Opening Lines

Identify the 50 number one hits from the opening lines of their lyrics

1 I guess now its time for me to give up.

2 I feel it in my fingers

3 Risin’ up back on the street

4 Ground control to Major Tom

5 I’ve been cheated by you since I don’t know when

6 I went to a party at the local county jail

7 We skipped the light fandango

8 Baby look at me and tell me what you see

9 Slip inside the eye of your mind

10 Got a good reason for taking the easy way out

11 I blame you for the moonlit sky

12 Is this the real life?

13 When you’re weary feeling small

14 Its been seven hours and fifteen days

15 What about sunshine what about rain

16 Well you’re dirty and sweet

17 In my imagination there is no complication

18 A ray of hope flitters in the sky

19 I feel so unsure as I take your hand

20 If I should stay I would only be in your way

21 Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman

22 Close your eyes, give me your hand

23 Nothing is so good it lasts eternally

24 They asked me how I knew

25 Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away

26 You took the mystery and made me want it

27 First I was afraid I was petrified

28 Oh don’t it hurt deep inside

29 Girl when you hold me how you control me

30 When the night has come and the land is dark

31 Poor old Johnny Ray

32 I’d say love was a magical thing

33 Desert loving in your eyes all the way

34 When I die and they lay me to rest

35 Oh, the shark babe has such teeth

36 Got myself a cryin’ talkin’

37 The marching band came down along main street

38 It was a theme she had on a scheme he had

39 You better beware, you better take care

40 Here I lie in a lost and lonely part of town

41 Better stop dreaming of the quiet life

42 Sometimes you’re better off dead

43 She ain’t got no money

44 You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain

45 Friday night and the lights are low

46 I hear a lot of stories I suppose they could be true

47 In a bar in Toledo across from the depot

48 Don’t want your love anymore

49 Once upon a time there was a tavern

50 I wondered should I go or should I stay?

Answers

1 Back For Good
2 Love Is All Around
3 Eye of the Tiger
4 Space Oddity
5 Mamma Mia
6 Rubber Bullets
7 A Whiter Shade of Pale
8 Fame
9 Don’t Look Back in Anger
10 Day Tripper
11 Sleeping Satellite
12 Bohemian Rhapsody
13 Bridge Over Troubled Water
14 Nothing Compares 2U
15 Earth Song
16 Get It On
17 I Should Be So Lucky
18 When a Child Is Born
19 Careless Whisper
20 I Will Always Love You
21 Stand By Your Man
22 Eternal Flame
23 I Know Him So Well
24 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
25 Tainted Love
26 Chain Reaction
27 I Will Survive
28 Silence Is Golden
29 Love Me for a Reason
30 Stand By Me
31 Come On Eileen
32 A Different Corner
33 Karma Chameleon
34 Spirit in the Sky
35 Mack the Knife
36 Living Doll
37 Billy Don’t Be a Hero
38 China in Your Hand
39 Blockbuster
40 Tragedy
41 A Town Called Malice
42 West End Girls
43 Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes
44 Great Balls of Fire
45 Dancing Queen
46 A Good Heart
47 Lucille
48 Cathy’s Clown
49 Those Were The Days
50 The Last Waltz