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18 Mar 00 - 12:37 PM (#197251) Subject: MORE WORST LINES From: Lonesome EJ The original thread having become one slow-loading mammyjammer, here-in a new repository for those lines we love to hate... |
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18 Mar 00 - 09:24 PM (#197447) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Barky "I wanna feel your foamy inside, I wanna complicate your life"
Don't remember the name or the guy it's by, but it's ICKY!! ~Barky |
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18 Mar 00 - 09:47 PM (#197458) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo UGH! That IS weird! Here's a line I DON'T like **ducking flying objects** And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?" Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain, For Willie McBride, it all happened again, And again, and again, and again, and again --Mbo |
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18 Mar 00 - 09:58 PM (#197467) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Bugsy What in particular don't you like about that verse? I think it pretty well sums up the situation at the time, (as we now know it). Cheers bugsy |
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18 Mar 00 - 10:10 PM (#197473) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo Never mind. Forget I said it. No more arguing. Bye. --Mbo |
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18 Mar 00 - 10:17 PM (#197475) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Bugsy I wasn't after an arguement. In fact it's one of the reasons that I don't post as ofton as I could. I was just interested in your thoughts. Cheers Bugsy |
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19 Mar 00 - 01:43 AM (#197543) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Barky Actually, I'll have to agree with Mbo here. I don't like that verse myself. I just read it for the first time, and I find it too depressing. All about people dying again. And again, and again, and again, and again. It's depressing to ask yourself if people know why they die... most of them don't. Just think about it... ~Barky |
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19 Mar 00 - 01:46 AM (#197546) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: alison willie McBride is a good song(although played to death)... the rest of that verse is great... it's just the "again, and again, and again, and again" bit that annoys me.... slainte alison |
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19 Mar 00 - 01:49 AM (#197548) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: alison read the whole song Barky.. it'll be in the database.... written to show the futility of war.... and it does it very well..... slainte alison
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19 Mar 00 - 01:52 AM (#197550) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: alison Here's one from the musical "Scherezade" to show a really bad rhyme..... "If Scherazadie, knew how to move her body" (pronounced "baddy") Yuck..... right up there with... "you sheltered me from harm, kept me warm"
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19 Mar 00 - 01:52 AM (#197551) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo It's not that it's too depressing...it's that it seems to invalidate the sacrifice of the dead. And I know people will rip me apart because I still believe in the individual sacrifice of those who fight for us--the old-fashioned glory theory. I've been a Marine Corps brat for 21 years, and I don't turn my back on the veterans who fought or the soldiers who died. Read the lyrics to "Willy McBride's Reply" in the DT. Those words to me mean more to me than this whole song does. There, so I said it. --Mbo |
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19 Mar 00 - 02:02 AM (#197554) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Bugsy I agree it's depressing, but in the context of the song, the guy is holding this conversation in his head whilst sitting next to the grave of Willie McBride. These are the final questions in a string, which ask: Did you guys really know why you went to war? Did you REALLY think that THIS war would end ALL wars. and finally the real sad conclusion. It was all in vain, for it's STILL happening, again and again and again. I must say that I find myself asking the self same questions. My grandfather went missing in action during the battle of the Somme, just before my father was born. After watching my father glued to the television screen every time any footage of WW1 came on in the vain hope of seeing his father, I must say (morbid though they may be) I would be asking these questions too. I didn't want to get into an arguement with Mbo or anyone else for that matter, but I find that particular song to be very well written and feel it asks right questions. Cheers Bugsy
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25 Mar 00 - 09:57 PM (#201501) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,chuck In a lighter vein, "I like my women a little on the trashy side." |
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25 Mar 00 - 10:12 PM (#201515) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo NO NO CHUCK! That's a GREAT song! I love it!
