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Can you guess these songs by Scottish artists from just the first line?

Can You Guess The Scottish Song From The First Line?

But I would walk five hundred miles /
And I would walk five hundred more / Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles / To fall down at your door.

Correct answer: "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers.

Why does it always rain on me? /
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? / Why does it always rain on me? / Even when the sun is shining
I can't avoid the lightning.

Correct answer: "Why Does It Always Rain On Me" by Travis.

And you're singing the songs/ Thinking this is the life / And you wake up in the morning / And your head feels twice the size / Where you gonna go, where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?

Correct answer: "This Is The Life" by Amy Macdonald.

I'm moving on up now / Getting out of the darkness / My light shines on, my light shines on, my light shines on.

Correct answer: "Movin' On Up" by Primal Scream.

I say don't you know / You say you don't know / I say... take me out.

Correct answer: "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand.

Suddenly I see (suddenly I see) / This is what I wanna be / Suddenly I see (suddenly I see) / Why the hell it means so much to me.

Correct answer: "Suddenly I See" by KT Tunstall.

But if you sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing / For the love you bring won't mean a thing / Unless you sing, sing, sing, sing.

Correct answer: "Sing" by Travis.

While I'm worth my room on this arth/ 
I will be with you / While the Chief / Puts sunshine on Leith.

Correct answer: "Sunshine on Leith" by The Proclaimers.

When we collide we come together
/ If we don't we'll always be apart /
I'll take a bruise; I know you're worth it /
When you hit me hit me hard.

Correct answer: "Many Of Horror" by Biffy Clyro.

In a big country / Dreams stay with you / Like a lover's voice / Fires the mountainside / Stay alive.

Correct answer: "In A Big Country" by Big Country.

I was good she was hot / Stealin' everything she got / I was bold she was over the worst of it / Gave me gear thank you dear.

Correct answer: "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis.

Grant my last request / And just let me hold you / Don't shrug your shoulders / Lay down beside me.

Correct answer: "Last Request" by Paolo Nutini.

O ye'll take the high road, and I'll take the low road / And I'll be in Scotland afore ye / Where me and my true love will never meet again / On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

Correct answer: "Loch Lomond"

It was fan-dabi-dozi / fan-dabi-dozi and we danced all night / fan-dabi-dozi / fan-dabi-dozi / fan-dabi-dozi and that's alright.

Correct answer: "It's Fan-Dabi-Dozi" by The Krankies.

you're truly baffled by Scottish music

You don't know _that_ much about Scottish music, but you are proud of what you do know. Now fire up that 1981 Krankies album and try again.

you're half a Proclaimer short of a Scottish music festival

You know your Paolo Nutini from your Primal Scream and your Texas from your Teenage Fanclub. You're pretty much a legend, in fact, are you actually a Proclaimer? Well done.

you're a Scottish music genius of epic proportions

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