best single lines in songs

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 05:59 AM

"When we fell, we aye got up again, and sae will we yet"
- from "Sae Will We Yet" , as sung by Tony Cuffe.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 06:53 AM

Sorry, slightly more than a single line, but inspirational in way that this atheist can't quite put his finger on:

They cut me down and I leapt up high;
I am the life that'll never, never die;
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the Lord of the dance, said he.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,peter
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 07:45 AM

"What will you take to remember me by,,I've no money to buy you a smile".....(Dave Cousins)

"when we did spy a bold man-of-war sailin' three feet to our two"....(trad)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,Roderick A Warner
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 07:56 AM

William S. Burroughs, when asked what the American flag meant to him: ‘Soak it in heroin, doc, and I’ll suck it.’ Applies to all flags imo…

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: PHJim
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 03:15 PM

"I stepped outside and I didn't get shot; it's a pretty good day so far."
Loudon Wainwright III

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 05:08 PM

also Loudon Wainwright III - from "Your Mother And I" :
"your parents are people and that's all we can be".

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 05:30 PM

The preacher asked her, and she said, I do
The preacher asked me, she said, Yes, he does too

The preacher said, I pronounce you 99 to life
Son, she's no lady, she's your wife

Lyle Lovett

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Stewie
Date: 21 Nov 21 - 08:31 PM

Naked as the eyes of a clown (John Prine - That's the way the world goes round)

Now I shoot the darkness down, I puncture what is swollen (Mark Germino - Black angel cure)

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: The Og
Date: 23 Nov 21 - 11:18 AM

Edgar Allen Poe....as sung by the Modern Folk Quartet:

"Keeping time, time, time, with a sort of runic rhyme
From the tintinnabulation, that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,lochee
Date: 23 Nov 21 - 12:58 PM

"assholes get elected, cause assholes get to vote" - "Assholes on Parade" by Timbuk3
https://youtu.be/2nTcDU73gLs

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 11:12 AM

"By rights she should be taken out an hung
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue"

Pedant alert: The past tense of "hang", when referring to execution, is "hanged". Your coat was hung on a hook. The criminal was hanged. The quote from My Fair Lady above is almost tragically ironic.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: John P
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 11:14 AM

Sorry, that last quote was from cookieless me.

John

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 12:59 PM

Everybody by John Prine

While out sailing on the ocean, While out sailing on the sea
I bumped into the Savior, And He said pardon me
I said "Jesus you look tired", He said "Jesus so do you,
Sit down son, 'Cause I got some fat to chew"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,Jon Dudley
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 01:12 PM

I don't think this line has been mentioned yet, the last from 'The Banks of The Sweet Primroses'

"For it's many's a dark and a cloudy morning, turns out to be most sunshiny day"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: gillymor
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 01:20 PM

I said my pretty Creole Girl,
My money here's no good,
And if not for the alligators,
I'd sleep out in the woods.-Lakes of Ponchartrain

The dust Pancho bit down south,
Ended up in Lefty's mouth.- Townes Van Zandt

If I thought it would do any good,
I'd stand on the rock where Moses stood.- The Band

Goin' on down to the railroad track,
Let the 4:19 scratch my back.- The Band

There's no love song finer,
But how strange the change,
From major to minor,
Every time we say goodbye.- Cole Porter

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,The Mouth O' The Tay
Date: 24 Nov 21 - 05:08 PM

Michael Marra - Baps And Paste :

Baps and paste and corned dog,
Peace on Earth and earth on piece,
Butcher's hough an' tinkies' gochles,
Wha' could tell the difference ?

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 11:58 AM

"A fig for those by law protected,
Liberty's a glorious feast.
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest"
Robert Burns.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,Roger
Date: 06 Dec 21 - 04:55 PM

Bob Dylan: Its hard to stumble when you've got no place to fall.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: GUEST,Bo in OH
Date: 18 Dec 21 - 11:37 PM

Just a few of many from Chris Smither:

Don't try to find your place in line 'cause it's everywhere

I'm not a passenger, I am the ride.

It ain't what it is that's such a sin, it's what it might have been

And not a single line, but still:
I don't pick no cotton, and I never pick my nose
Couldn't pick a pocket in a pile of dirty clothes
But I pick'em, and I choose'em,
I pick the locks they use to keep me in
I pick'em up I put'em down, that's how I get around
But it's wearin' thin.

Just genius.
Bo

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Neil D
Date: 19 Dec 21 - 12:37 AM

Thanks for the trouble you took, from her eyes
I thought it was there for good, so I never tried
    Leonard Cohen

Albert Einstein was a ladies' man
While he was working on his universal plan
He was making out like Charlie Sheen
He was a genius
    Warren Zevon

How do the angels get to sleep
When the Devil leaves his porch light on?
    Tom Waites