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Sing a Rainbow
Identify the 10 song titles from their lyrics. Each song has a colour in the title

1 Without a dream in my heart without a love on my own

2 Baby I could never steal you from another

3 There’s an old piano and they play it hot

4 They took all the trees and put em in a tree museum

5 But I wandered through my playing cards

6 Just one thing makes me forget

7 Tired of drifting, searching, shifting from town to town

8 In the misty morning fog with you

9 Nights are warm and the days are young

10 A new religion that’ll bring you to your knees

Answers to Sing a Rainbow

1 Blue Moon
2 Purple Rain
3 Green Door
4 Big Yellow Taxi
5 A Whiter Shade of Pale
6 Red Red Wine
7 Silver Lady
8 Brown Eyed Girl
9 Golden Years
10 Black Velvet

Occupational Hazards
Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each song has a job/occupation in the title

1 He’s gonna give up the booze and the one night stands

2 She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time

3 Because there’s no prescription for me, she’s the one and only remedy

4 There must be some word today, from my boyfriend so far away

5 A fat and jolly red faced man, he really is a treat

6 But don’t let my glad expression give you the wrong impression

7 They beat him up until the teardrops start

8 And they say she was once a winner in a contest

9 I found a car, but I wouldn’t pay, I fell in love and I drove it away

10 Boys getting high and the girls even more so

Answers to Occupational Hazards

1 Baker Street
2 The Model
3 Night Nurse
4 Please Mr Postman
5 The Laughing Policeman
6 Tears of a Clown
7 Watching the Detectives
8 Pearl’s a Singer
9 Good Morning Judge
10 Rock DJ

Let’s Hear it for the Girls
Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each song has a girl’s name in the title

1 With you in that dress my thoughts I confess verge on dirty

2 Now you’re moving in high society

3 He likes to keep his fire engine clean

4 Come in late at night and in the mornin’ I just lay in bed

5 A shadow of a man, a face through a window

6 But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck with his dying breath they heard him say

7 I don’t know why she’s leaving or where she’s gonna go

8 Well I’m not the world’s most passionate guy

9 The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

10 Don’t want your kisses that’s for sure

Answers to Let’s Here it for the Girls

1 Come on Eileen
2 Baby Jane
3 Penny Lane
4 Help Me Rhonda
5 Mandy
6 Tell Laura I Love Her
7 Living Next Door to Alice
8 Lola
9 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
10 Cathy’s Clown

Let’s Here it for the Boys
Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each has a boy’s name in the title

1 I was so upset that I cried all the way to the chip shop

2 We could send you to Johannesburg

3 I am a dull and simple lad

4 They say Spain is pretty though I’ve never been

5 I was raised by a toothless bearded hag

6 My arms are missing you my lips feel the same way too

7 The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry

8 There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood

9 Just a small town dude with a big city attitude

10 I got married to the widow next door; she’s been married seven times before

Answers to Boys

1 Jilted John
2 Oliver’s Army
3 David Watts
4 Daniel
5 Jumpin’ Jack Flash
6 Jimmy Mack
7 Fernando
8 Johnny B Goode
9 Just Like Jesse James
10 I’m Henry the Eighth I Am