What's your favorite line from a song

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 07:53 PM

Hamish Imlach sang in John o' Bredislee
" he is gan tae the green woods
tae ding the dun deer down, down

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 06:31 PM

take down this mast of gold,
Set up a mast of tree,
For it becomes not a forsaken maid
To sail so royalty.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,PatrickH
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 06:18 PM

Long past the midnight curfew we sat starry-eyed...

And (Fred would have said)

The rain falls on my yellow locks and the dew wets my skin, my babe is cold in my arms, Lord Gregory let me in.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 05:01 PM

"With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go." from "Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: David C. Carter
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 11:41 AM

'I look such a pillock with me bike clips on'.

Jake Thackray

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 11:34 AM

"I ache in the places where I used to play" from Tower of Song" by L. Cohen

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 17 - 02:32 PM

another, "dreaming in the night, I saw a land where no man had to fight.." (Song for Ireland)

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 17 - 02:21 PM

Alone on the hillside your lover is lying, and pale is the hew of his cheek Kirsten.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: voyager
Date: 24 Jul 17 - 01:57 PM

If the river was whiskey and I was a diving duck
I'd dive to the bottom and I'd never come up.

If the River Was Whiskey

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,IanA
Date: 23 Jul 17 - 01:31 PM

I put my hand upon her breast,
Mark well what I do say,
I put my hand upon her breast
And the wind from her arse blew sou' sou' west.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 22 Jul 17 - 04:05 PM

there is.. more Eddie Cochran records... 😎

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Elmore
Date: 22 Jul 17 - 04:03 PM

"There ain't no cure for the summertime blues" by Eddie Cochran

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,kenny
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 04:58 PM

From "Oor Hamlet", by Adam MacNaughton :

"A sword fight was arranged for the interested perties,
Wi' a blunted sword for Hamlet, and a shairp sword for Laertes"

Jimmy Crowley, "Invitation To A Funeral" :

"Someone hit Moloney with the carcass of a cat"

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 02:38 PM

My dreams, they aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Ned of the hill
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 11:31 AM

Dark is the evening; silent the hour.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 08:25 AM

"The curfew had been lifted, the gambling wheel shut down,
Anyone with any sense had already left the town"
Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan

"Got a job and tried to put some money away,
But I've got debts that no honest man can pay"
Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 04:06 AM

Sorry, The Work Song is by Kate, not Anna McGarrigle

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 03:50 AM

Puttin wood in the stove
And water in the cup,
You worked so hard
That you died standing up

Anna McGarrigle

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 03:48 AM

Oh, another one, from Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash:

But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

I continue to wonder, however, how the guy got sent to prison in California for a crime he committed in Nevada.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 03:38 AM

I've got another one, from John Prine's "Paradise":

Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: The Sandman
Date: 21 Jul 17 - 03:25 AM

The lily of the valley and the primrose of the dell, bogies bonny belle

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Shakey
Date: 20 Jul 17 - 05:41 PM

from the moment i could talk i was ordered to listen

Cat Stevens

While I'm here may I just say that I've not been on this site for ten years an I could still log in with my old ID - impressive. Hats off to mudcat

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 20 Jul 17 - 12:04 PM

Correction

The rapper line is from "The Piper & The Cow"

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 20 Jul 17 - 03:53 AM

Many, many years ago I flew to the island of Fiji. It was late afernoon and the light was fading. At the time the fields of sugar cane were being set on fire prior to being harvested (in order to kill off the rats and snakes) and as I looked down on the scene from the aircraft I thought of these lines from "The Flying Cloud" : "To the burning shores of Africa/Where the sugar cane does grow." OK it wasn't Africa, but it was an image that has remained in my mind for over fifty years, as has those old song lines.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 19 Jul 17 - 07:15 PM

"You'll be shot if you're caught out there rapping"

From a version of Waterford Boys

Far too good for 'em (rappers) I reckon!

