Favorite Lines

Subject: RE: Favorite Lines
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 22 Apr 13 - 10:06 AM

A stranger to the truth was he
Florag

Subject: RE: Favorite Lines
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 11:18 PM

I like this one, from John Prine's Paradise

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.

It inspired me to take a hike along the Green River in Kentucky. The river is truly green, and the air does smell like snakes. I was happy I didn't encounter any snakes.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Elmore
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 11:09 PM

I caught the darkness. It was drinking from your cup. I caught the darkness drinking from your cup. I said, is this contagious? You said just drink it up. "The Darkness" by L. Cohen.

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Elmore
Date: 21 Apr 13 - 12:58 AM

Woody Guthrie's Pretty Boy Floyd: Yes, as through this world I've travelled I've seen lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six gun, Some with a fountain pen.

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: GUEST,ollaimh
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 07:35 PM

hey it's gotta be in world turned upside down,

we will not worship, the god they serve, the god of greed who feed the rich while poor men starve.

or

you poor take courage, you rich take care, this world's a common treasury for everyone to share

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Commander Crabbe
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 12:34 PM

From Rallph McTell's "The Setting"

Outside the trees they grew starlings like apples
Their bustle and chatter not dampened by the rain

CC

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: GUEST,Lavengro
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 12:32 PM

In the darkest hour of the longest night
If it was in my power I'd step into the light

Steve Earle-Transendental Blues

Constant prayer to anyone who has been under the influence of the black dog.

And...

He's one of those who knows that life
Is just a leap of faith
Spread your arms and hold you breath
Always trust your cape

Guy Clarke-The Cape

Just makes me smile. Of course my favorite lines next week will be different!

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 12:30 PM

'Like a break in the battle, was your part
in the wretched life of a lonely heart'

From the Pretenders' Back on the Chain Gang.

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 11:48 AM

I remember my father was much struck by the song "Don't Fence Me In" [lyric Cole Porter & Robert Fletcher] when we heard Roy Rogers sing it in 1944 in 'Hollywood Canteen' (one of those 'composite' films much regarded at the time which really constituted a sort of divertissement of various artistes performing in some particular milieu, framed by somewhat feeble and jejune plots about people visiting the venues).

He [my father] would always say that he thought the lines "I will ride to the ridge where the West commences, Gaze upon the moon until I lose my senses" fit to rank with the most beautiful of poetry.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Bert
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 11:03 AM

From Woad.

Hairy coats, were meant for goats,
gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs and llamas.

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Elmore
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 08:31 AM

From Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song". I was born like this, I had no choice, I was born with the gift of a golden voice.

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 07:36 AM

Dave Carter's line from Grand Prairie Texas Homesick Blues "For home is in the hearland, but the heartland cannot save you when the heart is gone, and home's moved on."

Or Cindy Mangsen's line from the Familiar, "the man who fears his nature, see's the devil everywhere."

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 06:27 AM

From 'Both Sides The Tweed' "What's the Spring breathing Jasmine and Rose"   I guess I love all the words of the song really :-

What's the spring-breathing jasmine and rose?.

What's the summer with all its gay train.

Or the splendour of autumn to those
,
Who've bartered their freedom for gain?
Chorus
Let the love of our land's sacred rights,

To the love of our people succeed
.
Let friendship and honour unite,

And flourish on both sides the Tweed.

No sweetness the senses can cheer,

Which corruption and bribery bind.

No brightness that gloom can e'er clear,

For honour's the sum of the mind
Chorus

Let virtue distinguish the brave,

Place riches in lowest degree.

Think them poorest who can be a slave
,
Them richest who dare to be free
Chorus

Subject: Favorite Liines
From: GUEST,Eddie1
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 06:08 AM

KK - Sunday Morning Coming Down:-

"I fumbled in my closet through my clothes to find my cleanest dirty shirt"!

Eddie

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 04:08 AM

From Slim Dusty's ' A Pub With No Beer,'
" there's a far away look on the face of the bum "

genius.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Favorite Liines
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Apr 13 - 02:51 AM

Robb Johnson's 'Turn Around' - When they're sweeping uo bits of the night that got broken , and washing the moon away .

Subject: Favorite Liines
From: Fred Maslan
Date: 19 Apr 13 - 10:30 PM

What are your favorite lines in songs? two of my favorites are.

"You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train." from Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain"

"And with the wind hold conversation. It always has so much to tell;"
From Graeme Mile's "Where Ravens Feed"

Fred