Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Cool Beans Date: 30 Aug 10 - 06:23 PM A flat that would flatten the Taj Mahal. --Frank Loesser, "Guys & Dolls" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Len Wallace Date: 30 Aug 10 - 06:11 PM One Big Union that's our plan and the I.W.W.'s your only man, The flames of discontent we'll fan For the cause that never dies. From Andy Irvine's "Never Tire of the Road". Love singing that verse. Yours for the cause and music that never dies, Len Wallace |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe_F Date: 30 Aug 10 - 06:05 PM MtheGM: My own daemon made it "Sparsely sage, those wary in time!". |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 30 Aug 10 - 10:16 AM Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts Paul Simon Take down this mast of gold, set up a mast of tree, For it becomes not a forsaken maid to sail so royally..Lass of Loch Royal The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face Dylan The priest he sat in the airport bar, he was wearing his fathers tie Joni Mitchell Ask them easy questions, they'll tell you easy lies..Richard Farina She danced away thier gold and thier bright money..Bonnie Lass of Anglesy I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, But the room just filled up with mosqitoes, they heard that my body was free Cohen |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Peter Trouy Date: 30 Aug 10 - 09:52 AM 30.08.10 "Broken hearts and dirty windows make life dificult to see. Thats why last night and this morning allways look the same to me... John Prine or: "Beauty walks a razors edge, some day i'll make it mine". Dylan Peter Trout |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: MGM·Lion Date: 30 Aug 10 - 12:35 AM That wonderfully confused version of Scarboro Fair ballad burden, "Sober and grave grow merry in time" ~~ makes a crazy kind of sense. Is there a better epitome of being in a great hurry than the widespread ballad floater!?: "When she came to the riverside she fell to her breast and she swam And when she came to the other side she took to her heels and she ran." ~Michael~ |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Jason Xion Wang Date: 29 Aug 10 - 09:54 PM "Are you going away with no word of farewell Will there be not a trace left behind I could've loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind You know that was the last thing on my mind" "I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose, and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all" "My body is merely the shell of my soul But the flesh must be given it's due Like a pony that carries it's master back home Like an old that's tried and been true My spirit will never be broken or caught For the soul is a free-flying thing Like an eagle that needs neither comfort nor thought To rise up on glorious wings" "For the heart of man's a palace And his dreams are as the sunlight They burn away the darkness, as they warm the freezing cold As an eagle flying higher, as a river through the canyon The diamond star shines down upon, a pathway to the soul" "But for just one fleeting moment The answer seemed so clear Heaven's not beyond the clouds It's just beyond the fear" Tom Paxton, Joni Mitchell, the last three by Joe Henry. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Hallf-A-Mo Date: 15 Jan 09 - 06:20 PM My life had been a wilderness Untouched by fortunes gaze Had fate not linked my love to her Sweet Rose of Alendale. Or And people who walk about never ask why, The rich uns can live, and your poor daddy die. And if they should ask me, Lord, I'd only cry, For the Sun and the Moon's fallen down from the sky. Or With the love of your life, Spend a lifetime of love, Make her yours forevermore. Or So kiss me my sweet, and so let us part. And when I grow too old to dream, Your kiss will live in my heart. (sniff) God bless Sigmund Romberg! |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Albert O'Balsam Date: 15 Jan 09 - 06:18 PM I found amid the multitude a creature of great pulchritude |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Albert O'Balsam Date: 15 Jan 09 - 06:12 PM From 'My Home In Sweet Glenlee' |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: boosh Date: 15 Jan 09 - 11:09 AM "if songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: meself Date: 15 Jan 09 - 01:46 AM I fought the law, and the law won. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: raredance Date: 15 Jan 09 - 01:01 AM Tom Russell on Pain - physical or emotional It goes away, it might take years Or a hundred thousand tears. But one day the sky will clear, it goes away |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Stephen L. Rich Date: 14 Jan 09 - 11:41 PM From Sandy Andina's song about the Santa Ana Winds called "The Devil Wind" "Why do people fear the Reaper when it's the wind that wields the blade?" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST Date: 14 Jan 09 - 10:55 AM "They couldn't do to me no harm, so they slew my baby in my arms and left me nought to wrap him in but the bloody sheet that he lay in." Amazing. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Date: 14 Jan 09 - 10:00 AM There's a good one in "Lady of Lough Rea", intended to signify something impossible (rather like the Scots, "The blude-red rose at Yule may bloom"): "Ah, rose-leaf maid, 'tis easy to blame the wastrel now; But, who was ever able for to harrow with a plough?" Further to contributions from Tootler and Joe F, Yeats greatly admired Burns's line about "The wan moon is setting behind the white wave, And Time is setting with me...", while Walter Scott said that "Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken hearted" contains the essence of a thousand love songs (or stories). Note, incidentally, that "parted" would be pronounced close to "perr-tit", with "hearted" rhyming. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST Date: 14 Jan 09 - 09:37 AM In this era of Uk folk perhaps settling back from a very high point what about"NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TILL SOMEONE LIGHTS THE FUSE" If you are wondering it is from Ghost in blue suade shoes by Lindisfarne. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,seth in Olympia Date: 14 Jan 09 - 03:08 AM "that red bandanna tied around your auburn hair you look like you oughta be somebody's wife somewhere" Merle Haggard " Papa got us in the pick-up With a damp rag across our nose(s) And we drove off through the cloud That he once plowed In long straight handsome rows" Lawrence Hammond " It balances on your head Like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine" Bob Dylan |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Rog Peek Date: 14 Jan 09 - 02:47 AM No Rafflesbar, I'm not missing the point, I did read it, it wasn't just one liners it was 'some of your favourite phrases from songs - you know a couple of lines, a line or just half a line' - I just couldn't choose between them. Rog |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: mg Date: 14 Jan 09 - 01:58 AM where are the lads who stood with me when history was made...from the boys of the old brigade. mg |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe_F Date: 13 Jan 09 - 08:42 PM Well, if we're going to have Burns, then: But whilst with both hands I can hold the glass steady The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that. 'And sh---, ye bitch,' the echoes' roar'd Lincluden wa's amang. (-- "Grim Grizzle", which it seems has not been set to music, tho it ought to be. Lincluden is a church, whose ruins are extant, in case anyone wants to repeat the experiment.) * The sun shines owre the westlin hills by the lamplicht o the moon -- Eppie Morrie |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Rafflesbear Date: 13 Jan 09 - 06:40 PM I think you're missing the point Rog - this thread is for one-liners - kind of helps if you read the first post |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Rog Peek Date: 13 Jan 09 - 06:06 PM They're all in here: The Bells (Edgar Allen Poe/ Phil Ochs) Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells What a world of merriment Their melody foretells How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight Keeping time, time, time With a sort of Runic rhyme From the tintinnabulation That so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells What a world of happiness Their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight Through the dances and the yells And the rapture that impels How it swells, how it dwells On the future, how it tells From the swinging and the ringing of the molten golden bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells Of the rhyming and the chiming of the bells Hear the loud alarum bells Brazen bells What a tale of terror now Their turbulency tells Much too horrified to speak Oh, they can only shriek For all the ears to know How the danger ebbs and flows Leaping higher, higher, higher With a desperate desire In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire With the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells With the clamor and the clanging of the bells Hear the tolling of the bells Iron bells What a world of solemn thought their monody compels For all the sound that floats From the rust within our throats And the people sit and groan In their muffled monotone And the tolling, tolling, tolling Feels a glory in the rolling From the throbbing and the sobbing Of the melancholy bells Oh, the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells Oh, the moaning and the groaning of the bells. Rog |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Clifton53 Date: 13 Jan 09 - 02:49 PM 'and all I've done, for want of wit, to memory now I can't recall' |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Tootler Date: 13 Jan 09 - 12:40 AM A couple from Burns "Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns Bring August's pleasant weather;" and "As o'er the hill the eastern star tells bughtin' time is near, my Jo, And owsen frae the furrowed field return sae dowf and weary o, Doon by the burn where scented birks wi' dew are hangin' clear, my Jo, I'll meet ye on the lea rig, my ain kind dearie o." I had to put the whole verse in. It is such a wonderful description of dusk. One from Graceland by Paul Simon "The Mississippi Delta is shining like a National Guitar" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe_F Date: 12 Jan 09 - 08:02 PM Amos: changest |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joybell Date: 12 Jan 09 - 06:49 PM "My life goes on in enless song above Earth's lamentation." