Can you complete the lyrics to ''Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"?
Revisit the most popular personals ad of all time.
Forty years ago, one of the most memorable personals ads of all time was unleashed as a pop song that had everybody writing about long walks on the beach long after.
Rupert Holmes' "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" shot to No. 1 in 1979, and it remains a popular pick on movie soundtracks, even today.
Think you can remember every note of this decades-old hit? If it helps, put the blender away for now to keep you from mixing things up below...
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I was tired of my lady, we’d been together too long / Like a [???] recording, of a favorite song
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So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed / And in the personals column, there was this [???] I read
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If you like Pina Coladas, and getting [???] in the rain
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If you’re not into [???], If you have half a brain
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If you like making love at [???], in the dunes of the cape
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I’m the love that you’ve [???], write to me, and escape.
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I didn’t think about [???], I know that sounds kind of mean
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But me and my old lady, had fallen into the [???] routine
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So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad / And though I’m nobody’s [???], I thought it wasn’t half bad.
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Yes I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain / I’m not much into [???], I am into champagne
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I’ve got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape / At a bar called [???], where we’ll plan our escape.
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So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place / I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the [???] of her face
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It was my own lovely lady, and she said, [???] / And we laughed for a moment, and I said, “I never knew”
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That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain / And the [???] of the ocean, and the taste of champagne
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If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape / You’re the [???] that I’ve looked for, come with me, and escape.
