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1970's Lyrics Quiz

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Time to break out those bell bottoms and tie-dyed t-shirts. Get out your pet rock and your mood ring. It's time to relive the groovy 1970s, musically that is. Name the title and artist of the song that gave us these classic, or not so classic, lyrics.

You can participate in this page. The percentages that appear in front of the numbers indicate the percentage of visitors who have correctly identified the lyric and artist. Send your answers to us, and we'll include your guesses in our tally. (Excel spreadsheets available upon request if you want to send your answers that way).


34% 111 Will you be ready when I call your bluff
68% 112 Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school
41% 113 Gee my life's a funny thing, am I still too young
79% 114 I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud
41% 115 I could not run away it seemed, we'd seen each other in a dream
21% 116 You'll always be the only one for me
39% 117 I would kiss the ground she walks on
33% 118 I can see in your eyes, I'm happy you know it
31% 119 Never heard nothin' but bad things about him
18% 120 I got no fare to ride a train
44% 121 These are the lips that can't help callin' your name
69% 122 You can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself
44% 123 There is wonder in most every thing I see
49% 124 I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie
13% 125 Whatever you want to do is all right with me
8% 126 They stand when I walk through the neighborhoods
50% 127 She ain't got no money her clothes are kinda funny
43% 128 You step inside but you don't see too many faces
23% 129 Togetherness, well that's all I'm after
48% 130 Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips
53% 131 You like your life in a free-form style
68% 132 Rubbing sticks and stones together makes the sparks ignite
26% 133 She danced without a net upon the wire
20% 134 Everything I do always takes me home to you
45% 135 Well you're dirty and sweet, clad in black
39% 136 Take time to make time, make time to be there
28% 137 You started this fire down in my soul
38% 138 Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley
28% 139 There's too many places I gotta see
33% 140 I looked at your face every day
61% 141 It was like lightning, everybody was frightening
9% 142 She's wearing my high school ring on her chain
60% 143 If it were easy as fishin' you could be a musician
59% 144 You make my motor run, my motor run
45% 145 The boss don't mind sometimes if you act the fool
23% 146 You keep on dancin' and the room gets hot
30% 147 Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove
45% 148 Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
20% 149 Way down around Vicksburg around Louisiana way
49% 150 We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
44% 151 Used to be's don't count anymore
49% 152 If you miss it, I feel sorry, sorry for you
20% 153 Things ain't what they used to be, no, no
58% 154 Well, I don't know but I say love is kind
28% 155 I gotta catch a noon train
23% 156 When the music stopped I returned to my seat
53% 157 At night we ride through mansions of glory
36% 158 Demonstrating sweet love and affection
60% 159 You can sing it with a cry in your voice
61% 160 On board I'm the captain so climb aboard
43% 161 When it all was over we had to find another place
44% 162 A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
15% 163 You've brought a lot of sunshine into my life
26% 164 The dying embers of the night, a fire that slowly fades to dawn
20% 165 We've just begun to get our share of the world's delights
59% 166 You tell yourself you're not my kind but you don't even know your mind
28% 167 When the drinks finally hit her she said I'm no quitter
86% 168 I'll stay on the bus forget about us
58% 169 If anyone should ever write my life story
54% 170 So many nights I'd sit by my window
88% 171 Some people call me the space cowboy
73% 172 You walked out of my dreams and into my arms
55% 173 There are times when all the world's asleep
64% 174 So smile for a while and let's be jolly
29% 175 We let so many dreams just slip through our hands
40% 176 The breakup we had has made me lonesome and sad
60% 177 See the curtains hanging in the window
30% 178 There'll be no parade, no TV or stage
33% 179 Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
58% 180 There's been a hoot owl howling outside my window now
53% 181 All we do crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
75% 182 The stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach
28% 183 No man does it all by himself
30% 184 You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away
36% 185 You're fine and you're mine and you look so divine
30% 186 You're a genie in disguise
51% 187 Your dreams were your ticket out
44% 188 I'm a soldier in the war on poverty
13% 189 Fever, temperature's risin' now
50% 190 I broke a heart, that's gentle and true
84% 191 Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
49% 192 Sweet, sweet Connie, doin' her act
55% 193 Talk about your childhood wishes
16% 194 Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
18% 195 Ah, peace throughout the land
45% 196 Nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
33% 197 Sometimes I can't help seeing all the way through
46% 198 Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed
20% 199 There is none so blind as he who will not see
65% 200 Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants
98% 1 February made me shiver
78% 2 All the downtown ladies call him treetop lover
73% 3 Chicken in a bread pan picken' out dough
96% 4 You don't have to be coy, Roy
64% 5 Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
