"And when your schemes aren't worth the schemin..." -Sweet Song from Yesterday, Bob Zentz

"Ah, but I might as well try and catch the wind" - Catch the Wind, Donovan

...I turnd to speak as they went by, but this was the time of no reply...
Nick Drack, Time Of No Reply.

...made a mistake, and I've sinned. Made a mistake, and I've sinned...
Frank Zappa, Lonesome cowboy bert.

(Ed because Alan got the name of the song wrong!)

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Bye bye Miss America Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.-
("American Pie" Don McLean)

If all the same people were on the same side
There'd be no need to run
There'd be no need to hide...
("Arkansas Grass" Brian Cad)

...Five, Six, Seven, Eight, open up the pearly gates...
(Country Joe and fish Chant.)


...The short pants girls have to take that ride...
(Frank Zappa, Jezzabel boy.)

"oh, i've got a brand new pair of roller skates..." (brand new key---melanie)

"see my tailor he's called simon, i know it's going to fit..."(sex and drugs and rock & roll---ian dury)

That the one road we traveled would ever shatter or split.
("Bob Dylan's Dream" - Bob Dylan)

She rose from her warm bed, a battle to fight.
("Ranger's Command" - Woody Guthrie)

Edited coz I misspelled Bob.

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An extra-ordinary guy, can never have an ordinary day...
Oasis, Magic pie.

...My Tweezers are gleamin' in the moon lighty night...
Frank Zappa, Montana.

"well that story is true 'cause i'm here to say
i was driving that model A..." (hot rod lincoln---cammander cody)

"first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is..." (there is a mountain---donovan)

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...And Obie stood up with the twenty seven 8x10 colored glossy pictures. And the Judge walked in, with a seeing eye dog...
(Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant.)


...Sister ghenghis, adonis osmosis...
(Frank Zappa, Thing Fish)

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I'd rather drink muddy water and sleep in a hollow log.
(Take your pick: "T For Texas" - Jimmie Rodgers or "I Know You Rider" - Grateful Dead)

The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for desert.
("Sunday Morning Coming Down" - Kris Kristofferson)

"you stole my heart and that's what really hurt..." (maggie may---rod stewart)

"i said, 'don't look ethel!' but it's too late, she'd already been incensed..." (the streak---ray stevens)

bev, tell alan i've been noticing all along...he's cornered the market!
if i've worried that a lyric i've chosen might be hard to rhyme...i've quit my worryin!

... so it's not a perfect rhyme... but:

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose
Incense and peppermints
("Incense and Peppermints" ~Strawberry Alarm Clock)

He was the top man at his craft,
but then his number came up and he was gone with the draft.
("Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" ~Don Raye and Hughie Prince, as recorded by Bette Midler)

...Wize men don't know how it feels to be as thick as a brick...
(Jethro Tull, Thick as a brick.)


...I tried to make you happy and you laughed...
(Frank Zappa, Stuff up the cracks)

Then your Christmas dinner made me sick.
("Another Christmas" - the Yobs)

I'm out to stop all this signifyin'.
("Don't Start Me to Talkin'" - Sonny Boy Williamson

I'm flying
(Flying, flying, flying)
Look at me way up high,
Suddenly here am I
I'm flying.
("I'm Flying" ~Peter Pan Soundtrack)

how about from the same soundtrack:

I won't grow up
I don't want to go to school
Just to learn to be a parent
And recite a silly rule!