Historical clue formulations

• Homophone of a synonym for "obey" — 2022-02-03
• "If only ___ listened ..." — 2018-04-10
• "If only ___ listened ..." — 2017-05-29
• Nancy Sinatra's "If ___ Love Me" — 2017-03-31
• "If only ___ listened ..." — 2016-07-04
• "I knew a man Bojangles and ___ dance for you ..." (1968 song lyric) — 2016-02-12
• "___ give you the shirt off his back" — 2014-08-11
• "___ fly through the air with the greatest of ease" — 2014-02-21
• "If only ___ listened ..." — 2011-07-04
• "If only ___ listened ..." — 2011-01-23
• "I knew a man Bojangles and ___ dance for you ..." — 2010-03-30
• "___ sow't with nettle-seed": Shak. — 2009-06-05
• "If only ___ listened ..." — 2006-02-05
• "___ let us in, knows where we've been" (Beatles lyric) — 2005-08-07
• "It's my work, ___ say, and I do it for pay" (Dylan lyric) — 2004-11-10
• "If only ___ listened!" — 2004-10-24
• "If only ___ listened ..." — 2004-02-26
• Common contraction — 1997-11-07
• "___ make a lovely corpse": Dickens — 1997-08-08