QUIZ (from four or more decades ago)

¿Puede tararear los fragmentos

de las letras de las siguientes canciones

o al menos adivinar a qué canción

y autor o intérprete pertenece?

10 preguntas

Se pueden tomar su  tiempo.

No vale recurrir a Google. (But who cares).

Las alternativas de respuesta están al final.

1.

If I had a box just for wishes

And dreams that had never come true

The box would be empty

Except for the memory

Of how they were answered by you...

2.

And as the moon rises he sits by his fire

Thinking about women and glasses of beer

And closing his eyes as the dogies retire

He sings out a song which is soft but it's clear

As if maybe someone could hear…

3.

And in the streets the children screamed

The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

But not a word was spoken

The church bells all were broken...

4.

In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch

And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left

While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune

A mantle of bright light shone down from a room...

5. 

Crimson flames tied through my ears

Rolling high and mighty traps

Pounced with fire on flaming roads

Using ideas as my maps…

6.

It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Smiling faces I can see

But not for me

I sit and watch…

7. 

Words are flowing out like

Endless rain into a paper cup

They slither wildly

as they slip away...

8.

Once amid the soft silver sadness in the sky

There came a man of fortune, a drifter passing by

He wore a torn and tattered cloth

around his leather side

And a coat of many colors,

yellow-green on either side…

9.

Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move,

gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove…

10.

Well she's walking through the clouds

With a circus mind that's running round

Butterflies and zebras

And moonbeams and fairy tails...

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My Back Pages (Bob Dylan)

As Tears Go By (Rolling Stone)

Across the Universe (The Beatles)

Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix)

Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)

Tapestry (Carole King)

American Pie (Don McLean)

Come Down in Time (Elton John/Bernie Taupin)

Sweet Baby James (James Taylor)

Time in a Bottle (Jim Croce)