I stole the following meme idea from No More Hornets, via Ordinary Girl:

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike through when someone gets them right. I’ll put it in italics if the title has been gotten, but not the artist.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

Here’s the problem.  I don’t have an iPod.  I don’t use and mp3 player.  So I’m going to alter it slightly.

I play guitar.  I have a box full of chords and lyrics for various songs.  So instead of grabbing my Walkman (sorry), I grabbed the box of music and here are the first lines of the first 25 songs (many of these songs have been recorded by multiple artists, so I’ll be liberal with Step 3):

1. When I woke up this morning  Illegal Smile by John Prine (Lifeguard)
2. His daddy was an honest man
3. They sat together in the park:  Simple Twist of Fate by Bob Dylan (though I first heard it by Joan Baez) (SI)
4. There was blood on the saddle:  Blood on the Saddle, Trad. (Ex)
5. An old cowboy went ridin’ out:  Ghost Riders in the Sky, Sons of the Pioneers (and lots more) (Nan)
6. They seek him here:  Dedicated Follower of Fashion by the Kinks (Ranger Bob)
7. A hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die:  The Alamo (but the artist (and I know of at least two) is still not there) (Ex)
8. City girls just seem to find out early Lyin Eyes by the Eagles (Lifeguard)
9. Tim Finnegan lived in Walking Street, Finnegans Wake, Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (The Exterminator)
10. Lots of folks back east they say
11. It was a frosty night
12. When I was a young man, I carried a pack:  The Band Played Waltzing Matilday by Eric Bogle (I first heard it on a Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem album) (Ranger Bob)
13. Oh have you heard the story ’bout Aimee McPherson?
14. Oh, we want to call him Zachary
15. I’ve been doing some hard travellin’, Hard Travellin’ by Woody Guthrie (I’ll give you the artist because its been covered so many times) (SI)
16. She was a level headed dancer Spanish Pipe Dream by John Prine (Lifeguard)
17. We went one day:  Tijuana Jail by The Kingston Trio (Ex)
18. I saw a Berkely woman
19. Think I’ll go out to Alberta:  Four Strong Winds, Ian Tyson (Ian & Sylvia) (Nan)
20. Train roll on:  Tuesday’s Gone  Lynyrd Skynyrd (Nan)
21. Take me ridin’ in the car, car, The Car Song by Woody Guthrie (Lifeguard)
22. Nobody feels any pain:  Just LIke a Woman by Bob Dylan (SI)
23. Oh had I a golden thread:  Oh, Had I A Golden Thread by Pete Seeger (OG)
24. Caviar comes from the virgin sturgeon
25. If today was not an endless highway:  Tomorrow is a Long Time by Bob Dylan (though I first heard it by Ian & Sylvia) (SI)

I know I am perverting the rules, but, again, given my technological level, I think its in the spirit of the rule.  And, as my daughter would say, these songs prove that I am a nerd.  And my 8-track won’t do random (unless I hit a bump).

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