Lines That Break Your Heart

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 04:58 PM

...and I repeat this from an earlier thread; altho I have remarried and my life has turned around since I posted the message below, I still can't sing, or hear, or think of that song without some ♥·break ~~

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: MtheGM - PM
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:50 AM
Another one for purely personal reasons. Fair & Tender Ladies — I have a v nice photo of me singing it at a party in 1958. Whenever my wife showed that pic to anybody she would say "As the flash went off for that photograph it flashed thru my mind 'That's the young man I'm going to marry'"; & so she did - for nearly ½-century. And now she's dead. And so I can't sing it any more for tears. And here they come now...

~M~

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 06:52 PM

"Don't go yet. Oh, don't go yet."
My visit to my friend, Michael,that I recounted yesterday was timely. He died this morning. RIP, Mike and congratulations on a long life well lived.

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST,Nigel Gatherer
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 07:10 PM

I don't know why, but these lines from Ray Davies tug at my heart strings:

Now I think of what my mamma told me,
She always said that it would never ever work out;
But all I want to do is make some money
And bring you home some wine.
For I don't ever want you to see me
Standing in that line;
'Cause that union man's got such a hold over me;
He's the man who decides if I live or I die, if I starve, or I eat.
Then he walks up to me and the sun begins to shine.
Then he walks right past and I know that I've got to get back in the line.

("Get Back Into Line")

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Janie
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 09:32 PM

Oh the days will be empty
The nights so long with out you my love

"Your Long Journey" Rosa Lee and Doc Watson.

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Janie
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 09:34 PM

Correction "without"

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 22 Aug 13 - 11:08 PM

i was the happiest in all the clan
sae sair may i repine
for donald was the bravest man
and donald he was mine

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 12:00 AM

a) The last two lines of "Crossing the Bar" (agree, GUEST, Fyldeplayer)

b) From Eric Bogle's The Band Played Waltzing Matilda:
   And when I woke up in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying

c) From Billy Joel's And So It Goes:
And this is why my eyes are closed
It's just as well for all I've seen
And so it goes, and so it goes
And you're the only one who knows

d) And the absolute killer for me is the following from Henry Lawson's Scots Of The Riverina:
And the old man died at the table when the old wife's back was turned.
Face down on his bare arms folded he sank with his wild grey hair
Outspread on the open Bible and a name re-written there.

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 12:16 AM

I do not weep for my House Carpenter
Nor yet for any store
But I weep for the sake of my pretty little babe
That I never shall see any more

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 02:55 AM

..Pray do not mock me.
I am a very foolish fond old man,
Four score and upward, not an hour more nor less...

King Lear IV vi

~M~

I am 81 btw

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From:
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 04:16 AM

And another eye for another eye till everyone is blind.

Tommy Sands, 'There were Roses'

Jack

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 04:23 AM

MacColl used to tell the story of having to learn the ballad' Edom of Gordon' for a series of Poetry and Song albums.
It was a ballad he said had never attracted him "about wealthy noble families mindlessly slaughtering each other - who on earth could you possibly identify with?"
He re-read it through many dozens of times and finally, shortly before he was due to record it, he focused on the verses where the Douglas family, having been cornered in the burning castle, bundled the youngest daughter in sheets and dropped her over the wall, hoping she'd escape the flames - the assailant, Gordon, 'caught her on is spear'.

"And Gordon turned her ower and ower and oh, her face was wan,
He said, "You are the first that e'er I wished alive again".
And oh he turned her ower and ower, and oh, her face was white.
"I might have spared that bonny face to be some man's delight.""

MacColl said, "The waste, the ****** waste of human life, that's what those songs should be about."
Still works for me.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 05:39 AM

It's these little moments in the big ballads that do it indeed, Jim.

For you have had one cruel mother, Willie,
And I have had another,
And here we'll lie in Clyde's water
Like sister and like brother.

~M~

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 05:51 AM

It is indeed, in the middle of violence and mayhem they gently tap you on the shoulder and point out that it's human beings you're singing about - it's what makes them "big ballads".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 06:03 AM

So, I'll drink to the times that are passed, and the days when we stood on the shore, to you I will raise up my glass, for I know that I'll see you no more. (Robbie O'Connell)

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Fossil
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 06:47 AM

- Read a book, or study art/ All the remedies don't work for me/ since you broke my heart.

