random ten, with a twist

Because nina turns 40 is more fun than your average blog (or perhaps because nina is a pain in the ass), here's my twist on the iPod random shuffle 10 song meme that all the cool kids are posting these days.  I'm going to give you the lyrics to my ten songs, and you, dear readers, must tell me the artist and title.  Full disclosure:  these are not really ten random songs as about a third of my stuff is in Spanish; while I know you guys are smart, I don't think that many of you are bilingue. 

1. Sometimes, even music cannot substitute for tears.
2. Two fat ladies window shop, something for the mantelpiece.
3. I wanna walk with you on a cloudy day, in fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high.
4. I was never king of nothing but this wild weekend.
5. I'm wild again, beguiled again.
6. It's breaking my heart you're leaving, baby I'm grieving.
7. One thing they don't tell ya 'bout the blues when ya got 'em, you just keep on falling 'cause there ain't no bottom, there ain't no end.
8. I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver when the switch broke cuz it's old.
9. Not everyone can carry the weight of the world.
10. I have my ship and all her flags are aflying.  She is all that I have left and music is her name.

Have fun, kiddies!

Comments

[Cyn]

Oh, man, I should be so much better at this!

6 is Wild World, and 8 is by Elvis Costello. Yes? No? Maybe so? I didn't google cheat, at least.

[Cowtown Pattie]

awww, man. I am a couple of generations lost here. "UNCLE"

[Karen]

FUN!!!
1. Paul Simon, ???
2. Squeeze, Pulling Mussels from a Shell
6. Cat Stevens, Wild World
8. Elvis Costello, Radio
10. CSNY, Southern Cross
I can't do the others, but I have a feeling I'll bum out when 7 is revealed.

[lisa]

Je suis bilangue en francais.
The only one I know (after someone else pointed it out) was #6...

[Pho]

I got #2 and # 8 as posted above, though the correct title of the Costello song in "Radio, Radio" (I'm a pain in the ass too).

#4 is "Tennessee Plates" by John Hiatt.

#5 is "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." Being too lazy to actually look up the songwriter, I will guess Gershwin.

[Ronni Bennett]

I'm so old that only No. 5 is familiar: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by Rodgers and Hart, recorded by hundreds.

[Paul]

#3 - Norah Jones, Come Away with Me

[Kimberly]

#7 is the lovely Emmylou Harris, though I don't know the name of the song.