25 first lines

I decided to tag myself with Phil's "first lines" meme (see here to find out what I'm on about). Only trouble: my record collection is just that. Vinyl, CDs, tapes: not a single mp3 track in there. So how to "select random play"? Let's just say it involved a lot of tedious numbering of albums and messing around with random number tables. However, I got there in the end. Same rules as Phil's. It's hard to judge the "nothing I don't recognise myself" rule; I recognised the songs all right, but how many I'd have got from their first lines in print alone is another matter. (Plus, I knew what album I was dealing with.) Still, I took 'recognise' to mean 'on hearing', and tried to be honest about it. So here we go: if you can identify a song, put your suggestion in the comments box. Any that are guessed correctly I'll score out.

I ended up doing 25:

1. My fingers hold an old love letter written in your hand.
2. I bet you sometimes wondered what was standing right behind you.
3. Thank you for the flowers, I threw them on the fire.
4. What a drag it is, these gold lame jeans.
5. Why don't you close the door and shut the curtains, 'cos you're not going anywhere?
Pulp: "Underwear"
6. I can't stay much longer Melinda, the sun is getting high.
7. Catch a boat to England baby, maybe to Spain.
8. Billy was born within sight of the shipyard.
9. You're so hot, teasing me.
Abba: "Does Your Mother Know?"
10. The landlords came, the peasant trials, to the sacrifice of men.
Runrig: "Dance Called America"
11. Well I took me a woman late last night, I was three-fourths drunk, she looked all right.
12. Yes you loved me and you sold my clothes.
13. I'm not like them but I can pretend.
14. Beautiful things it seems to be go on all around me.
15. The wall on which the prophets wrote is cracking at the seams.
King Crimson: "Epitaph"
16. Shuffling down the street with his sideways feet.
17. Pterodactyl, Brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, gather round.
18. I'm accustomed to a smooth ride.
Paul Simon: "The Obvious Child"
19. Mr Willoughby, whose only luxury is the sugar in his tea, teaches history at High Worthington School.
20. Music is a world within itself with a language we all understand.
Stevie Wonder: "Sir Duke"
21. Once upon a time not so very long ago there wasn't such a thing as a rock and roll show.
22. Four strings across the bridge, ready to carry me over.
23. I can appreciate it's easy to get confused.
24. Oh who will remember, oh who will be sure?
25. The clouds are really cheap the way I seen 'em thru the ports.

Some dead easy, some really hard. Try your luck.

P.S. I have corrected minor transcribing errors I made in #3, #11 and #22. I doubt whether they will have thrown anyone, unless you were planning on using Google to cheat.... (!) (And not all the songs are on Google anyway.) For one of the other songs the 'official' lyrics as printed have misprints (deliberate?) which are not, however, carried over into the sung version: so I have quoted the sung one.