Hey everybody!  It's been over a year since I've had a lyrics quiz. 
I've got a bunch planned, and we'll be spotlighting various decades of
the 20th Century.  The difference between my quizzes and a lot of those
out there is that PEOPLE ACTUALLY KNOW THESE SONGS!

No money or prizes are involved here, but bragging rights are
available.  This quiz closes on December 9.

For more information, or to be added to the mailing list for these
quizzes, see my home page:  http://www.nyx.net/~thill

Good luck!

1.  I sold my soul.  You bought it back for me.  And held me up.  And
gave me dignity.

2.  You kissed me and stopped me from shaking.  And I need you today

3.  I wish I'd never met you, girl.  You'll never come again.

4.  He got a custom Continental.  He got a El Dorado too.

5.  Young and beautiful, some day your looks will be gone.  When the
others turn you off, who'll be turnin' you on?

6.  When she passed away, I cried and cried all day.

7.  One last caress, it's time to dress for fall.

8.  Drivin' down the road I get a feelin' that I should have been there
yesterday, yesterday.

9.  I'm really still in prison, and my love, you hold the key.

10.  Don't you love farce?  My fault, I fear.  I thought that you'd want
what I want.  Sorry, my dear. 

11.  With her first hello, she gave a meaning to this empty world of
mine.

12.  I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.  Yes, I would.  If I could, I
really would.

13.  Hard to be sure, sometimes I feel so insecure.  And love so distant
and obscure remains the cure.

14.  These vagabond shoes are longing to stray

15.  Gone, love is never gone.  As we travel on, love's what we'll
remember.

16.  You can even eat the dishes.

17.  The summer from the top of a swing, the comfort in the sound of a
lullaby.  The innocence of leaves in the spring, but most of all the
moment when love first touched me.

18.  I don't know what I'm up against.   I don't know what it's all
about.  I got so much to think about.  Hey!

19.  And you won't read that book again because the ending's just too
hard to take.

20.  The truth is I never left you.  All through my wild days, my mad
existence, I kept my promise.  Don't keep your distance.

21.  Close the windows, calm the lights, and it will be all right.  No
need to bother now.  Let it out, let it all begin.

22.  You're always a day away.

23.  It was nine feet high and six feet wide, and soft as a downy
chick.  It was made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese, took a
whole bolt of cloth for the tick.

24.  You are the apple of my eye.  Forever you'll stay in my heart.

25.  People ask me how.  I tell them I don't know.  

26.  Someone's knockin' at the door.  Somebody's ringin' the bell.  Do
me a favor.  Open the door

27.  And just because you think you're small, it doesn't mean you are
small at all.  To someone else you are big!

28.  Touch me and I end up singing.  Troubles seem to up and disappear.

29.  The words will never show the you I've come to know.

30.  It's easy if you try.  No hell below us, above us, only sky.

31.  Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words.

32.  Who's the black cat who's a sex machine with all the chicks?  Damn
right.

33.  I'll take your part.  Oh, if you need a friend, I'm sailing right
behind.

34.  Don't go changin' to try and please me.  Don't change the color of
your hair.

35.  If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass.  Can't think of anythin'
I need.  (Ed.:  ANYTHIN'?!)

36.  Leave me as you found me, empty like before.

37.  Show them all the beauty they possess inside.  Give them a sense of
pride.

38.  I believe in you.  You hold the door to my very soul.  You're the
light of my deepest, darkest hour.  You're my saviour when I fall.

39.  I'm not tryin' to make you feel uncomfortable.  I'm not tryin' to
make you anything at all.  But this feeling doesn't come along
everyday.  And you shouldn't blow the chance when you've got a chance to
say

40.  In the desert you can remember your name 'cause there ain't no one
there to give you no pain.  (Ed.:  NOT TRUE.  I GOT A FLAT TIRE ON MY
LAST TRIP TO THE DESERT AND HAD TO WATCH FOR RATTLESNAKES AS I FIXED
IT.)

41.  Come let me love you.  Let me give my life to you.  Let me drown in
your laughter.  Let me die in your arms.

42.  Without an umbrella we're soaked to the skin.  I feel a shiver come
up my spine.

43.  Sadness had been close as my next of kin.

44.  There is no end to what we can do together.  The willow turns its
back on inclement weather.  And if he can do it, we can do it, just me
and you

45.  Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. 
With an equal opportunity for all to sing, dance, and clap their hands.

46.  If I had a day that I could give you, I'd give to you a day just
like today.

47.  So many dreams I kept deep inside me.  Alone in the dark, but now
you come along.

48.  Me and you are subject to the blues now and then.

49.  Something inside has died and I can't tell you I just can't make
it.

50.  Headed for the city lights, climbed the ladder to fortune and
fame.  Worked my fingers to the bone, made myself a name.

And now for the dreaded tie breaker:  You can either identify the one
and only writer who is represented by FOUR songs in the above group, or
you can identify the song below (not from the 1970s), which NO ONE has
been able to guess in any of my contests:

"You take December and smile it into May.  And then December comes back
again while you're away."