Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Date: 10 Jul 17 - 09:08 AM Send lawyers ,guns and money ,Dad The shit has hit the fan Warren Zevon |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Rob Naylor Date: 10 Jul 17 - 03:40 AM Bad blood is like an egg stain on your jeans - you can lick it, but it still won't go away. (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 10 Jul 17 - 03:03 AM by Meredith Wilson Did ja ever try steppin' on a piss ant? Well, there's one now. Jump 'im, stomp 'im! Thinkin' you got 'im? Thinkin' he's quit? He don't think so. There he goes! And ja can be gol-durn sure I'm as good as any piss ant that were down or haint that were up. Sincerely, Gargoyle Hell if I'm gonna eat cat-fish heads all my life! ! ! |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself Date: 10 Jul 17 - 12:50 AM He's gone where the good doggies go. - 'Bellman' |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Rapparee Date: 09 Jul 17 - 08:47 PM Well, there are so many! "Be silent or agree with me." --Wolf Tones, Radio Toor-i-li-ay "You must give me lessons For I've never killed before." --Tom Paxton, The Willing Conscript Lift your glasses friends with mine and give your hand to me I'm the tyrant's foe, I'm freedom's friend, I'm an outlawed rapparee. --Trad., The Outlawed Rapparee So pass the billy 'round boys, don't let the pint just stand there For tonight we drink the health of every overlander. --Trad., Queensland Overlanders |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: RTim Date: 09 Jul 17 - 06:25 PM The first line of the next song I am going to sing.................. Tim Radford |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 09 Jul 17 - 06:16 PM Depends on how I'm feeling, and also on what "favourite line" means - some lines stick in your head, and some lines feel good to sing or to say, and they aren't necessarily the same lines. And sometimes when you check on it the lines that stick in your head it turns out you've changed them. One like that I thought I couldn't get out of my head was a Johnny Cash song "Beer for breakfast once again" which turned out to be "Beans for breakfast once again, it's hard to eat them from the can". And there's words that sum up a whole story succinctly - Hank Williams "My son calls another man Daddy". And another is a song I was haunted by for years just because of the line "I still remember what was on the jukebox when she turned", which was from a song Nic Jones sang. And seing this thread set me thinking about that, and if you open a thread that was at time of writing just next to this, called "Obit: Jonathan Eberhart", and scroll to the end, you'll see a story about where that led me. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: David C. Carter Date: 09 Jul 17 - 02:04 PM "I forced my hands in my pockets,and felt with my thumb, And gallantly handed her my very last piece of gum". The Boy himself. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Roz Date: 09 Jul 17 - 12:18 PM The cops and the legislators called them dangers agitators, and they laid Jesus Christ in his grave. Woody Guthrie's Jesus Christ, to the tune of Jesse James. Another favorite, the first time I ever heard the Mingulay Boat Song, I was part of a group of people rowing hell-bent thru the San Juan Islands, where summer homes looked down upon our sorry selves, and I mis-heard the line 'what care we how wide the minch is' as 'what care we how white the mansions' and still sing it that way. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: David Carter (UK) Date: 09 Jul 17 - 03:21 AM Kristofferson has featured already, never had a lot of time for him myself. But: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" Ought to be tattoed on the foreheads of Boris, Gove, Farage et al. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Erich Date: 09 Jul 17 - 02:57 AM "I'm headin' into trouble with a big grin on my face" also "she grabbed me by my balls and said I'm so in love with you" from "Sir" Oliver Mally - Headin' into trouble |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Stewie Date: 09 Jul 17 - 12:38 AM From Blues in the bottle: Little chickens don't do nothin', but they strut their stuff --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,gopherit Date: 09 Jul 17 - 12:27 AM From The Goodnight Loving Trail by Utah Phillips regarding getting old "There's nothing that can change it, there is no one to blame." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gallus Moll Date: 08 Jul 17 - 08:16 PM Robert Burns 'Highland Mary': The golden hours on angel wings flew ower me and my dearie Hamish Henderson 'Freedom Come All Ye': Roch the wind in the clear day's dawin', blaws the cloods heelster-goudie ower the bay Iain Ingram 'Beneath The Painted Veil' Beware of fools and words of doubtful wisdom, the hawk who masquerades as gentle dove |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Bert Date: 08 Jul 17 - 06:20 PM About the hemp rope on his neck the golden ringlets clung - Roddy McCorley. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,MacTalla Date: 08 Jul 17 - 04:35 PM From Woody's Pretty Boy Floyd: "Some will rob you with a six-gun; some with a fountain pen." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: oldhippie Date: 08 Jul 17 - 12:18 PM "Life is a rainstorm, but love is the ark" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Desi C Date: 08 Jul 17 - 09:04 AM From Song For Ireland Drinking All The Day, In Old Pubs Where Fiddlers Love To PLay From Raglan Road The Queen Of Hearts Still Baking Tarts, and I not making Hay From I'm So Lonesome The Silence Of A Fallen Star, Lights Up The Purple Sky |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Michael Date: 08 Jul 17 - 08:48 AM " May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold" John Martyn. Mike |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 08 Jul 17 - 07:46 AM from John Warner's Bring out the Banners How dare we lose what they have won? |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Raggytash Date: 08 Jul 17 - 07:04 AM From Peter Bond's Stillness That The Snow Brings: "And in the evening hear the peals the bellman sends, leap from the tower and tumble laughing down the hill" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Steve Shaw Date: 08 Jul 17 - 05:54 AM I'll post this in the hope that Jack may not be reading this thread. 😉 Almost any line from a Jimmy MacCarthy song. In the words of Christy, he's been given the gift. "And she like a ghost beside me goes down with the ease of a dolphin And emerges unlearned, unshamed , unharmed." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Effsee Date: 08 Jul 17 - 05:24 AM "But for two thousand years, he's brought nothing but tears, and the cross that they plant on the graves" ...Harvey Andrews. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,GUEST Marcia Palmater Date: 07 Jul 17 - 08:34 PM From Robert Burns' My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose: "Till a' the seas gang dry, my love, and the rocks melt wi' the sun ...' |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Deckman Date: 07 Jul 17 - 07:18 PM "You could make me believe, By the falling of your arm, That sun, rose in the West" From "Pretty Saro" as sung by Walt Robertson bob(deckman)nelson |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: frogprince Date: 07 Jul 17 - 07:17 PM I tried to get this in last night, but the post wouldn't take. From "Zebra Dun", author unknown, sung by Cisco" Then Shorty grabbed a lariat, and he roped the zebra dun, and gave him to the stranger, and we waited for the fun. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gabriel Date: 07 Jul 17 - 07:16 PM My favourite line of any song (and a wonderful opening line) id from 'Sweet Carnlough Bay'. "When winter was brawling, o'er high hills and mountains" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: StephenH Date: 07 Jul 17 - 06:57 PM Impossible task! However, here's a line from "No Gods (and Precious Few Heroes)" by Brian McNeil. It's actually full of lines which could qualify as favourites, but I like the wry humour of this one: "Try goin' down the broo with your claymore in your hand and count all the Princes in the queue" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: robomatic Date: 07 Jul 17 - 02:42 PM Acknowledged by NPR and Susan Stamberg: Yip Harburg, "The Eagle and Me" Ever since the day when the world was an onion The first thing I think of when the subject is brought up: Warren Zevon, "Jungle Work" We parachute in....we parachute out |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: andymac Date: 07 Jul 17 - 10:47 AM There's too many. My favourites change depending on the mood but some of the ones which always move me are "Like waves the sheep rolled in as they drove us from the glenside". The dark Loch- Alistair Hulett "Ah but ye're no the first that thon Scots have beguiled..". Flooer O Northumberland- Trad. But the sparkle of her laughter ever after I'll recall, Like the linklin, trinklin jinklin as the mountain burns fall" Bonnie Lass O the Morning- Jack Foley "you must rise up with the dawn and trudge to the mill in the early morn" Handweaver and Factory Maid- Trad Ask me tomorrow and it'd probably be slightly different. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Tiger Date: 07 Jul 17 - 10:32 AM "Bone and blood is the price of coal" ... The Ballad of Springhill — Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Jackaroodave Date: 07 Jul 17 - 10:31 AM "New Jersey Turnpike in the wee, wee hours . . ." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Jul 17 - 10:29 AM The Turtles I really think you're groovy, let's go out to a movie So bad it is good. They reckon it was ironic but I am not so sure :-) DtG |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: fat B****rd Date: 07 Jul 17 - 10:23 AM "You know how many leaves there is on a tree You know who killed the Dead Sea" Willie Harper "The Power Of Love" "The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handles" Guess Who? |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Steve Shaw Date: 07 Jul 17 - 08:31 AM One line from The Grand Coulee Dam by Woody Guthrie: "In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray" Sheer poetry. Beautiful alliteration. The rest of the verse is equally good but I'm only allowed one line! |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,DaveA Date: 07 Jul 17 - 07:43 AM Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes And found my cleanest dirty shirt Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Mo the caller Date: 07 Jul 17 - 07:10 AM Depends on your mood when you hear them. And I suppose the lines that stick are the ones that echo a sad mood. ...died in the church and was buried along with her name -nobody came. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,matt milton Date: 07 Jul 17 - 07:02 AM I also always thought that these opening lines were absolutely amazing: "The trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green, The day is past and gone, my love, that you and I have seen." Never liked the rest of the song much, to be honest. I've sometimes wondered whether I could sing just those two lines, as a sort of haiku of a song... or maybe use them as the springboard for a song about getting old and handing over the real business of living to the next generation. (God that sounds depressing, ha ha!) |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,matt milton Date: 07 Jul 17 - 06:55 AM "little birdie, little birdie, come sing to me your song got a short time to be here, and a long time to be gone" Manages to crystallise what existentialism - indeed, most philosophy full stop - is trying to say, in just two lines. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Snuffy Date: 07 Jul 17 - 06:45 AM With a smile upon her countenance She answered "Jack Munro" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Jul 17 - 06:34 AM From ''The Little Pot Stove'' sung by Nic Jones ''Where the chill seeps in your soul'' https://youtu.be/Nj0phYz38NU?list=PL5B538B7C3C7BA03C |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself Date: 07 Jul 17 - 05:01 AM With their goblin brains, They could spell their names: G-O-B! L-I-N! G-g-g-goblins! - Fred Penner |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: IanW Date: 07 Jul 17 - 04:40 AM Keith Marsden from Prospect Providence - "and the blame gets passed right down the line till the gaffer goes and kicks the sheep" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,SteveT Date: 07 Jul 17 - 04:13 AM From The Bonny Bunch of Roses "If I'd lived I might have been clever" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Howard Jones Date: 07 Jul 17 - 03:36 AM "If it weren't for the alligators I'd sleep out in the wood" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Jim Carroll Date: 07 Jul 17 - 02:34 AM From 'Rambling Boys of Pleasure' - the greatest description of youth in oral literature: after the singer has been rejected by his lover because of his poverty; "For I am young and the world is wide" A description of pregnancy from the ballad, 'Gil Morris' by a woman confessing to her husband that the youth he has just killed is not her lover but her illegitimate son: "I once was full of Gil Morris as the hip is of the stone" (the rose hip is a berry made up of a large stone surrounded by a thin layer of flesh) A bad weather omen from, 'Sir Patrick Spens': "I saw the new moon yester-e'en with the old moon in her arms" A declaration of love by a defiant young woman from 'Bonny Peggy': "It's I would lie in Jimmy's arms 'though his grave was growing green" They don't write them like that any more! Jim Carroll |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe Offer Date: 07 Jul 17 - 02:17 AM Here in California, fruit hangs heavy on the vines; There's no gold, I thought I'd warn you; And the hills turn brown in the summertime. Kate Wolf, "Here In California" -Joe Offer, suffering through a hundred-degree week- |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Dave Hanson Date: 07 Jul 17 - 02:15 AM From A Pub With No Beer, ' Theres a far away look on the face of the bum ' Dave H |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: rich-joy Date: 07 Jul 17 - 01:01 AM OMG! ya can't have just one, eh!! I'll start with these two though : "She'd a smile like an acre of Sunflowers" from "Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail" (Lisa Null, and many more) and "There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the Light gets in" (from Leonard Cohen's "Anthem") Cheers! R-J |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 07 Jul 17 - 12:56 AM "It was just too true to be good" Just Like Jim Brown, Pierce Pettis |
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