This month's quiz asks you
to fill in the missing rhyming lyrics in each song quoted.
1. “Just the
thought that maybe he'd hurt me cut him like a knife…”
So
he never mentioned that he had another wife
-- A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
2. “If the
tea the Shogun drank will…”
Serve to keep the Shogun tranquil
-- PACIFIC OVERTURES
3. “Get the
sleigh, turn about. That's a nice team. Make believe all of it's yours…”
Take a breath, blow it out, no it ain't steam, it'll be warmer indoors.
-- NO STRINGS
4. “Well, he
gave me my first champagne and the ceiling began to swing…”
And I had me some more champagne and I can't recall one damn thing
-- HAPPY HUNTING
5. “When
you're lying in the gutter, feeling just a bit unsure…”
Just wait until tomorrow, you may be lying flat-face down in the sewer
-- FADE OUT, FADE IN
6. “How
simple the joys at our fingertips…”
This plain air we share is champagne one sips
-- BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS
7. “It's
Bach for me at the baby grand…”
So
give the little lady a great big hand!
-- GOLDILOCKS
8.
“Moonlight is expensive but it's in demand…”
The military rape, it's done with drummers and a band
-- THE FANTASTICKS
9. “Signed,
Wilhelm… King of Bohemia…”
Dying of love and anemia
-- BAKER STREET
10. “He
says he knows a bistro where they give you a break…”
With French fried potatoes and a T-bone steak!
-- ME & JULIET
11. “She
exchanged that bean to obtain your shoe…”
So
they one who knows what happened to that bean is you
-- INTO THE WOODS
12. “Once
upon a couch, or in a canoe…”
Oh
the naughty things I used to do
-- CELEBRATION
13. “You
know the way you feel when you smell bread baking…”
The way you feel when suddenly a tooth stops aching
-- ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
14. “So I'll
cheat, Whizzer, and I'll shove…”
And I'll kill for the thrill of first love
-- FALSETTOS
15. “Summer,
not a bit of breeze…”
Neon signs are shining through the tired trees.
-- GOLDEN BOY
16. “Hear a
Yorkshireman, or worse…”
Hear a Cornishman converse
-- MY FAIR LADY
17. “In dear
Milano, where are you Momo?”
Still selling those pictures of the scriptures in the Duomo?
-- KISS ME, KATE
18. “Who
cares what banks fail in Yonkers…”
Long as you've got a kiss that conquers
-- OF THEE I SING
19. “I gave
him my heart and a few other things. I don't know how long that I stayed on the
hill…”
But the moon had disappeared, and so had Christopher MacGill.
-- BRIGADOON
20. “He said
OK no rumpus, no tricks…”
But just in case they jump us, we're ready to mix
-- WEST SIDE STORY
21. “So, I
took a vow… Said this bum'll…”
Be
Beau Brummell
-- GYPSY
22. “Will
you be a lucky bride! He's handsome. He's tall…”
That is from side to side
-- FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
23. “I'm
convinced the only purpose this Congress ever had…”
Was to gather here specifically to drive John Adams mad
-- 1776
24. “It's
not talk of God and the decade ahead that allows you to get through the worst…”
It's "I do" and "you don't" and "nobody said that" and "who brought the subject
up first?"
-- COMPANY
25. “Next to
poetry and prose…”
I
like punchin' me a nose
-- SHENANDOAH
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