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A String Of Pearls ( Glenn Miller
tune
)
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes ( Beatles song
lyric
)
A little learning is a dangerous thing ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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A mighty maze of mystic magic rays (
lyric
of song used at the opening of television )
A narrow fellow in the grass ( from a
poem
by Emily Dickinson )
A thing of beauty is a joy forever ( from a
poem
by Keats )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from? ( Beatles song
lyric
)
An American In Paris ( Irving Berlin
tune
title and Gene Kelly movie )
And miles to go before I sleep ( from a
poem
by Robert Frost )
Baby you can drive my car ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Ballad Of A Thin Man ( Bob Dylan song )
Ballad of the Green Berets ( Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler song )
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ( from a
poem
by Keats )
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me ( from a
poem
by Dickinson )
Beelzebub has the devil for a sideboard ( misheard
lyric
from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody )
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a
poem
by John Donne )
But at my back I always hear ( from a
poem
by Marvell )
Can't Help Falling in Love ( Elvis Presley song )
Can't carry a
tune
in a bucket
Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker ( from a
poem
by Nash )
Carry a
tune
Change your
tune
Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a
poem
by Tennyson )
Clang clang clang went the trolley ( Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland song
lyric
)
Come Into The Garden Maud ( Tennyson
poem
and Victorian song )
Come together right now over me ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Couldn't carry a
tune
in a bucket
Dance to someone's
tune
Desolation Row ( Bob Dylan song )
Digging the dancing queen ( ABBA
lyric
)
Do not go gentle into that good night ( from a
poem
by Dylan Thomas )
Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got a bad case of loving you ( Robert Palmer song
lyric
)
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree ( Glenn Miller
tune
)
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes ( Ben Jonson
poem
and Victorian song )
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Fish and finger pie ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Foggy Mountain Breakdown ( Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
tune
title )
For the benefit of Mr.Kite there will be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Friday night and the lights are low ( ABBA
lyric
)
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight ( ABBA
lyric
)
He who pays the piper calls the
tune
He's a real nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
Helpless Helpless Helpless Helpless ( Neil Young song
lyric
)
Hey Jude, Don't Make It Bad ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
Hope springs eternal in the human breast ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ( from a
poem
by Browning )
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Human kind cannot bear very much reality ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
I Who Have Nothing ( Shirley Bassey song )
I Will Always Love You ( Whitney Houston song )
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together ( Beatles song
lyric
)
I am the master of my fate ( from a
poem
by Henley )
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob ( Beatles song
lyric
)
I believe in angels, something good in everything I see ( ABBA
lyric
)
I don't wanna talk ( ABBA
lyric
)
I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood? ( Beatles song
lyric
)
I look at the world and I notice it's turning ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
I think that I shall never see a
poem
lovely as a tree, Kilmer )
I wandered lonely as a cloud ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel alright ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
I'll send all my loving to you ( Beatles song
lyric
)
I'm not half the man I used to be ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted ( ABBA
lyric
)
I've been cheated by you since I don't know when ( ABBA
lyric
)
If I had to do the same again, I would my friend Fernando ( ABBA
lyric
)
If you can keep your head when all about you ( from a
poem
by Kipling )
If you change your mind, I'm the first in line ( ABBA
lyric
)
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song
lyric
)
In Flanders fields the poppies blow ( from a
poem
by McCrae )
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs ( Beatles song
lyric
)
In The Mood ( Glenn Miller
tune
)
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ( from a
poem
by Coleridge )
In
tune
with
It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ( Beatles song
lyric
)
It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Killing Me Softly With His Song ( Roberta Flack song
Kind Of Blue ( Miles Davis
tune
and album )
Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do ( ABBA
lyric
)
Lady Madonna, children at your feet ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Let me take you down, cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Little Brown Jug ( Glenn Miller
tune
)
Living is easy with eyes closed ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ( from a
poem
by Shelley )
Love ballad
Love is all you need ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
Love, love me do, you know I love you ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Mamma mia, here I go again ( ABBA
lyric
)
Money can't buy you love ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Money, money, money ( ABBA
lyric
)
Moonlight Serenade ( Glenn Miller
tune
)
Mother Superior jumped the gun ( Beatles song
lyric
)
My heart went boom when I crossed that room ( Beatles song
lyric
)
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
My my, I could never let you go ( ABBA
lyric
)
Never scratches (
Lyric
Records advertising slogan )
Not with a bang but a whimper ( from a
poem
by Eliot )
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
Out of
tune
Pennsylvania 65000 ( Glenn Miller
tune
)
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Round Midnight ( Thelonious Monk
tune
)
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ( from a
poem
by Keats )
See how they run like pigs from a gun ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
See that girl, watch that scene ( ABBA
lyric
)
Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ( from a
poem
by Shakespeare )
She's got a ticket to ride but she don't care ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Sing a different
tune
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone ( from a
poem
by Auden )
Take Five ( Dave Brubeck
tune
)
Take The A Train ( Duke Ellington
tune
)
Take a chance on me ( ABBA
lyric
)
Tangerine trees and marmalade skies ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing ( ABBA
lyric
)
The Ballad Of John And Yoko ( Beatles song )
The Road Not Taken ( Robert Frost
poem
)
The act you've known for all these years ( Beatles song
lyric
)
The answer my friend is blowing in the wind ( Bob Dylan song
lyric
)
The child is father of the man ( from a
poem
by Wordsworth )
The long and winding road that leads to your door ( Beatles song
lyric
)
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n ( from a
poem
by Milton )
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on ( from a
poem
by Fitzgerald )
The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est ( from a
poem
by Owen )
The proper study of mankind is man ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
The winner takes it all, the loser standing small ( ABBA
lyric
)
There will be an answer, let it be ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
There's many a good
tune
played on an old fiddle
There's many a good
tune
played on an old piano
There's not a soul out there, no one to hear my prayer ( ABBA
lyric
)
There's nothing you can do that can't be done ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
They also serve who only stand and wait ( from a
poem
by Milton )
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
To err is human; to forgive, divine ( from a
poem
by Alexander Pope )
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ( from a
poem
by Tennyson )
To the
tune
of
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ( from a
poem
by Yeats )
Tune
out
Turn on,
tune
in, drop out ( A catchphrase from Timothy Leary )
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to ( ABBA
lyric
)
We all live in a yellow submarine ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Well, she was just seventeen you know what I mean ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare ( from a
poem
by Davies )
What would you think if I sang out of
tune
( The Beatles song
lyric
)
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple ( from a
poem
by Joseph )
When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be ( The Beatles song
lyric
)
Whistle A Happy
Tune
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty? ( ABBA
lyric
)
With love from me to you ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye ( Beatles song
lyric
)
You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo ( Beatles song
lyric
)
Young and sweet, only seventeen ( ABBA
lyric
)