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joybell Date: 12 Jan 09 - 06:45 PM "Come home with me, Madge, when I go the change will do you good." "I will twine with my mingles of raven/raving black hair" "First did come the thick, thick blood and next did come the thin Last did come the very heart's blood there was no more within." Of young men -- "They're like the stars of a Summer's morning, they'll first appear and then they're gone." "She had to leave her country home because the wolf was at the door, and her father had fallen down and broken his leg." "Ring down the curtain I can't sing tonight." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,mg Date: 12 Jan 09 - 06:43 PM McALPINe's god was a well filled hod..from McAlpine's Fusiliers..which I think has the highest ratio of favorite phrases of any song I can think of..mg |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Amos Date: 12 Jan 09 - 06:15 PM "Change and decay on every hand I see; O, Thou Who changeth not, abide with me," "Such a coaxsome elf, I was ashamed of myself For to find I was truly there!" and many, many others.... A |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Mark Ross Date: 12 Jan 09 - 06:06 PM "We'll be out in the marble orchard where the tombstones are in bloom, Underneath the green grass, there's always plenty of room." 50 YEARS FROM NOW Haywire Mac McClintock Mark Ross |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Clifton53 Date: 12 Jan 09 - 06:02 PM " If you're treading on thin ice, then you might as well dance" Jesse Winchester |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Shimrod Date: 12 Jan 09 - 05:54 PM Lord Bateman: "She sail-ed east and she sail-ed west 'Til Turpenstones she did chance to spy Then she went cracking of her fair white fingers As for Lord Bateman she did enquire." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,KP Date: 12 Jan 09 - 04:32 PM 'The man with the cane and Italian shoes, he walks like a lion looking for a lonely Christian' Richard Thompson - the Egypt Room 'On the little man's shirt are two skeletons screwing, and the legend says "Love never Dies" ' Martin Simpson - Love Never Dies 'In the Misty Crystal Glitter of the wild and windward spray'.....'Now from Washington and Oregon you can hear the factories hum, making chrome and making manganese and white aluminum' Both Woody Guthrie - Grand Coulee Dam 'They call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie' Elvis Costello - I don't want to go to Chelsea |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: ClaireBear Date: 12 Jan 09 - 04:13 PM "Hell is deep, hell is dark, hell is full of mice." (from "Dives and Lazarus," trad.) "Pittsburgh has the Steelers and the Pirates and the thieves." (from "Grand Larceny," John Gorka, in a song about the theft of his guitar from a car parked on a Pittsburgh street) |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joybell Date: 12 Jan 09 - 04:03 PM Leaving aside Dylan -- because there's too many. "The words of the prophet written on the subway wall" "I'd fly away from my false true lover" "I swim the seas within my mind and the pine trees laugh green laughter" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Rafflesbear Date: 12 Jan 09 - 03:43 PM This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us from "who wants to live forever" by Brian May |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Jayto Date: 01 Oct 08 - 12:13 PM Pour the sun upon the ground stand to form a shadow watch it grow into a night and fill a spinning sky --- Townes Van Zandt the highway kind You know you can't hang yourself if you don't have enough rope ---- Chris Knight Enough Rope Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours --- Gordon Lightfoot Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald I'm a rolling stone all alone and lost for this life of sin I've paid the cost when I pass by all the people say just another guy on that lost highway --- Hank Williams Lost Highway I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing thats real & and you can have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt ----- Trent Reznor Hurt My daddy worked in the coal mine until the company shut it down then he sit around and drank himself blind until they put him back underground --- Steve Earle Oxycontin Blues We were bad for one another but we were good at having fun --- Robert Earl Keen Corpus Christi Bay Gotta keep moving gotta keep moving Blues falling down like hail --- Robert Johnson Hellhounds on