Can You Complete the Lyrics to These Led Zeppelin Songs?

By: Stella Alexander
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Can You Complete the Lyrics to These Led Zeppelin Songs?
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About This Quiz

We've got a "Whole Lotta Love" for everyone taking this quiz! When it comes to rock bands, Led Zeppelin is in a league of their own. From their guitar riffs to their bumping bass, they have a long list of iconic tunes. With that being said, how well do you know Led Zeppelin's songs? Enough to finish the lyrics?

The 1960s brought in the British invasion, being led by the popular foursome, the Beatles. Rock bands from England were popping up all over mainstream media, from Pink Floyd to The Who to Queen. There's only one rock band that has brought you to this quiz today, and that's Led Zeppelin! 

Right in the midst of the British invasion, Led Zeppelin formed in 1968 in London. Another popular foursome, the group was made up of members Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones. Known for their mix of hard rock, heavy metal and blues rock, they became pioneers in their genre. In the course of their careers, they put out nine studio albums which feature some of their most popular songs, from "Stairway to Heaven" to "Immigrant Song." With these tunes continuing to be played decades later, can you complete the lyrics to most Led Zeppelin songs? There's only one way to find out! Grab that mic and let's get to singing!

"There's a lady who's sure / All that glitters is gold / And she's buying a stairway to heaven. / ..."
There's a sign on the wall.
Ooh, it makes me wonder.
When she gets there she knows.
There's a feeling I get.
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One of the most popular songs by the rock band, "Stairway to Heaven" was released on the 1971 album, "Led Zeppelin IV." It was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and is on the soundtrack for the concert film "The Song Remains the Same."

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"The hammer of the gods / Will drive our ships to new lands / To fight the horde and sing and cry / ..."
Valhalla, I am coming!
On we sweep with threshing oar.
Of how we calmed the tides of war.
Ah-ah, ah!
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"Immigrant Song" appeared on Led Zeppelin's third album, which was released in 1970. With its mentions of Valhalla, the song follows a theme of Norse mythology.

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"You need cooling / Baby I'm not foolin' / I'm gonna send ya / ..."
Want to whole lotta love.
A-way, way down inside.
You've been coolin'.
Back to schoolin'.
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"Whole Lotta Love" is the 1969 song by Led Zeppelin that appears on their second album. The song is also featured in their concert film "The Song Remains the Same."

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"Talk in song from tongues of lilting grace / Sounds caress my ear / And not a word I heard could I relate / ..."
ll I see turns to brown.
Oh, baby, I been blind.
And stars fill my dream.
The story was quite clear.
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"Kashmir" premiered on the 1975 Led Zeppelin album "Physical Graffiti." With collaborations by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, it took over three years to complete the song.

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"I gotta roll I can't stand still / Got a flame in my heart, can't get my fill. / With eyes that shine, burnin' red / ..."
Watch your honey drip, I can't keep away.
Didn't take too long 'fore I found out.
Dreams of you all through my head.
What people mean by down and out.
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"Black Dog" is from the untitled 1971 album. More than once, this song has been listed in the 500 Greatest Songs of all Time by "Rolling Stone."

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"It's been a long time since I rock and rolled / It's been a long time since I did the Stroll / Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back / ..."
It's been a long time, been a long time.
Let me get it back, baby, where I come from.
It's been a long time since the book of love.
Carry me back, baby, where I come from.
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Led Zeppelin were no strangers to "Rock and Roll"! Their 1971 song "Rock and Roll" was released on their untitled fourth studio album, often called "Led Zeppelin IV."

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"Don't it make you feel bad / When you're tryin' to find your way home / You don't know which way to go? / ..."
If you're goin' down South.
Goin', goin' to Chicago.
If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin to break.
Sorry but I can't take you.
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"When the Levee Breaks" appears on the 1971 album "Led Zeppelin IV." This song is a cover of the original 1929 recorded version by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie.

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"Hey lady, you got the love I need / Maybe more than enough / Oh darling, darling, darling / ..."
I really ought to know.
Many is a word that only leaves you guessing.
Walk a while with me.
Many, many men can't see the open road.
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Do they have the love you need? "Over The Hills And Far Away" was a single released on the 1973 Led Zeppelin album "Houses of the Holy."

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"Yeah, baby, babe, I'll be leavin' / Really got to ramble. / I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do, / ..."
I don't want to leave you.
I ain't jokin' woman, I got to ramble.
I can hear it callin' me back home!
I don't want to leave you.
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We hope they stay! These are lyrics to the Led Zeppelin song "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You." The single appears on their self-titled debut album.

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"Good times, bad times / You know I had my share / When my woman left home / ..."
With a brown eyed man.
I lost another friend.
I was told it was to be a man.
Only took a couple of days.
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Call it hard rock or classic metal, "Good Times Bad Times" is a single off of Led Zeppelin's self-titled debut album, which was released in 1969.

