best single lines in songs

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: danl
Date: 06 May 99 - 12:02 PM

'getting high on the beer and the atmosphere of a good time' 'cigerette smoke and bad jokes hang in the air' 'all the songs we hate, but we sing them anyway.' all from 'Ginnie' by Fairport Convention. a song that means a lot to me as it so perfectly describes the best possible times and reminds me of sitting listening to my brother playing/singing it....

'she'd feel alone in a crowded room. cry when ever she heard a happy tune' - 'Julie' by the Levellers, another great song. and perhaps the greatest of all the Levellers songs -

'theres only one way of life, and thats your own.'

oh yes, and for the cynic in you... 'every silver lining has a cloud.' ! - 'smile' by the Supernaturals, that one line redeems what would otherwise be a rather naff band!

love ivy b.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 06 May 99 - 11:46 AM

Tom Robinson (war baby): Only the very young and very beautiful could be so aloof, Hanging out with the boys, all swagger and poise.

Kris (& also just about everything else he ever wrote...)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Felipa
Date: 06 May 99 - 11:02 AM

"How can I keep from singing?"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Peter Fisher
Date: 06 May 99 - 10:59 AM

"So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, Say 'Hello in there, hello.'
John Prine.

"To dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, silhouetted by the sea." Dylan

"And the sun will bite your body
As the dust will dry you thirsty
While your muscles beg for mercy, bracero
In the shade of your sombrero
Drop your sweat upon the soil
Like the fruit, your youth will spoil, bracero."
Phil Ochs

"No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends
No clearcut beginnings, so far no dead ends."
Harry Chapin

"Your tears will be trembling now we're somewhere else
One last cup of wine I will pour
I'll kiss you one more time, and leave you on the rolling rive shore, of changes."
Phil Ochs

"Look out kid, it's something you did
God knows when but you're doin' it again."
Dylan

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Ian
Date: 06 May 99 - 08:01 AM

"Forgotten heroes from a forgotten war"

from Eric Bogle's "The Band played Waltzing Matilda"

"Gone where the forests of oak trees have gone, gone to be wasted in battle"

from "The Ladies Dance at Whitsun"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: John Galt
Date: 05 May 99 - 06:50 PM

Be Here Now..... Ram Das

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Gordon Dougherty
Date: 05 May 99 - 05:58 PM

Here's one of my favourites:

"Well, the girls up in Cripple Creek are 'bout half grown,

jump on a boy like a dog on a bone..."

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 May 99 - 02:22 PM

The clergy dazzle us with heaven, or they damn us in to hell.

Leon Rosselson: 'The World Turned Upside Down'. Again..... I do like this song a lot.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 05 May 99 - 11:50 AM

I forgot "I saw a Werewolf drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vics, his hair was perfect" by Warren Zevon.

The Rod Stewart song I referred to was in fact "Every Picture Tells a Story" not "Reason to Believe", I'm still not sure who wrote it.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 05 May 99 - 03:39 AM

We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden

listen! there's a helluva good universe next door. let's go! --e.e.cummings

Or the whole poem:

pity this busy monster manunkind
not. progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim, death and life safely beyond,
plays with the bigness of his littleness.
electrons deify one razor blade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen
'til unwish returns on its unself. a world of made
is not a world of born. pity poor flesh
and trees, poor stars and stone, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical
ultraomnipotence. we doctors know
a hopeless case if...listen!there's a
helluva good universe next door. let's go.

again from memory--likely errors in line breaks and punctuation

like the second coming, many great lines: I particularly like "progress is a comfortable disease"

luddites of the world arise! the 18th century can be regained.

--seed

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 99 - 01:27 AM

Hi, Pete. If you go here there are several books about him and some collections of his writings. What a brilliant mind and writer! I didn;t do that through the Mudcat link, so you mihgt want to actually go there that way, if you plan on buying anything; that way teh Mudcat will get a share of the proceeds and credit for sending someone their way.

A really good novel which is, I think, on the best seller lists is "1916" by Morgan Llwywelyn. She does a good job of blending the fiction with actual quoted material of teh real historical figures which are all cited. It's very well done.

