Let’s Be Lyrical
Animal Magic
Identify the 10 song titles from their lyrics. Each song has an animal’s name in the title
1 Just a man and his will to survive
2 Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
3 After three days in the desert sun my skin began to turn red
4 She’d rings on her fingers and she wore a sable coat
5 Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own
6 I’ve got flowers and lots of hours to spend with you
7 Put a chain around my neck and lead me anywhere
8 Play your didgeridoo blue
9 Take out the papers and the trash
10 Out from the throats of the crowd came a
mighty roar
Answers to Animal Songs
1 Eye of the Tiger
2 I am the Walrus
3 A Horse with No Name
4 Paddy McGinty’s Goat
5 Crocodile Rock
6 What’s New Pussycat?
7 Teddy Bear
8 Tie Me Kangeroo Down Sport
9 Yakety Yak
10 Little White Bull
Let’s Be Lyrical
Think of a Number
Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each
song has a number in the title.
1 I’m crying icicles instead of tears
2 Deep in the castle and back from the war
3 The memories are all in my mind
4 You’ve turned into the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen
5 I’m gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
6 And the wicked wind whispers and moans
7 Put your head against my life, what do you hear?
8 You just step out the back Jack
9 There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons
10 Can you hear me you peers and privy
councillors?
Answers to Number songs
1 Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
2 Swords of a 1000 Men
3 Three Times a Lady
4 Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
5 500 Miles
6 One of These Nights
7 A Million Love Songs
8 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
9 76 Trombones
10 Seven Seas of Rhye
Sing a Rainbow
Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each
song has a colour in the title.
1 She looks like a sugar in the plum
2 I see girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
3 The Indiana rain and wind cut through me
4 I thought I had a heart of stone but now I’m in the danger zone
5 There’ll be love and laughter and peace ever after
6 Saving nickels saving dimes, working till the sun don’t shine
7 There’s an old piano and they play it hot
8 I never wanted to be your weekend lover
9 In the back of a dream car twenty foot long
10 In the town where I was born lived a man
who sailed to sea
Answers to Sing a Rainbow
1 Brown Girl in the Ring
2 Paint it Black
3 Silver Lady
4 Red Light Spells Danger
5 There’ll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover
6 Blue Bayou
7 Green Door
8 Purple Rain
9 Golden Years
10 Yellow Submarine
Rocking all over the World
Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each
song has a location in the title
1 Mama told me he was going to war and he was leaving
2 Let the wind blow right through your hair
3 I’ll be your clown or your puppet or your April fool
4 And all the men are gargoyles dipped long in Irish stout
5 Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
6 You know the preacher likes the cold
7 Tell her to find me an acre of land
8 I hear the drums echoing tonight
9 In the street a band was playing and the crowd all danced
10 Weeks turn into years and quickly pass
Answers to Rocking all over the World
1 Durham Town
2 Let’s Go to San Francisco
3 Long Haired Lover from Liverpool
4 Rotterdam
5 London Calling
6 California Dreaming
7 Scarborough Fair
8 Africa
9 Lost in France
10 Do you Know the Way to San Jose?
Organ Music
Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each
song has a body part in the title.
1 And when I touch you I feel happy inside
2 He’s doing some deal up in Baltimore now
3 The light shines down the valley the wind blows down the alley
4 Once I had love and it was a gas
5 Telling lies well that’s no surprise
6 But it’s enough to make a grown man cry
7 Carried your books from school
8 Seem to vanish like a gamblers lucky streak
9 I was standing in the station being pounded by the rain
10 Fading away but I’m not yet expired
Answers to Organ Music
1 I Want to Hold Your Hand
2 Take that Look off Your Face
3 Arms of Mary
4 Heart of Glass
5 Our Lips are Sealed
6 Over My Shoulder
7 My Eyes Adored You
8 Cheek to Cheek
9 Under Your Thumb
10 One Foot in the Grave