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Thread #18620   Message #185634
Posted By: Chocolate Pi
27-Feb-00 - 12:57 AM
Thread Name: The Best Song Lines EVER--For Us Newbies
Subject: RE: The Best Song Lines EVER--For Us Newbies
argh; I can't pick just one!

"The earth will soon dissolve like snow, the sun forbear to shine" from one of the later verses to Amazing Grace.

"Love, like the yellow daffodil is coming through the snow" Julian of Norwich, Sydney Carter "Si me quieres escribir, ya sabes mi paradero, en el frente de Gandesa, primera linea del fuego" (If you want to write to me, you already know my address, in the Gandesa front in the first line of fire) Si Me Quieres Escribir, Spanish Civil War song

"And they danced by the light of a sparkling bobby sock, cause the theme of the prom was the history of rock." The Ballad of Erica Levine, Bob Blue

"Hearts starve as well as bodies, give us bread but give us roses." Bread and Roses

"I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady/ I'll fight them as an engineer" I'm Gonna Be an Engineer, Peggy Seeger

Chocolate Pi (trying to shut out the 'music' from the party next door)