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Skivee, guesting in
Date: 19 Jul 17 - 03:20 PM

"Fight on, m'lads, for I'm wounded but nae slain.
I'll sit me doon tae bleed a while, and then rise tae fight again."

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: jojofolkagogo
Date: 19 Jul 17 - 03:01 PM

Far too many to write here . . .

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: DMcG
Date: 14 Jul 17 - 02:26 AM

A friend wrote a show (with others) about the sinking of the Titanic but much more how it affected all the people of Southampton who provided the majority of the crew. One of the songs contains the line

"It was a night to remember, and a job to forget"

No one talked about PTSD at the time, of course, but this line captures it for me.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: meself
Date: 12 Jul 17 - 02:50 AM

The moon is swimming naked, and the summer night is fragrant ....

- Closing Time, L. Cohen

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Jul 17 - 12:22 AM

Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk, Darth Vader,
Lo Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger

Or maybe
Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 09:01 PM

Bad rhymes get me:
From Eric Bogle's "Belle of Broughton":
They were in love besotted by the bonnie Belle of Broughton.
But I'll forgive him, because it's a lovely song!

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Lou Judson
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 08:09 PM

It's a marvelous night for a moondance - Van Morrison

And it stoned me to my soul. - ibid

just my mood today, there are a thousand others!

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 05:26 PM

...Alice...???

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Some blasphemer
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 05:03 PM

Who the fuck are you?


From Who Are You / The 'Oo

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Phil E
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 03:20 PM

"We marched them forth in inveterate streams" - Boney's Lamentation

"The sun is just a-glimmering - arise my dear" - Lemany

And a magical half line from Searching for Lambs - "strike off the morning dew"

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 12:00 PM

"You give a goodbye sniff of Benzedrine to the convent budgerigar" - "Sister Josephine" by the wonderful Jake Thackeray.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Fred Maslan
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 10:14 AM

"You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train." Gordon Lightfoot

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 09:38 AM

The dust that Pancho bit down south,
Ended up in Lefty's mouth.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: David C. Carter
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 08:59 AM

It must be jelly,cause jam don't shake lie that.

Br-549

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Derrick
Date: 11 Jul 17 - 06:05 AM

If a drunk should come in and see you he'd go straight out and sign the pledge.

Benny Hill the Andalucian Gypsies

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 07:08 PM

I bet you think this song is about you, don't you, don't you, don't you?

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 05:10 PM

"♫Since it is no better, I'm glad it is no worse.♫"

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Neil D
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 04:07 PM

From "Famous Blue Raincoat" by L Cohen:

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

Perfectly written but better when heard in the song, the way his phrasing lets the line unfold a step at a time, surprising in the direction it takes.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,James Fryer
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 03:44 PM

"Beans could get no keener reception/In a beanery"

Mountain Greenery (Lorenz Hart, lyrics)

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 02:51 PM

Guess it depends on the recording.. and I can never hear enough of 'em..

"sitting on my la la" being another...

I think I read a serious critical analysis of the lyrics 20 odd years ago...

uh uh.. or uh um...???

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: meself
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 02:40 PM

I hear "sittin' IN la-la" (but I remember it as "sittin' in THE la-la" - and I trust my memory!).

Actually, "sittin' in la-la" makes a bit of sense - in the sense of "la-la land" .....

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 02:30 PM

quite possibly...

"I'm sittin' here, la, la waiting for my ya ya.. Uh huh, uh huh"... 😎



Ya Ya

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 12:50 PM

Auto correct grrrrrrrs.
"Me, the Peaceful Heart"

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 12:49 PM

"Sitting in the shade of a rain-soaked orange blossom"
Opening line of Lulu's"My The Peaceful Heart"

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,Roger Knowles
Date: 10 Jul 17 - 12:36 PM

I can still remember when I bought my first guitar - Kevin Johnson, "Rock 'n' roll, I gave you all the best years of my life"