Finish the lyrics to America's "A Horse with No Name"
No, it's not Neil Young. I know it sounds like him, but it's not. And no, it's not about heroin either, despite radio stations banning it because "horse" is drug slang. America's 1972 debut topped the Billboard Hot 100, and you've probably been singing along without ever questioning the grammar. Finish the lyrics to "A Horse with No Name":
I've been through the desert
On a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert, you can remember your name
'Cause...
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Correct Answer: There ain't no one for to give you no pain
(Source)"La, la, la, la, la, la." You know the rest. Dewey Bunnell was 19 years old and stuck in rainy England when he wrote the song in a couple of hours. Yes, the awkward grammar of "there ain't no one for to give you no pain" was intentional. Bunnell was daydreaming about the American Southwest he remembered from childhood, but he'd never actually spent time around horses. Years later, he bought a horse and named it Noname (pronounced "No-nami").
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