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26 Mar 00 - 12:15 PM (#201682) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Rick Fielding Some lyrics just look plain awful on paper, but if the moment's right, you can hear them sung and be totally moved. A song that has run through my brain for many years is Neil Young's "I am a Child". Pleasant little tune, with perhaps to me, the most juvenile and badly written lyric I've ever encountered...but years ago, watching him sing it was magical. Rick |
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26 Mar 00 - 01:33 PM (#201714) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Bill D "...then the reeeeebel soldier died" ..(guess they hadda end it some place...why not 2 verses sooner?) |
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26 Mar 00 - 09:42 PM (#201886) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Chuck Ok, mbo, I'll give you "Trashy side" if you want it. It does have a nice beat, i'll admit. But "rodeo song" is kind of rough. Can't repeat any of the lyrics, but it's on a lot of juke boxes. Obviously, it's not on the radio! |
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27 Mar 00 - 10:53 AM (#201970) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Jim Dixon How about the Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch": "You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals, So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." Actually, it made me laugh, but I'm glad I don't have to sing it. |
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27 Mar 00 - 11:09 AM (#201978) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo Bizarre! --Mbo |
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27 Mar 00 - 01:09 PM (#202039) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Molly Malone "But there were green alligators, and long neck geese..." Or many it's the whole song I can't stand there.:) "Easy and Slow" bothers me, too...but I think it's because of the mental image I got after watching The Piano. |
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27 Mar 00 - 06:11 PM (#202252) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Irish sergeant Okay Everyone: My worst lyrics? "My little toot-toot" |
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27 Mar 00 - 06:40 PM (#202274) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,chuck Yippee-aye-yay,Cow Paddy, she rode into town to find the man who killed her daddy. |
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27 Mar 00 - 07:50 PM (#202309) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Midchuck From the Chieftains' rendition of "Lily of the West..:
"I stepped up with my rapier, How many hands did the protagonist have? "Here, hold this a minute...." This is a minor detail, but it's always bothered me for some reason. Peter. |
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27 Mar 00 - 08:32 PM (#202339) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Caitrin Hehheh...I'd never thought about that, Peter! But now that I do...uhm...maybe he had the rapier and the dagger in the same hand? : ) |
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27 Mar 00 - 08:42 PM (#202346) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo Hey, didn't they do something like that in the end of "Hamlet"? The Hamlet/Laertes duel? A rapier and dagger in one hand! --Mbo |
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27 Mar 00 - 08:44 PM (#202347) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Midchuck Take a big hand. You'd be better off with just the dagger anyway. You're getting too close to the guy for the rapier to be any use. Actually, someone, i. e., me, who can't tell the difference between "b" and "br" shouldn't complain about anyone else's inconsistencies. What we need is a way to view your post with the HTML working before you submit it. But I digress. Peter. |
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27 Mar 00 - 09:00 PM (#202358) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Guest, leeneia |
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27 Mar 00 - 09:02 PM (#202360) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Bill D well, we do, sort of....Max's trick |
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27 Mar 00 - 09:05 PM (#202362) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Guest, leeneia 1. Throughout this world I'm bound to ramble, through sun and wind and driving rain... This is from the old trad song "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow." Try singing the words "sun and wind and.." This was not written by a singer. 2. From "I Wonder As I Wander:" for poor orn'ry people like you and like I... Makes me grit my teeth ev'ry time I hear it. No true folk song would have kept such clumsy language over the years.
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27 Mar 00 - 09:24 PM (#202371) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Caitrin I always heard it "For poor wretched sinners", leeneia. (It's one of my favorite Christmas songs.) |
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28 Mar 00 - 05:24 AM (#202522) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Billy the Bus Ain't seen nuttin in this thread that looks like an even half-bad line. Mbo - and the others down the McBride war line - glad you find it depressing - war is! Molly - despite lving in the land where "The Piano" was written and filmed, sorry I've never seen it. Seen a couple of shots of them carrying the piano through the surf. No challenge, I've carted a couple or three pianos up bush tracks - and that is depressing - especially for one of the pianos - it couldn't even give a muffled "thunk" when it got there. Hamlet duels? Worst folk lines? Ok, here's my contri to the WORST LINES thread.... Please watch the quotes.....;) " " It ain't been writ yet - git off yer button doit! Sam
