The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91418   Message #1745152
Posted By: Rapparee
21-May-06 - 11:57 PM
Thread Name: Favorite Lines
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines
There are so many!

"...And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smilin' bastards lyin' to ya everywhere you go...."

                            --Stan Rogers, Mary Ellen Carter

"...But you saw the smiles of the gentry
And the laughter of lords at their games,
For when poor hunt the poor across mountain and moor
A rich man can keep them in chains."

                            -- The Yew Tree

What the heck! It's whole songs that set the lines up for meaning. These and many others -- "And the band played Waltzing Matilda", "The Rapparree," "John Cook," "Greenland Whale Fisheries," even "Yankee Doodle" and "Nova Scotia Farewell" and "Northwest Passage" and "We Shall Overcome" and "The Willing Conscript" and I could go one but I won't.