Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 14 Mar 05 - 10:44 AM |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST,Splott Man who clicked too soon before Date: 14 Mar 05 - 10:46 AM "Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes" from Mike Smith's Dutchman |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: YorkshireYankee Date: 14 Mar 05 - 01:38 PM Oops... that "And see that maiden shining in his eyes" post is from me (didn't realize I'd lost my cookie.) |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 14 Mar 05 - 02:32 PM "Did they get ya ta trade, yer heroes for ghosts, hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze?" -"Wish You Were Here," Pink Floyd |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST,Bex McK Date: 14 Mar 05 - 02:48 PM "Freedom, oh freedom, that's just some people talking...." The Eagles, Desperado "I hope when I die and the ages do roll, my body will blacken and turn into coal. Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home, and pity the miner that's diggin my bones" Merle Travis, Dark as a Dungeon Too many good ones, but those are two of my favs. Oh yeah, and I really like "Walkin due south, out of Roanoke, I caught a trucker out of Philly, had a nice long toke"-- from Wagon Wheel by the Old Crow Medicine Show. |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: katlaughing Date: 13 Jul 06 - 05:22 PM refresh...this is one of the good old ones, imo |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Peace Date: 13 Jul 06 - 05:24 PM "Honey I don't care, I ain't in love with your hair." |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: freightdawg Date: 13 Jul 06 - 10:16 PM "He was born in the summer of his 27th year, Coming home to a place he'd never been before" John Denver, Rocky Mountain High "The wind is the whisper of our mother the earth" JD, Windsong "In a place of enchantment, where the wild things are known, Will the future remember, when the lovers are gone?" JD, A Song For All Lovers "And you wonder where we're going, where's the rhyme, where's the reason" JD, Ryhmes and Reasons Oh love to some is like a cloud to some as strong as steel, For some a way of living, For some a way to feel, And some say love is holding on And some say love is letting go, And some say love is everything, And some say they don't know..." JD, Perhaps Love Freightdawg, in a real Colorado frame of mind. |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 14 Jul 06 - 12:36 AM Too late, but never mind. I hear the noise of wings. If ever you heard a little dog bark Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel She makes a small hole in the frost on the window Walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn. And Mary gathered cherries while Joseph stood around. And pass as light by him as he can by me First flower of their wilderness, star of their night Her hair shone like gold in the hot morning sun. Till the rain comes tumbling down. Follow me, follow me home. I'll pass the time like some machine There'll be no policemen there And painted rooms are bonny And now I have lived, I know not how long Tie my bones to his back, turn our faces to the west Amid these dark satanic mills If I were a woman as I am a man It will all come right by tomorrow night Die Liebe dauert oder dauert nicht And turns to set the mirror gently face down on the stove Unsre beiden Schatten sahn wie einer aus. And some of them will marry, and one will marry me. Give motherlove and lumpytums. With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Seduced a maid who hanged herself one Monday in her garters. Just need you, baby, when the summer come. I'm tired of living and scared of dying The silent stars go by. Alas! It was to none but me. Trudno vyskazat' i ne vyskazat' Your face will shine through all our tears And in the fight that followed But not so little boys Cool Colorado rain This world is a world of lies. When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall Rozhenkes mit mandeln Put my boots on tall, read the writing on the wall Rocks the cradle and cries We weren't lovers like that, and besides, it would still be all right. Greasy rails, red clay trails I'd say snow's what we've got. Chickens crowing on Sourwood Mountain Sweated in the sun that was hot at dawn Sweet whips ding dong Let the 2:19 ease my troubled mind She said she'd meet me when I come Oh, when will we ever learn? --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Reason will conflict with faith so long as respect for evidence conflicts with contempt for evidence. :|| |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Bill D Date: 14 Jul 06 - 05:43 PM re: unrequited love. "since it is no better, I'm glad that it is no worse: Brandy in my bottle and money in my purse" from: I've Rambled this Country, Both Earlye and Late |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Snuffy Date: 14 Jul 06 - 05:53 PM Then she made her way homewards, with one star awake |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Big Mick Date: 14 Jul 06 - 06:12 PM Will Rogers never met Howard Cosell |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 14 Jul 06 - 07:11 PM "I thought that I'd find A place or a time When someone or something Would last..." I Walk Alone At the moment I don't remember the author's name. |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: David C. Carter Date: 14 Jul 06 - 07:26 PM I've made shoes for everyone,but I still go barefeet.Dylan You can see clear down to the bottom,deeper. Depending on where you stand,how you look, and what you wanna see. Rodney Crowell. |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: frogprince Date: 14 Jul 06 - 07:54 PM Man, where does a guy really start? So many of the ones already given have been stuck under my skin for years, too. Someone beat me to "I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul" "He's a pilgrim, and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned" Kris, "The Pilgrim, Chapter 33. "I have seen the David; I've seen the Mona Lisa, too; and I have heard Doc Watson play Columbus Stockade Blues" Guy Clark, "Dublin Blues". "You come home straight, and you come home curly; sometimes you don't come home at all" John Prine, "The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" "Yesterday's dead, and tomorrow is blind, and I live one day at a time" Willy Nelson, "One Day at a Time". |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: David C. Carter Date: 14 Jul 06 - 07:59 PM "But the lady beside me is the one I have chosen, To walk through my life Like a coat from the cold" Guy Clark |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Dave Earl Date: 14 Jul 06 - 08:12 PM May the sun always shine wherever you are, But you'll still need the darkness to show you the stars Rest for a while - Colum Sands |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: freightdawg Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:54 PM "When people say that life is rough, I wonder, 'compared to what?'" Charley Pride, I'm Just Me Freightdawg |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: katlaughing Date: 15 Jul 06 - 12:05 AM freighdawg, I love JD's stuff, too, but when he said this one: "The wind is the whisper of our mother the earth" , I don't think he'd ever been to Wyoming! Hardly a whisper there!:-) Great posts, folks! Thanks! |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Abuwood Date: 15 Jul 06 - 03:58 AM " You'll never miss what's given to a friend" Reap and Sew Barry Temple |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST,old git Date: 15 Jul 06 - 05:38 AM "The priest was sprinkling prayers and holy water in the rain" The man in the hat ----Colum Sands |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST,old git Date: 15 Jul 06 - 05:47 AM "Yes to dance beneath a diamond sky with one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea......... Let me forget about today until tomorrow" Mr Tambourine man ----Bob Dylan not exactly a single line...but still.... |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: clairerise Date: 15 Jul 06 - 05:49 AM sugar, aw honey honey |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: The Sandman Date: 15 Jul 06 - 07:02 AM Heres a few;While beating off Magellan straits,it blew exceeding hard Two Jolly Tars we did lose,. blown from the topsall yards. By angry seas the ropes we threw, from their poor grasps was torn We had to leave them to the Sharks,that prowl around Cape Horn from The gallant frigate amphitrite. From sailortown. C Fox Smith, Dick Miles Off a broad brimming water, where the summer sun has died . Like a wounded whale a sounding, in the sunset tide. Bantry Bay song, Dick Miles across the heathery moor came the curlews call. While Dragonflys danced their farewell ball. DickMiles |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST,old git Date: 15 Jul 06 - 07:21 AM my favourite put down I said to her," me darling and how are you this morning?" She said,"None the better for the seeing of you!" from the shanty "Wild goose"( Ranzo) |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 15 Jul 06 - 09:02 AM |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: freightdawg Date: 15 Jul 06 - 08:54 PM Kat, I'm sure JD had been to Wyoming, its just that you all live so far apart up there that the mother earth has to whisper just a little bit louder to be heard. (snicker) And I should have mentioned that I don't think Charley Pride wrote "I'm Just Me" but he sang the song. The line I quoted starts off the second verse and, whoever wrote it, I think it is one of the best lines in all songdom. Freightdawg |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Bert Date: 15 Jul 06 - 11:52 PM Nice selection GUEST Joe F. I'm gonna cheat and quote one of my own. (I think ALL my lyrics are great HEE HEE) "Don't make her choose between her pride and you" |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Joe_F Date: 17 Nov 21 - 06:01 PM I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land. -- Kipling, "Mandalay" |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Steve Shaw Date: 17 Nov 21 - 06:19 PM "In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray" ...Woody describing the Columbia River in his song Grand Coulee Dam. How's that then! |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GerryM Date: 18 Nov 21 - 04:05 AM We are riding on a railroad, singing someone else's song. James Taylor |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: David C. Carter Date: 18 Nov 21 - 05:46 AM "Even the President of the United States must sometimes have to stand naked". |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: David C. Carter Date: 18 Nov 21 - 05:48 AM Shoulda said that line was from Dylan. Sorry. |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: PHJim Date: 18 Nov 21 - 09:06 AM "They're tearing down buildings that I watched them build." -Shel Siverstein "To me you're as fair as you were Maggie, when you and I were young." -George W. Johnson "My face is a well written page Maggie, and time alone was the pen." -George W. Johnson "64 percent of all the world's statistics are made up right there on the spot and 82.4 percent of people believe 'em whether they're accurate statistics or not" - Todd Snider "Is that the sun goin' down over there in the west or just a headlight glow, C&O Express?" -Utah Philips "The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome, I could cry" -Hank Williams |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Sol Date: 18 Nov 21 - 09:51 AM "...And when they're on a roll she pulls a razor from her boot And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet. So put a candle in the window and a kiss upon his lips As the dish outside the window fills with rain......" Time - Tom Waites ----------------- "...And in your lonely flight Haven't you heard the music in the night? Wonderful music Faint as a will o' the wisp Crazy as a loon Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon." Skylark - Hogey Carmichael/Johnny Mercer |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Joe_F Date: 18 Nov 21 - 06:09 PM And overside I heard him call my name. -- Stan Rogers |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST,Martin Ryan Date: 18 Nov 21 - 06:32 PM “These words were composéd by Spencer the Rover …” To me, that’’s one of the great opening lines of the tradition but … it’s all downhill after that! Regards |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Jim McLean Date: 19 Nov 21 - 03:18 AM “Mr Ben Nevis you’re as old as the hills” Bob Halfin. |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GerryM Date: 19 Nov 21 - 06:41 AM Blow the dustcake from your nose – Stan Rogers |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GerryM Date: 19 Nov 21 - 06:43 AM There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GerryM Date: 19 Nov 21 - 06:45 AM If dirt was a kingdom, then you'd be the king. – Utah Phillips |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: RTim Date: 19 Nov 21 - 12:24 PM "The cork is in the bottle..but the Whisky is in me..." Tim Radford |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: PHJim Date: 19 Nov 21 - 01:18 PM So you'd better go romance her before she hauls off and flies to France, sir Or up and dies of cancer And it's no longer your choice to make -Vance Gilbert |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: PHJim Date: 19 Nov 21 - 01:20 PM Goodbye Pluto, Being number nine was nice till you Lost your planetary status. Now you're simply rock and ice -Vance Gilbert |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 19 Nov 21 - 05:18 PM Dixie Chicks : "he was a missing person no one missed at all". |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 19 Nov 21 - 05:18 PM pS - also the saddest. |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: Steve Shaw Date: 19 Nov 21 - 06:43 PM Following on from Tim: "There's a thousand years of history drowned in that whisky glass..." (Elvis Costello, via Christy) |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 20 Nov 21 - 10:42 PM She spoke of astrology while muttering apologies For coffee that tasted of hot dogs I said 'That's OK, mine was cold anyway, and just grand' Then she lay on the bed while the radio fed us With records and adverts for cat food.... Al Stewart - In Brooklyn (Mr S certainly had a knack imho for making poetry from the mundane) |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: GUEST Date: 20 Nov 21 - 11:03 PM All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon when we're poisoning pigeons in the park.... Tom Lehrer |
Subject: RE: best single lines From: PHJim Date: 21 Nov 21 - 12:44 AM "First it's D and then it's G, then A, then back to D, G a little more and then back to A" John Hartford (My Rag) |
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