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4LaneStudios 02-02-2009 11:07 PM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
I'll sit on the fence and say a 50/50 mix would be wonderful. ;)

geodeticman.5 02-02-2009 11:38 PM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 4LaneStudios (Post 148162)
I'll sit on the fence and say a 50/50 mix would be wonderful. ;)

Sounds smart and fun to me, Lynn. I'll shoot for that unless any one speaks different about it for consideration. Thanks...

geodeticman.5 02-02-2009 11:38 PM

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HERE IS A FINAL UPDATE FOR 8:30 pm.,Mon.,Feb. 2nd, 2009

YOU GOT THEM ALL DONE ! YOU GUYS DID IT , ON A TOUGH LIST.

LYNN AND oTJ DEPLOY BRAINTRUST THINKTANK TACTICS AND TURN IN AN
IMPRESSIVE RESPONSE.

Its also nice to welcome another Vistory Warrior - oTJ - aka Tomcat in YouTube - into the game as 'oTJ' !

JENNEY, AFTER A FRUSTRATING TURN ON Q318 ....Peace.... , TOOK A SHOT AT THIS REAL TOUGHY, AND MISSED, NO DOUBT DUE TO THE UNUSUAL NATURE OF THE PROPER NOUN CLUE OF ....Peace MID-VERSE ? HER SHOT ON THIS RARE CASE OF A PROPER NOUN THAT DOES NOT LOOK LIKE IT SHOULD BE ONE, & MID-SENTENCE ..MISSED , BUT SHE THEN NAILED THE BIG-GAME ON A REAL-TOUGHY, Q317 'Betty Called Me In' from the clue '....this crying' ,a very hard question ! its of course one of the 'rarities' found in Songbook !

Ron took aim at his common 2 or 3, leaving plenty of others, as a courtesy to fellow players, while I have no doubt he held a few answers in reserve. His last shot was at a moving target with a proper noun capped.Q318 ....Peace.... , which was a moving target because it was the Peace River, from his admittedly favorite song, Canary Yellow Canoe. He enthusiastically cites the reasons for it being his favorite song as: " well, it has that classic Lightfoot sound, slow acoustic guitar sound to it, soaring vocals, a good one-guitar song for around the campfire, slow and lazy sounding...LIKE A RIVER! THAT'S WHY ! - fascinating geographic feature names in the rivers, but what I don't get is: Why do many of these rivers flow North ?

RON explains further: -"Like the McKenzie, flowing UP to its mouth at Beaufort Bay, at the northerly terminus of Northwest Territories. I thought all rivers flowed DOWN, you know, down on the map... is South !
I think 'down' river is South only below the equator, like Australia. I'm quite sure all the rivers flow 'UP' to the equator, because all geographic phenomenon are backwards below the equator. Like compasses point to Ayers Rock there I think, cause they have no magnetic north down there you know. And they have to turn maps upside down; down there.Thats all I have to say. So shut up and get on with the game." OK RON !....you rascal you ! Play on we will, and thank YOU for turning in two very difficult questions. lol -(OK fun is fun, but I made up this response from Ron!)

I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED THIS DIFFICULT LIST OF 10 WE'RE DONE WITH !

All songs can be found in Lightfoot.ca under Lyrics/Chords.

All songs are in the 'main 20 albums'

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Q316 .... bold,.... - X Jenney gets it with 'Don Quixote'

Q317 .... this crying -X Jenney gets it with 'Betty Called Me In'

Q318 .... Peace .... -X Ron gets it with 'Canary Yellow Canoe'

Q319 .... mayday - X oTJ gets it with 'Without You'

Q320 .... sparrows, .... - X Lynn gets it with 'Couchiching'

Q321 ....evergrows - X Char gets it with 'Early Morning Rain'

Q322 Car .... - X Lynn gets it with ''Nous Vivons Ensemble''

Q323 Running .... - X joveski gets it with ''Someone to Believe In''

Q324 Nor .... - X Lynn gets it with 'A Minor Ballad'

Q325 Kick it .... - X Ron gets it with 'Cold On the Shoulder'


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All songs written by: Gordon Lightfoot .

