Post Quiz: Home-Made Singing
Created | Updated Apr 29, 2018
Stop whistling and sing the lyrics, Bluebottle.
Post Quiz: Home-Made Singing
Once you think about it, you realise that a lot of popular songs are about houses and homes. Out of an embarrassment of riches, we've chosen just ten. Complete the lyrics. The songwriters and years are included to help you jog your memory.
- And I hear the hungry coyote as he slinks up through the grass
Round the little old _____ shanty on my claim. (Oliver Edwin Murray, 1880) - It's only a _____
In old _____ Town....
The roof is so slanty it touches the ground.... (Ted Lewis) - I was in the house when the house _____ _____
I met the man with the thorny crown
I helped Him carry his cross through town.... (Warren Zevon) - There is a house in New Orleans,
They call The _____ _____.... (Animals, 1964) - Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our (something tells you that you've _____ __ _____ _____ ____ __).... (Madness, 1982) - There's a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of _____-_____
And they all look just the same. (Malvina Reynolds, 1962) - A chair is still a chair,
Even when there's no one _______ _____,
But a chair is not a house.... (Bacharach/David, 1964) - Bless these windows shining bright,
Letting in _____ ________ ______.... (Helen Taylor, 1927) - Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the windowpane
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
He's a-gettin' ready to meet ___ _____. (Stuart Hamblen, 1954) - In my father's house are many _______,
Though tonight some make their bed _____ ___ ______.... (Etheridge et al, 1989)
Does it seem you've heard that song before? Click the picture for answers.