Clever is as clever does, and clever doesn't try to hide it

[venta]

Rightio. Here's a monster, monster poll to allow people to indicate how well they did in the self-writing lyrics quiz. Also to see how well their choice of song was answered.

Given it's so hard, I think we'll relax the usual must-get-artist-and-exact-song-name rule. If you could confidently identify the song, that's good enough. Feel free to post your score as a comment if you want - or to own up to a lyric if you're so inclined.

[Poll #1444529]

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I am in the "'A New England' is two songs" camp (on account of the rewriting/extra verses), and therefore there are three answers to that as far as I'm concerned.

And I forgot to count my total as I filled in the poll, oops... Edit: 25 out of 38, not too bad. A decent chunk (75%?) of those 25 are currently on my iPod, so I've heard them in the last few days anyway!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Pssst, in Really Pedantic World, Leaves That Are Green should be credited to Paul Simon, not S&G, as it was released on his solo Songbook before being re-recorded for Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

*too hot for a coat*

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Even if it's two songs, it's still basically Billy Bragg as he did the rewriting, IIRC.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

With and for KMacC, so I dunno how much one can discount her input. I tend to think they're separate texts (which is consistent with 'The Highwayman' being credited to the singer and not the poet, in this poll!), but it's all semantics really. ;-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

In that case, Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards must be at least fifteen songs as Bragg is constantly rewriting it :)