I thought I’d resurrect this for anyone missing those long nights at work when we used to keep ourselves entertained by singing one song to the tune of another or guessing the song when the first line is read in BBC Radio 4 voice.  Or this is for anyone who is bored and wants to play an inconsequential game.

Because the first line is always easy… then we tend to la la la the next one! So this is what you have to do for this game:

1. Put your music player on shuffle
2. Write down 30 songs that you come to – but give people a fighting chance! We’re not going to get some obscure B-Side! Believe me, it’s harder than you think!
3. Write down the first line of the song
4. Tag friends and get them to fill in the second line of the song
5. Cross the songs out as they’re completed.

1. “I was lying on the grass on Sunday morning of last week indulging in my self defeat…”
2. “It’s criminal, there ought to be a law…”
3. “(Hey, hey hey hey ohhhhhh whoa) Won’t you come see about me, I’ll be alone dancing you know it baby…”
4. The Spooky Men’s Chorale ‘Don’t stand between an man and his tool’ “(tool, tool, tool, tool tool, etc) When I wake up in the morning, I don’t make a sound… I tiptoe to the toolshed, and take a look around.
5. Cher ‘Not Enough Love and Understanding’ “Here, here in this world, where do we go? Where can we turn when we need some love, it seems like love just can’t be found… Where, where do we stand? When love’s supply don’t meet love’s demand.”
6. “I was twenty one years when I wrote this song…”
7. “My friends from high school, married their high school boyfriends…”
8. “I never loved nobody fully, always one foot on the ground…”
9. Aerosmith ‘Cryin’  “There was a time when I was all broken hearted, love wasn’t much of a friend of mine… The tables have turned, cos me and them ways have parted, that kind of love was the killing kind.”
10. The Police ‘Every Little Thing she Does is Magic’ “Oh I tried before to tell her of the feelings I have for her in my heart… Every time that I come near her, I just lose my nerve, as I’ve done from the start.”
11. Gorillaz ‘Dare’ “It’s coming up, it’s coming up, it’s coming up, it’s coming up, it’s coming up, it’s coming up … It’s dare.”
12. “Big wheels keep on turning, getting me home to see my kin…”
13. Rhianna ‘Umbrella’ “You had my heart, we’ll always be worlds apart… Maybe in magazines, but you’ll still be my star”
14. Sheryl Crow ‘My Favourite Mistake’ “I woke up and called this morning, the tone of your voice was a warning… that you don’t care for me any more”
15. Cyndi Lauper ‘Time After Time’ “Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you… turning in circles confusion is nothing new”
16. Natalie Imbruglia ‘Torn’ “I thought I saw a man brought to life… He was warm, he came around, he was dignified”
17.  Spice Girls ‘Viva Forever’ “Do you still remember how we used to be?… Feeling together believing whatever my love had said to me.”
18.  Lady Gaga ‘Poker Face’ “(Ma ma ma ma, ma ma ma ma) I wanna hold ‘em like the do in Texas play…” “Fold em let em hit me raise it baby stay with meee”
19.  Dolly Parton Silver Dagger “Don’t sing love songs you’ll wake my mother… She’s sleeping here, right by my side.”
20. “(Ah) Don’t be so quick to walk away (dance with me)”
21. “At we started out real cool…”
22. Eliza Carthy ‘Blind Fiddler’ “I lost my eyes in the blacksmith’s shop in the year of ’56… Working on a t-flange that was out of fix.”
23. “Guess there are times when we all need to share a little pain…”
24. Vic Reeves ‘I’m a Believer’ “I thought love was only true in fairy tales (oi!) Meant for someone else, but not for me… (1 2 3 Oi)”
25. “You always make me smile, when I’m feeling down”
26.  Destiny’s Child ‘Survivor’ “Now that you’re out of my life I’m so much better… Thought I’d be weak without you but I’m stronger”
27. “Could I love ya? Only time will tell us that for sure…”
28. Groove Armada  “This is the house that funk built… Grove Armada style”
29. The Fray ‘How to Save a Life’ “Step one, you say we need to talk, he walks, you say sit down it’s just a talk…  He smiles politely back at you, you smile politely right on through…
30. Dodgy  Good Enough “I’ve got an aching in my bones, I’ve been exposed to what I want to see…  The fuse is burning somewhere, it’s drenched in heat, it’s where I long to be”

Additional songs to keep you going…

1. “If I should die before I wake…”
2. “Four letter words just to get me along…”
3. “How do I get through one night without you?”
4. “Strangers come around, there’s no heroes to be found…”
5. “There was something in your voice that was telling me don’t be too sure…”
6.  The Mavericks ‘Dance the Night Away’ “Here comes my happiness again right back to where it should have been… right now she’s gone and I am free, and she can’t do a thing to me.”
7. Green Day ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’ “Summer has come and past, the innocent can never last… wake me up when September ends.”
8. Aerosmith ‘Dream On’ “Every time that I look in the mirror, all these lines in my face getting clearer… the past is gone, it went by like dusk to dawn.”
9. “Fell in love with a boy, fell in love once and once completely…”
10. “Last night I got served a little bit too much of that poison baby…”
11. “Wish I could say it breaks my heart like you did in the beginning. It’s not that we grew apart a nightingale no longer singing…”
12.  “Hey kids, shake it loose together. The spotlight’s hitting something…”
13. “Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, it’s such a little ship ‘neath the tropical sun…”
14. “Tables turned into a situation, now you standing in my face and you been patiently waiting…”
15. “I feel like the sun, I feel like the rain…”

Think you can get some of them? Comment below…