Here are the results of my latest lyrics quiz which closed at midnight. The winner, as usual, is Leslie Frates, who got 49 out of the 50 correct. Here are the top five: Leslie Frates 49 Jamie Lubin 48 Alice Perry 48 The Aural Retentives 44 1/2 Myles 44 For more information, or to be added to the mailing list for these quizzes, see my home page: http://www.nyx.net/~thill 1. Since you went away, the days grow long. And soon I'll hear old winter's song. But I miss you most of all my darling... AUTUMN LEAVES 2. Winding roads that seem to beckon you. Miles of green beneath the skies of blue. Church bells chiming on a Sunday morn remind you of the town where you were born. OLD CAPE COD 3. Totally unprepared are you to face a world of men. Timid and shy and scared are you of things beyond your ken. You need someone older and wiser telling you what to do. SIXTEEN GOING ON SEVENTEEN 4. Our love was born with our first embrace, and a page was torn out of time and space. AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER 5. On the sidewalk, Sunday morning, lies a body oozing life. Someone's sneakin' round the corner. MACK THE KNIFE 6. Through the ripples how they shine. Just one wish will be granted. One heart will wear a valentine. Make it mine! Make it mine! Make it mine! THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN 7. How many arms have held you and hated to let you go? How many, how many, I wonder. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW 8. Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. FLY ME TO THE MOON (IN OTHER WORDS) 9. They say that love's a word, a word we've only heard, and can't begin to know the meaning of. TOO YOUNG 10. There must have been some magic in that old top hat they found. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN 11. I've got the horse right here. His name is Paul Revere. FUGUE FOR TINHORNS 12. So I told a friendly star, the way that dreamers often do, just how wonderful you are, and why I'm so in love with you. SECRET LOVE 13. Once on a high and windy hill, in the morning mist, two lovers kissed and the world stood still. LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING 14. Oh, the towering feeling, just to know somehow you are near. The overpowering feeling that you may suddenly appear. ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE 15. I bless the day I found you. I want to stay around you. LET IT BE ME 16. There were bells on the hill, but I never heard them ringing. No, I never heard them at all TILL THERE WAS YOU 17. Things look swell! Things look great! Gonna have the whole world on a plate. Starting here, starting now... EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES 18. You ask how much I need you, must I explain? I need you, oh, my darling, like roses need rain. You ask how long I'll love you, I'll tell you true THE TWELFTH OF NEVER 19. You have made my life complete, and I love you so. LOVE ME TENDER 20. Time goes by so slowly, and time can do so much. Are you still mine? I want your love. I need your love. God speed your love to me. UNCHAINED MELODY (perhaps the worst title for a song ever) 21. The night is bitter. The stars have lost their glitter. The winds blow colder, and suddenly you're older. THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY 22. See the pyramids along the Nile. Watch a sunrise on a tropic isle. Just remember, darling, all the while YOU BELONG TO ME 23. In a restless world like this is, love is ended before it's begun. And too many moonlight kisses seem to cool in the warmth of the sun. WHEN I FALL IN LOVE 24. Ours, a love I held tightly, feeling the rapture grow. Like a flame burning brightly, but when she left, gone was the glow BLUE VELVET (a cheer to Tony Bennett!) 25. I hear singing and there's no one there. I smell blossoms and the trees are bare. All day long I seem to walk on air. I wonder why. I wonder why? YOU'RE JUST IN LOVE 26. I know how it feels to have wings on your heels as you fly down the street in a trance. You fly down the street on the chance that you'll meet, and you meet not really by chance. HELLO YOUNG LOVERS 27. If I had it in my powers, I'd arrange for every girl to have your charms. Then, every minute, every hour, all the world would know what I hold in my arms. EVERYBODY LOVES SOMEBODY as we say in logic (x)(Ey)Lxy 28. First the tide rushes in. Plants a kiss on the shore. Then rolls out to sea, and the sea is very still once more. So I rush to your side, like the oncoming tide. EBB TIDE 29. If you should survive to a hundred and five, think of all you'll derive out of being alive! And here is the best part: You have a head start YOUNG AT HEART 30. Look at me. I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree. MISTY 31. The new year's eve we did the town. The day we tore the goal posts down! MOMENTS TO REMEMBER 32. You know I can be found sittin' home all alone. If you can't come around, at least please telephone. DON'T BE CRUEL 33. This is the moment I've waited for. I can hear my heart singing. Soon bells will be ringing. This is the moment of sweet "aloha." I will love you longer than forever. Promise me that you will leave me never. THE HAWAIIAN WEDDING SONG 34. Am I a fool without a mind or have I merely been too blind to realize? GIGI 35. When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie THAT'S AMORE 36. I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine, anytime, night or day. Only trouble is, gee whiz! I'm dreamin' my life away. ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM 37. I traveled on when hope was gone to find a rendezvous. I knew somewhere, sometime, somehow. You'd look at me and I would see the smile you're smiling now. AROUND THE WORLD (introduced on the bells of Minneapolis City Hall, http://www.nyx.net/~thill/bells.html ) 38. Where is that worn-out wish that I threw aside after it brought my lover near? HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY 39. Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking. Or for that "woo" look in your eyes. STANDING ON THE CORNER 40. Ooh, eee, ooh ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang. Oooh eee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang. WITCH DOCTOR 41. Some people say a man is made of mud. A poor man's made of muscle and blood. Muscle and blood and skin and bones. A mind that's weak and a back that's strong. SIXTEEN TONS 42. In eighteen fourteen we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson on the mighty Mississipp' THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 43. Every day you love me less, each day I love you more. HEARTACHES BY THE NUMBER (the only one our champ missed) 44. I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my ev'ry dream. Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme. A mem'ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart. Why can't I free your doubting mind COLD COLD HEART 45. I was takin' a bath. Long about a Saturday night. Rub dub, I was relaxin' in the tub SPLISH SPLASH 46. Clasped by the two loving arms that I'll die for, one little kiss then Felina, goodbye. EL PASO 47. Goddess of love that you are, surely the thing I ask can't be too great a task. VENUS 48. Don't talk back. YAKETY YAK 49. Dawn's promising skies. Petals on a pool, drifting. Imagine these in one pair of eyes. AND THIS IS MY BELOVED 50. Who knows where the road will lead us? Only a fool would say. But if you let me love you, it's for sure that I will love you ALL THE WAY Now for the dreaded tie-breaker. Take your pick of the first one, which is actually from the 50's or the second (not from the 50's) that no one has been able to guess in any of my contests: a. The legend you are about to hear is true. Only the needle should be changed to protect the record. ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGONET (parody of "Dragnet" ... you know, "the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.") b. You take December and smile it into May. And then December comes back again while you're away. Since no one got it, we'll use it as the tie-breaker again.