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28 Mar 00 - 08:04 AM (#202543) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: kendall I often wonder what sort of vessel Stan Rogers had in mind when he sang,.."it was hard down by the tiller.." then later .."three hands upon the wheel.." I know there is such a thing as an Hermaphrodite brig, but, this is hard to picture. He also sings Leeward instead of looward. yeah, I know, picky picky.. |
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28 Mar 00 - 11:14 AM (#202629) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Jim Dixon Caitrin, I think leeneia was complaining about "like you and like I", because nobody really talks like that, not even in dialect. Wouldn't you say "like you and me"? Obviously, it was only written that way to fit the meter and rhyme, which is why it is bad writing. Which makes me think-- let's let the folk process go to work here. Does anybody know a way to IMPROVE that line? |
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28 Mar 00 - 02:56 PM (#202764) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Bobby Bob, Ellan Vannin I think Elton John's
"If I were a sculptor - is pretty poor. Lennon was after a particular effect in Strawberry Fields. That line from Your Song is just piss poor. Shoh slaynt, Bobby Bob |
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28 Mar 00 - 03:17 PM (#202774) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Carisa I've got one! If you love repetition, this is the one for you... In the Bleak Mid-Winter, the third line is "Snow was falling, snow on snow. Snow on snow. In the bleak mid-winter, long ago." OK, it was cold and it was snowing...alot...we got it. :-) -Carisa |
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28 Mar 00 - 03:42 PM (#202792) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Amos Kendall -- I think what they meant to imply was that it took three deckhands (with two hands each) to manage the wheel. That would be one of them six-foot diameter wheels I expect. Hermaphrodite indeed! Besides, I've never seen it written that hermaphrodites got an extra hand in the deal, although it would be sorta appropriate, I guess...all things considered. |
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28 Mar 00 - 04:36 PM (#202818) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Amos Here's another "worst line", a plaintiff story of a sick little boy getting on to the airwaves using his dad's CB: "C'mon back, twuckers, an' tawlk to Teddy Bear...". The whole song is like one of those orful Walter Keane paintings with the oversized child-eyes staring out of them like so many mis-bred hootowls. |
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28 Mar 00 - 05:16 PM (#202854) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: kendall what I had the problem with is, a ship or boat, has either a tiller or a wheel. Not both |
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28 Mar 00 - 05:37 PM (#202865) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Guest, leeneia Yes, Jim Dixon, the problem with "I Wonder as I Wander" is the incorrect "like I." One can soften the effect by singing "like yo-u and I," but actually the whole thing ought to go back into the shop for a retooling. I also dislike the line "When Mary birthed Jesus," which makes Mary sound like a cow calving and not like a human being. The melody's beautiful, though. Wonder how long it was around before the words. |
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28 Mar 00 - 09:17 PM (#202989) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Amos Kendall, that's really funny -- I see what you were looking at, I had missed the contradiction....and the way I got it wrong is cracking me up. So you don't think genetic hermaphrodites have three hands? Y'know, one for the money, two for the show. |
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28 Mar 00 - 09:51 PM (#203008) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST "Snow had fallen, Snow on snow. Snow on snow " Gives that layered effect that snow has. Sounds good too, try saying it out loud. Holst put a damn good melody to that one. |
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28 Mar 00 - 10:11 PM (#203019) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Lonesome EJ I like the country tune Green, Green Grass of Home, but have always hated
There's a guard and there's a sad old Padre That's a rhyme that's so bad you end up thinking about it rather than what's going on in the song. |
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28 Mar 00 - 11:19 PM (#203043) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: The Lighthouse Heard "Green Green" by the new christy minstrels on the radio the other day. Yuck!!! But I think "Eve of Destruction" takes the cake for triteness trying to come off as genius!!! Over the top performance on the recording doesnt help it either. |
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29 Mar 00 - 12:36 AM (#203073) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,chuck There's got to a category for, "it's so bad, it's good!" consider this classic: "Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes, You close your cover before striiking, Your father has the shipfitter blues, Loving you has made me bananas" (You burned your finger that evening, While my back was turned. I asked the waiter for iodine, But I dined all alone...) |
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29 Mar 00 - 12:56 AM (#203078) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: fox4zero About the rapier and dagger, as in Hamlet vs Laertes: The rapier was held in the right hand, and the dagger was held in the left hand. The dagger in this case was known as "main gauche", or "left hand". Regards to all...Larry Parish |
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29 Mar 00 - 01:43 AM (#203089) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Lonesome EJ Remember that classic of the little-known Psychedelic/Country Genre, Let It All Hang Out ?
