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1. "Another day is at hand
Mama says she's tired again
No one can ever begin to tell her
I hardly know what to say
Maybe it's better that way
If Papa were here I'm sure he'd tell her"
What song was written by this founding member of the group SHA NA NA ?
2. "In the event of something happening to me
There is something I would like you all to see
It's just a photograph of someone I knew..."
This tune was inspired by the 1966 catastrophe in the village of Aberfan, Wales.
Who was the artist?
3. "See the tree, how big it's grown
But friend it hasn't been that long
It wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it,
was just a twig."
Written by Bobby Russell, which Bobby in 1968 took this song to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles Chart?
4. "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
We're finally on our own
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio."
Which school of higher learning did this 1970 tragedy take place?
5. "Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven"
A memorial song for the loss of Eric Clapton's 4 year old - Conor Clapton. Which city did this 1991 accident take place?
6. "Baby, I get so scared inside and I really don't understand
Is it love that's on my mind or is it fantasy?
Heaven, is in the palm of my hand and it's waiting here for you
What am I supposed to do with a childhood tragedy?"
From the 1988 album: "Lita", who was Lita Ford's partner in this duet?
7. "Oh where, oh where, can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I could see my baby when I leave this world."
Originally written and sung by Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders in 1962, who has a popular cover of this song in 1999?
8. "Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical
Science in the home
Late at night all alone with her test tube
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Maxwell Edison, majoring in medicine
Calls her on the phone"
"Can I take you out to the pictures Joan?"
This perky ballad from Lennon and McCartney deals with the subject of murder.
Just how many people die in the song?
9. Consider this:
"Imagine a world where no music was playing
And think of a church with nobody praying
Have you ever looked up at a sky with no blue?"
and:
"Have you walked in a garden where nothing is growing
Or stood by a river where nothing is flowing
If you seen a red rose un-kissed by the dew."
Sometimes losing a significant other is like a death. What is the missing lyric?
10. "The house began to pitch
The kitchen took a slitch
It landed on the Wicked Witch
in the middle of a ditch.
Which was not a healthy situation for the Wicked Witch."
Who was the heroine who got credit for this accident?
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asawdust
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