A NEW LIST OF TEN IS COMING, THIS TEN IS HISTORY!

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 03:29 AM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
HERE IS AN UPDATE FOR 9:35 am.,Tues.,FEB 3rd, 2009 !

oTJ is playing strong with two correct on the board; would have been three were it not for joveski's beating him to the punch with 'Sometimes I Don;t Mind' on Q331

joveski, formerlyLav,Char, and Ron all have their first win in place this round......who will bag the remaining 4 ? - 6 Down.
All songs can be found in Lightfoot.ca under Lyrics/Chords.

All songs are in the 'main 20 albums'

THINGS ARE GOING SMOOOOTHLY
!
:clap: :headbang:

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Q326 .... 'round.... - X oTJ gets it with 'Cotton Jenney'


Q327 .... at dawn - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q328 ... number - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q329 .... air -X formerlyLav gets it with 'That Same Old Obsession'

Q330 Reminds .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q331 Sometimes .... - X joveski gets it with ''Sometimes I Don't Mind''

Q332 .... the moon, .... - X oTJ gets it with 'The Last Time I Saw Her Face'

Q333 Nothing .... -X Ron gets it with 'Too Late for Prayin''


Q334 Remember .... - X Char gets it with 'Remember Me'


Q335 ....woodland,water.... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

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All songs written by: Gordon Lightfoot .

6 DOWN 4 TO GO !

HAVE FUN ! :headbang: :clap: :cool:

joveski 02-03-2009 05:08 AM

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> Q331 Sometimes ....

Sometimes i dont mind

charlene 02-03-2009 07:11 AM

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Q334 - Remember...
song - Remember Me
lyric - Remember me I'm the one who hurt you dear

TomCat Productions 02-03-2009 07:28 AM

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Q 331

Sometimes...

Sometimes I Wish (Harmony)

Sometimes I wish, that I could just forget.

TomCat Productions 02-03-2009 08:39 AM

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Q 326

' round...

Cotton Jenny

Love go 'round, love go 'round

formerlylavender 02-03-2009 08:46 AM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
I'll try this one again...

Q329 - ...air
That Same Old Obsession
"There's peace in the garden, there's peace in the air"

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 09:30 AM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by joveski (Post 148169)
> Q331 Sometimes ....
Sometimes i dont mind

Q331 Sometimes .... = 'Sometimes I Don't Mind' ? = yes! Correct. And, in fact the intended song to boot ! Time for mead and merriment !

Thanks for playing oh noble, wise, yet humble Knight. Your jouney has fortuitously included a stop in our humble village. You engaged us in a game of lyrical jousting, and you won. Once again, we see that the word and the pen art mightier than the shword. We call our humble village Chancealot, repleat with a 2-star restaurant and AAA-rated rooms with mini-bars and straw beds that shake for a quarter ! Doth your Quest permit a lay-over ?

Please stay for the dance of fair maidens around the bonfire, or perhaps try your hand at the Gauntlet. The first man who makes it through wins a kiss from the Queen. Only problem, we do not have a Queen, Or a King. In fact, we are a lawless bunch of anarchists. Give us you money, your shword, and your steed. Then be on your way until you come back and we shall Welcome You as a King ! ...I'll post your X Mende, thanks for playing !

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 09:41 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by charlene (Post 148170)
Q334 - Remember...
song - Remember Me
lyric - Remember me I'm the one who hurt you dear

Q334 Remember .... = Remember Me ? Yes ma'am, a totally valid ambig, from the intended song 'The House You Live In' You win your choice of a kewpy doll, or a bobble-head of geo-steve after his next neck surgery lol ! Thanks for playing Char. :)
I'll post your big-X

RM 02-03-2009 10:41 AM

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Q333 Nothing.......