my Trail I always play Russian Roulette in my head & I will always remember to forget about you --- Tom Waits My favorite Color is Red She had that kind of razor sadness --- Tom Waits It was the kind of place that smelled like kerosene and you took on the dreams of the ones that had slept there before --- Tom Waits They drive along the pipeline they tango till their sore they take apart their nightmares and they leave them by the door --- Tom Waits Tango till thier sore Take you hatred out on me make your victim my head you never ever believed in me I am your torniquet --- Marilyn Manson Torniquet The wind was as steady as the throttle on a funeral train -- John Prine Mexican Home I met her on the night of fire and noise -- Nick Cave Do you Love Me A cheap hotel a long way from my home so many people make you feel so alone dreams die easy out here in these streets while your heart grows cold in the city heat --- Steve Earle Angry Young Man |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 01 Oct 08 - 11:48 AM Perhaps because three generations in our family went to sea with the U.S. Navy - aviators all, this hymn has always resonated with me. Though I've been accused of being stoic on occasion, and no fan of war, the memory of my lost heroes always brings a tear when this one is sung or played. "Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep, Its own appointed limits keep. Oh hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! Amen." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Jayto Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:24 PM Promises given Promises broken words stain my lips just like blood on my hands -- Lyle Lovett This is the best part of the day the dawn the final cleansing breathe unsullied yet by acrid fumes or death's cacophony the rank refuge of unchained ambitions --- Steve Earle |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Fred Maslan Date: 30 Sep 08 - 08:16 PM "you can't jump a jet plane Like you can a frieght train" From "early morning rain" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Warsaw Ed Date: 29 Sep 08 - 10:37 PM I can just see the members of the polar bear club swimming in the ocean "..See the bathers so bold as their noses turn blue.." Bob Franke "Under The Willows" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Hellene Date: 29 Sep 08 - 09:05 PM Glueman, you beat me to it. "It's wrong to wish on space hardware" has always been a fave of mine. I will set my fox to run and with my quiver and my gun I will ride to the hunting with my hounds. (Anne Lister - The Hunter) "You shall strike the very first blow, strike it like a man. I shall strike the very next blow, and I'll kill you if I can" (Matty Groves) Tracing one warm line, through a land so wild and savage And make a Northwest Passage to the sea (OK, that probably owes something to Paul Gross and Callum Keith Rennie) |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe_F Date: 29 Sep 08 - 08:33 PM Bat Goddess: I am fond of that one, too. It is obviously a recent American addition (in Britain, one person cannot stand around), but it is so perfectly in the spirit of the original that I take care to sing it. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,John from Elsie`s Band Date: 29 Sep 08 - 05:05 PM "Home and Abroad" by Jerry Butlers Runaways (Paul Deane, 2003) "His voice, though plaintive, breathy and faint There was no mistaking, he said "Mines a pint" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe G Date: 29 Sep 08 - 04:50 PM John Tams 'And go we must - no longer can we tarry' Jez Lowe Greek Lightning - whole song but especially 'At the wettest of Durham big meetings/oh how your heart it was easily won/I shouted for tunes by the Beatles/not that fat man from Athens they kept putting on' & 'Sometimes call me a coww then you think I'm your mam' Loads more by Robb Johnson, Tom Bliss, George Papavergis spring to mind but Dave Vermond's 'We're raffling off the headmaster to pay for the new school roof' is one I have never forgtten! |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Fantum Date: 29 Sep 08 - 04:20 PM Her breasts they were warm an by eck they were big uns A pale shade of white like wet tripe in moonlight |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Bat Goddess Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:15 PM I'm also very fond of the phrase in "Cherry Tree Carol" -- "So Mary gathered cherries while Joseph stood around..." Linn |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Michael Date: 29 Sep 08 - 12:05 PM "What makes you go abroad fighting with strangers When you could stay at home free from all dangers?" Mike |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Frank_Finn Date: 29 Sep 08 - 09:28 AM Mary from Loughrea The sun will miss the glowing of your golden yellow hair The lads will miss you from the dance on a Sunday evening fair. The grass will miss your flying steps as you sweep the dew away But I will miss you most of all, my Mary from Loughrea |
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