Lyric Lifter Gifts

'For your aerobic exercise today, give me five 'Sweet Georgia Browns', a couple of 'Hot Times in the Old Town Tonight', and hit the showers.'

"If you could be any Bob Dylan you wanted to, which Bob Dylan would you be?"

Senta jumps into the sea

"This next one's called 'Song for Me'."

"In my next album 'Gettin' Back', I refute all the strong beliefs expressed in 'Gettin' There', my previous album."

Bashful in Nashville

Jerry Lordan

'My love is like a red red rose...'

Musical genres

'I've chosen you for fresh, new ideas.'

'I changed my status from LLC to LL Cool C.'

'Cole Porter has the lyrics checked'

Painting the portrait of a weight lifter.

"Hey, Dad, I've been working on a song for our family band!"

"Wait, so his first whole sentence was 'I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day'?!"

'Horace spends his spare time being a rock critic.'

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

"I'll be broadminded up in heaven, but here on earth you're still a whore..."

Band alternating between whiney and angry songs.

"I feel that what would really give your next album a major boost would be some kind of well-publicized personal problem."

'My resume,...in rap form!'

Keyboard player

"Coming up... more of the same mindless pop songs with repetitive lyrics and nauseating melodies!"

"Well of course you're depressed... You're a country and western singer."

"How come they remember every word of any pop song but not a single line of poetry?"

"Well, we've for the melody down now, but I'm still not sure about the part where it goes, '...and they call the wind Dorcas Schnickelbaum.'"

Sportsman and music

Vasiliy Lebedev-Kumach

Christine McVie