Encore the fifth, solutions page

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Final Score: Chris Cobb with thirty points, two for Stephen, two for Dan and one for Chaos. Most of the action was happening on the other side, although really that was one person getting half the songs, with assist from spouse. Well, I had fun.

  • A loose affiliation of millionaires/And billionaires, and baby, The Boy In The Bubble
  • I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded/A Communist, ’cause I’m left-handed, A Simple Desultory Philippic
  • I’m a consecrated boy (When I was just a boy)/Singer in a Sunday choir, Loves Me Like A Rock
  • The papa said oy if I get that boy/I’m gonna stick him in the house of detention, Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
  • Yes sir, head’s erased/brain’s a bowl of jelly/hasn’t hurt his sense of taste, Beautiful
  • Financially speaking/I guess I’m a washout, Darling Lorraine
  • She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy;/I said, Be careful his bowtie is really a camera, America
  • The sting of reason/The splash of tears/The northern and the southern/Hemispheres, I Do It For Your Love
  • He moves like God’s immaculate machine, One-Trick Pony
  • We walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight, For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
  • It’s Jay-Z/He’s got a kid on each knee, Questions For The Angels
  • You can legalize your lows/You can wear your summer clothes, Take Me To The Mardi Gras
  • With all of the mannequins dressed in the style/That brought tears to their immigrant eyes, Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War
  • And every stop is neatly planned for a poet and a one-man band, Homeward Bound
  • Or maybe there’s no obligations now, Graceland
  • And the sign said, ’The words of the prophets/Are written on the subway walls/And tenement halls/And whispered in the sounds of silence
  • Sharing a park bench quietly? Old Friends
  • Cause he left that neighborhood/Just like the rattlesnake sheds its skin, Stranded in a Limousine
  • Late in the evening and all the music seeping through?
  • Headed down the turnpike for/New England, sweet New England, Duncan
  • Sleeps unaware of a clarion call, Canticle
  • And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity, Outrageous
  • July, she will fly/And give no warning of her flight, April Come She Will
  • I said, "I appreciate that and would you please explain About the fifty ways?", 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
  • I am older than I once was,/But I’m younger than I’ll be, that’s not unusual, The Boxer
  • Just a fine and fancy ramble to the zoo, At the Zoo

Gentle Readers should feel free to use the below space to discuss Paul Simon as a lyricist, the delights and frustrations thereof.

Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,
-Vardibidian.

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