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"It is the summer of my smiles / Flee from me, keepers of the gloom / Speak to me only with your eyes / ..."
Hey, I felt the coldness of my winter.
It is to you I give this tune.
But I know that I love you so.
It isn't hard to feel me glowing.
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Rain, rain, go away! "The Rain Song" appears on Led Zeppelin's 1973 album "Houses of the Holy." While the song appeared in Led Zeppelin's 1976 concert film and in other films, the single received mixed reviews.

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"Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true / Wanted a woman, never bargained for you. / Lots of people talk and few of them know / ..."
Sweet little baby I don't know where you've been.
Gonna love you baby, here I come again.
Soul of a woman was created below, yeah.
Don't know where you're goin'.
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Did this question leave you "Dazed and Confused"? These lyrics are from the Jake Holmes-written song. The Yardbirds, would record their own rendition of the song, and a version appeared on Led Zeppelin's 1969 debut album.

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"Ramble on / And now's the time, the time is now / To sing my song / I'm goin' round the world / ..."
But now it's time for me to go.
It's time to ramble on.
For now I smell the rain.
I got to find my girl.
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No rambling found here! These lyrics are from the 1969 Led Zeppelin song "Ramble On" which appears on their second album "Led Zeppelin II."

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"I've been workin' from seven to eleven every night / It really makes life a drag / I don't think that's right. / ..."
Everybody trying to tell me.
I'm about to lose my worried mind.
I've really, really been the best of fools.
That you didn't mean me no good.
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The song remains the same, doesn't it? This song happens to be "Since I've Been Loving You," which appears in Led Zeppelin's 1970 concert film "The Song Remains the Same."

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"Some people cry and some people die / By the wicked ways of love / But I'll just keep on rollin' along / ..."
Well it's been ten years and maybe more.
Her style is new but the face is the same.
It won't take long just watch and see.
With the grace of the Lord above.
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Led Zeppelin released the song "Heartbreaker" on their 1969 album "Led Zeppelin II." The song has been listed in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is also featured in their concert film "The Song Remains the Same."

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"Spent my days with a woman unkind / Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine / Made up my mind to make a new start / ..."
As the children of the sun begin to awake.
Going to California with an aching in my heart.
I'll meet you up there where the path runs.
Took my chances on a big jet plane.
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Are you headed to the West Coast? Led Zeppelin was with this song! "Going to California" appeared on the 1971 album "Led Zeppelin IV."

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"And if you promised you'd love so completely / And you said you would always be true / You swore that you never would leave me, baby / ..."
And the thrill of your touch give me fright.
Like a star that can't wait for night.
It ain't the first time believe me baby.
Whatever happened to you?
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Grab your umbrella unless you want to be a "Fool in the Rain." These lyrics are from the 1979 single released on Led Zeppelin's "In Through the Out Door" album.

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"Communication breakdown / It's always the same / I'm having a nervous breakdown / ..."
Cause I like your charms.
Drive me insane!
I'm never gonna let you go.
Won't you let me hold you.
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Can you communicate your answer properly? These lyrics are from the 1969 Led Zeppelin song "Communication Breakdown" that appeared on their debut album.

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"I should have listened, baby / To my second mind / Every time I go away and leave you, darling, / ..."
You send me the blues way down the line.
I should have quit you, baby.
Down on this killin' floor.
Treat me right baby.
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When life gives you lemons, you make "The Lemon Song." Released in 1969, this song appears on their second studio album "Led Zeppelin II."

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"Walkin' in the park just the other day, baby / What do you, what do you think I saw? / Crowds of people sittin' in the grass with flowers in their hair said / ..."
Please, hey, would we care to all get in line.
Do you like it.
Hey, boy, do you want to score?
I really don't know what time it is.
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These lyrics come from the Led Zeppelin song "Misty Mountain Hop" which was released in 1971 and featured in the concert film "The Song Remains the Same."

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"For many hours and days that pass ever soon / The tides have caused the flame to dim / At least the arm is straight, the hand to the loom / ..."
The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again.
Is this to end or just begin?
All of my love.
One voice is clear above the din.
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"All My Love" is the 1979 Led Zeppelin song that appears on the album "In Through the Out Door."

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"Walking side by side with death / The devil mocks their every step. / The snow drives back the foot that's slow / ..."
The winds of Thor are blowing cold.
The dogs of doom are howling more.
No they won't be home tonight.
They carry news that must get through.
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Who has 25 cents? These lyrics come from Led Zeppelin's 1973 song, "No Quarter," which appears on their album "Houses of the Holy."

