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

Well I was half right. Your turn EncyBass.

If anyone cares, the last set that I posted were from The Queen is Dead by Morrissey or The Smiths, can't remember which.

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I think it was The Smiths

That was just a random guess!
Ok, how's about this one:
In the tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our words are misgivings

(easy one to get meself warmed up)

Stairhway to heaven-Led Zep or Rolf Harris

I'm sure that you could be disqualified for mentioning the rolf version.........

I've got his version of "Bohemian Rhapsody", y'know.

Is there a classic track that good old Rolf Hasn't covered?

Next lyrics are:-

Could we have kippers for breakfast
Mummy dear,mummy dear.

Breakfast in America- Supertramp

How about:

"And it's a battered old suitcase
in a hotel someplace
And a wound that would never heal
No prima donnas the perfume is on
and old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey"

Right first time,Egon.With you mentioning Adriano Rigoglioso,Iare you a supporter of Morecambe F.C.in the Conference?

Next lyrics:-

Round round wheels go round round round,
Down up pedal,down up down.

(I'm really an Everton fan, but have soft spots for Morecambe, Cowdenbeath and Sunderland)

And, um, it's "The Wheel's On The Bus go round and round", surely?

Lyrics are correct,Egon.Australian Band,one hit wonders.
Scarborough,Nuneaton Borough and,shock horror,Coventry follower myself.(Hangs head in shame)

*points and laughs*

Any idea as to the lyrics I posted?

your all lucky im a man city fan.
thats another familiar lyric,about the suitcase.
sounds like don henly/eagels or something.
it'll come to me about an hour after its gone.

It's not Don Henley or the Eagles....

Right well of the last two sets posted, Egon's come from "Tom Traubert's Blues/Waltzing Matilda" which was sung by Rod Stewart, but I don't think he wrote it.

And Compo's set come from a song about riding a tandem that I had on a cassette when I was little, but the title and band name escapes me for the minute.


And as for football teams, Brentford, Queen of the South and Heart of Midlothian. Its a recipe for suicide.

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Don't you know, y'old fool,
You never can win
Use your mentality
Come back to reality

This one's a true classic- any guesses?

Hint: It was re-released as a duet in the 90's.....

Perseus- Twas indeed Tom Trauberts Blues (Four Sheets To the wind in Copenhagen)(Waltzing Matilda), originally by Tom Waits.

I think this is the U2 version of 'I've got you under my skin' but that's 'wake up to reality', so I'm not sure. It was originally Frank Sinatra (I think), but the lyrics were slightly different again, and I think the ones you've given are closest to U2.