Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,DTM Date: 20 Jul 14 - 07:58 AM "Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon" - Skylark |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,mg Date: 19 Jul 14 - 04:30 PM Our pen is the sword and our voice is the cannon ...bold fenian men I live in montana i wear a bandana It wasnt his intent he got a.fine head of cement.. Building. Up and tearing england.down The girls will wear new.sealskin pants when the boys come home from swiling Slugger otoole who was drunk as a rule Where seldom is heard a discouraging word |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: kendall Date: 18 Jul 14 - 07:41 PM If you cheat again, he'll have to move the flowers. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Mr Red Date: 18 Jul 14 - 03:25 PM Keith Hancock - more of a chorus. When I were a lad eeee time they were bad, But not as bad as when my dad were a lad. When my dad were a lad, eeee times they were bad, but not as bad as when my dad's dad were a lad. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Mr Red Date: 18 Jul 14 - 03:19 PM the Ballad of Andrew McCrew by Don Maclean Well, what a way to live a life and what a way to die. Left to live a living death with no one left to cry. Petrified amazement, and wonder beyond words, A man who found more life in death than life gave him at birth. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: MGM·Lion Date: 18 Jul 14 - 02:46 PM G. K. Chesterton described that widespread "floater" Over the hills and far away as "the finest line in English literature and the silent refrain of all English poems". (Not quite sure what he meant by the last phrase; but it is certainly a most exquisitely nostalgically expressed concept, isn't it?) ~M~ |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Johnmc Date: 18 Jul 14 - 01:18 PM "God didn't make those little green apples And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime". " Born at the instant church bells chime Whole world listening Born at the right time". P Simon Thought if I could submit without checking they must be good. A bit like The Beatles songwriting - if they couldn't remember it the next day why should anyone else, so song was ditched. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Dave Hunt Date: 18 Jul 14 - 10:51 AM 'Across the hills the sun has gone astray, tomorrows cares are many dreams away',,....in fact ALL of John O' Dreams by Bill Caddick....who has written so many memorable lines/songs. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Desi C Date: 18 Jul 14 - 06:41 AM From Phil & June Colclough's 'Song For Ireland' Drinking all the day, in old pubs where Fiddlers love to play' My iea of heaven ;) And from Brendan Behan's 'The Auld Triangle' Up in the female prison, there are seventy fine women, and it's among them I wish I did dwell |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,DTM Date: 17 Jul 14 - 01:18 PM "Well, I'm a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona And such a fine sight to see It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to take a look at me" (Jackson Browne/Glenn Frey) You can't get any better than those first four lines above. Perfection! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Bill D Date: 17 Jul 14 - 12:13 PM ... after losing his girl to a stranger and going off to get drunk... ♫"And since it is no better, I'm glad it is no worse, Brandy in my bottle and money in my purse."♫ From the singing of Mike Seeger, who probably got it from the book Our Singing Country... at least I've found no other source. You can see the complete text at that link. I heard Mike sing it at the Smithsonian Festival about 1975. He recorded it on "Music from the True Vine. I have sung this ever since.... |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Cool Beans Date: 17 Jul 14 - 10:53 AM These are great! One of my faves, by Frank Loesser,in "Guys and Dolls": When you see a gent paying all kinds of rent For a flat that would flatten the Taj Mahal... |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 17 Jul 14 - 09:59 AM Pharaoh he sits in his tower of steel The dogs of money all at his heel Magicians cry "Oh truth! Oh real!" We're all working for the Pharaoh -Richard Thompson |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST Date: 17 Jul 14 - 01:38 AM The best love songs are written with a broken arm.. (The Carpenters) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Elmore Date: 17 Jul 14 - 01:15 AM My old man wasn't really old, It's just that I was young. And anyone over 12 years old was halfway to the tomb. from "My Old Man" by Ewan MacColl. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: PHJim Date: 17 Jul 14 - 12:40 AM The Leonard Cohen line suggested by Elmore reminds me of this one by Martin Mull: I'm tired of rock & rollin' Let's get married Honey, let's go bowlin'. Throw away our pot and acid, Spend the weekend in Lake Placid 'Cause it's hard to live in this town if you're strange. What say you and I get normal for a change. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: meself Date: 17 Jul 14 - 12:39 AM By this pipe in me mouth then replied the old woman and that's a great oath on me soul for to say -anon., Daniel O'Connor (Making Babies by Steam) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Bert Date: 16 Jul 14 - 11:31 PM Her hair is yellow as the morning sun, except where the black shows through. The Belle of Barking Creek, Paddy Roberts. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Elmore Date: 26 Apr 13 - 12:36 AM AH baby let's get married. We've been alone too long. Let's be alone together. Let's see if we're that strong. From "Waiting For The Miracle" by L. Cohen. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,guest : May Queen Date: 26 Apr 13 - 12:22 AM For England is not flag or Empire It is not money it is not blood It's limestone gorge and granite fell It's Weald and clay and Severn mud It's blackbird singing from the may-tree Lark ascending through the scales Robin watching from his spade And English earth beneath your nails June Tabor - A Place called England This is my favourite as of yesterday when I heard it for the first time whilst gardening. There was a blackbird and I did have English earth in my nails :-) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Fred Maslan Date: 25 Apr 13 - 11:43 PM "Long ago, I used to be a young man And dear Margaret remembers that for me" From 'The Dutchman' by Michael Smith |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,mg Date: 25 Apr 13 - 06:45 PM you can wear a cinderalla snow white alice wonderlanded gown..Eric Anderson? fight with your grandsires on Cullodon's field..one of the Corries I put my head into a cask of brandy trad. and everyone's favorite in other threads.. if it weren't for the alligators I'd sleep out in the swamp |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Bren Ború Date: 25 Apr 13 - 06:18 PM There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking, They've been sentenced to death by the blues. "Take This Waltz" by Leonard Cohen |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Bobert Date: 25 Apr 13 - 04:58 PM "Some folks see the light, others just feel the heat" (Ray Wylie Hubbard from "Conversation with the Devil") B~ |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Elmore Date: 25 Apr 13 - 01:19 PM Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. there is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. from "Anthem" by L. Cohen. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Capo da Monty Date: 25 Apr 13 - 05:22 AM So many... "Breasts as smooth as stones washed by the sea.." "Summer Girls" by Ralph Mctell from the album "Boy with a Note" Cdm |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,BobL Date: 25 Apr 13 - 05:10 AM The (old) English Hymnal had an Easter hymn with the line, referring to Christ in the tomb: "Ill doth it seem that thy limbs should linger in lowly dishonour" I just love the alliteration. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: PHJim Date: 25 Apr 13 - 02:21 AM The silence of a falling star Lights up a purple sky And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry Hank Williams She says she's had enough of cowboy boots and pick-up trucks Enough of checkered shirts and dark blue eyes Goin' back to being a rich man's wife And I'm just dreamin' Fred J. Eaglesmith They say we are weathered with age Maggie Like spray by the wild breakers flung, But to me you're as fair as you were Maggie When you and I were young. James Johnson (?) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Elmore Date: 24 Apr 13 - 02:10 PM But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay. I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the USA. From "Democracy" by L. Cohen. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 24 Apr 13 - 01:47 PM from The Pogues Lullaby of London (McGowan): And there is no lonesome corncrake's cry, Of sorrow and delight. From PD: Oh a peanut sat on the railroad track, It's heart was all aflutter, Down the line came number nine, Toot toot peanut butter. Also PD: Everybody wants to go to heaven, But nobody wants to die. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 24 Apr 13 - 03:19 AM Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose... Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Magee. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Jaze Date: 23 Apr 13 - 09:04 PM Good one, Ebbie |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,jaze Date: 23 Apr 13 - 09:02 PM If love means forever,expecting nothing returned--then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime to learn.