Name the Song

[johnwillyums]

Last one before I go to work (all night)

til I step on the brake to get ouy of her clutches
til I talk double dutch to a real double duchess

Bye now

 

[johnwillyums]

That was in your empty post presumably. I got to go now but it rings a bell.
Is the Yes song And You I (hate Yes)

 

[Dwarf]

OK, the answers to yours are as follows:

@boohbah: What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? - The Star Spangled Banner - National Anthem of the USA, words from the poem Defence of Fort McHenry written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key.

@John: til I step on the brake to get out of her clutches - New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello.

 

[DirtRider]

Try this one

And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall

What did we all give up on this one then. Ok here it is

Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust but I like this version better

 

[Dwarf]

By the way, have you given up on this one?

Here's to the child who applied for a divorce

Here's a clue:

It's not bloody Noel Coward again is it? Be Gilbert and Sullivan next.

 

[DirtRider]

Last one before I go to work (all night)

til I step on the brake to get ouy of her clutches
til I talk double dutch to a real double duchess

Bye now

New Amsterdam Elvis Costello funny I cannot seem to find a good video on this one

 

[DirtRider]

By the way, have you given up on this one?

Here's to the child who applied for a divorce

Here's a clue:

It's not bloody Noel Coward again is it? Be Gilbert and Sullivan next.

This one is hard I give up I know it must be Gilbert and Sullivan

 

[Dwarf]

Last one before I go to work (all night)

til I step on the brake to get ouy of her clutches
til I talk double dutch to a real double duchess

Bye now

New Amsterdam Elvis Costello funny I cannot seem to find a good video on this one

Here you go.

 

[Dwarf]

By the way, have you given up on this one?

Here's to the child who applied for a divorce

Here's a clue:

It's not bloody Noel Coward again is it? Be Gilbert and Sullivan next.

This one is hard I give up I know it must be Gilbert and Sullivan

Not quite. It's Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Here's to the child who applied for a divorce - I Don't Trust Men With Earrings In Their Ears - Gilbert O'Sullivan

 

[DirtRider]

Last one before I go to work (all night)

til I step on the brake to get ouy of her clutches
til I talk double dutch to a real double duchess

Bye now

New Amsterdam Elvis Costello funny I cannot seem to find a good video on this one

Here you go.

thanks I wonder how I missed it

 

[DirtRider]

Here's a clue:

This one is hard I give up I know it must be Gilbert and Sullivan

Not quite. It's Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Here's to the child who applied for a divorce - I Don't Trust Men With Earrings In Their Ears - Gilbert O'Sullivan

Nay i would have not got that one

 

[DirtRider]

Ok try this one then

Ev'ry time I look into the Holy Book I want to tremble
When I read about the part where the carpenter cleared the temple
For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellas
Than what I profess to be
And it causes me shame to know we're not the people we should be.

And this one

She must be a magic genie
But then she disappeared around the corner
All I saw were three doors
And the top of her bikini

 

[Dwarf]

I'll let some of the others have a go at that. Meanwhile, try this:

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes!

 

[DirtRider]

I think that was from the Pirates of Penzance not very sure of the title will have to think on it a bit more.

Edit -

Something about a General I think. Otherwise I give up

 

[Dwarf]

You're tantalizingly close.

 

[DirtRider]

Major General Stanley and if it is not then I am truly stumped. I can remember the kids practising this thing to death at one time

 

[Dwarf]

I'll give you that. Well done!

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's - Major-General's Song - The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan

 

[DirtRider]

Ha ha seeing the video I don't know how I even struggled with it

ok try this one

He told me tales and he drank my wine.
Me and my magic man kinda feeling fine.
He had a cloak of gold and eyes of fire.
And as he spoke I felt a deep desire

 

[DirtRider]

Ok try this one then

Ev'ry time I look into the Holy Book I want to tremble
When I read about the part where the carpenter cleared the temple
For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellas
Than what I profess to be
And it causes me shame to know we're not the people we should be.

And this one

She must be a magic genie
But then she disappeared around the corner
All I saw were three doors
And the top of her bikini

And

He told me tales and he drank my wine.
Me and my magic man kinda feeling fine.
He had a cloak of gold and eyes of fire.
And as he spoke I felt a deep desire

Ok I am shutting down for the night so here are my 3

 

[Dwarf]

Not a clue. However, can you name the song written by Tom Lehrer set to the same tune as the Major-General's Song?