that I needed more time to figure you out Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] oarlock_queen
20) She asked me to stay and told me to sit anywhere/So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] othergoose and [livejournal.com profile] aedifica
21) The sun must set to rise/The light will leave your eyes again Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams
22) As the wind slips over your waters/ sing to me sweetly Superior Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] zehlyi
23) Que en todos los diarios yo leo las mismas noticias de horror/Vidas que callan sin razón Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] mlt23
24) Close your eyes forget your every care/Picture fairy castles in the air
25) We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files/We'd like to help you learn to help yourself Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] timprov and [livejournal.com profile] aedifica

And there you are! 25 different songs for you to guess. Enjoy!

ETA: More because I felt like it

26) Let the wind and the rain and the hail blow high/And the snow come tumbling from the sky Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] aedifica and [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams
27) Pale, dark spirits, help us free/White is the dust of the state of dreaming Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] tithenai
28) Oh I'd throw you in a lake/Feed you poison birthday cake Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] pentatonikk
29) But there's no sense crying over every mistake./You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. Guessed by [livejournal.com profile] creogaudium and [livejournal.com profile] sam_stil and [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams
30) And it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains/Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains/It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors/When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores Band guessed by [livejournal.com profile] ceci121, title guessed by [livejournal.com profile] actourdreams

Symmetry!

Date: 2011-02-26 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] timprov.livejournal.com
1. "Natural Dancer", They Might Be Giants.
13. "Do You Hear the People Sing," from Les Miserables.
25. "Mrs. Robinson", Simon & Garfunkel.
Edited Date: 2011-02-26 02:57 am (UTC)

Date: 2011-02-26 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] othergoose.livejournal.com
I'm terrible at lyrics, but I do know a couple...

13. "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from Les Misérables
16. "Engine Driver," by the Decemberists
17. "Gulf War Song," by Moxy Fruvous
20. "Norwegian Wood," by the Beatles

Date: 2011-02-26 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alan-yee.livejournal.com
I feel a musical ignoramus. I don't know any of these songs. :(

Date: 2011-02-26 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alan-yee.livejournal.com
Maybe. There are a lot of songs whose lyrics I don't know, but I've heard them at least once in my life. And there are tunes I recognize, but I have no idea what they're called.

Date: 2011-02-26 03:16 am (UTC)
aedifica: Photo of me playing my trombone at the Renaissance Festival (Fest 2008 with trombone)
From: [personal profile] aedifica
Without reading any other comments, yet:

5) "South Australia," which I don't think I've ever heard a recording of. But morris dancers sing it a lot, especially during the eponymous dance.

11) "We Can Work It Out," the Beatles

13 sounds very familiar but I can't place it.

20) "Norwegian Wood," the Beatles

25) "Mrs. Robinson," Simon & Garfunkel

Date: 2011-02-26 07:25 am (UTC)
aedifica: Photo of me in the middle of a morris dance (Uptown kit)
From: [personal profile] aedifica
P.S. Did you know that the first line of "South Australia" is "In South Australia I bought porn"? Trufax! I learned it from a fellow morris dancer! *grin*

Date: 2011-02-26 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beatriceeagle.livejournal.com
3) "Outsiders" by Franz Ferdinand

Date: 2011-02-26 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pentatonikk.livejournal.com
28 is I Can't Decide! Which will proceed to stick itself in my head for the rest of the night; I hope you're happy.

Date: 2011-02-26 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pentatonikk.livejournal.com
what do I reply to ahhhhh

Mine does the same, I think, and then picks back up again somewhere around IIIIII THIIIIIINK IIIIIIII'LL TRYYYYYYYYYYY DEFYYYYYYYYYING GRAAAAAAAAVITY something something something GRAAAAAAAVITY...

...clearly I was not made for lyrics memes.

Date: 2011-02-26 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookaddict88.livejournal.com
"...proud how you would grovel in submission, to feed your own ambition!"

And I could go on. But on your list, the only one I recognize is 13, which, no surprise, is another musical!

Date: 2011-02-26 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mlt23.livejournal.com
23) Que Pasa, Juanes

:)

Date: 2011-02-26 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] creogaudium.livejournal.com
6) In the ranks of death you will find him his father's sword he hath girded on

Minstrel Boy, which could be sung by any number of people. I know it from The Corsairs.

9) Ships may come and ships may go/As long as the sea does roll./Each sailor lad just like his dad,

Jolly Roving Tar, by Great Big Sea.


12) Jane, sweet Jane/But he cannot do without it/Jane, Jane come to the glen

Hob Y Derri Dando, which again I know from The Corsairs.

14) What care we for the wind, the weather/Let her go boys every inch is bearing home

The Mingulay Boat Song, by The Corsairs or somebody else.

15) Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes/It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no millionaire's son, no

Fortunate Son, by Creedence Clearwater Revival.

29) But there's no sense crying over every mistake./You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

Still Alive, by Jonathan Coulton.

Date: 2011-02-26 06:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sam-stil.livejournal.com
29) Still alive, by.... gladus?

Date: 2011-02-26 06:47 am (UTC)
aedifica: Me with my hair as it is in 2020: long, with blue tips (Default)
From: [personal profile] aedifica
26) "I'll Tell Me Ma," which also has another title--"Belle of Belfast"? I don't remember for sure. My favorite version is the Tim Malloys with Neil singing. :-)

Date: 2011-02-26 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceci121.livejournal.com
the last one is the Arrogant Worms! called Jolly Roger?
and I know i've heard the Easter Island head song but I have no idea who it's by.

Date: 2011-02-26 09:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] actourdreams.livejournal.com
6 is some variant on Minstrel Boy.
9 is Jolly Roving Tar by Great Big Sea.
14 is some variant on the Mingulay Boat Song.
18 is The Walloping Window Blind.
21 is... Here and Now, I think, by Great Big Sea.
26 is Tell Me Ma.
29 is Still Alive, from Portal.
30 is the Last Saskatchewan Pirate, by the Arrogant Worms.

Date: 2011-02-27 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] actourdreams.livejournal.com
Minstrel Boy I know from Enter the Haggis and from various pub sings etc.
Mingulay I know from the Revels and Richard Thompson.
18 I know from my father.

Date: 2011-02-26 12:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tithenai.livejournal.com
27 is the Mushroom Song by Tricky Pixie! :)

Date: 2011-02-26 03:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zehlyi.livejournal.com
7 is Easter Island Heads, I think, by Throat Culture.
22 is Under the Quarter Moon, but I'd have to look in my music library to figure out who it's by... =)

(And both I only know from the Morning Show -- you're not a Jim Ed and Dale fan, are you?)

Date: 2011-02-27 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] oarlock-queen.livejournal.com
#19: "Fix You Up," by Tegan & Sara
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