88% 6 But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
45% 7 He gave his life for tourism
58% 8 Coloured lights can hypnotize
55% 9 To think that only yesterday I was cheerful, bright and gay
34% 10 Her name was Ann and I'll be damned
35% 11 Almost rang the phone off the wall
58% 12 In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps
90% 13 Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
75% 14 Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls.
63% 15 Hey ramblin' boy now wontcha settle down?
20% 16 You don't give a heck about the man with the bible in his hand
78% 17 Well we got no class and we got no principles
25% 18 Time was drifting, this rock had got to roll
46% 19 At a tombstone bar in a juke-joint car
26% 20 I ain't never been with a woman long enough for my boots to get old.
53% 21 Conventionalitly belongs to yesterday
43% 22 Music makes you dance and gives you spirit to take a chance
80% 23 I never knew me a better time
38% 24 Gonna fly right out of here without a single word
44% 25 Give me a dime so I can phone my mother
10% 26 Too much of anything is not good for you
30% 27 With a bit of rock music, everything is fine
71% 28 Papa woulda shot him if he knew what he'd done
11% 29 Vernon'll meet me when the Boac lands
15% 30 I wanna be your be your rubber ball
13% 31 I feel a warmth in my heart and my soul that I never knew
20% 32 Gonna dance with my baby till the night is thru
31% 33 Why in the world would anybody put chains on me?
68% 34 You gave away the things you loved
40% 35 I'm not supposed to be alone with you
56% 36 He was born in the summer of his 27th year
58% 37 The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
48% 38 Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows
15% 39 Born a man-child of the sun
55% 40 All of the bad feelings have disappeared
46% 41 Mount your horses draw your sword
49% 42 I got a funny feeling when she walked in the room
70% 43 Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
41% 44 Seven horses seem to be on the mark
58% 45 Mama, take this badge off of me
55% 46 It's got a back beat, you can't lose it
25% 47 Well, it's no big sin to stick your two cents in
46% 48 'Cause you're a rambler and a gambler and a sweet-taIking-ladies man
25% 49 I'll shine up my old brown shoes
13% 50 Everyday is such a perfect day to spend alone with you
14% 51 Do you think I'm home just sitting around?
50% 52 We've come too far to leave it all behind
43% 53 If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money
23% 54 Your kisses lift me higher
25% 55 Now, I really want to see you
35% 56 You drink the night away and forget about everything
75% 57 Did I hear you say he was a-meetin' you here today
43% 58 Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
63% 59 Don't know the reason that I stayed here all season
44% 60 The soldier-blues were trapped on a hillside
29% 61 You know that's a game that I hate to lose
33% 62 Don't you know that it's wrong to take what is given you
54% 63 Used to be my life was just emotions passing by
61% 64 If you give a little more then you're asking for
54% 65 I'm savin' all my lovin' for someone who's lovin' me
59% 66 Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
28% 67 It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
16% 68 Let the music take your mind
39% 69 Thunder is your night light
20% 70 Til forever on it goes,through the circle fast and slow
51% 71 Feel the city breaking and everybody shaking
55% 72 You know sometimes words have two meanings.
46% 73 Before you can eat you gotta dance like Fred Astaire
50% 74 I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay
13% 75 I don't understand what you're lookin' to find
68% 76 Young and beautiful, but someday your looks'll be gone
61% 77 Turned on some music to start my day
25% 78 I might have to move heaven and earth to prove it to you, baby
34% 79 He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
70% 80 Ol' Mississippi, she's callin' my name
45% 81 Close your eyes and think of me
16% 82 Honey doggone it I depend upon it
21% 83 Reflexes got the better of me
85% 84 In my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
54% 85 He came on a summer's day bringin' gifts from far away
55% 86 I won't share you with another boy
30% 87 I wonder if I'm dreaming, I feel so unashamed
25% 88 Running around as you do with your head up in the clouds
41% 89 The rich relationed hometown queen married into what she needs
49% 90 I knew her smile in an instant
35% 91 There's a reason why I'm feelin' so high
36% 92 I've been waiting in the hall, been waiting on your call
20% 93 You had me down, 21 to zip
68% 94 There's something wrong here, there can be no denying
75% 95 The operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes
35% 96 I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday
68% 97 So if I call you, don't make a fuss
21% 98 Your ability to reason is swept away
41% 99 Stranger dressed in black, she's a hungry child
38% 100 You got your spell on me, baby.
50% 101 Like a picture she was layin' there
63% 102 Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming
83% 103 Players only love you when they're playing
35% 104 You better get yourself together darlin'
74% 105 Our love is like a ship on the ocean
15% 106 The sudden motion made me skip
38% 107 I'm a loveable man and I can take you to the nearest star
69% 108 Sail on silver girl
78% 109 You got your demons, you got desires
73% 110 I never understood a single word he said
Like this?  Try some of our other lyrics quizzes!!
1970's Lyrics - The Sequel (100 more great hits from the decade)  
1960's Lyrics - Peace and Love, man!  
1990's Lyrics Quiz   
Christmas Lyrics Quiz  

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