Folk Tunes
Identify the songs from their lyrics. All 25 lyrics contain references to famous people.

1 And the painting you stole from Picasso

2 So you think you’re Brad Pitt

3 Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky

4 But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao

5 Napoleon did surrender

6 Madame Onassis got nothing on you

7 In a coat you borrowed from James Dean

8 Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio

9 Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

10 Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers dance on air

11 You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day

12 In the Greta Garbo Home for wayward boys and girls

13 Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place around

14 Poor old Johnny Ray sounded sad on the radio

15 Talking ‘bout Monroe and walking on Snow White

16 Mr Charles Darwin had the gall to ask

17 Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing

18 I was kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream

19 You say John I say Wayne

20 Spotlight on Otis Redding now

21 Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe

22 Look out Ms Lotte Lenya

23 Tell Tchaikovsky the news

24 Ebenezer thought he was Julius Caesar

25 When a man named Al Capone tried to make that town his own

Answers to Folk Tunes

1 Where Do You Go To My Lovely
2 That Don’t Impress Me Much
3 No More Heroes
4 Revolution
5 Waterloo
6 You Wear it Well
7 American Pie
8 Mrs Robinson
9 We Didn’t Start the Fire
10 Vogue
11 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
12 My Name is Jack
13 Smoke on the Water
14 Come on Eileen
15 Jean Genie
16 Man on the Moon
17 Fairytale of New York
18 Manic Monday
19 Bicycle Races
20 Sweet Soul Music
21 I am the Walrus
22 Mack the Knife
23 Roll over Beethoven
24 Lily the Pink
25 The Night Chicago Died