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29 Mar 00 - 10:26 AM (#203212) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo Thanks for the clarification, fox! At least SOMETHING makes sense around here! --Mbo |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:54 AM (#203236) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Midchuck fox4zero said: "The rapier was held in the right hand, and the dagger was held in the left hand." That was what I assumed in my original post. That's the problem. How did the singer drag the bad guy from his false true love when his hands were all full of sharp thingys? Did he have a prehensile...no, did he ask the other guy to hold onto the dagger for him so he'd have a free hand to drag him with? That would have been counter-survival. Did he ask the woman to hold it? At that point he wouldn't have been sure whose side she was on. This whole thing has got me really upset. Peter. |
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29 Mar 00 - 10:59 AM (#203242) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo Hmmm...could he have just used his arms? I mean, grabbing someone isn't that hard with just a dagger in your hand, maybe when bringing the arms around to pull the bad guy off, the weapons in his hands were enough to cause him or her to part more easily? I'm grasping at straws... --Mbo |
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29 Mar 00 - 11:11 AM (#203253) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Amos The lines as Baez sang them were "I strepped up to my rival, my dagger in my hand I seized him by the collar, and boldly made him stand..." In Baez' version the impession I always had was that we were talking about the U.S. West, especially since it starts with the narrator coming to Louisville. In this context the use of a rapier, especially in a formal Continental style, is much less likely. |
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29 Mar 00 - 11:21 AM (#203261) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Mbo How similar is this song to "Whisky In The Jar (Kilgary Mountain)"? It sounds like they have a common origin. Do they? --Mbo |
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30 Mar 00 - 01:19 AM (#203754) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: fox4zero I think that the 3-handed feat was done by the POETIC LICENSE ploy....you know, "the 3rd hand is quicker than the eye". Larry Parish |
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26 Sep 01 - 02:47 PM (#559244) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Jim Dixon Refresh. Apparently several of us posted to the old thread without noticing there was a new one. OOPs! |
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26 Sep 01 - 05:11 PM (#559338) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Jack the Sailor I write the songs that make the young girls cry. The initial post of the first thread referred to this song. It is so bad it makes me want to cry and I am not young or a girl. Barry you should have quit after the Coke commercials. |
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26 Sep 01 - 10:57 PM (#559590) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Irish "You were dead on the floor Hey this chiken tastes poor Now I've lost my apple core Hi there molly you're a whore I know you've done it with a spore What is my penis good for I'm going to the candy store I want to rape a wild boar I'll find one at the sea shore Molly get off your ass there's tea to pour I don't want to go to war before I finish carving this oar My goldfish tend to snore MolllllYYYYYYY!!!!! Did you rape my goat it's bleeding from it's A**whole?" I'm sorry I don't know who this is by, I've had this one my computer for a while, it was so ridiculus. |
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27 Sep 01 - 01:47 PM (#560016) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: dorareever The last verse of "green field of France" (the Willie McBride song) is one of my favorite verses! I LOVE it.I love the again and again part so much---it's depressing,but WWI is a depressing thing indeed.Okay I have a passion for depressing lines and music myself so maybe I'm weird. |
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27 Sep 01 - 02:01 PM (#560035) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: LR Mole Barry didn't write "I write the songs that make the young girls cry." THAT was written by Bruce Johnston, sometime Beach Boy. He also wrote "Dierdre" for them surfin dudes (and pronounced it "deer-dree": is this correct, crossponders? We say it :DEEdruh", when we say it at all.) |
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27 Sep 01 - 02:08 PM (#560044) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Frogmore "Yummy,yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy." That's personally the most intolerable to me. By the way, whatever you do, do not ever listen to Pat Sky's "Songs that made America Famous." (And, on the count of 1-2-3, do not think about elephants.) |
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27 Sep 01 - 02:09 PM (#560048) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Ivan I don't know if anyone else has mentioned him before but Roger Miller gets my vote for deliberately? terrible lines e.g. "Four street lights and one old grocery I ain't longin'to stay here no siree!" "Kansas City Star that's what I are" "England swings like a pendulum do Bobbies on bicycles two by two" Who can compete with that? |
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27 Sep 01 - 02:40 PM (#560074) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: dwditty Ivan, Neil Diamond...that's who. dw |
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28 Sep 01 - 02:31 PM (#560885) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: DMcG I actually like the carol 'The Turth Send from Above' (in the DT) but whoever wrote it had a way of coming up with pretty unlikely rhymes
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So we were raised to endless woes Posterity? Interpose?? Not your everyday vocab.
