Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Oldguit Date: 29 Sep 08 - 06:49 AM Hey Bert They don't write em like that anymore, sadly! another goodun that I love is: So I bought meself a guitar, bout a year ago bloke said I could learn it in a week or so he gave me a little book, pick or two He said e'are mate now its up to you Unsure of origin but sung by saint Lonnie. Oldguit Arr |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Bert Date: 29 Sep 08 - 01:45 AM Nice one oldguit. I love that song. Law caught me out thievin', took me down the nick The sergeant made out his report, and he layed it on real thick He said "I'll get your parents", I answered with a grin "Save yourself the trouble, mate, you'll never find 'em in" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Janie Date: 28 Sep 08 - 11:01 PM If dreams were lightning, and thunder was desire This old world would have burned up a long time ago. John Prine |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: open mike Date: 28 Sep 08 - 10:41 PM written by Julie Gold and performed by Nanci Griffith , Bette Midler and others: From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace, it's the voice of every man. From a distance we all have enough, and no one is in need. And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease, no hungry mouths to feed. From a distance we are instruments marching in a common band. Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace. They're the songs of every man. God is watching us. God is watching us. God is watching us from a distance. From a distance you look like my friend, even though we are at war. From a distance I just cannot comprehend what all this fighting is for. From a distance there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves, it's the heart of every man. It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves. This is the song of every man. And God is watching us, God is watching us, God is watching us from a distance. Oh, God is watching us, God is watching. God is watching us from a distance. _____ there are so many phrases here..i will jsut post the whole song.. is it in the D.T. i wonder? |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Songster Bob Date: 27 Sep 08 - 11:04 PM "Be it murder or treason, oh, what a great crime, To drown poor Naomi and leave her behind." [Naomi Wise] "The prophets old, they foretold, Of a city to come all made with gold. Peradventure they saw the day Now dawning in Californi-ay." [Banks of the Sacramento; the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1850] Bob Clayton |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: bobad Date: 27 Sep 08 - 09:33 PM "I was so much older then I'm younger than that now" Da Bob |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: open mike Date: 27 Sep 08 - 09:27 PM Kate Wolf.. "Here in California, the fruit hangs heavy on the vine but there's no gold, i thought i'd warn ya, and the hills turn brown in the summer time" Hugh Prestwood, "Way up on the mountain near the high timberline there's a twisted old tree called the bristlecone pine the wind there is bitter it cuts like a knife keeps that tree holding on for dear life but hold on it does, standing it's ground standing as empires rise and fall down when Jesus was gathering lambs to the fold this tree was already a thousand years old. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe_F Date: 27 Sep 08 - 08:17 PM Pilgrim: That's a lovely line. What does it belong to? |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Snuffy Date: 27 Sep 08 - 09:17 AM A lobster boiling in the pot, A bluefish on the hook They are suffering long, but nothing like The ache I bear for you, my dear, Mary Anne. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Bat Goddess Date: 27 Sep 08 - 09:09 AM "She jumped right in beside him to keep herself warm, Thinking that a sailor wouldn't do her any harm..." From Home, Dearie, Home Linn |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Jim Carroll Date: 27 Sep 08 - 08:44 AM For I saw the new moon yestereen wi' the old moon in its arms. Sir Patrick Spens. I once was full o' Gil Maurice as the hip is of the stone. Gil Maurice For we are young and the world is wide. Rambling Boys of Pleasure. Some were playing cards and some were playing dice, And some were standing round giving good advice. Golden Vanity Jim Carroll |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Pilgrim Date: 26 Sep 08 - 09:56 PM Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe_F Date: 26 Sep 08 - 09:14 PM If ever the dead can pray for the living |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Mudlark Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:16 PM Pancho and Lefty....The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth Just about any line from Tom Wait's Lookin' for the heart of Sat. Night Hobo's Lullaby....Do not let your heart be troubled, if the world styles you a bum. For if your Mother lives, she loves you; you will always be your mother's son. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: JeffB Date: 25 Sep 08 - 07:58 PM A great theme for a thread. Some of you (I hope including Rafflesbear) might find these lines appealing; some will scratch your heads and say "What's this about? ..." Well, they're just lines I especially like for various reasons. Here's adieu sweet lovely Nancy :- "The secrets of your heart, dear girl, are the best of my goodwill." Not a profound line, but whenever I sing it I think, "Ah, that's so sweet." As I do with :- "And may good angels send the rain on desert stretches sandy, and when the summer comes again, God grant it brings us Andy." (Andy's gone with cattle). For some reason that just brings the old lump into the throat. Just an old softie, me. Clyde Water :- "You had a cruel mother, Willie, and I have had another; and now we'll sleep in Clyde Water like sister and like brother." Ballad of Springhill :- "All their lives they had dug their grave - two miles of earth for a marker stone ... " The Amphitrite :- "So farewell Valparaiso and farewell for a while, and likewise all them Spanish girls all on the coast of Chile " Captain Mansfield's fight :- "If you must have my tops'ls down, come aboard and strike them down for me." O good ale :- "It is you that makes my friends my foes, it's you that makes me wear old clothes; but since you be so near my nose it's up you comes and down you goes." Long Lankin :- "There's blood in the parlour, there's blood in the hall, there's blood in the chamber where my lady did fall." The molecatcher :- "Ten pound?" cried the young man, "Oh that I don't mind - it only works out about threepence a time." Shallow brown :- "Though it breaks my heart to leave thee - though it breaks my heart to grieve thee." Three maidens a-milking :- "Here's a health to the bird in the bush ... and we'll drink down the moon and we'll drink up the sun, let the neighbours say little or much." The unquiet grave :- "Oh had you a kiss from my clay cold lips, my breath is earthy strong .... " The week before Easter :- "The young men of the forest they now ask of me - How many strawberries grow in the salt sea? And I answer them with a tear in my eye - How many ships sail in the forest?" The yeoman's wooing (trying to get the girlfriend to decide) :- "I will put on my best white slop and I will wear my yellow hose, and on my head a good grey hat and in it stick a lovely rose ... wherefore you should make no delay, and if you love me, love me now. Or I shall seek some othwerwhere, for I cannot come every day to woo." Well, there's many another of course, but a personal selection like this would not be complete without something by Les Barker. From "The hard cheese of Old England" (do your own scansion) :- "Those edam foreigners are not worth a mention; that old Gorgonzola's renowned for his stench and his brother Emile wrote novels in French, and it's oh the hard cheese of Old England, in Eng-e-land very hard cheese." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Phil Edwards Date: 25 Sep 08 - 05:18 PM Peter Blegvad's written some beauties. The middle eight of In Hell's Despite ("We'll build a heaven... in hell's despite") always gets me: No one said, No one said it would be, Said it would, Said it would be *easy*... |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: astro Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:55 PM I love "He knows his rhyme from his reason..." Astro... |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: oldhippie Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:39 PM David Mallett: "Life is a rainstorm, but love is the ark", from Hard Time Love Song |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,glueman Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:39 AM From Billy Bragg's New England. I loved you then as I love you still Tho I put you on a pedestal, They put you on the pill I dont feel bad about letting you go I just feel sad about letting you know I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites Is it wrong to wish on space hardware I wish, I wish, I wish youd care |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: John MacKenzie Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:30 AM I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind You coulda done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. So don't think twice, it's all right. Oh how bitter, yet oh so true Bob. JM |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: quokka Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:22 AM I second Jackson Browne's 'Before the Deluge'. Mind you, the first time I heard it , it was Christy Moore singin' it! I've got LOADS of phrases that stir the heart and soul in songs...Don't get me started or maybe I'll just bookmark this thread and get back to ya...(er... that's a promise, not a threat[!]) Cheers, Quokka |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Peadar (formerly) of Portsmouth Date: 25 Sep 08 - 11:13 AM I don't know why the two that leap to mind both involve wings, but... "On the wild and crazy wings of youth they went flying around in the rain, Until their feathers once so fine were torn and tattered In the end they traded their tired wings For the resignation that living brings They traded love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge" --Jackson Brown, Before the Deluge "Since their wings have got rusted, the angels wanna wear my red shoes." --Elvis Costello, Red Shoes |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: topical tom Date: 25 Sep 08 - 08:18 AM What can we do with the rest of our life But love 'til we love it away, Love 'til we love it away. From "Thanksgiving Eve" by Bob Franke |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Oldguit Date: 25 Sep 08 - 05:29 AM Have you any dreams you'd like to sell. Fleetwood Mac. Teach your children well / teach your parents well. Graham Nash. I was floating in the ocean, greased in suntan lotion. Loving Spoonfull. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: BusyBee Paul Date: 25 Sep 08 - 05:26 AM From "Seat of Ease" by Duncan McFarlane "That's when they spied the bare, tanned hide upon the seat of ease" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Acorn4 Date: 25 Sep 08 - 05:21 AM Steve Knightley: RED DIESEL:- "He said he sang a folksong once , but he didn't inhale" |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Oldguit Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:15 AM Dad's gawn darn the dog track, Muver's playin bingo, Sister's cawtin on the soffa, You wanna ear the spring go. From: What a crazy world, sung by Joe Brown. Sheer poetry! Oldguit Arr. |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Dave Hanson Date: 25 Sep 08 - 04:00 AM From ' A Pub With No Beer ' There's a far away look on the face of the bum. eric |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 24 Sep 08 - 10:29 PM Buddy Mac Donald ( Getting Dark Again) "For the second time since we got up, it's getting dark again." Scrooll down on music to title: Buddy Mac Donald |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Joe_F Date: 24 Sep 08 - 09:41 PM rocks the cradle and cries too late, but never mind some helped in hallways the man of independent mind drips Carnation from the can the silent stars go by in the fight that followed that evening sun sweet whips ding dong |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: meself Date: 24 Sep 08 - 06:14 PM "He has a baseball team of whiskers all over his jaws" - Five (Four?) Famous Fishermen, from the Helen Creighton collection; I forget who wrote it ... |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: curmudgeon Date: 24 Sep 08 - 06:04 PM "She smiled all over her face, she did, They call me Jackie Monroe." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,MeadowMuskrat Date: 24 Sep 08 - 05:57 PM from Gordon Bok "Fundy's long and Fundy's wide, Fundy's fog and rain and tide." |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Snuffy Date: 24 Sep 08 - 05:46 PM She made her way homewards, with one star awake |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Rafflesbear Date: 24 Sep 08 - 04:40 PM Thanks for the link Becky - some ready-made answers there - but if you could look for the really short bits in this thread please |
Subject: RE: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: Desert Dancer Date: 24 Sep 08 - 04:32 PM Some previous contributions are here: Favorite Lines thread -- not to discourage any new thoughts... ~ Becky in Tucson |
Subject: Favourite Phrases in Songs From: GUEST,Rafflesbear Date: 24 Sep 08 - 04:28 PM Would you like to share with us some of your favourite phrases from songs - you know a couple of lines, a line or just half a line where the songwriter has just encapsulated a thought in a way that leaves you wishing you could write like that Tiny pieces of poetry thrown in and almost lost in the song here's a couple of examples to show what I mean and maybe get the ball rolling Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald "does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours" and from Rufford Park Poachers on the death of Roberts the head keeper "He never will rise up until the final Judgment Day" over to you, Mudcats |
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