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Posted By: GUEST,Treewhale- Guest
04-Dec-02 - 06:27 PM
Thread Name: The Best Song Lines EVER--For Us Newbies
Subject: RE: The Best Song Lines EVER--For Us Newbies
Oh, here's a few,

THe Handsome Family, Weightless Again
"This is why people OD on pills, And jump from the Golden Gate Bridge, Anything to feel weightless again."

Also, from the song "Up Falling Rock Hill"
"Up falling rock hill, where the leaves swoop like bats, I shot my brother William five times in the back. Have mercy, have mercy dear brother he cried, but the wind has no mercy and neither did I."

"Last night at the pub, I say my cousin Rory, couldn't believe my eyes when I saw he had a babe. The bastard had my wife, that's not the end of the story, the dirty drunken bastard drinks twice as much as me!" -Drunken Lazy Bastard, The Mahones-

"You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best, I've been gone for a month, I've been drunk since I left" -Home for a Rest- Spirit of the West-

"And even afloat, she's the hole in the water where his money goes, every dollar goes, and it's driving him crazy. He pounds his fist white on the dock in the night and cries 'I'm gonna win'and licks the blood away, and he's going to raise the dolphin" The man with the Blue Dolphin- Stan Rogers

"When they drain the blood from my body, and the flowers and greiving are all for me, and when I've gone into Hell, or to Heaven, Jenny, Jenny Gray, cry for me." Jenny Gray- Traditional

"We're gonna drink and fight and drink and fight and drink and fight some more. When the drinking's done, grab anyone, and go and fight some more, and grab your friends and neigbours, and punch 'em in the eye, and raise another glass and sing the Dublin Lullaby"-Dublin Lullaby- Captain Tractor-

"Stand your ground, it's too late, the excise men are at the gate, Jesus Christ they're drinking it straight, in the hills of Connemara."
Hills of COnnemara, Traditional

"We've captured Captain Maxwell, Sir, Spare yourself his tears. Says I 'I'll not but send you shot, to buzz about your ears'."
The Nancy- Stan Rogers

Yeah, those should do for now.