19 Aug 13 - 11:46 AM (#3550696) Subject: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie There's a beautiful thread going that asks for songs that sing to your heart. Made me think of songs and individual lines that make you grieve. One line is from 'Sides of the Road' (at the moment not sure of the title, but sung by the Williamson Brothers. I think.): "I thought there would be a place or a time When someone or something would last." |
19 Aug 13 - 06:48 PM (#3550856) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: McGrath of Harlow Down from their green farmlands and from their loved ones Marched husbands and brothers and fathers and sons. From Dancing at Whitsun |
19 Aug 13 - 06:52 PM (#3550857) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Angeline From 'Morley Main': "I don't suppose at 29 I'll find another man The younger widows they'll be looking too" |
19 Aug 13 - 06:55 PM (#3550858) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Charmion "I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind -- You could have done better, but I don't mind -- You just sort of wasted my precious time, But don't think twice; it's all right." The epitaph of my first marriage. |
19 Aug 13 - 07:09 PM (#3550861) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Sandy Mc Lean The silence of a falling star Lights up the purple sky And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry For a heart wrenching tear-jerker Ol' Hank was king! |
19 Aug 13 - 07:15 PM (#3550862) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie There are some great lines out there! |
19 Aug 13 - 07:54 PM (#3550872) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: kendall and, willy McBride it all happened again, and again and again and again and again. Then someone found him dead one day beneath a table in a pub, with a collar and a chain clutched in his hand. He never knew that his dog was impounded while he was dead drunk. |
19 Aug 13 - 08:09 PM (#3550875) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie Wow. |
19 Aug 13 - 08:40 PM (#3550878) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Bert Then she cried "Oh no" and sank into the snow, from cold and want her little one had died. From "While London Sleeps" |
19 Aug 13 - 09:17 PM (#3550883) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Joe_F And no locks on the doors. -- Rogers, "Sailors Rest" The cutty stool and cradle O. -- "The Reel of Stumpie" And children at their mothers' knees are pulling at the weeds -- "We Are Coming, Father Abraham" She makes a small hole in the frost on the window -- Kaldor, "Bird on a Wing" Que je me souviens d'eux -- Gerin-LaJoie, "Un Canadien Errant" Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn -- McDill, "Catfish John" And pass as light by him as he can by me -- "The Cuckoo" First flower of their wilderness, star of their night -- Gilman, "Fair Harvard" I'd walk on down that silver lane -- Tawney, "Grey Funnel Line" In the dead of winter, if springtime never comes -- Ellis, "Hot Buttered Rum" We scarce break our fast ere we think how we dine -- "The Housewife's Lament" Since love is lord of heaven and earth -- "How Can I Keep from Singing" Tie my bones to his back, turn our faces to the west -- I Ride an Old Paint When I could have turned to watch you instead -- Malvina Reynolds, "I Wish You Were Here" I wisht Josiah an' me was back, a-workin' hard an' all. -- Winslow, "In Sugaring Time" Sometimes I take a great notion -- Leadbelly, "Irene, Good Night" Schon rief der Posten, Sie blasen Zapfenstreich -- Leip, "Lili Marleen" Tonight there'll be but three -- "Mary Hamilton" He was born on land, but he sure enjoys the skies -- von Schmidt, "My Love Come Rolling Down Non, je ne regrette rien. -- Vaucaire, do. While my hands are steady, while my eyes are good -- Cody, "The Old Figurehead Carver" I'm tired of living and scared of dying -- Hammerstein, "Old Man River" Goodnight, and joy be with you all -- "The Parting Glass" Your face will shine through all our tears -- Seeger, "Precious Friend" A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys -- Yarrow & Lipton, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" Daddy, come quick! A big kitty, que gatito grande! -- Hammond, "San Carlos" Married girl, married girl, she rocks the cradle and cries. -- Carter, "Single Girl, Married Girl" This morning, this evening, so soon. -- "Tell Old Bill" While my woman hollers like my mammy did. -- "Tennessee" There were masts and yards and broken spars -- Delf, "Threescore and Ten" Raise your glass to the pleasures that pass -- Raskin, "Time, Gentlemen, Time" Let the 2:19 ease my troubled mind. -- Jones, "Trouble in Mind" I'm going there to meet my mother -- "Wayfaring Stranger" Oh, when will we ever learn -- Seeger, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" And overside I heard him call my name. -- Rogers, "White Squall" |
19 Aug 13 - 11:06 PM (#3550905) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Phil Cooper A line from Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love by Dave Carter: I climbed the redwood tree and caught the wren in flight, but her wings were soft as morning and the morning slipped away. |
