Can you name the 1970s #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits by their opening lyrics?

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Opening Lyric (year)Song Artist
Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk. (1978)
I've been walking these streets so long, singing the same old song. I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway (1975)
Goodbye to you my trusted friend; We've known each other since we were nine or ten (1974)
Well I tried to make it Sunday, but I got so damn depressed, that I set my sights on Monday and I got myself undressed (1975)
Yeah, once I was a Funky singer; Playin' in a Rock & Roll band (1976)
When you're weary, feeling small. When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all (1970)
I'm comin' home, I've done my time (1973)
First I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinkin' I could never live without you by my side (1979)
Sugar, Sugar, mmm Ooh -- She sits alone waiting for suggestions, he's so nervous avoiding all the questions.(1979)
Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom. Well who am I to keep you down? (1977)
Hey kids, shake it loose together, the spotlight's hitting something that's been known to change the weather (1974)
She was black as the night, Louie was whiter than white (1973)
Hello, everyone, this is your action news reporter with all the news that is news across the nation, on the scene at the supermarket. (1974)
So many nights I sit by my window, waiting for someone to sing me his song (1977)
The marchin' band came down along main street, the soldier blues fell in behind (1974)
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me (1970)
He was on his way home from Candletop; been two weeks gone and he thought he'd stop (1973)
Gold Coast slave ship bound for the cotton fields. Sold in a market down in New Orleans
There's talk on the street; it sounds so familiar; Great expectations everybody's watching you (1977)
I was a fool to ever leave your side, me minus you is such a lonely ride (1979)
Any time, any day you can hear the people say that love is blind, well, I don't know but I say love is kind (1975)
There's a storm across the valley clouds are rollin' in, the afternoon is heavy on your shoulders (1974)
Cryin' on my pillow, lonely in my bed -- then I heard a voice beside me, and she softly said (1977)
I remember all my life, raining down as cold as ice. (1975)
Opening Lyric (year)Song Artist
Ooh, my little pretty one, my pretty one; When you gonna give me some time...(1979)
I'm sleeping and right in the middle of a good dream like all at once I wake up from something that keeps knocking at my brain (1970)
Love, soft as an easy chair; Love, fresh as the morning air (1977)
Spending all my nights, all my money going out on the town; Doing anything just to get you off of my mind (1978)
Well i've been lookin' real hard, and i'm tryin' to find a job but it just keeps gettin' tougher every day (1976)
L.A. proved too much for the man, so he's leavin' the life he's come to know (1973)
Looks like it's over, you knew I couldn't stay; She's comin' home today (1979)
Hey have you ever tried really reaching out for the other side? I may be climbing on rainbows, but baby, here goes (1970)
Daddy was a cop, on the east side of Chicago. Back in the USA, back in the bad old days (1974)
If you're thinkin' you're too cool to boogie, boy oh boy have I got news for you (1978)
Within a little while from now, If I'm not feeling any less sour, I promise myself to treat myself and visit a nearby tower (1972)
You got me looking at that heaven in your eyes; I was chasing your direction, I was telling you no lies (1978)
Sittin' here eatin' my heart out waitin' -- waitin' for some lover to call (1979)
Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by, I say to myself you're such a lucky guy (1971)
There was a time when I was in a hurry as you are, I was like you. There was a day when I just had to tell my point of view, I was like you (1975)
Thanks for the times that you've given me, the memories are all in my mind (1978)
There's a port on a western bay, and it serves a hundred ships a day (1972)
I got chills they're multiplying, and I'm losing control (1978)
The fortune queen of New Orleans, was brushing her cat in her black limousine (1974)
Went to a party the other night; All the ladies were treating me right; Moving my feet to the disco beat (1976)
I can see her lying back in her satin dress, in a room where you do what you don't confess (1974)
They took the whole Cherokee nation; Put us on this reservation
Music is a world within itself with a language we all understand (1977)
Well, ol' south side of Chicago is the baddest part of town (1973)
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1970s #1 hits by opening lyrics Quiz

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