A quick recap: There’s a quiz show over here:
Richard Osman’s House Of Games.
One of those games is Singonyms: In which the contestants guess a song from seeing the lyrics. Except:
The words have been changed, but the meaning remains the same. Your task is to decipher the song.
Simple!
Back one more time, with your favourite game of song lyric shuffling:
A confession, when putting together the recent selection: I realised I’d gone heavy on the dudes.
In the words of Flight Of The Conchords:
It was a brodeo:
Necessitating a swift whipping up of another batch to even up the representation – and as a result, giving me enough material for two sets. Hence this lot following swiftly on.
Once again they’re drawn from across the decades… but there’s one joker in the pack.
Number 13 will be trickier for the US audience, but I couldn’t resist giving it the Singonym treatment.
The act responsible had a couple of minor Hot 100 hits, though not with this.
In Europe it was a very different story. The title is all there in the lyrics. See if you can make it a Lucky 13.
And as a last order of business, we have one amazing enhancement: You can see the answers if you get stuck.
Good luck!
“Fast Car” – Tracy Chapman
You’re in possession of a rapid automobile
My aspiration is obtaining a pass enabling unlimited travel
Perhaps a pact between us
Perhaps jointly its possible to reach a destinationNowhere could be worse
Beginning at nothing with zero that can be misplaced
Perhaps together an item can be constructed
I, me, myself has nada requiring verificationYou’re in possession of a rapid automobile
I’m in possession of an exit strategy
With gainful employment in a seven eleven
Allowing accumulation of a small amount of fundsThere isn’t a requirement for motoring a great distance
Only past the perimeter then towards the metropolitan areaWe may both find work
Then at last perceive the meaning of life
“Old Town Road” – Lil Nas X
Sure, I’ll be leading that stallion of mine to the aged burgh highway
I’ll be mounted pending being unable to continueI’ll be leading that stallion of mine to the aged burgh highway
I’ll be mounted pending being unable to continueI’ve the stallions at the rear
Equine equipment affixed
Headgear of dulled ebony
With co-ordinated dark footwearTrekking with my pony, ho
Thou may lash that German sports carI’ve experienced the river gorge
Thy haven’t moved off the stoop
“Magic” – Olivia Newton-John
It is imperative to accept that everyone of us is supernatural
There are no barriers to stop usIt is imperative to accept that everyone of us is supernatural
Ensure you remain locked on the targetThen should the aspirations you hold endure, kismet shall appear
I will make the nighttime visions you have real
I will make the nighttime visions you have real
“The Final Countdown” – Europe 
Making a collective exit
Though it remains goodbye
There’s a chance of us returningResettling our home planet, does anyone know?
One supposes liability cannot be apportionedLift off is happening
Can our present way of life be re-established?A concluding run-out of the timer is occurring
“Lovin’ You” – Minnie Riperton
I find being amorous towards yourself simple due to your excessive prettiness
I have no requirements other than having carnal relations between us
Being amorous towards yourself exceeds nighttime visions brought to life
Such that all of my actions are due to being amorous towards yourself
{Melodic filler}
“Abracadabra” – Steve Miller Band
My temperature increases, I have no ability to counteract this
Thou has made me revolve
Rotating then rotating
Rotating then rotating then rotating is what happens.There are no people aware of the location it will cease
Whenever shouting the moniker attached to me
My temperature increases mimicking a candle ablazeCandle ablaze brimful with ardour
Make out with myself infant, allow an ascension of the blazeAla-alacazam
One would like to extend my arms then seize youAla-alacazam
Alacazam
“Its Raining Men” – The Weather Girls
The amount of moisture in the air has increased, the measurement of air pressure moves toward zero (Quantify it, lady!)
Everyone is reporting (who is reporting?)
The thoroughfare is a hip location (Get your skates on)
As after dark will be the premiere (premiere)
A little after twenty two thirty (twenty two thirty)
The inaugural occasion, unmatched through time
It will commence precipitating guys (commence precipitating guys)
“American Idiot” – Green Day 
I’d rather not exist as a Yankee halfwit
I’d rather our country not be subsumed by a novel madnessIs the noise of the delirium audible?
An unconscious cranial confusion USA
“Hounds Of Love” – Kate Bush 
In my time of adolescence, racing through darkness
Scared to consider the things that could be
concealed by blackness, concealed on the avenue
As well as the things tracking myself
Those dogs that desire now stalking
One has forever felt a scaredy cat
Also one has been unaware of the things that are beneficial to myself
Ah, I’m off now
The unspecified item is advancing via woodland to get me
Ah, mayday, if you’d be so kind
Remove ones pumps
Then fling ’em towards the reservoir
Then one will attain a duo of paces atop this aqua
“Seven Nation Army” – White Stripes 
I will repel them with fisticuffs
The combined military force of a heptad of countries would be unable to resist
They will swiftly detach that
Dilly-dallying in close proximity to the rear of me
Also I converse with yours truly after dark
Due to always remembering
To and fro within the cerebellum
To the rear of a Marlboro
“You’re So Vain” – Carly Simon 
Thou strolled through the soiree,
As if strolling aboard a sailboatThy cap judiciously lowered under a peeper,
Thy neck warmer was as though a pale orange fruitThou maintained a peeper on a reflecting glass surface, whilst regarding thyself perform an 18th century French dance
Then every young madam imagined becoming thy beau
Becoming thy beau, also
Thou art such a narcissist
Thou are likely to be of the opinion the ditty being sung concerns you
“Fortunate Son” – Creedence Clearwater Revival 
There are people birthed holding an item of cutlery made from precious metal
God, isn’t it apparent they can take without assistance, God?
Though when the internal revenue agent makes a house call
God, that dwelling has the appearance of a junk shop, right
That isn’t how I do it, that isn’t how I do it
I’m not the progeny of a tycoon, nope, negative
That isn’t how I do it, that isn’t how I do it
I’m not a lucky child, nope
“No Limits” – 2 Unlimited 
Nope, nein, nay, non, never, nyet, negative, não, nah, nee, nej, nie,
We are completely without boundaries!
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