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"When I read the letter you wrote me, it made me mad mad mad. / When I read the news that it told me, it made me sad sad sad. / ..."
You hurt me to my soul.
But I still love you so.
Oh baby please don't go.
Darling please don't go.
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These lyrics come from the Led Zeppelin song "D'yer Mak'er." The song was released in 1973 on Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" album.

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"In the evening when the sun is sinkin' low / Everybody's with the one they love. / I walk the town, keep a-searchin' all around / ..."
Want to tell you about the girl I love.
Sunday morning we go down to church.
See the menfolk standin' in line.
Lookin' for my street corner girl.
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These lyrics come from the Led Zeppelin song "Hey Hey What Can I Do." The song appears on their 1982 album "Coda."

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"With a purple umbrella and a fifty-cent hat / Livin', lovin', she's just a woman / Mrs. Cool rides out in her aged Cadillac / ..."
Alimony, alimony payin' your bills.
Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.
Tellin' tall tales of how it used to be.
Ride on the merry-go-round.
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These lyrics come from the Led Zeppelin song "Livin' Lovin' Maid (She's Just a Woman)." The song appears on the rock band's second studio album "Led Zeppelin II," which was released in 1969.

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"Did you ever really need somebody / And really need 'em bad? / Did you ever really want somebody / ..."
Taste your love along the way.
Rivers always reach the sea.
The best love you ever had?
Through the eyes and I sparkle.
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Is time slipping away? These lyrics come from the 1975 Led Zeppelin song "Ten Years Gone," which was released on their album "Physical Graffiti."

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"Greasy slicked-down body, / Groovy leather trim, / I like the way ya hold the road / ..."
Talking 'bout love.
Mama, let me pump your gas.
Mama, it ain't no sin.
Check that heavy metal.
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These lyrics come from Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Underfoot." The song was released on their 1975 album "Physical Graffiti."

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"With all the fun to have / To live the dreams we always had / Oh, the songs to sing / ..."
Slipping off a glancing kiss.
When we at last return again.
Hides inside and never seen.
In pieces on the ground.
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Do you have a weakness? These lyrics come from "Achilles' Last Stand," on Led Zeppelin's 1976 album "Presence."

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"In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn. / All I want for you to do is take my body home / ..."
Meet me, Jesus, meet me.
Won't you let me in.
Well, well, well, so I can die easy.
I never did no wrong.
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These lyrics come from the Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying" which appears on the 1975 album "Physical Graffiti."

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"Queen of Light took her bow / And then she turned to go / The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom / ..."
Down in the valley bow.
And walked the night alone.
Oh, dance in the dark of night.
Sing to the morning light.
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Who won the battle? These lyrics come from the Led Zeppelin song "The Battle of Evermore," which appeared on their 1971 "Led Zeppelin IV" album.

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"Catch the wind, see us spin, / Sail away, leave today, / Way up high in the sky, / ..."
And if you say to me tomorrow.
You really shouldn't go.
And If I say to you tomorrow.
But the wind won't blow.
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"What Is and What Should Never Be" is the 1969 song released on Led Zeppelin's second studio album.

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"Oh, I need your love / I need your love / Oh, I need your love / ..."
I just got to have.
Play you for a fool.
Cause you can only blame yourself.
It's lonely at the bottom.
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Say goodbye to the mornings because we're dealing with the evenings. These lyrics come from Led Zeppelin's "In the Evening," which wa released on the 1979 album "In Through the Out Door."

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"I ain't gon' to state no color but her front teeth crowned with gold. / I ain't gon' to state no color, but her front teeth is crowned with gold. / ..."
Best come on back to Friar's Point.
But my Friar's Point rider, now, hops all over me.
Mama, barrel house all night long.
She got a mortgage on my body, now, layin' on my soul.
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"Travelling Riverside Blues" is the 1982 Led Zeppelin song that appears as a bonus track on the album "Coda." The song was originally recorded by Robert Johnson in 1961 before the English rock band covered it.

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"'Cause you know I gotta get away from you, babe / Oh, baby, the river's red, ah, baby, in my head. / There's a funny feelin' goin' on, / ..."
And when the owls cry in the night.
And ruin dreams that we all knew so, babe.
If the river runs dry, baby, how do you feel?
I don't think I can hold out long.
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One, two, three, four. Led Zeppelin released the song "Four Sticks" in 1971 on their untitled fourth album, known as "Led Zeppelin IV."

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"Now I've got ten children of my own / I got another child on the way that makes eleven / But I'm in constant heaven / ..."
I've got to get you together baby.
I was a young man, I couldn't resist.
Whoops, oh lord, well I did it again.
I know it's all right in my mind.
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English rock band Led Zeppelin released the song "How Many More Times" on their eponymous debut album in 1969. Since then, constant heaven.

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