h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Close the doors put out the light. You know they won't be home tonight. The snow falls hard and don't you know. The winds of Thor are blowing cold."

'No Quarter' by Led Zep.
Clue for my last lyric, re. the band that wrote it.
They bought a tank but they're not the KLF. They've been knowm to Hang with Howard Marks.

I know I know... I should read the rest of these to see if someone's gotten it, but I know this one!

Carpenters (I just can't think of the name of it).

"Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby
You said you'd be comin back this way again, baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby oh baby
I love you
I really do"

Hrmph! After catching up, I see I was too late.. Darned RL is starting to get REAL annoying.

Anyway.. Frizzy, you seem to have a handle on some of the older ones... You should know mine (up up up )

Oh h*ll... I'll just recap it here and add the next line.

"Like a picture she was laying there
Moonlight dancing off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand"

The arms of Mary ???
It does ring a bell...

TM.

I've had a look at yours, Anonymouse, already and I haven't got a clue at all. When you say old, how old? A clue, perchance? Noone else seems to having a guess at it.

Well, if it's old you want...

'Then the first snow came and she rushed out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die' *sniff* :*-(

'sus

No answers for you at the mo but can I add one?
"We've always been like world's apart now you're seeing two nightmares collide"

Hee hee, back in the game at last... Elvis Costello, Tokyo Storm Warning .

Next :
"If I was a painter, but then again, no, or a man who sells potions,
In a travelling show"

Midge Ure - If I was?

"come sail your ships round me, and let your hair hang down
We make a little history, baby, every time you come around"

Nope, not Midge Ure. Try again.

Elton John - Your Song.

Correct, Elton's lovely Your Song. Have you any idea about FATCs earlier posting?

Next :
Here comes Johnny Yen again, with his liquor and drugs, and his sex machine.

And what about mine then?

'sus

Easy,Iggy Pop - Lust for Life!
What about this one:
"Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come"

And honey, I miss you
And I'm bein' good
And I long to be with you
If only I could.

Honey, I believe, was the name of it.. and though I can't remember for sure who the artist was, I'm taking a stab here... wasn't that a Bobby Goldsboro song?

The next line of mine contains the title. As for how old, Friz, uhm.. probably (again) early seventies.

Again with the new line and things...

"And like a picture she was layin there,
Moonlight dancin off her hair
She woke up and took me by the hand
We made love in my [title]
And that's all right with me."

Clue? Erm... Let's just say it caused a dramatic increase in sales of a certain vehicle.

(That oughta give it away. )

That clue makes me think I know this, but the words are just.....
.... well not meaning a thing to me.
I might try the banging-my-head-on-the-wall tactic.

Chevy van? no idea who by...

That's the one, Friz... and I can't remember the artist atm either.

Since someone took the 'oldies' even further back then I had been... let's go with...

"Mickey Mouse says it's thirteen o'clock,
Well that's quite a shock,
But that's my boy."