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28 Sep 01 - 02:32 PM (#560887) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: DMcG Sorry, 'the truth send from above'. I haven't seen a turth in ages |
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01 Oct 01 - 11:50 PM (#563099) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: allie kiwi Has anyone remembered the joys of : Oooooooh Lord, it's hard to be humble When you're perfect in everyway I think that whole song qualifies here. *grin* Allie |
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02 Oct 01 - 12:18 AM (#563124) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Murray MacLeod I don't see how " Oh Lord, It's Hard to be Humble" qualifies as a worst line or worst song. Surely everybody realizes it's tongue-in-cheek? At least I hope they do when I sing it. Someone on the older thread had the audacity to nominate one of the lines from Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee". I guess being a Mudcatter is no guarantee that one possesses a sense of humor. Murray |
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02 Oct 01 - 12:25 AM (#563129) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: allie kiwi Are you implying I have no sense of humour because I nominate a song that you happen to enjoy? Yes, I know it is tongue in cheek, but it still has ridiculous lines. It is you who are without a sense of humour I think. Allie |
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02 Oct 01 - 12:32 AM (#563136) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Troll She ain't Raquel but what the hell, it's warm and it's free. From "Warm And Free" by Shel Silverstein. troll |
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02 Oct 01 - 12:40 AM (#563139) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: allie kiwi A few people mentioned the lyrics to 'Seasons in the sun'. I wonder if it is a good translation of the original, since was it not in French to begin with? Perhaps by translating it, it lost a little something? Anyone know? Allie |
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02 Oct 01 - 11:28 AM (#563436) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: SINSULL "I sold my heart to the junkman..." Amazing how much crap was produced during the fifties and sixties. I spent two hours wallowing in it trying to find the lyrics to "Pussycat" for another thread. |
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02 Oct 01 - 01:48 PM (#563532) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Little Hawk "UNBREAK MY HEART!!!" (repeat at numerous intervals throughout song) And then, I believe McCartney used the line "in this world in which we live in"....Ha! Ha! Ha! - LH |
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02 Oct 01 - 05:53 PM (#563709) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: cyder_drinker "I was so upset, I cried... ...All the way to the chip shop" -Jilted John
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02 Oct 01 - 07:51 PM (#563795) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Little Hawk "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!" - LH |
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02 Oct 01 - 08:02 PM (#563801) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Little Hawk "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?" (Okay for country...godawful by any other standard.) LOL! - LH |
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03 Oct 01 - 05:59 PM (#564495) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Roughyed I like the Jilted John line, at least it was deliberate. The line that always set my teeth on edge (among a wide selection from Duran Duran) was 'You're about as peaceful as a nuclear war.' It manages to be banal, distasteful, inelegant and inappropriate all at the same time. |
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03 Oct 01 - 11:34 PM (#564682) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Sarah T Hi folks, I'm a long-time (mostly) lurker but this inspired me to contribute. This is the worst song that I know. It's on a record called "Colonial and Revolutionary War Sea Songs and Chanteys." I don't know the exact title (help anyone?) but it's (clearly) in praise of John Paul Jones. I apologize because I don't know how to create line breaks ... could someone help? My favorite bad lines are "and they were all from En-gel-land"; and "He sails serenely like a swan, he pops his cannonballs like corn." Best wishes to all, Sarah Here comes Captain John Paul Jones Sing his praise in heroes' tones He is a bold American His ship went down not far from land Chorus: Had we him here Had they him there He would command us o'er the sea Good fortune then would with us be He does many a daring deed For his friends when they're in need He landed pris'ners on our strand And they were all from En-gel-land (Chorus) He took their ship before our eyes And he has made a very fine prize To Brest in France he next did tack Now let them only see his back (Chorus) He sails serenely like a swan He pops his cannonballs like corn He hangs his broadsword by his side And sails upon the foaming tide (Chorus) Hurrah for Captain John Paul Jones Sing his praise in heroes' tones He has done his business well His mighty acts no tongue can tell Had we him here Had they him there He would command us o'er the sea Now Paul Jones will soon with us be!