Don Everly

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Aug 13 - 10:48 AM

"...Once I had a yaller dog, his name was Towser Jenkins.
The butcher cut his tail off with a cleaver...
Towser had his trademark on every cat in town,
And when he spotted one, he'd never leave her.

He wore his legs off stumpy, chasin' milk carts 'round the country.
Had bunions on his knees from jumpin' ditches.
Had all the hair wore off his ribs
From chasin' cats around the corn cribs...
But empty is the doghouse, Towsers poisoned.

No more he'll look for liver down beside the Suwanee River,
No more will boys baptize him in the sewer..
No more homeward will he wail, with ten cans tied to his tail..
For empty is the doghouse...Towser's poisoned."

...from a Folk Legacy album by Harry Tufts.


It is strange...no matter how 'straight' I sing this, it often evokes chuckles in the first 2 verses, which seems to keep many from reacting to the sadness of the third. Maybe there's just no way easily react to the ending..... In some ways, we take cruelty to animals harder than wholesale slaughter of troops in battle.

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 05:20 AM

Why is the bedroom so cold?
Turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal,
That we've kept through our lives.

Love will tear us apart -Joy Division

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 06:02 PM

Cause if love means forever expecting nothing returned
then I hope I'll be given another whole lifetime to learn...Joan Baez

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST,Vrdpkr
Date: 24 Aug 13 - 08:10 PM

The black smoke choo-choos have gone away
Bumming, it's just not the same
Dreams are few and far between,
But memory seldom fails.
Waiting down there by the track
For her master to come back
You could count on seeing that old dog
Queen of the Rails

Utah Phillips

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 25 Aug 13 - 06:33 AM

...a little child strolled onto the track and filled them all with dread.
"MyGod" the hoghead shouted, as he slammed on on all the brakes, "I'll never stop this SP train, she aint got what it takes"
Up stepped this bold young fireman,..... he piled his loop around a pole that stood beside the tracks, then he tied the other end of it around that big smoke stack.
He jerked that train clear off the track and caused an awful wreck,
the fireman laid there on the track with the engine on his neck.
We will all remember that 45th of May for there were many brave young hearts all filled fear that day, they buried him by the wayside where the prairie winds blow wild
He killed 200 passengers but, thank God he saved the child.

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Bert
Date: 25 Aug 13 - 09:01 PM

Sleep softly my pretty one
Sleep softly my darling
You promised a happiness that only you could bring
You came for a moment
and then you were gone
Faded away like a snowflake in spring
      
Sleep softly my pretty one
Sleep softly my love

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 26 Aug 13 - 04:10 PM

"Though we're apart you bother me still"



Blueberry Hill

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Aug 13 - 08:37 PM

Really? lol ("Though we're apart, you're part of me still...")

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 05:37 AM

Which part? the sugar, the mash,...

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 07:15 AM

For obvious reasons this

Our first child took in times like these
A cruel week in dyin'.
All day upon her father's knees
Or on my breast a-lyin'.
The tears we shed, the prayers we said
Were awful, wild, despairin'
I pulled three through and buried two
Since then, now I'm past carin'. (Past Carin')

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 07:59 AM

Now it's every month I get a check from some government bureaucrat
And it's every month I tear it up, and send the damn thing back.

             The Ballad of Penny Evan, Steve Goodman.

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 08:06 AM

Almost any of "Touch a Name on the Wall", by Joel Mabus, but the last lines for sure:

But God bless the wall that brings us together,
And reminds us of what we've been through.
And God damn the liars and the tin-plated heroes,
That trade on the blood of these men.
And God give us the strength to stand up and tell 'em, "Never again!"

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Mark Dowding
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 08:14 AM

From "Joe Peel" by Peter Bond
"We all turned up to say goodbye,
The church was filled to overflowing"

I've not been able to sing that since dad passed away in January.

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 09:09 AM

"You bother me still" is so much better - the whole song is spoilt for me now I know that it is really "You're part of me still."

R

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Aug 13 - 10:23 AM

Sorry. :)

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: KT
Date: 28 Aug 13 - 12:59 AM

Sir Roger and Ebbie,   Don't let it be spoilt Roger. Check this out! Delightful!    "It's a happy enchilada and you think you're gonna drown." John Prine -That's the Way that the World Goes Round. Delightful!   have a smile

Subject: RE: Lines That Break Your Heart
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Aug 13 - 10:29 AM

At last we reached the other side in two and twenty days
We were taken as passengers by a man and led round in six different ways
And we all of us drank a parting glass in case we might never meet more
And we drank a last health to old Ireland and Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore