best single lines in songs

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: BK
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 11:29 PM

for just a few:

"as the great unyielding concrete makes a city of my town" - from "Dublin In The Rare Old Times"

"it's snowin' in the city 'n the streets are brown 'n gritty" - Lightfoot's "Alberta Bound" (I think of this every time I drive through dirty winter slush!)

"love can't give you everything, but it gives you what you need" - Kate Wolf

"but bastards like Custer had it coming I hope he's burning still in hell" - "Sleeping Buffalo"

"and this morn as I crept to the barn, around 'bout half past three, there stood nursing on still trembling legs, one more small victory" - "Small Victory"

the last two by Garnet Rogers (Stan's "little" brother)

Cheers, Bk

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 10:38 PM

"If I had a thing to give you, I would tell you one more time:
The world is always turning toward the morning."
Gordon Bok: "Turning Toward the Morning"

Sandy

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: DonMeixner
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 10:00 PM

"..Wooley's from Missouri tho' he farms in Ioway Drinks a case a night because he drives a Case all day.."

"..And at night, the wonderous glory in the everlasting stars.." A.B. Paterson

"...Why weren't you born twins? You could be twice as stupid..." Richard Arlen in China Clipper

"..Things we learned, we'll just be satisfied in knowin' and we'll tell em to our kids as a fairy tale.." Tom Paxton, Outward Bound

"... there is neither East nor West, Nor border, breed nor birth, when two strong men stand face to face tho' they come from the ends of the earth.." Kipling, The Ballad of East and West.

"... I am......Ten Bears..." Will Sampson from The Outlaw Josie Wales.

"..If you're not gonna be rich, better learn to be polite." Louise Maxon, My Grandmother.

Don

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Matthew B.
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 09:25 PM

The bosun said before I'm through You'll curse your mother for having you

(From John Kanaka Naka)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 08:48 PM

O'er his white banes, when they are bare,
The wind shall blaw forever mair.
Twa Corbies

Last night you were sweetly sleeping,
Dreaming in your sweet repose,
Whilst I, a poor boy (girl) broken hearted,
Listened to the wind that blows.

Dear Companion

Sandy

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 08:32 PM

C&W tune from the 80's: "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?"

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: gargoyle
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 08:17 PM

A centiped boldy, without any fear
Crawls over my pillow and into my ear

Greer County Bachelor

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Jerry and Bev
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 08:16 PM

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to do"
....Kris Kristofferson

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 06:38 PM

"...rowed out to the horizon, and we dropped our anchor there." (Si Kahn, 'Fresh Water Whaling')

"Joy, joy, joy! Joy, joy, joy!" (Alix Herrmann, 'Ring It In')

I'll have to give this some more thought. Great idea!

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Max
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 06:30 PM

"A woman is like a dresser, some man is always rambling through its drawers." Robert Johnson -- From 4 until late.

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Tiger
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 06:07 PM

Townes again, from "No Place to Fall".....Tiger

"Time, she's a fast old train.
She's here, then she's gone,
And she won't come again."

....Townes Van Zandt

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Alice
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 05:41 PM

Allan, some people do call me Al, but I'm sure you've experienced it more.... those lines always makes me smile, even though they are sad ("it was Al all the time").

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Alice
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 05:38 PM

Say, that's my line.
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"We may be poor, Robbie and I, but light's the burden love lays on"

"right out of the ale house and into the jail house"

"Let fate do her worst, there are relics of joy, bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy"

(You can call me Al.)

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Allan C.
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:51 PM

"Forsaken, almost human he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

"...who is to pilot; who is to steer?"

"And over her left kidney was a bird's eye view of Sidney but what we liked best was upon her chest: My little home in Waikiki!"

"Say, don't you remember, you called me 'Al'..."

:-]

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Frank of Toledo
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:33 PM

"Living's mostly wastin' time, and I waste my share of mine"...From Townes Van Zandt's "To Live Is To Fly".

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: John Wood
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:26 PM

``When everyone's talking and no one is listening ,how can we decide ?´´

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Mudjack
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:25 PM

John Stewart's "And I have not been known as the saint of San Joaquin" Jack

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:17 PM

John Prine's Paradise has a verse that's the most colorful description I can think of:

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Well, it's not a single line, but it's a single sentence.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: best single lines
From: Barbara
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:17 PM

"Why should I forgive and forget when I can remember and blame?"

Subject: best single lines
From: Bert
Date: 30 Apr 99 - 03:00 PM

Northfolk got me going on this one when he quoted

"smiling bastards, lying to you, everywhere you go.... "

Some songs have a line that stands out or really makes a point.
What are your favorites.

One of mine is "Who pats my back when no one else could give a damn" from Bestest Friend.

Bert.