BARBERSHOP HISTORY QUIZ

BARBERSHOP HISTORY QUIZ…Word-for-word imitation – otherwise known as a direct quote – is the sincerest form of flattery, and that’s what you shall see in this month’s barbershop quiz. I discovered in the January, 1950, issue of The Harmonizer a barbershop quiz entitled “Barbershop Bafflers” authored by then immediate past international president, Charles Merrill. Merrill provided a few lyrics from ten songs. The readers’ challenge is to identify the title of each song from those few lyrics and also identify the state whose name appears in each of the song titles.

Questions:

1- There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow

2- The stars at night are big and bright

3- Where bowers of flowers bloom in the spring

4- The new-mown hay sends all its fragrance from the fields I used to roam

5- The corn top's ripe and the meadows are in bloom

6- I’d love to go to sleep and know that tomorrow I'd arise beneath those  southern skies where song birds harmonize

7- To the trees, to the skies, to the spring in its glorious happiness

8- That's where the tall corn grows

9- The wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right

      behind the rain

10- Where the morning glories twine around the door whispering pretty  stories I long to hear once more

Answers:

1- Carry Me Back To Old Virginny

2- Deep In The Heart of Texas

3- California Here I Come

4- Back Home Again In Indiana

5- My Old Kentucky Home

6- My Sunny Tennessee

7- Maine Stein Song

8- I-o-way

9- Oklahoma

10- Carolina (North or South, take your pick) In The Morning.