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

Some people like to use acrostic passwords. They're simple to remember - just use the first letter of each word in the first line or two of a favourite song, say.

So if my favourite song was Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles, my password could be ERputritcwawhb (Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been...)

So here are ten passwords for you to crack. Can you identify the song titles? I've included the musical genres as a clue:

1. TcisMbTjab (Blues)
2. Afiwaiwp (Disco)
3. Sihtbawgayltjom (Country)
4. Dpmcictte (Hip Hop)
5. Talwsatgig (Rock)
6. Olohlgtafar (Reggae)
7. Owspospwv (Punk)
8. Lbothlbmott (Folk)
9. Sitmsibswtec (Soul)
10. Ipmdtatidmsbcnc (Power Ballad)

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8 = Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky

6 = One love, one heart, let's get together and feel all right

3 = Since it happens to be a winter game and you love to jump on me

??

Oddly, the sentiment is spot on, but not quite the lyric I was looking for

But if Paul's reading this, I'm sure you can do better than the lyricist with these...

5 = There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold (Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin)

wibble

3 = Sometimes it's hard to be a woman, giving all your love to just one man (Stand by Your Man, Tammy Wynnette)

As this one's a little harder than I'd anticipated, here are some clues to the artists of the 6 songs you haven't yet identified (in no particular order):


* How's Your Father With Arms?
* Steak Pedestrian
* Playing Card
* Berkshire Lift Manufacturer
* Halo Earner
* Embarrassing Wardrobe Malfunction At Chess Tournament

Aided by those clues, my daughter just got one:

9 = Sitting in the morning sun I've benn sitting when the evening comes

Sitting on the dock of the bay Otis Redding

And she's got another one

10 = I paid my dues time after time I've done my sentence but committed no crime
Queen We are the champions

Another one for Iz

4=Don’t push me cause I’m close to the edge
Grandmaster Flash The Message

Iz is on a roll

2 = At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Gloria Gaynor I will survive

Her first guess at 7 =
Oh we're Sex Pistols. Oh Sex Pistols We. Vote!

Which gives us

Oh we're so pretty, oh so pretty we're vacant
Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK.

We reckon the remaining artist (blues) is T-bone Walker but we don’t know any songs by him.

"Dock of the bay" and "We are the champions" are in my collection of recordings, but I never really learned the lyrics

Also Pete Seeger's little boxes song.

I would have liked fdtr (Floating down the river)

T-Bone Walker is correct. It's a blues standard, recorded by many.