Thanks for asking. I believe humankind comes up with soem of their best stuff in times such as that. No wonder we've all quoted from it a lot.

kat

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 04 May 99 - 10:55 PM

Leej: Right you are (and wrong I was: "Twenty centuries of stony silence/have been vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle...). Yeats was a mystic who believed that history happened in two-millenia cycles, and that we were nearing the end of the Christian cycle. He was also a fascist sympathizer who believed that the "rough beast," fascism, was a good thing, because Christianity (or that aspect of it represented by "a rocking cradle") was too gentle to save civilization. Fascism/totalitarianism is certainly a rough beast, but fortunately not so indomitable as he believed. But there are certainly other rough beasts out there: nuclear and chemical and biological weapons, corporate power, virulent ethnic nationalism, uncontrolled "development" of natural resources, you name it; we got it. --seed

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 May 99 - 07:18 PM

Kindred Spirits are hard to find, you can wait a lifetime.

From Kindred Spirits by Kevin Stenlake(of The Shambles).

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: LEJ
Date: 04 May 99 - 07:02 PM

I think the lines quoted from the Rod Stewart "Reason to Believe" are by Tim Hardin.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: annamill
Date: 04 May 99 - 04:59 PM

The only thing that looks good on me.....is you!

Bryan Adams

Anna

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 04 May 99 - 04:02 PM

God said Abraham kill me a son, Abe said man you must be puttin' me on, God said no, Abe said what? God said you can do what you want Abe, but, Next time you see me comin, you'd better run. Abe said where ya want this killin' done, God said out on Highway 61. Bob Dylan

In the shade of an oak, down by the river, sat an old man and a boy, settin' sails, spinnin' tales, and fishin' for whales, with a lady that they both enjoy. Willie Nelson

Hey there brother, who you jivin' whith that Kozmic Debris? Frank Zappa

For you can't hang a man for killin' a woman, who's trying to steal your horse. Willie Nelson

My Head Hurts, my feet stink and I don't love Jesus, One of them mornings, musta been one of them nights. Jimmy Buffet

I've Gotta leave this town running, 'cause, Walkin's way too slow. Big Bill Broonzy

And yes, there's something you can send back to me, Spanish boots of Spanish leather. Bob Dylan

I'm sick of love, That I'm in the thick of it, This kind of love, I'm so sick of it Bob Dylan

Yeah I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, Just don't be here in the morning when I wake up. The Faces

The women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoes, They wouldn't give you the time of day. Unsure of author, performed by Rod Stewart. I was down there paintin' on the old wood shed when a can of black paint did fell on my head, I went down to rub and scrub, but I had to sit in back of the tub, cost a quarter, half price.

My telephone rang, it would not stop, It was President Kennedy callin' me up, he said my friend Bob whatta we need to make the country grow, I said my friend John, Bridgit Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, the country'll grow. Bob Dylan

Now the rainman gave me two cures, Then he said, "Jump right in." The one was Texas medicine, The other was just railroad gin. An' like a fool I mixed them An' it strangled up my mind, An' now people just get uglier An' I have no sense of time. Oh, Mama, can this really be the end, To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again. Bob Dylan

Jazz is not dead...it just smells funny.

Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?

Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them in the ass. Frank Zappa

How's your new love I hope he's doing fine Heard you told him That you'd love him 'til the end of time Now that's the same thing, that you told me Seems like just the other day Gee, ain't it funny, how time slips away? Willie Nelson

I'm so Lonesome I could cry. Hank Williams

There's a lot of doctors that tell me That I'd better start to slowin' it down But there's more old drunks Than there are old doctors So I guess we'd better have another round Willie Nelson

The sun is filled with ice And gives no warmth at all The sky was never blue The stars are raindrops Searching for a place to fall And I never cared for you. More Willie

Just pretend I never happened And erase me from your mind You will not want to remember Any love as cold as mine. Yet more Willie Nelson

Look out man, I got the Madman blues. John Lee Hooker

I'd better stop now as I keep reminding myself of more.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: LEJ
Date: 04 May 99 - 02:13 PM

bSeed... thanks for the correction, and for printing the poem in it's entirety. That is one powerful piece of work, and perhaps more powerful in our times than when Yeats wrote it. "the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned" indeed.

LEJ

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 04 May 99 - 10:23 AM

remarkable how many of us have quoted something from the Easter Rebellion; I agree with Bassen about the Foggy Dew but the line that gets me is "Britannia's sons with their long range guns." Lenin had the cruiser Aurora and won, Pearse and Connolly had nothing and lost the battle, till their ghosts won the war just a few years later. katlaughing, where can I get a book on Pearse's poetry? I have come to the Easter rebellion backward from friends who got me interested in James Joyce & then told me I had to understand Irish history to start to understand the Wake. . . should we start a separate thread here? PETE

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 May 99 - 08:17 AM

`Thou shalt not' is half the law of Ireland, and `Thou must' is the other half - P.H. Pearse -

...the wise have pitted the fool that hath striven ot give a life
In the world of time and space maong the bulks of actual things,
To a dream thatw as dreamed in the heart, and that only the heart could hold.
Oh wise men, riddle me this: what if the dream come true? - Pearse -

And this was delivered in a grand way on a BBC drama by an undercover cop; it really was classic, a subordinate female cop is trying to pick her up, when she says to her: "I don't mind being thought a dyke; but what bothers me is ya thinkin' I am a stupid dyke!" Go gyrl!!!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 04 May 99 - 07:40 AM

Faith fails against these fortresses:
Garlands of love,
Victor's laurels,
Wreaths for the dead.

Some ECW poet - Donne maybe?

And from the Bhagavad Gita, Siva says to Arjun:

The wise grieve not for those who live. And grieve not for those who die, for life and death shall pass away.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Barbara
Date: 04 May 99 - 07:00 AM

"Money has its own way and money has to grow
It feeds on human blood and bone, as any child should know
It's metal stuff and paper stuff with no life of its own,
And so we have to nurture it on human blood and bone,
Blood and bone."
---- The Money Crop Malvina Reynolds.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Banjer
Date: 04 May 99 - 06:48 AM

Money, you can't take it with you
But try going anywhere without it!

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Håvard
Date: 04 May 99 - 05:34 AM

and another Dylan on money:
"Let me ask you one question: is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could?"

Håvard

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: bassen
Date: 04 May 99 - 04:40 AM

Like others who've posted here, I have many favorites. A major motivation for singing for me is to be able to sing those lines where music and words seem to resonate together into something greater, where you really look forward to getting to that part of a song. As a historian, I can disuss the pro's and con's of the Easter rebellion, the strategic necessity, the tactical absurdities, etc. and never bat an eyelash. But the image of armed men marching not to pipes or drums but "the angelus bells o'er the Liffy swells" gets me every time, my eyes are brimming even now...

There's a line from one song I never sing though, that sticks with me and that only gets truer and truer:

Money doesn't talk, it swears - Bob Dylan

bassen

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Håvard
Date: 04 May 99 - 03:12 AM

"whar we'll meet up wi' oor kinsfolk, fae a' the country roon
and the gang-aboot folk tak' tae the road when yellow's on the broom"

"We gave all we had, now our homes they've pulled down
and I cry out REPUBLIC!, and allegiance to no crown"
Håvard

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 04 May 99 - 02:43 AM

Leej: Almost right line; wrong poem. "The Second Coming," all of which is one of my favorite lines:


THE SECOND COMING
By William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in its widening gyre,
The falcon cannot hear the falconer.
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world;
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
And everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of spiritus mundi troubles my sight.
Somewhere in sands of the desert
A creature with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
Is moving its slow thighs while all about
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again, but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony silence
Have been stirred to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

That's from memory: I may have a few errors in line division, maybe a word or two off, and certainly some punctuation errors.

--seed

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 04 May 99 - 02:29 AM

Love, it is a killin' thing,

have you ever felt the pain?

Or... as some old cattle boss was reputed to say when he and his bunch of cowboys confronted a gang of new farmers on the Kansas plains..........

"Bend 'em west boys, ain't nuthin here but sunflowers and sonsabitches anyway".

Frank i.t.s.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 May 99 - 11:40 PM

How old would you be, if you didn't know how old you were? -Ruth Gordon-

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in drove. Whistle and dance the shimmy and you've got an audience. - Diogenes, 4th century BC -

It's no disgrace to be poor. The only disgrace is in not doing something about it. - Flora E. Youmans - my grandma

There I was - doing 55mph on I95 in Connecticut, speeding bullet-like cars streaming past me on both sides, partng like the waters for Moses, because gawd forbid....I was doin' the speed limit! - kat -

All that matters is to be one with the living God. To be a creature in the house of the God of Life. Like a cat asleep on a chair. At peace, in peace, Master of the house, with the Mistress at home. - D.H. Lawrence - from the Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. - E.B. White -

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Alice
Date: 03 May 99 - 11:25 PM

Midnight at the oasis, send your camel to bed

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: alison
Date: 03 May 99 - 11:17 PM

The young wear their freedom like cheap perfume.

(Carrie.. recorded by Cliff Richard, written I think by B.A.Robertson)

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Ronn
Date: 03 May 99 - 11:09 PM

Tomorrow lies in the cradle, Tomorrow has eyes that shine, Tomorrow lies in the cradle, with eyes a little like mine. --Fred Hellerman, TOMORROW LIES IN THE CRADLE

When your grandma dies cussing a wrestler, it's a secret that you've just got to keep. --Rev Billy C Wirtz, GRANDMA VS THE CRUSHER

There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. --Jimmy Buffett, FRUITCAKES

You're only as old as the women you feel. In that case, I'm 85. --Groucho Marx, one of his autobiographies

I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours --Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 May 99 - 09:02 PM

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -Mark Twain

There is so much good in the worst of us; and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us. - I've had this on my chalkboard for years and the author's name has worn away. Sorry.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: bigJ
Date: 03 May 99 - 07:54 PM

My favourite line from a shanty is - "the beef was as salt as Lot's wife's ass"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Driscoll
Date: 03 May 99 - 07:53 PM

"Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift", Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues".

"But to work til you're dead for a room and a bed is not the reason I left Mullingar", P. Cooksey, "The Reason I Left Mullingar".

"I could have been someone, well so could have anyone", Shane McGowan, "Fairytale of New York".

"On a quiet street where old ghosts meet, I see her walking now...", P. Kavanagh, "Raglan Road".

"And the drunk on the bus told me how to get rich, I was glad we weren't going too far", L. Reilly, "Summer in Dublin".

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Allan C.
Date: 03 May 99 - 04:22 PM

Every day I wake up with a new list of favorites.

There are so very many from Paul Simon, for instance, that I hardly know where to start. Some speak words that I have felt in my own heart. Others simply conjure up images which capture my imagination:
"Like a rat in a maze, the path before me lies…" - Patterns
"He holds his crayon rosary tighter in his hand." - Poem On An Underground Wall
"And I watch as her breasts gently rise, gently fall" - Wednesday Morning 3AM
"There but for the grace of you go I." - Kathy's Song

"And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference…" - The Dangling Conversation

"And when I awoke and felt you warm and near,
I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears.
Oh I love you, girl. Oh, I love you." - For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her

"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail." - El Condor Pasa

"Seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go,
Looking for the places only they would know." - The Boxer

"Ask me and I will play all the love that I hold inside" - Song For the Asking

"The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly
Into our hearts and our brains" - The Train In the Distance

"'Kathy, I'm lost'" and "…I'm empty and aching and I don't know why." - America
"When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all." - Kodachrome

"… I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me, smiled reassuringly" - American Tune

There are hundreds of other favorites from as many sources. Even a short list of my dearest favorites would be too long to post. Virtually all of the songs I choose to sing have some outstanding lyrics somewhere within them that made them appealing to me in the first place. Each, in turn, becomes a favorite depending solely upon my mood. Like right now my thoughts are held by the words, "I'm going back to California - place where I was partly raised…". This is probably because tomorrow I will put my daughter on a plane that will take her to her new home and new job in Santa Cruz. California is where I was born and partly raised, so, in a way I feel like I am sending her home. But while I am extremely proud of Kelly for landing this great opportunity, it is hard to say goodbye…besides, I wish I could go too!

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: LEJ
Date: 03 May 99 - 03:47 PM

" And what rough beast, his hour come round at last,

Shuffles toward Bethlehem to be born" WB Yeats/Sailing to Byzantium

" With rue my heart is laden, for many a friend I had.

For many a rose-lipped maiden, and many a light-foot lad

By brooks too broad for leaping, the lightfoot lads are laid

The rose-lipped maidens sleeping in fields where roses fade" AE Housman

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Shack
Date: 03 May 99 - 03:44 PM

"They've never seen spring hit the Great Divide; and they've never heard old Camp Cookie sing." Night Rider's Lament

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Twilight
Date: 03 May 99 - 03:42 PM

for the hopes of all the hopeless and the prayers of all the poor
will be running by his side to keep him straight

ab paterson (father o'reilly's horse)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Shack
Date: 03 May 99 - 03:35 PM

"They've never seen spring hit the Great Divide; and they've never heard old Camp Cookie sing." Night Rider's Lament

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Songbob
Date: 03 May 99 - 03:27 PM

One of the relies here asked:

Tucker, it's something I had marked in my Oxford Dictionary of Quotes. The author, Arthur O'Shaughnessy lived from 1844-1881. Up to the last line it gives the credit to his "Ode". The last line does not make reference to what it is from; I would assume it is from the same piece. I would asusme, also, that is where we got the expression about the movers and shakers of the world. If it's not in a tune, or even if it is, write yer own, eh?

Well, it has been done, you know. In fact, it's been done by a lot of folks, including the following, some of whom are folkies:

Jake Walton (Brit.) Lorraine Lee Hammond Bob Zentz Bob Clayton Edward Elgar

The original poem was 35 stanzas or so long, but Shaunessy had an editor who urged him to cut it down. The Elgar setting (1912) has more "verses" than I learned (it has six or seven), but I've never tried to compare my setting to his.

We did have a Folkslore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) Getaway (camping weekend) where two invited guests were Lorraine Lee Hammond and Bob Zentz, so we cooked up a workshop called "from poem to song" to compare the three versions. Lorraine did only the first verse, and in 3/4 time; Bob Zentz had the three verses I do, but used the middle verse as a sort of bridge. I use the opening verse as a chorus and have the other two as "verses."

It's a nice set of lyrics, although the longer version gets a bit much in the "flowery" department for contemporary ears. I'll look to see if it's in Digitrad, but I can't do that till I post this. If it's not there, I'll post the lyrics for adding.

Bob Clayton

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Jaxon
Date: 03 May 99 - 03:25 PM

"Say goodbye to the landlord for me, sons of bitches always bore me.
Guy Clark

Jack Murray

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Cara
Date: 03 May 99 - 02:35 PM

Anything from Raglan Road;

"the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine" (Indigo Girls)

...like holy wine, so bitter and so sweet, oh I could drink a case of you, and I would still be on my feet"

"I stopped into a bar at 3a.m., to seek solace in a bottle, or possibly a friend, I woke up with a headache like my head against the wall, twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before, and I'd went there seeking clarity" (Indigo Girls)

"But late at night when the cold wind moans, in a long black veil she cries over my bones"

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends" (Yeats)

I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens, only something in me understand; the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses; nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands. (ee cummings)

" the leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old, but his blood runs through my instrument and his song is in my soul"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Tony Burns
Date: 03 May 99 - 01:19 PM

Bseed: You asked:

Janis did a good job on the song, but how can you play blues harp with one hand?

If you ever get a chance to see Chris Whiteley play he will show you how it can be done with no hands and without one of those 'round your neck harp holders either. (He's famous for it. Just pops the whole thing in his mouth and plays.)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: dan
Date: 03 May 99 - 01:03 PM

from Shakespeare's Sonnet 116:

"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy cheeks and lips within his circling sickle's compass come."

and from a lesser know sonnet by Murray Bennett:

"I loved two eyes set deep and wide apart, but most of all a stone that was a heart."

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: mountain tyme
Date: 03 May 99 - 11:37 AM

From the U. S. Civil War song "Eartha" by H.L. & J.P. Webster, Better known from the Columbia #150 recording version of "Lorina" by the Blue Ridge Mountain Singers.....The saga of a prisoner writing a letter home......."One hundred months have passed Lorina, since last I held your hand in mine, and felt your pulse beat fast Lorina, while mine beat faster far than thine".

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Pete peterson
Date: 03 May 99 - 10:58 AM

I would rather ride a wagon and go to heaven than to hell in an automobile (Uncle Dave Macon) I may be crazy and all like that, but I got good sense you see (Charlie Poole) Because I helped to wind the clock, I came to hear it strike (Michael O'Rahilly as quoted by Wm. Butler yeats)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: The Shambles
Date: 03 May 99 - 09:26 AM

Ditto the last one.

Remember, wherever you go, there you are. (From a MAD MAX film)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: puzzled
Date: 03 May 99 - 09:19 AM

imagine all the people living life in peace.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Frank of Toledo
Date: 03 May 99 - 01:30 AM

'HOW THE HELL CAN A PERSON GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING.....AND COME HOME IN THE EVENING AND HAVE NOTHING TO SAY"......JOHN PRINE 1971....

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 02 May 99 - 11:47 PM

This compact philosophy of life:

"Give me water when I'm thirsty
Give me whiskey when I'm dry
Give me Alberta when I need her
And sweet heaven when I die."

--from a version of Stagolee collected by Alan Lomax at Parchman Prison Farm, Mississippi, in the 40s (or 50s?).

--Charlie Baum