Song : Too Late For Prayin'

Lyric : Nothing here but grains of sand

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 11:14 AM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by TomCat Productions (Post 148171)
Q 331
Sometimes...
Sometimes I Wish (Harmony)
Sometimes I wish, that I could just forget.

Hi oTJ, your very workable 'ambig' - (a song that works, is not the intended song in steve's notes, but would win the clue, if it were the first submission) was a hair after joveski's. So joveski wins it by timing. The fact that his song was the intended song makes no diffference over yours, he just submitted a working song first. Sorry oTJ :(

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 11:40 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RM (Post 148178)
Q333 Nothing.......
Song : Too Late For Prayin'
Lyric : Nothing here but grains of sand

Q333 Nothing....... = Too Late For Prayin' ? - yup ees correct ! I'll post the x-files now that alll entries are in for this round....

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 11:56 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TomCat Productions (Post 148172)
Q 326
' round...
Cotton Jenny
Love go 'round, love go 'round

Hi oTJ, Q326....'round .... = Cotton Jenny ?

Yup ! Keerekit ! I'll post it in the x-files.

TomCat Productions 02-03-2009 12:01 PM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
Q332

...the moon, ...

Final answer : The Last Time I Saw Her

Lyric: A million miles beyond the moon, that's where she is

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 12:02 PM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by formerlylavender (Post 148173)
I'll try this one again...
Q329 - ...air
That Same Old Obsession
"There's peace in the garden, there's peace in the air"

Q329 ...air = That Same Old Obsession? yup ! It sure does work ! Congrats ! I'll post it.

charlene 02-03-2009 03:14 PM

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ah yes!!! - The House You Live In -
Beware of the darkness, be kind to your children
REMEMBER the woman who waits
And the house you live in will never fall down
If you pity the stranger who stands at your gate

4LaneStudios 02-03-2009 07:02 PM

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Q330 Reminds...
Bells of the Evening
"Reminds me of the redwoods and moss covered ground"

My WW1 vistory. :)

And the very beautiful,

Q335 .... woodland, water ....
Pussywillows, Cat Tails
"Rainpools in the woodland, water to my knees"

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 09:33 PM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 4LaneStudios (Post 148204)
Q330 Reminds...
Bells of the Evening
"Reminds me of the redwoods and moss covered ground"

My WW1 vistory. :)

And the very beautiful,

Q335 .... woodland, water ....
Pussywillows, Cat Tails
"Rainpools in the woodland, water to my knees"

Thanks Lynn.

uh-oh, I am having a blabberty-fit on a philosophical approach to the game being just for fun, with non competitiveness. If you want to by-pass my brain-sneeze, simply drop down this post to the good ole' Yellow BACK TO BIZ below ! ...lol

How are you today Lynn ? You're well on your way to a majority victory in this list. whoops - I caught myself...this a only a game for fun w/o winners or losers. But... I remind myself, as a group we do not want to try and engender a competitive situation, and the all-too-common unfortunate ends it can take. I speak only of my view point; I think I ought to simply speak out in my oft mini - blah-blah's and at times BIIIG bla-blahs,(sorry Lynn) we are here to have fun first and foremost ! so I choose to mid-course self-correct to speaking much less with cloying sports analogies and cliche'd competitive rousting locker-room motivational speaches.....

In turn then, speak of what I read into Lightfoot's philosophy via my own attempt at interpreting his via his lyrics; complicated thought it may be, he speaks more of simply happiness and sadness, joy and sorrow, and the occassional in-between ethereal purely philosophical or spiritually-focused songs, (to name a few), which he has far more the eloquence than I in. Nor would it be as a group norm reccomended to go into the three things we are taught to avoid talking of in social settings. The third becomes ambiguous in many families. In mine I'll simply state the most common fist two frequently taught: I'll avoid politics &religion, and add avoiding a competitive mentality, as I have mildly been pushing in the blah-blah block area above x-files.

Rather, I'll avoid those land-mine strewn and innappropriate-for-this-thread subjects, and sports cliches, and lame tired old motivational rah-rahs I caught myself slippping into (the latter two). I will speak enthusiastically of simply having ....a breather...a good time w/o consequences. Put simply... while the thread does hit the gas pedal on heavy thinking, it is for simply having fun; no winners, no loosers, just fun gaming and mild escapism, all admirable and I hope no down-side - pure intelligent fun. This all pertains again simply to me catching myself on rolling down the wrong tracks -rah-rah sports metaphors and sense of competitiveness in my talkety block areas, and here in the unfortunate recipient of my ex-cogitations in what could be a simply be a 'yes !', or 'no...sorry response' - to your submission oTJ. Sorry about this; I had to get it out of my system. I saw my blah-blah blocks between 'UPDATE' and the x-file block getting strewn with cliches and non germane discourse to...just..having...fun.. I have to do this periodically oTJ, or I suffer a mind implosion, and all who suffer in a ten-minute radiius !..lol..

Back to BIZ:
ok:
1st:Q330 Reminds... = 'Bells of the Evening' ? Yes, it sure does !
"Reminds me of the redwoods and moss covered ground"

2nd - Q335 .... woodland, water .... = Pussywillows, Cat Tails ? Yep !
"Rainpools in the woodland, water to my knees"

two more 'REMAINS UNANSWERED' - down, 2 to go !

Thank you Lynn for putting us 2 closer to a full board, and for having the dubious distinction of being the recipient of my blabberties simply by it occurring while I was in response mode to your post ! - and Thanks for playing !

geodeticman.5 02-03-2009 09:46 PM

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HERE IS AN UPDATE FOR 6:45 pm.,Tues..,FEB 3rd, 2009 !

Thank you for all playing - we are two closer, compared to this morning's update. Hope you are all enjoying this list of ten !

8 Down - 2 to go now !

All songs can be found in Lightfoot.ca under Lyrics/Chords.

All songs are in the 'main 20 albums'

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Q326 .... 'round.... - X oTJ gets it with 'Cotton Jenney'

Q327 .... at dawn - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q328 ... number - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q329 .... air -X formerlyLavender gets it with 'That Same Old Obsession'

Q330 Reminds .... - - X Lynn gets it with 'Bells of the Evening'

Q331 Sometimes .... - X joveski gets it with ''Sometimes I Don't Mind''

Q332 .... the moon, .... - X oTJ gets it with 'The Last Time I Saw Her Face'

Q333 Nothing .... -X Ron gets it with 'Too Late for Prayin''

Q334 Remember .... - X Char gets it with 'Remember Me'

Q335 ....woodland,water.... - X Lynn gets it with 'Pussy-Willows, Cat-Tails'


================================================== ========
All songs written by: Gordon Lightfoot .

8 DOWN 2 TO GO !

HAVE FUN ! :headbang: :clap: :cool:

TomCat Productions 02-03-2009 09:52 PM

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Steve,

The last 2 you gave me credit for weren't mine...they were from my LTT teammate, Lynn! I won't say any more right now... :-)

4LaneStudios 02-04-2009 12:31 AM

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oTJ didn't give me the answers! Honest!! LOL

Now, I'm not sure about this one, because the one I think it could be might have been capitalized and had .... after it. It depends on who's transcribing the lyrics. Another one of my vistories.

Q327 .... at dawn
Miguel
Like a shadowy ghost at dawn he came and he went

geodeticman.5 02-04-2009 07:18 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TomCat Productions (Post 148215)
Steve,
The last 2 you gave me credit for weren't mine...they were from my LTT teammate, Lynn! I won't say any more right now... :-)

