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First Lines of Beatles Songs

Name the Beatles song based on its first line.
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First submittedJanuary 2, 2013
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First Line
Song
You say yes / I say no
Hello, Goodbye
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
All You Need is Love
When I get older losing my hair, many years from now
When I'm Sixty-Four
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
Across the Universe
Flew in from Miami Beach BOAC
Back in the USSR
Let me tell you how it will be / There's one for you nineteen for me
Taxman
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Helter Skelter
I read the news today, oh boy
A Day in the Life
Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins
She's Leaving Home
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
Drive My Car
Try to see it my way / Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?
We Can Work it Out
Ooh i need your love babe / Guess you know it's true
Eight Days a Week
Well, she was just 17 / You know what I mean
I Saw Her Standing There
Here come old flattop / He come grooving up slowly
Come Together
Desmond has a barrow in the market place
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me
Norwegian Wood
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32 Comments
jillibean414
+5
Level 28
Jan 3, 2013
100% with 2:50 left :) Fun quiz!
pyrophilic
+4
Level 47
May 4, 2022
Is it bad that I got all 16 in under 20 seconds. I love the beatles, and it is showing.
jdtrue
+6
Level 91
Jan 3, 2013
I totally bombed. Hard to do without the music.
samwisegamgee
+5
Level 35
Jan 3, 2016
Lav it, well done quizmaster
samwisegamgee
+5
Level 35
Jan 3, 2016
Lav it, well done quizmaster
blinky
+7
Level 57
Jan 2, 2017
Great quiz, 100% for this original Beatle fan. Not as fast a typist as other people so I only had 2:12 left.
LVSAS
+12
Level 43
Oct 10, 2017
had to sing my way through a lot of these. great quiz. was just listening to sgt pepper the other day and last night watched doc on George...very interesting btw if you haven't seen it.
ander217
+6
Level 73
Sep 19, 2020
I met George's sister Louise during a 50-year celebration of the time the Beatles took some R&R time at the Pigman ranch near the little Missouri Ozarks town of Alton. It was near the end of their first US tour, and people were going crazy because no one knew where the Beatles were for those two days. We own a few acres in the area for R&R of our own, and we attended the festival where Louise was hawking her book about the Beatles while managing her Beatles tribute band who played at the festival. She says her husband who worked in radio in the St. Louis area was instrumental in getting them airplay in the US, but she said she is the one who suggested to Epstein to get them on the Ed Sullivan show. She had some really interesting stories. (She is definitely not a fan of George's widow.) Alton, MO, population 838, is still very proud to say, "The Beatles slept here."
CaptainHumanLogic
+1
Level 39
Oct 8, 2018
100% excellent quiz!
fijiwasser
+5
Level 76
Jul 13, 2019
Thank you for including norwegian wood. Love that song
jmellor13
+19
Level 68
Sep 19, 2020
Isn't it good?!
cranbeckh
+9
Level 69
Sep 19, 2020
Norwegian wood
RockyRacco
+2
Level 39
Sep 28, 2019
Was gonna finish with 2:00 minutes left, then drew a blank on "Let me tell you how it will be..." Least I'm not the only one!
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Mar 24, 2020
I added the second line for that question which should now make it much easier!
balzak123
+1
Level 43
Jul 5, 2020
is there a #2 of this quiz?
cranbeckh
+7
Level 69
Sep 19, 2020
She's Leaving Home is so sad. Growing up, finding your own way in the world, disappointing your parents. It's all there. A masterpiece.
alexandertorres1978
+4
Level 70
Sep 19, 2020
Getting a quiz about the Beatles right first time round makes you feel like a GOD
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 74
Sep 20, 2020
When I Saw Her Standing There - great song but not sure that 1st line has aged well.......
xarnac
+2
Level 71
Sep 21, 2020
To be fair, she must be at least 70 by now.
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Sep 12, 2025
But the Beatles were very young themselves at the time.
Gabisolarboy
+2
Level 50
Oct 1, 2020
Here some more songs:

Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you: All My Lovin’; What would you think if I sang out of tune?: With a Little Help from My Friends; Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner: Get Back; I give her all my love/That’s all I do: And I Love Her; I look at you all, see the love there that's sleeping: While My Guitar Gently Weeps; Baby's good to me, you know/She's happy as can be, you know: I Feel Fine; Ah, look at all the lonely people: Eleanor Rigby; In the town where I was born/Lived a man who sailed to sea: Yellow Submarine; Ring, my friend, I said you'd call: Doctor Robert; I was alone, I took a ride/I didn't know what I would find there: Got to Get You Into My Life; Day after day/Alone on a hill: The Fool On The Hill; How does it feel to be/One of the beautiful people: Baby, You’re a Rich Man

pyrophilic
+1
Level 47
May 4, 2022
hey jude...dont make it bad :Hey Jude. give it away on the first two words, even though there is a movie in which it is Hey Dude (thanks Ed Sheeran)
Solio
+2
Level 56
Nov 21, 2020
I can't believe Taxman is the lowest guessed answer! That's one of their best.
mrputter
+1
Level 90
Jul 15, 2024
Apparently (as per an earlier comment by the quiz setter) the second line was only added 7 years after this quiz came out, which I think changes things.

I got Taxman instantly when I saw it... but if only the first line had been included, it would have been much harder, and I honestly don't know if I would have gotten it.

It's a great song, sure, but that first line on its own isn't super suggestive and could at first blush be from a lot of different Beatles songs.

EcceHomo
+1
Level 86
Mar 31, 2021
Over-rated derivative drivel.
Abidawe
+6
Level 55
Apr 30, 2023
you're so edgy, what a unique and insightful opinion
Alexquiz17
+4
Level 95
Nov 29, 2023
Derived from what precisely? Leaving aside the early work (which was more or less American pop music) Rubber Soul in 1965 and everything they produced afterwards was incredibly inventive, original and set the standard for the next thirty years.

The Beatles rule mate!

ShievaAndGolly
+2
Level 60
Jan 6, 2025
no u
Bengus
+4
Level 60
Jul 29, 2021
Under-rated original quality.
Bletsch
+1
Level 71
Feb 13, 2022
Fun quiz, thanks! I tried typing "Knowing She Would" instead of "Norwegian Wood," just to see if the supposed original title might be acceptable! It wasn't.
WashingMachine
+1
Level 67
Sep 5, 2023
Can you accept “When I’m 64” with the numerals instead of written numbers?
LadyQuizling
+1
Level 57
May 28, 2024
I don't like The Beatles - I only know these because my brother used to play them to death when we were kids.
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