Guess the opening lyric ..
Guess the opening lyric ..
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DodgyGeezer

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46,598 posts

213 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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Can't remember if we've had a game of guess the opening lyrics so here we are (if anyone is interested). First person ro correctly guess chooses the next...


Down from the glen came the marching men
With their shields and their swords

Hanslow

834 posts

268 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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Ha, I cheated, I knew the lyric and the main riff, knew the band but couldn't recall the name of the song. Rather than just search for the lyrics, I looked up a list of band hits then knew which one it was from that list, but I still class that as cheating.

tribalsurfer

1,233 posts

142 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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Hanslow said:
Ha, I cheated, I knew the lyric and the main riff, knew the band but couldn't recall the name of the song. Rather than just search for the lyrics, I looked up a list of band hits then knew which one it was from that list, but I still class that as cheating.
Like you I knew the band.

Thin Lizzy

48k

16,267 posts

171 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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I was lonelier than Kunte Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert.

DodgyGeezer

Original Poster:

46,598 posts

213 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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tribalsurfer said:
Hanslow said:
Ha, I cheated, I knew the lyric and the main riff, knew the band but couldn't recall the name of the song. Rather than just search for the lyrics, I looked up a list of band hits then knew which one it was from that list, but I still class that as cheating.
Like you I knew the band.

Thin Lizzy
it is possibly my favourite of their songs biggrin

M138

1,027 posts

14 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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I have a mansion, forget the price

vetrof

2,825 posts

196 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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48k said:
I was lonelier than Kunte Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert.
Bloodhound Gang - A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When the Stripper Is Crying


But, shouldn't whoever gets the first one pose the next?

Edited by vetrof on Thursday 10th April 19:00

Yahonza

3,406 posts

53 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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M138 said:
I have a mansion, forget the price
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good

'Dreamed I was an Eskimo - Frozen wind began to blow'

MCBrowncoat

1,615 posts

169 months

Thursday 10th April 2025
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Yahonza said:
M138 said:
I have a mansion, forget the price
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good

'Dreamed I was an Eskimo - Frozen wind began to blow'
J.D. Vance?

Roofless Toothless

7,104 posts

155 months

Friday 11th April 2025
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Yahonza said:
Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good

'Dreamed I was an Eskimo - Frozen wind began to blow'
Frank Zappa, Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow

“I may not always love you … “

tribalsurfer

1,233 posts

142 months

Friday 11th April 2025
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Roofless Toothless said:
Frank Zappa, Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow

“I may not always love you … “
Beach Boys - God only Knows.

"Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach ...."

Turn7

25,330 posts

244 months

Friday 11th April 2025
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tribalsurfer said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Frank Zappa, Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow

“I may not always love you … “
Beach Boys - God only Knows.

"Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach ...."
Don Henley, Boys of Summer

tribalsurfer

1,233 posts

142 months

Friday 11th April 2025
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Turn7 said:
Don Henley, Boys of Summer
Correct, your turn.

Turn7

25,330 posts

244 months

Friday 11th April 2025
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tribalsurfer said:
Turn7 said:
Don Henley, Boys of Summer
Correct, your turn.
Lets begin at the beginning, we're lovers and and we're losers....