This lyrics puzzle goes to 11.

[42itous]

If this is a meme, you can blame it on Tahnan.
I have chosen snippets of lyrics from 11 songs. My in-house geek has written code to arrange them like so: line 1 is the first words of each snippet, arranged in alphabetical order; line 2 is the second words, in alpha order, and so on.


1. ah, all, all, he, he's, let's, lose, now, the, there, we
2. are, around, but, could, got, lies, make, ornaments, say, the, your
3. a, and, chase, face, first, friday, giants, i, look, one, the
4. and, jest, lose, of, our, out, part, pretty, was, watch, world
5. but, december, of, one, shadows, so, statues, still, there, with, your
6. a, a, and, around, crumble, in, much, name, the, they're, was
7. covered, for, man, minute, older, one, pulling, the, the, then, weekend
8. and, canyons, down, get, hand, hears, is, lawn, me, then, with
9. and, fitted, give, i'm, millennium, snow, the, three, until, what, who
10. a, and, branches, every, for, got, hand, he, knows, we're, younger
11. a, and, both, good, how, new, of, so, than, to, wants
12. an, baby, be, captain, exhausted, long, suit, that, the, to, was
13. a, can't, eon, good, hear, i've, now, of, the, tree
14. and, chocolate, fall, flame, hand, looking, loved, turnpike
15. 'cause, asleep, disregards, eclair, from, you
16. he's, stockbridge, the
17. rest, so, to
18. boston, hard
19. to
20. see

Comments

[lemurtanis.livejournal.com]

"Tho' the birches seemed dreamlike on account of that frostin'"

[hoopdiver.livejournal.com]

got em all :)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

The ornaments look pretty but they're pulling down the branches of the tree

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Well, I was able to piece together all the lyrics, I think, though there are four I don't recognize (the ones starting "let's", "lose", "the", and "we"). Some nicely distinctive words in there, aren't there? Millennium, exhausted, stockbridge, canyons, ornaments, eclair...indeed, "stockbridge" and "disregards" were more or less starting points. (Plus the ending with "...to see".)

Remarkably fun to piece together.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

D'oh! I knew I recognized "lose...", but I couldn't place it until I Googled. (The other three were all songs I didn't know, though I had the lyrics right, at least.)

[provscout79.livejournal.com]

I'll try to puzzle it out during my drive back to WI. (When Andy drives that is).

I'm also printing out a copy for Ann Byrn.

I suspect she could have some fun with this.

Ype

[42itous.livejournal.com]

I s'pose you should. I'm sorry, I don't like to tell people to delete their posts, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone else. I wonder why the lj-cut didn't work... maybe they just don't work in comments?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I believe the Byrds one was originally Dylan.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but my record collection is a subset of your record collection, so this is not surprising. ;)

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Yes, Dylan wrote it, but I can't hear it in my head without the jangle.