20 Aug 13 - 12:36 AM (#3550916) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: michaelr Forty years go by with someone laying in your bed Forty years of things you wish you'd never said How hard would it have been to say some kinder words instead Patty Griffin, "Long Ride Home" |
20 Aug 13 - 01:42 AM (#3550925) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie As I lie in my bed in the morning without you. Every song in my breast dies a-borning. Without you. 'Last Thing on My Mind' |
20 Aug 13 - 02:14 AM (#3550929) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Abdul The Bul Bul "If I could just take hold of her wildness now, If I could hold her in my arms today.....I wouldn't want her any other way". Oops, welling up again. Al |
20 Aug 13 - 06:30 AM (#3550972) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Dot Callery 'Autumn leaves they jewel the ground They know the art of dying They leave behind their sad cold hearts In the scarlet shadows flying For Rulers like to lay down laws And rebels like to break them And poor priests like to walk in chains And god likes to forsake them' 'October Song' by the Incredible String Band |
20 Aug 13 - 06:34 AM (#3550974) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel "For the Lord's cross might redeem us, but our own just waste our time" Bob Franke : Hard Love The way June Tabor sings "just waste our time" ... |
20 Aug 13 - 06:50 AM (#3550981) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: kendall He'd come to town with his old wool hat pulled down, Surrounded by the dogs that were his friends, At times, too drunk to stand, he'd shake familiar hands, And sit around the ESSO station 'til his loneliness would end. And all through the night a faded yellow light, Would burn inside the room where he would stand, And play the old Victrola and drink his rusty wine, And conduct the Mozart music with his hard and shaking hand. (Phil Brown by David Mallett) Just a ragged old man, and his ragged old dog, A ragged old life, in a ragged old world. (Utah Phillips) Now I know I will not find you, you're gone from all but memory, For I am told that one who loves you, has strewn your ashes on the sea. (Ashes on the sea, Utah Phillips.) Utah told me that the first time he heard me sing his song, he had to pull over and weep. He was unable to see to drive. I will always treasure that memory. |
20 Aug 13 - 09:12 AM (#3551006) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: jacqui.c "And you wonder what Marion's found to do that's better than coming to see you,one more time." Lonesome Robin - Bob Coltman. "Husband sleep, lay your head back and dream......" Miner's Lullabye - Utah Phillips |
20 Aug 13 - 09:33 AM (#3551012) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Midchuck And where was the will of my father, when he raised his sword on high? And where was my mother's wailing, when our flags were justified? - Richard Farina P. |
20 Aug 13 - 09:58 AM (#3551022) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: alex s You don't know what it's like to love somebody the way I love you |
20 Aug 13 - 11:56 AM (#3551065) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: kendall ...and I feel like an oak tree that's caught in the wind, and my branches are too old to bend. (Dave Mallett) Oh well, I'm saving a lot on eye drops reading this stuff. |
20 Aug 13 - 12:07 PM (#3551069) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,HiLo Looking back over my shoulder I see You happy without me. Never Be Mine/ Kate Bush |
20 Aug 13 - 01:32 PM (#3551092) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: kendall I walk out alone and look at the sky, Too empty to sing, too lonesome to cry. (Rock salt and nails, Utah Phillips. God, how I miss that guy. Well, at least I had him as a dear friend for 30 years. |
20 Aug 13 - 10:02 PM (#3551258) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: PHJim Sang this at my brother's memorial service: I feel like missing you today, Sometimes I just get that way. Seems like anything I see Brings back another memory. I feel like missing you today. ... I feel like missing you today, And letting nobody stand in my way. I'm gonna pull down the shades And play some old songs. Todd Snider And the day my Dad was buried: Nights are long since you went away, I think of you each hour of the day, My Buddy, My Buddy, Your buddy misses you. Sorry, I forget who wrote this one. |
20 Aug 13 - 11:20 PM (#3551267) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Phil Cooper Another Dave Carter line: Sticks and stones might break this body and words might wound my soul, but phantom visions fly where the faithful fear to go. from Mother I Climbed. |
20 Aug 13 - 11:21 PM (#3551268) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Phil Cooper Should read Phantom visions fly me where the faithful fear to go. Sorry for the omission. |
21 Aug 13 - 02:26 AM (#3551287) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Larry The Radio Guy "She slipped into the silience of my dreams last night Wandering from room to room, she's turning on each light". -Sweet Memories (Mickey Newbury) |