Thank you for the tip on my significant duhhhness...lol I DO know Lynn is 4Lane, and you, oTJ, are from TomCat . I guess I had a brain-sneeze. We may never know. I'm good to go, all systems go for the next etymological entrant. I'll fix the x-files to reflect Lynn, and oTJ, hats off to you in your honesty. Somehow, I get the feeling that the loss of two Big-X'es of yours is not a major blow. But......if you get real down in the dumps, I'm here for the whole team, in times of trial and tribulation. So if you get to where you feel life is not worth living due to this......please feel free to PM me, or call my people, leave a voice mail or something, uh ? lol....j/k around - we're here for ya. Ciao :cool:

geodeticman.5 02-04-2009 08:13 AM

Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more !
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by 4LaneStudios (Post 148233)
oTJ didn't give me the answers! Honest!! LOL

Now, I'm not sure about this one, because the one I think it could be might have been capitalized and had .... after it. It depends on who's transcribing the lyrics. Another one of my vistories.

Q327 .... at dawn
Miguel
Like a shadowy ghost at dawn he came and he went

Hi Lynn ! I made the differentiation correctly, so I thought I would tastefully indicate this, discretely so that no undue attention is drawn to the fact that I forgot for one post you are 4Lane, and oTJ is TomCat !
I'm good now. So a, oTJ says YOU (snicker) got this answer w/o his help (a hahaha) OK, I'm buyin', I'm wit ya. Hit me with it. I'm a I'm all ears, you dig ?
OK tseeer,
Q327 .... at dawn = Miguel ?
OK Lynn I'lll drop the phony 'deal-cutter' from Die-Hard 1 :cool: the guy that thought he'd 'cut a deal with the Euro-somethings in the Nakamichi Tower. I hope that got a laugh out of you, dispite how obtuse it was. So - here is the way its Shown in our datum of reference - Lightfoot.ca:
"Like a shadowy ghost at dawn he came and he went"
Since the dot rules say .... at dawn , with no dots after players are to assume that it must be found at the end of a verse line (sentence).
In this case, there are more lyrics after 'at Dawn' so... I am sorry Lynn, the
boyz, they'll breaka my legs if I give you dis one capiche ? lol - I am sorry Lynn. But its the same way everyone else picked up the finer points of the dot rules which I've managed to condense to this:
Q997 ....cool words .... - means there have to be lyrics on both sides.
Q998 .... cool words - means the words given are at the END of the verse
Q999 Cool words.... - means the words given have to be the start of verse.

So your case - Q327....at dawn fits the Q997 model, at dawn would have to be at the end of the verse. It would have to read like this to work:
Like a shadowy ghost he came and he went at dawn " w/ dawn at end. . Sorry about that, Lynn. Don't feel bad - everybody learned them that way. You've picked up everything so fast - I'm amazed you went so far without a learning oops'er. Tell oTJ it didn't work - lol j/k ! :biggrin:

I also understand about 'who's transcribing' - because a LOT of Gords verse go like this: Cool words cool words, Cool words cool words.

And almost everyone at one point or another assumed the comma in the middle, as in the verse from Miguel, ws the end of a verse, especially when just listening (the admirable way) - but looking up in lightfoot.ca to checjk your answer is now considered absolutely fine to do. I know a lot of his songs sound like a verse end where Lightfoot.ca shows commas. Anyway - if another 'offical EMP release of lyrics or something like that shows them stacked narrrow and tall, with commas at the end, it;d work. But for now, we gotta go with Lightfoot.ca. One time Char caught an error in Lightfoot.ca - in the RobinHood song everyone is embarrassed by ( men in tights) - the song clearly said when heard: with suits the shade of evergreen. But lightfoot.ca said it was the 'sheen' of everbreen. So its been disproved once to my knowledge. hEY oH WELL another clue.... you'll get it. for Q327, I'll give
everyone who reads this the 2nd clue on Q327:
- The intended song is one of Gord's 'most ethereal songs' by his words, and Kefara found it very interesting - with Gordon using a literary tool to indicate relationships love lostas ghosts - that appear in so many songs, he also said the song had very cool chords in it, and this song had chords Lightfoot had 'never used before, very cool, very cool' . One last hint - moss-covered ( ). Happy hunting Lynn. :)


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