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80s (or thereabouts) song lyrics thread 21 🏆

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CoffeeBeansGalore · 24/01/2021 16:10

Thread 20🥂

Come on over

Post some lyrics of a song from 70s, 80s, 90s (may push slightly either way) with the decade & we will try & guess the song & singer

@Honeyroar
@MNerGoneRogue
@Fleamaker123
@FlouncingBabooshka
@shinynewapple2021
@Willow2017
@Iggi999
@NeedToKnow101
@perditaplum
@TwigTheWonderKid
@midgebabe
@WhipperSnapperSteve
@CarnageAtThePancakeRace
@AJumpedUpPantryBoy

Apologies if I have missed anyone.

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FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 08:32

Yes to all Shiny ⭐️

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 08:33

Yes to Dude, Dude 🙂

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 08:36

Just these two left, I think...

1980
Step on a crack
Break your mama's back

2007
Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing but they want some more

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MNerGoneRogue · 30/01/2021 08:57

Morning. Dammit, I missed so many.

One of those has to be something to do with fleas??? I really struggled the first time i did a theme that was us. I think I did something by the red hot chili peppers in the end. Who else hasn't been referenced?

Honeyroar · 30/01/2021 09:06

Me, Pantry and Needtoknow I think.

Ahh! Bicycle RACE of course! Doh to me!

shinynewapple2021 · 30/01/2021 09:37

You and Need are there Honey
See the ones I got last night

shinynewapple2021 · 30/01/2021 09:38

It was very late last night! Did zoom quiz with DS and GF. So tired this morning.

NeedToKnow101 · 30/01/2021 10:18

I don't feel very well 😔

midgedude · 30/01/2021 10:34

Oh dear @NeedToKnow101

NeedToKnow101 · 30/01/2021 10:46

It's ok. I think it's just I was hungry. Feel better now I've eaten 😂 .. good theme @midgedude!

midgedude · 30/01/2021 11:00

Not my theme

Never go without food ... your not (whispers) dieting are you ?

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 11:05

@Honeyroar

Me, Pantry and Needtoknow I think.

Ahh! Bicycle RACE of course! Doh to me!

This made me go back and check the doc I pasted from - I'd cut one off from the end - it's very easy. 80s.

We always have a real good time
And maybe he sings off key
But that's alright by me, yeah

NeedToKnow101 · 30/01/2021 11:07

@midgedude

Not my theme

Never go without food ... your not (whispers) dieting are you ?

Oh yeah sorry @midgedude great theme @FlouncingBabooshka !!!

No I try never to go hungry, but as I felt a bit poorly when I woke up, I was too weak lazy to make myself something. DS brought me pita bread with marmite, which has now revitalised me enough to have my actual breakfast,
I think I might have a tiny hangover. God I'm really going on aren't I?! Sorry.

NeedToKnow101 · 30/01/2021 11:08

We always have a real good time
And maybe he sings off key
But that's alright by me, yeah'

That's Let's hear if for the BOY

NeedToKnow101 · 30/01/2021 11:09

By Deniese Williams?

Honeyroar · 30/01/2021 12:33

Ah yes I missed those Shiny (we were binge watching the Serpent last night and i was traumatised!)

Never heard of my song though.

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 13:15

Yes, Let’s Hear it for the Boy, NeedtoKnow 👏👏

Do try to have plenty to line your stomach before tonight’s jamboree.

That goes for everyone else.

Just two outstanding I think.

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 13:17

These are the outstanding ones from the ‘Us’ theme. Should I post more lyrics?

1980
Step on a crack
Break your mama's back

2007
Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing but they want some more

Honeyroar · 30/01/2021 13:39

I’ve no idea what those two are, but I’m waiting with baited breath to find out what the step on a crack one is. Makes me think of the Bellstars 369, that was childhood rhymes too.

shinynewapple2021 · 30/01/2021 14:07

Perhaps the song has got counting in it ? I did 123 for Fleamaker when I did this theme

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 14:13

Really hard to post anything more from the 1980 one without giving the title away but here’s one more line:

Give the past a slip
Step on a crack
Break your mama's back

2007
Sleepless long nights
That is what my youth was for
Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing but they want some more

MNerGoneRogue · 30/01/2021 17:49

@FlouncingBabooshka

Yes, Let’s Hear it for the Boy, NeedtoKnow 👏👏

Do try to have plenty to line your stomach before tonight’s jamboree.

That goes for everyone else.

Just two outstanding I think.

I would just like to point out Babooshka, that unlike some others, Babooshka I didn't drink during the last awards night (because I was having a dry month) and I won't be drinking at THIS one because I'm picking DD up from work at 10

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 19:16

Had to stay sober so you could steal all those trophies and GaGa’s dress didn’t you?

FlouncingBabooshka · 30/01/2021 19:20

Still outstanding:

1980
Give the past a slip
Step on a crack
Break your mama's back
When a problem comes along

I have a feeling the next one is one of those nobody else knows. It was the only U.K. hit this artist had.

2007
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless long nights
That is what my youth was for
Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing but they want some more

MNerGoneRogue · 30/01/2021 19:27

@FlouncingBabooshka

Had to stay sober so you could steal all those trophies and GaGa’s dress didn’t you?
A rogue's gotta rogue, FlouncingB.

I don't know your songs. Sorry