21 Aug 13 - 02:55 AM (#3551291) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie Today I went to visit an acquaintance in the nursing home. He and I have been friendly for 20 years although never actual friends. In fact, I'm not sure that he knows my name. But he is a funny man and we laughed a lot whenever we met, sometimes at events but usually on the sidewalks of this town. He has always been a mini man, a small bundle of energy and wit, a schoolteacher who taught algebra and geometry, a teacher who is still friends with students he taught 30 years ago. Today he is bedfast and he has shrunk into himself, so much so that at first I thought I must have entered the wrong room, but then I saw his mouth and knew my friend. His mind is clear even though his eyes are shut and he keeps up with the conversation around him. I recounted several stories that he had told me over the years and he laughed along with the others in the room. Then some more people came in the room and I told him I was leaving. He held my hand and said, Don't go yet. Oh, don't go yet. |
21 Aug 13 - 06:27 AM (#3551316) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Don(Wyziwyg)T 'Cause here I am, where I'm always cold, So cold and all alone, And I'm doomed to walk this darkness Till my soul goes sailing home from "The Black Woman" by Dave Gibb I'm learning the song, but can't yet get past that refrain unchoked. Don T. |
21 Aug 13 - 09:02 AM (#3551340) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Fyldeplayer From Crossing the Bar which we have recently been doing as three part vocal, sadly appropriate today on news of fellow singers illness. For though from out our bourn of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar. Alfred Lord Tennyson |
21 Aug 13 - 09:23 AM (#3551350) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Bizibod Oh man and wife we used to be, Now he's like a child upon my knee, And in my arms I help my young man through the day Kate Rusby- My Young Man |
21 Aug 13 - 11:01 AM (#3551384) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie Oh, Bizibod, that's - oh, my. |
21 Aug 13 - 11:40 AM (#3551401) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Bizibod I know....... I can't even read it , let alone sing it, without totally dissolving. Every time. She wrote the song about the her grandparents, from her grandmother's perspective. Beautiful. |
21 Aug 13 - 01:37 PM (#3551461) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Erich It's not how much your share is but how much you can share Si Kahn: What you do with what you've got |
21 Aug 13 - 02:12 PM (#3551478) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: alex s Time heals wounds they say, time takes the pain away; I don't know why that never happened to me. It's years since you went away, I miss you night and day. Why you had to go is a mystery to me. |
21 Aug 13 - 02:37 PM (#3551497) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,DTM "Ah've missed the boys, ah've missed the noise Ah've missed the collier's way Ah've never missed the black black coal Ah dug day efter day" (chorus of the "Colliers Way" by Davy Steele) |
21 Aug 13 - 08:12 PM (#3551582) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,kendall His old dog died; he just up and died. That was 20 years ago, and he still grieves. (Mr. Bojangles) |
21 Aug 13 - 08:23 PM (#3551584) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Elmore Well my friends are gone, My hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play. (Tower of Song) |
21 Aug 13 - 09:30 PM (#3551596) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Tinker from Chicago She's standing by the train station, panhandling for change. Four more dollars buys a decent meal and a room. Looks like the Sally Ann [Salvation Army] place after all, a crowded sleeping hall that echoes like a tomb. But it's warm and clean and free, and there are worse places to be: at least it means no beating from her dad. And if she cries because it's Christmas Day, she hopes that it won't show. (Stan Rogers, "First Christmas Away From Home") |
21 Aug 13 - 09:33 PM (#3551597) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Bill D All of Bruce Phillips' "Enola Gay", but especially these: "Look out, look out from your schoolroom window; Look up, young children, from your play. Your bright young eyes will turn to ashes In the blinding light of Enola Gay. I turn to see the fireball rising. "My God, My God," all I can say. I hear a voice within me crying, "My mother's name was Enola Gay." |
21 Aug 13 - 09:42 PM (#3551600) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Bill D Most of this song: "I stood there one hour as patient as Job, Calling to Pretty Polly, "Come open the door." I saw another man enjoying of my room, I walk-ed away by the light of the moon. I took to my heels just as hard as I could go, I rambled way down in the far shady grove, And there I set down with a bottle in my hand, Drinking of brandy and thinking of that man. So earlye next morning Pretty Polly passed me by With her red rosy cheeks and her black sparkling eyes; Her eyes they were so black and her hair were of the same, I'm wounded in my heart: did you ever feel that pain? I wish I were a fisherman on yon riverside, Pretty Polly my object come floating down the tide; I'd throw my net around her, and bring her to the shore, And have Pretty Polly to weep for no more." But the song ends with this...one of my favorite lines: "Green grows the laurel and so does the rue, Sugar is sweet, but not like you; And since it is no better, I'm glad it is no worse, Brandy in my bottle and money in my purse." |