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04 Oct 01 - 01:07 AM (#564719) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Lonesome EJ Oh Sarah, that is one hilarious song! Those of you who say folk songs can't be as bad as pop songs please take note. Every line of that song is a corker! |
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04 Oct 01 - 07:57 AM (#564857) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Sarah T Hi LEJ, Thanks for noticing! :-) Actually I never thought of this as a "folk" song, in that I assumed that it was composed by a single author. The reason for this assumption is that I think the folk process tends to smooth out or improve rough lines. But in the case of this song I have no proof. Best wishes, Sarah |
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04 Oct 01 - 02:27 PM (#565070) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Ivan Re 'Seasons in the Sun' Allie. We had a guest at Fleetwood Folk Club who had his own translation which was significantly different to the pop version. If only I had a memory I could tell you his name. Unfortunately this thread HAS made me remember the most cringeworthy non-rhyme I've ever heard. It was in a pop song in the 1970s and goes: 'Gonna write a classic, Gonna write it in an attic' I hoped I'd forgotten that one forever. |
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04 Oct 01 - 02:56 PM (#565093) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Little Hawk Oh, how pitiful! By the way, LEJ, I think that the John Paul Jones song probably WAS a pop song in its own day! But it's a folk song now... - LH |
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05 Oct 01 - 02:28 AM (#565488) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: GUEST,Extra Stout Little Hawk,I've always thought McCartney wrote "... world in which we're livin'...". There are awful songs enough without dragging this one in. How about "My Ding-a-Ling" or "Rub It In"? |
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06 Mar 03 - 03:33 AM (#904573) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Ralphie Sorry to revive this Old Thread...But how about this Stanza from "Folk songs of the Upper Thames". Mary Thompson Twice more all with his horrid knife He ran her body through Her throat was cut from ear to ear Most dreadful for to view But, Still she smiling said to him Whilst trembling with fear Oh, David David, Spare me life Think of your baby dear..!? Ah, those plucky English Maidens !! Cheers Ralphie |
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06 Mar 03 - 04:41 AM (#904601) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: alanabit The city's clamour could never spoil The dreams of a boys and goil... ("Manhattan") I expect Lorenz Hart was spoofing one of the New York dialects when he wrote this - but it must be hard work for the singer. |
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06 Mar 03 - 05:02 AM (#904614) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: Ralphie Request Maybe a clone could turn this back into a Music thread?? Mind You, Looking at some of the lyrics posted...Maybe not !! Regards Ralphie |
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06 Mar 03 - 05:15 PM (#905104) Subject: RE: BS: MORE WORST LINES From: denise:^) "Someone's knocking at the door, Someone's ringing the bell. "Someone's knocking at the door, Someone's ringing the bell. Someone open the door, And let 'em in..." And this guy used to be a BEATLE? (they were before my time, but I've heard a bit about them... ! ;^) Denise:^) |
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10 Sep 04 - 09:21 PM (#1268953) Subject: RE: MORE WORST LINES From: Lonesome EJ How about this memorable George harrison line... I look at you all See the Love that lies sleeping While my guitar gently weeps I look at the floor And I see it needs sweeping(!?) While my guitar gently weeps God Bless George, but that is one really weak line. |
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11 Sep 04 - 02:40 AM (#1269080) Subject: RE: MORE WORST LINES From: M'Grath of Altcar Membership of the Beatles does not preclude writing bad lyrics. You were in a car crash, And you lost your hair "Don't pass me by" by Ringo |
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11 Sep 04 - 12:47 PM (#1269325) Subject: RE: MORE WORST LINES From: Leadfingers The line that always got to me was in 'THe Alamo' - YOUNG Davy Crockett was Laughing and Dying - I MEAN _ Come on Guys !! |
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11 Sep 04 - 12:59 PM (#1269334) Subject: RE: MORE WORST LINES From: Juan P-B How about... Papa ooh mau mau Papa ooh mau mau Papa ooh papa papa papa ooh mau mau Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, the Martian Hop Or... "I went across to Switzerland where all the yodellers be, To try to learn to yodel with my "Yo-del-o-de-lee" By that wonderful Aussie, Frankie Field |
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11 Sep 04 - 01:12 PM (#1269343) Subject: RE: MORE WORST LINES From: alanabit For some reason that song "Let 'em In" has come in for a lot of stick over the years. If you listen to it carefully, it is actually one of Macca's (few) songs about the bigger picture. It is about being able to welcome all sorts of people into your life who may be able to bring something new into it. He quite deliberately mixes the names of the great and good with those of his family - Martin Luther King, Auntie Gin and brother Michael. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I find it one of his most moving songs. |
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11 Sep 04 - 05:48 PM (#1269518) Subject: RE: MORE WORST LINES From: Joe_F It was his career or mine. -- Richard Shindell, "Ballad of Mary Magdalen" Though I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand -- Rudyard Kipling, "Mandalay" |
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11 Sep 04 - 11:03 PM (#1269695) Subject: RE: MORE WORST LINES From: Bert We're going to the chapel and we're gonna get ma-a-a-reed. |