Ballad Phrases

Phrases

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)