21 Aug 13 - 10:37 PM (#3551607) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Allen in Oz " I'd trade all my tomorrows For a single yesterday" and " To make a long story short She's gone" AD |
22 Aug 13 - 02:04 AM (#3551632) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST When you are old and tired and gray Wear your overcoat on sunny days When your brave tales have all been told I'll ask for them when you are old [ Lyrics from: http://www.cloverlyrics.com/e75123-gretchen_peters~when_you_are_old_lyrics.html ] When you are old and full of sleep And death no longer makes you weep When your body aches with cold I'll warm your heart when you are old You'll still be the same to me A comfort and a mystery And I will be able to see I'll need someone to comfort me When you are old and pale and gone A gentle hand is all you want I will give you mine to hold And I'll be here when you are old Yes I will give you mine to hold And I'll be here when you are old Gretchen Peters or Butler Yeats |
22 Aug 13 - 08:54 AM (#3551714) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Shiloh Town. (By Tim Harden) See that woman stand apart, broken dreams broken heart, Though she knows he played his part he wont be coming home. This is the final verse I wrote to Tim's song, I'm sure he would have found it fitting. Evan Johnson |
22 Aug 13 - 12:11 PM (#3551788) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,kendall Dreaming in the night, I saw a land where no man had to fight, Sheltered by your warmth, to me it seemed to be so right. (Song for Ireland) |
22 Aug 13 - 02:43 PM (#3551846) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Joe Offer He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle And scalded to death by the steam. -The Wreck of the Old 97- ...and another railroad song: My father was a railroad man Killed a mile and a half from town. His head was found 'neath the driver's wheel. His body has never been found. -In the Pines- |
22 Aug 13 - 03:31 PM (#3551861) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Midchuck And the children from the city come up, looking for the good life Of the picture-card New England of a long forgotten day. God, I know the dream they're looking for. Believe me, no one loved it more, Than he who held it in his hands and watched it fade away. - Dick McCormack, "Voices in the Hills." |
22 Aug 13 - 04:15 PM (#3551879) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie I don't know why I left so free What I wanted to do, what I wanted to see But I can sure remember where I come from West Virginia, My Home/Hazel Dickens For many long years I've rambled this country With never a thought of when I'd return But now I go home and find no one waiting The price I have paid to live and to learn Son, don't go astray, is what they both told me Remember that love for God can be found But now they're both gone, this letter just told me For years they've been dead. The fields have turned brown. Carter Stanley |
22 Aug 13 - 04:26 PM (#3551887) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Bobert There's a line from an old Conway Twitty song I used to do way back then: "This time I've hurt her more than she loves me"... Sniff... B~ |
22 Aug 13 - 04:47 PM (#3551894) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: MGM·Lion I think it a great shame that this poem by G R Sims has become a sort of standing joke. But try to forget all the parodies, burlesques, witty follow-ups to the first line, and so on; and read it with an open mind. And see if you finish up dry-eyed. Go on. Try ~M~ http://www.workhouses.org.uk/lit/xmasday.shtml |
22 Aug 13 - 04:58 PM (#3551895) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: MGM·Lion ...and I repeat this from an earlier thread; altho I have remarried and my life has turned around since I posted the message below, I still can't sing, or hear, or think of that song without some ♥·break ~~ Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying From: MtheGM - PM Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:50 AM Another one for purely personal reasons. Fair & Tender Ladies — I have a v nice photo of me singing it at a party in 1958. Whenever my wife showed that pic to anybody she would say "As the flash went off for that photograph it flashed thru my mind 'That's the young man I'm going to marry'"; & so she did - for nearly ½-century. And now she's dead. And so I can't sing it any more for tears. And here they come now... ~M~ |
22 Aug 13 - 06:52 PM (#3551930) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie "Don't go yet. Oh, don't go yet." My visit to my friend, Michael,that I recounted yesterday was timely. He died this morning. RIP, Mike and congratulations on a long life well lived. |
