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1. Let's start with a tribute to New York City. Fill in the blank from "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys (2009):
"Right there up on Broadway, pull me back to that McDonald's
Took it to my stashbox, 560 State Street
Catch me in ________ like a Simmons with them pastries."
2. Now we'll move across the country to another city tribute on the opposite coast. Complete the lyric from "Save Me, San Francisco" by Train (2011):
"We took the highway to the one, up the coast to have some fun
Left me with these blisters on my skin
Don't know what I was on, but I think it grows in _______
So I kept on goin' going on right through."
3. Jumping back thirty years, we have "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight" by Bob Dylan (1983). Complete the lyric:
"But if I could, I'd bring bring you to the mountaintop, girl
And build you a house made out of stainless steel
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
That's hanging in ________."
4. Moving from folk rock to punk rock, complete the lyric from "Holiday" by Weezer (1994):
"We will write a postcard to our friends
(On the road with Kerouac)
We will write a postcard to our friends
(Sheltered in __________)
And family in free verse."
5. Moving back to classic rock and also to the past, complete the lyric from "The Ocean" by Led Zeppelin (1973):
"Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain
Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in _________."
6. Now up to Canada, where you can fill in the blank from "How Does a Duck Know" by The Crash Test Dummies (1993):
"How come I just smoke and smoke and smoke
and curse every butt I spit out?
All night long I grind my teeth and I wake up when I cough
You can put me in ____________
and I will keep on breathing and twitching."
7. And then back over the border to Vermont, to fill in the blank from "Cavern" by Phish (1992):
"Steal away before the dawn
And bring us back good news,
But if you tread in _________
Please wipe it from your shoes."
8. Staying in the 1990's, you can fill in the blank from "Superhero" by Ani DiFranco (1996):
"Sleepwalking through the all-night drugstore
Baptized in fluorescent light
I found religion in __________
Now I know Hallmark was right."
9. Now we'll drop back thirty long years in order to fill in the blank from "Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles (1967):
"No one I think is in ________
I mean it must be high or low
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right
That is I think it's not too bad."
10. Speaking of Brian Wilson, our last song is "Brian Wilson" by Barenaked Ladies (1992). Fill in the blank:
"And if you want to find me I'll be out in ________,
wondering where the hell all the love has gone."
Source: Author
lingophilia
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