The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #146832 Message #3401269
Posted By: Bert
07-Sep-12 - 07:32 AM
Thread Name: Great opening lines
Subject: RE: Great opening lines
There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rollin' in I sing a tale of a jealous male and a maid of sweet sixteen In Scarlet town where I was born, There was a fair maid dwellin' I won't sing of sherbert and water for sherbert and beer do not rhyme Believe me if all those endearing young charms which I gaze on so fondly today Who wipes me off when I get gravy on my shirt? Bheir me o, horo van o Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry, In the twilight glow I see, Blue eyes cryin' in the rain There was a troop of Irish dragoons Come marching down thru Fyvie, O Bows and flows of angel hair They are shifting Daddy's bones to build a sewer Butterfingers, I let you go. Cailin mo rùin-sa is leannan mo ghràidh, In days of jade there lived a maid, a prostitute of low repute
Nah! there's just too many, I'm not through the letter 'C' yet.