22 Aug 13 - 07:10 PM (#3551934) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Nigel Gatherer I don't know why, but these lines from Ray Davies tug at my heart strings: Now I think of what my mamma told me, She always said that it would never ever work out; But all I want to do is make some money And bring you home some wine. For I don't ever want you to see me Standing in that line; 'Cause that union man's got such a hold over me; He's the man who decides if I live or I die, if I starve, or I eat. Then he walks up to me and the sun begins to shine. Then he walks right past and I know that I've got to get back in the line. ("Get Back Into Line") |
22 Aug 13 - 09:32 PM (#3551969) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Janie Oh the days will be empty The nights so long with out you my love "Your Long Journey" Rosa Lee and Doc Watson. |
22 Aug 13 - 09:34 PM (#3551970) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Janie Correction "without" |
22 Aug 13 - 11:08 PM (#3551981) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,mg i was the happiest in all the clan sae sair may i repine for donald was the bravest man and donald he was mine |
23 Aug 13 - 12:00 AM (#3551986) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: George Papavgeris a) The last two lines of "Crossing the Bar" (agree, GUEST, Fyldeplayer) b) From Eric Bogle's The Band Played Waltzing Matilda: And when I woke up in my hospital bed And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead Never knew there were worse things than dying c) From Billy Joel's And So It Goes: And this is why my eyes are closed It's just as well for all I've seen And so it goes, and so it goes And you're the only one who knows d) And the absolute killer for me is the following from Henry Lawson's Scots Of The Riverina: And the old man died at the table when the old wife's back was turned. Face down on his bare arms folded he sank with his wild grey hair Outspread on the open Bible and a name re-written there. |
23 Aug 13 - 12:16 AM (#3551987) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: MGM·Lion I do not weep for my House Carpenter Nor yet for any store But I weep for the sake of my pretty little babe That I never shall see any more |
23 Aug 13 - 02:55 AM (#3552009) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: MGM·Lion ..Pray do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Four score and upward, not an hour more nor less... King Lear IV vi ~M~ I am 81 btw |
23 Aug 13 - 04:16 AM (#3552026) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: jacko@nz And another eye for another eye till everyone is blind. Tommy Sands, 'There were Roses' Jack |
23 Aug 13 - 04:23 AM (#3552027) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Jim Carroll MacColl used to tell the story of having to learn the ballad' Edom of Gordon' for a series of Poetry and Song albums. It was a ballad he said had never attracted him "about wealthy noble families mindlessly slaughtering each other - who on earth could you possibly identify with?" He re-read it through many dozens of times and finally, shortly before he was due to record it, he focused on the verses where the Douglas family, having been cornered in the burning castle, bundled the youngest daughter in sheets and dropped her over the wall, hoping she'd escape the flames - the assailant, Gordon, 'caught her on is spear'. "And Gordon turned her ower and ower and oh, her face was wan, He said, "You are the first that e'er I wished alive again". And oh he turned her ower and ower, and oh, her face was white. "I might have spared that bonny face to be some man's delight."" MacColl said, "The waste, the ****** waste of human life, that's what those songs should be about." Still works for me. Jim Carroll |
23 Aug 13 - 05:39 AM (#3552038) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: MGM·Lion It's these little moments in the big ballads that do it indeed, Jim. For you have had one cruel mother, Willie, And I have had another, And here we'll lie in Clyde's water Like sister and like brother. ~M~ |
23 Aug 13 - 05:51 AM (#3552040) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Jim Carroll It is indeed, in the middle of violence and mayhem they gently tap you on the shoulder and point out that it's human beings you're singing about - it's what makes them "big ballads". Jim Carroll |
23 Aug 13 - 06:03 AM (#3552043) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,kendall So, I'll drink to the times that are passed, and the days when we stood on the shore, to you I will raise up my glass, for I know that I'll see you no more. (Robbie O'Connell) |
23 Aug 13 - 06:47 AM (#3552056) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Fossil - Read a book, or study art/ All the remedies don't work for me/ since you broke my heart. Don Everly |
23 Aug 13 - 10:48 AM (#3552101) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Bill D "...Once I had a yaller dog, his name was Towser Jenkins. The butcher cut his tail off with a cleaver... Towser had his trademark on every cat in town, And when he spotted one, he'd never leave her. He wore his legs off stumpy, chasin' milk carts 'round the country. Had bunions on his knees from jumpin' ditches. Had all the hair wore off his ribs From chasin' cats around the corn cribs... But empty is the doghouse, Towsers poisoned. No more he'll look for liver down beside the Suwanee River, No more will boys baptize him in the sewer.. No more homeward will he wail, with ten cans tied to his tail.. For empty is the doghouse...Towser's poisoned." ...from a Folk Legacy album by Harry Tufts. It is strange...no matter how 'straight' I sing this, it often evokes chuckles in the first 2 verses, which seems to keep many from reacting to the sadness of the third. Maybe there's just no way easily react to the ending..... In some ways, we take cruelty to animals harder than wholesale slaughter of troops in battle. |