---Joan Baez-"Love Song To A Stranger" |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Tattie Bogle Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:48 PM From " Sweet Thames flow softly" Kissed her once again at Wapping, After that there was no stopping. (Memories of student days in the East End of London!) And - how he ever got away with this rhyme: always makes me laugh when I hear it - from Eric Bogle's "Belle of Broughton": In love they were BESOTTEN With the bonnie belle of Broughton. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Joe_F Date: 23 Apr 13 - 08:07 PM Walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,JHW Date: 23 Apr 13 - 05:23 PM The terrace streets were my Grand Canyons The dockyard cranes were my redwood trees The steelworks tips were my mountain ranges Those brickyard ponds were my Seven Seas Graeme Miles 'My Eldorado' RIP Graeme and many thanks for so many songs |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Elmore Date: 23 Apr 13 - 02:45 PM I love to speak with Leonard. He's a sportsman and a shepherd. He's a lazy bastard living in a suit. From "Going Home" by L. Cohen. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Scabby Douglas Date: 23 Apr 13 - 12:07 PM ".. and all I do is miss you, and the way we used to be and all I do is keep the beat - and bad company and all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme..." Romeo and Juliet - Mark Knopfler |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Sailor Ron Date: 23 Apr 13 - 11:36 AM Blaspheming Saints and splendid drunked heroes.... from Trawlertown Requiam by John Connely |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Sugwash Date: 23 Apr 13 - 09:59 AM Dance you buggers, dance, or you'll never get to heaven! Bob Pegg the Last Dance |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 23 Apr 13 - 09:28 AM I see the old men, all tired stiff & sore The weary old heroes of a forgotten war And the young people ask, "What are they marching for?" And I ask myself the same question. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Jim McLean Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:39 PM Mr Ben Nevis you're as old as the hills. Bob Halfin |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: fat B****rd Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:32 PM I quoted this in a long ago thread, but what the Hell! 'Told me love was too plebeian Told me you were through with me and...' "Cry Me A River" lyric by Arthur Hamilton |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Bert Date: 22 Apr 13 - 03:10 PM quieter than the moon?? This comes close to describing that silence, from A Song for a Winter's Night by Gordon Lightfoot. The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top The snow is softly falling The air is still within the silence of my room I hear your voice softly calling |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: kendall Date: 22 Apr 13 - 01:39 PM Everything I just posted disappeared except one line. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Ebbie Date: 22 Apr 13 - 11:36 AM There are so many favo(u)rite lines but one that always comes first to my mind: "And the moon came up, so quiet in the sky" Bill Staines, Roseville Fair Is there anything quieter than the moon? |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,gillymor Date: 22 Apr 13 - 11:30 AM A couple from The Band, humorous takes on some old traditional lines: "If I thought it would do any good, I'd stand on the rock where Moses stood" -When you awake "Going on down to the rairoad track, let the 4:19 scratch my back."-Rag Mama Rag Townes Van Zandt: "The dust that Pancho bit down south, ended up in Lefty's mouth." More Cole Porter: "Mr. Harris bureaucrat, Wants to give my cheek a pat, If a Harris pat means a Paris hat, Bebe!"- Always True to You in My Fashion Richard Thompson: "If I could just taste all of her wildness now, If I could hold her in my arms today, Then I wouldn't want her any other way."- Bee's Wing "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore, They're already overcrowded from your dirty little wars." -John Prine |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Midchuck Date: 22 Apr 13 - 11:14 AM Almost twelve years ago, in a thread here on the same topic, I gave my choice: You horsehair-braiding sons of bitches Stole my claim to earthly riches. Someone go and dig a ditch, There may well be a hangin'! - Tom Russell, The Sky Above, the Mud Below |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Elmore Date: 22 Apr 13 - 10:19 AM From L. Cohen's "I'm your Man". If you want a doctor, I'll examine every inch of you |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Becca72 Date: 22 Apr 13 - 10:15 AM From Warren Zevon's The French Inhaler: "when the lights came up at 2 I caught a glimpse of you and your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase" |
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