I could not sing one song right through .Never knew all words of a song .Even got stuck on Happy Birthd..... .Is there a song which you abers know all the words of and took to learn.
Like Silliemillie I used to buy Smash Hits too for all the words to the latest hits. I can't hear the lyrics as well now so I usually make my own up, but there are some I can remember from school.
The only thing I can sing from beginning to end is My National Anthem - On Ilkla Moor Bar T'at.
But it does not have a beginning or an end, unfortunately.
Remember long time ago a drinking mate started to sing "Yellow River " twenty minutes later he was still singing it was there 50 verses of yellow river?
Yep, I know the words to loads and loads.... the songs of the sixties, mostly by listening to them constantly on the radio and LPs - and then a load of songs I learned from my mother, from her wartime experiences, and a pile of earlier stuff, from a few years taking part in Old Time Music Halls when I lived in the Midlands. I know all sorts - hymns too, again from repetition in our school assemblies every morning, and in our school choir. I love to sing.