24 Aug 13 - 05:20 AM (#3552306) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: fat B****rd Why is the bedroom so cold? Turned away on your side. Is my timing that flawed? Our respect run so dry? Yet there's still this appeal, That we've kept through our lives. Love will tear us apart -Joy Division |
24 Aug 13 - 06:02 PM (#3552484) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Jaze Cause if love means forever expecting nothing returned then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime to learn...Joan Baez |
24 Aug 13 - 08:10 PM (#3552507) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,Vrdpkr The black smoke choo-choos have gone away Bumming, it's just not the same Dreams are few and far between, But memory seldom fails. Waiting down there by the track For her master to come back You could count on seeing that old dog Queen of the Rails Utah Phillips |
25 Aug 13 - 06:33 AM (#3552588) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,kendall ...a little child strolled onto the track and filled them all with dread. "MyGod" the hoghead shouted, as he slammed on on all the brakes, "I'll never stop this SP train, she aint got what it takes" Up stepped this bold young fireman,..... he piled his loop around a pole that stood beside the tracks, then he tied the other end of it around that big smoke stack. He jerked that train clear off the track and caused an awful wreck, the fireman laid there on the track with the engine on his neck. We will all remember that 45th of May for there were many brave young hearts all filled fear that day, they buried him by the wayside where the prairie winds blow wild He killed 200 passengers but, thank God he saved the child. |
25 Aug 13 - 09:01 PM (#3552825) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Bert Sleep softly my pretty one Sleep softly my darling You promised a happiness that only you could bring You came for a moment and then you were gone Faded away like a snowflake in spring Sleep softly my pretty one Sleep softly my love |
26 Aug 13 - 04:10 PM (#3553133) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Sir Roger de Beverley "Though we're apart you bother me still" Blueberry Hill |
26 Aug 13 - 08:37 PM (#3553205) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie Really? lol ("Though we're apart, you're part of me still...") |
27 Aug 13 - 05:37 AM (#3553278) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST,kendall Which part? the sugar, the mash,... |
27 Aug 13 - 07:15 AM (#3553309) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: VirginiaTam For obvious reasons this Our first child took in times like these A cruel week in dyin'. All day upon her father's knees Or on my breast a-lyin'. The tears we shed, the prayers we said Were awful, wild, despairin' I pulled three through and buried two Since then, now I'm past carin'. (Past Carin') |
27 Aug 13 - 07:59 AM (#3553315) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: GUEST Now it's every month I get a check from some government bureaucrat And it's every month I tear it up, and send the damn thing back. The Ballad of Penny Evan, Steve Goodman. |
27 Aug 13 - 08:06 AM (#3553318) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: frogprince Almost any of "Touch a Name on the Wall", by Joel Mabus, but the last lines for sure: But God bless the wall that brings us together, And reminds us of what we've been through. And God damn the liars and the tin-plated heroes, That trade on the blood of these men. And God give us the strength to stand up and tell 'em, "Never again!" |
27 Aug 13 - 08:14 AM (#3553324) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Mark Dowding From "Joe Peel" by Peter Bond "We all turned up to say goodbye, The church was filled to overflowing" I've not been able to sing that since dad passed away in January. |
27 Aug 13 - 09:09 AM (#3553344) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Sir Roger de Beverley "You bother me still" is so much better - the whole song is spoilt for me now I know that it is really "You're part of me still." R |
27 Aug 13 - 10:23 AM (#3553375) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: Ebbie Sorry. :) |
28 Aug 13 - 12:59 AM (#3553578) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: KT Sir Roger and Ebbie, Don't let it be spoilt Roger. Check this out! Delightful! "It's a happy enchilada and you think you're gonna drown." John Prine -That's the Way that the World Goes Round. Delightful! have a smile |
28 Aug 13 - 10:29 AM (#3553749) Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart From: MGM·Lion At last we reached the other side in two and twenty days We were taken as passengers by a man and led round in six different ways And we all of us drank a parting glass in case we might never meet more And we drank a last health to old Ireland and Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore |