Musical Musings
What Comes Next?


The following questions were posed in the lyrics of songs popular during the last century.   What distinguishes these questions is that they were also answered in the lines that followed.   Can you guess the answers?   Humming may help.

1. You load sixteen tons and what do you get?

2. Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?

3. Would you believe in a love at first sight?

4. Will he ever return?

5. Bless my soul, what's wrong with me?

6. Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?

7. Where have all the graveyards gone?

8. What's playing at the Roxy?

9. Why do I love Paris?

10. What's that you say Mrs. Robinson?

11. The bear went over the mountain and what do you think he saw?

12. What ain't we got?

13. A great ball club we haven't got; what do we got?

14. Will I wait a lonely lifetime?

15. When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May.   I guess you'd say, what can make me feel this way?

16. Someone really loves you, guess who? 17. When evening rolls around and it's time to go to town, where do you go?

18. Why did I give my heart so fast?

19. How do you know if he loves you so?

20. What now my love?


Answers:

1. Another day older and deeper in debt.   (Sixteen Tons)

2. No, it's just on the street where you live.   (On the Street Where You Live)

3. Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time.   (With a Little Help from My Friends)

4. No, he'll never return.   (The MTA)

5. I'm in love, I'm all shook up.   (All Shook Up)

6. Eatin' purple people, and it sure is fine.   (Purple People Eater)

7. Gone to flowers, every one.   (Where Have All the Flowers Gone?)

8. A story about a Minnesota man so in love with a Mississippi girl that he marries her and moves all the way to Biloxi.   (Guys and Dolls)

9. Because my love is there.   (I Love Paris)

10. Joltin' Joe has left and gone away.   (Mrs. Robinson)

11. He saw another mountain.   (The Bear Went Over the Mountain)

12. We ain't got dames.   (There Is Nothing Like a Dame)

13. Heart.   (Heart)

14. If you want me to I will. (I Will)

15. My girl.   (My Girl)

16. That someone is me.   (Someone)

17. To rock and roll.   (Your Momma Don't Dance)

18. I was a mere child of sixteen.   (Only Sixteen)

19. It's in his kiss.   (Shoop Shoop Song)

20. Only our last goodbye.   (What Now My Love)

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