Let’s Be Lyrical – Rocking All Over the World
Identify the 50 songs from their lyrical locations

1 We’ll beat those birds back to Acapulco Bay

2 There is a house in New Orleans

3 We can rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight

4 I’ll have to go to Las Vegas or Monaco

5 I bought it in Primrose Hill from a bloke from Brazil

6 Buying bread from a man in Brussels

7 Down in New Orleans, up in New York City

8 She finally found Billy down at the Italian café

9 I laid a divorcee in New York City

10 And when the snow falls you’re found in St Moritz

11 I’ve been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan

12 From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads

13 I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain

14 Tried to hitch a ride to San Francisco

15 Midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine

16 West Virginia mountain Momma

17 I gaze beyond the rain drenched streets to England where my heart lies

18 In a town near Albuquerque lived a most concerned young boy

19 Do you recall that fateful night we crossed the Rio Grande

20 Trying to get to Holland or France

21 When the day is dawning on a Texas Sunday morning

22 LA is a great big freeway

23 We all came out to Montreaux on the Lake Geneva shoreline

24 They mean a trip to Paris or Rome

25 Long ago, high on a mountain in Mexico

26 The hottest spot north of Havana

27 Let me beach on the shores of Tripoli

28 Russia’s greatest love machine

29 From the shores of Spain to the coast of Southern France

30 In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan

31 I met a hula mistress somewhere in Waikiki

32 He had a woman he loved in Saigon

33 And I’m waiting at the Berlin wall

34 Sipping tea at the Taj Mahal by dawn

35 Shout rings out in the Memphis sky, free at last they took your life

36 Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue

37 Hollywood created a superstar and pain was the price you paid

38 Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower

39 Sold in a market down in New Orleans

40 Give me 3D vision and California blues

41 When I called you last night from Glasgow

42 I don’t want to be a candidate for Vietnam or Watergate

43 From Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all

44 I was kissing Valentino by a crystal blue Italian stream

45 Its just gone noon half past monsoon on the banks of the River Nile

46 In Regent Street and Leicester Square

47 Take a look up the rail track from Miami to Canada

48 And there won’t be snow in Africa

49 Well I’m standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona

50 On a gold and grey Chicago mornin’

Answers to Lyrical Locations

1 Come Fly with Me
2 House of the Rising Sun
3 When I’m Sixty Four
4 Money, Money, Money
5 Driving in my Car
6 Down Under
7 Dancing in the Streets
8 Rat Trap
9 Honky Tonk Woman
10 Where Do You Go to My Lovely?
11 I Left My Heart in San Francisco
12 Life on Mars
13 Daniel
14 Massachusetts
15 King of the Road
16 Take Me Home Country Roads
17 Kathy’s Song
18 The Young New Mexican Puppeteer
19 Fernando
20 The Ballad of John and Yoko
21 Is This the Way to Amarillo?
22 Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
23 Smoke on the Water
24 Trains and Boats and Planes
25 Angelo
26 At the Copacabana
27 Orinoco Flow
28 Rasputin
29 The Chicken Song
30 Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
31 Agadoo
32 Born in the USA
33 Holidays in the Sun
34 Life is a Minestrone
35 Pride (In the Name of Love)
36 Walking in Memphis
37 Candle in the Wind
38 I am the Walrus
39 Brown Sugar
40 Telegram Sam
41 Super Trouper
42 Bicycle Races
43 Pinball Wizard
44 Manic Monday
45 Night Boat to Cairo
46 Dedicated Follower of Fashion
47 Letter from America
48 Do They Know Its Christmas?
49 Take It Easy
50 In the Ghetto