Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Bonzo3legs Date: 22 Apr 18 - 01:41 PM Step right up folks See Little Egypt do her famous dance of the pyramids She walks she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile Just one thin dime, one tenth of a dollar Step right up folks!! |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Paul Burke Date: 21 Apr 18 - 06:57 PM Last year, when I wasn't listening, Joe Offer wrote "Joe Offer, suffering through a hundred-degree week" They are American degrees- Fahrenheit degrees- not real degrees. Only 78 in EuroDegrees, not what we call hot oop North, Favourite line(s)? She has taken a brace of pistols And she has shot her false Willy O... |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe_F Date: 21 Apr 18 - 06:16 PM When out of blossomed Normandy another pirate came. If ever you heard a little dog bark. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: kendall Date: 20 Apr 18 - 08:12 PM "If I had it to do all over again, I'd do it all over you." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Lighter Date: 20 Apr 18 - 08:01 PM "Thunderin' Jazus! Ye think I'm dead?" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe_F Date: 20 Apr 18 - 06:09 PM I went down in my socks and ran into the fox. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: leeneia Date: 18 Apr 18 - 11:06 AM There are lunatic survivalists with Gucci bandlieros taking tacky, khaki walkie-talkies to the rendezvous... from 'The F-word' by Peter and Lou Berryman |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Roz Date: 17 Apr 18 - 04:17 PM Don't confront me with my failures; I have not forgotten them |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Captain Swing Date: 14 Apr 18 - 08:02 PM Mother Superior jump the gun |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: BTMP Date: 14 Apr 18 - 06:12 PM I've always liked the line from Merle Haggard's I'm Going Off the Deep End: My weakness is stronger than I am. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,wallacemacnow Date: 14 Apr 18 - 05:39 PM Ive got teeth to keep my gold in and whiskers on my soul. Bob Coltman - Sleepy Owlsey |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Philippa Date: 14 Apr 18 - 04:19 PM I might think of a different favourite line from a song, but the one that comes to my mind just now is from "The Boys of Barr na Sráide", especially the second half of : We jumped for joy beneath the sky; Life knew no print or plan ... {I can't say I'm enamoured of what comes next about hunting for the wren!) |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: robomatic Date: 13 Apr 18 - 07:42 PM Dan Bern: "Everything I know I learned from my dad, He learned it all from his, And his dad just happened to be- WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING!" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,ottery Date: 11 Apr 18 - 04:23 PM "Last night I dreamed a dreadful dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye I saw a dead man win a fight And I think that man was I" From the Battle of Otterburn, as sung by June Tabor. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Hamish Date: 11 Apr 18 - 04:07 AM "Just when you least expect it: just what you least expect". Er, The Pet Shop Boys |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: dick.hamlet Date: 11 Apr 18 - 12:06 AM Tom Lehrer's MLF Lullabye: ...and one of the fingers on the button will be German. Craig Johnson's Keweenaw Light: The lies and the highways that carried me away. In Terrytown: For she has gold and riches more than me. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Jerry Date: 10 Apr 18 - 03:55 PM If anyone asks you who composed this song Tell them it was me and I sing it all day long. It’s nothing special or even remotely profound, but I love the bravado sentiment. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 10 Apr 18 - 12:26 PM Nobody else can walk it for you, You got to walk it by yourself |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gordon Jackson Date: 10 Apr 18 - 09:31 AM "Lend me your ears while I call you a fool." The Witch's Promise, Jethro Tull. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Mrrzy Date: 10 Apr 18 - 09:25 AM In English: I'll set my sail of silver, I'll loose my rope of silk My mast is of the cypress tree, my mast is of the cypress tree My track is as milk I'll set my sail of silver, I'll steer towards the sun |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Harry Date: 10 Apr 18 - 03:32 AM EVERY line in Tom Waits' Heart Attack and Vine but especially: Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk? And (another chuckle): See that little Jersey girl in the see through top, Over by the pedal pushers suckin on a soda pop. I bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five to nine. You can see a million of them on Heart Attack and Vine. Come to think if it, pretty much every line from the pens of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits; and, most of Paul Simon's. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Harry Date: 10 Apr 18 - 03:18 AM For me, the greatest first line : The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar . . . . Oooooo the possibilities ....... and, the line that always makes me chuckle: She told me again she preferred handsome men but for me she would make an exception. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Date: 10 Apr 18 - 03:04 AM “A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom! Tutti frutti, good booty.” |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: mg Date: 09 Apr 18 - 04:50 PM for donald was the bravest man and donald he was mine...from highland widow's lament. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself Date: 09 Apr 18 - 03:00 PM Save your money when you're young, my boys, You'll need it when you're old. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Observer Date: 09 Apr 18 - 11:47 AM Or to lie on the decking on a warm Summer's evening And watch the red sun fall burning beneath the Earth's rim - Eric Bogle OR: Now prosperity is the finest tree that stands in all creation Beneath it's boughs we will speed our plough to join the Polish Nation - Brian McNeill The latter could have been written by Robert Burns. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Andiliqueur Date: 09 Apr 18 - 11:11 AM Oh dear. I'm wrong. I always thought it was "cool flame" but it's "cruel flame". Don't like it as much now. I'll get me coat.... |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Andiliqueur Date: 09 Apr 18 - 07:36 AM "But we never learn, trusting in the fire while the cool flame burns" Richard Thompson 'Persuasion'. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,David Coxell Date: 09 Apr 18 - 07:18 AM You pick up a girl and you think you're so smart She's acting kinda coy, you swear you're breaking her heart, But all that you're left with when she's emptied your purse, Is a jibe from the doctor and a jab from the nurse. The Train Song - Jonathan Kelly |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Joe Nicholson Date: 09 Apr 18 - 07:03 AM Whenever some daft executive told us to do something silly which in my working lif was quite often I always thought of the line Our officers commanded us and them we must obey. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gabriel Date: 09 Apr 18 - 06:28 AM I have a new favourite. From th eCape Breton song 'When first I came to Caledonia'. "He had a daughter; she made good tea." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: gillymor Date: 07 Aug 17 - 08:35 PM "Going on down to the railroad track, Let the 4:19 scratch my back." The Band "If I thought it would do any good, I'd stand on the rock where Moses stood." also The Band |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Hagman Date: 07 Aug 17 - 08:07 PM "Her daddy was lazy and no-count, claimed he had a bad back" Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White. Very concise! |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Deckman Date: 07 Aug 17 - 05:41 PM "Do you remember our nights of courting, When your head lay on my breast, You could make me believe by the falling of your arm, That the sun rose in the West" .... Walt Robertson bob(deckman)nelson |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Richard Date: 07 Aug 17 - 04:29 PM "Her hands so soft, her breath so sweet, her tongue did gently glide" from "When a man's in love" (trad.) Here's one we should all agree on:- "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain" Trenchtown Rock - Bob Marley But compare: "Be not afeared: the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not" Great minds.... |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 17 - 02:15 PM Of the house I was born in there is but a stone on a stone. The Chieftans, The May Morning Dew |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: gillymor Date: 07 Aug 17 - 01:06 PM "That was a million light beers ago." |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,I was there Date: 07 Aug 17 - 11:50 AM I never died, said he. (Least favourite, as you asked: This land is your land (because it WASN'T)). |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Jon Dudley Date: 07 Aug 17 - 02:15 AM 'For it's many a dark and a cloudy morning turns out to be a bright sunshiny day...' Banks of the Sweet Primroses. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: mg Date: 06 Aug 17 - 08:23 PM from boatie rows muckle lighter is the load when love bears up the creel.. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Elmore Date: 27 Jul 17 - 02:26 PM "If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed" from "Tonight We Ride", by Tom Russell. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker Date: 26 Jul 17 - 02:46 PM I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and Things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it. You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world. I'll give you anything, ev'rything if you want things. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker Date: 26 Jul 17 - 02:42 PM I saw a mouse! (Where?) There on the stair! (Where on the stair?) Right there! A little mouse with clogs on Well I declare! Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair Oh yeah! |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Elmore Date: 26 Jul 17 - 11:50 AM Love is never wasted even when it's hard love. From "Hard Love" by Bob Franke. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Andiliqueur Date: 26 Jul 17 - 07:47 AM "We'll never see what lies ahead if we keep on looking back" from the last verse of Leaving the Land by Eric Bogle. |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Big Al Whittle Date: 26 Jul 17 - 06:08 AM You made me love you |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Willierespond Date: 26 Jul 17 - 04:37 AM "I'm going now, from bonds and from bosses, they privatised the boom and socialised the losses" I'm Going Now Kevin Doherty (solo CD -- member of 4 Men and a Dog) |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: the lemonade lady Date: 26 Jul 17 - 03:22 AM "See how the Cormorant swoops and dives, Must be some thrill to go that deep Down to the basement on this life Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps From Noel Brazil's Columbus |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Tackleberry828 Date: 25 Jul 17 - 10:42 PM "I'm up and gone at the crack of dawn I've been working like a regular dog to keep my woman and the lights and the water and the phone turned on" -David Allan Coe "Time Off For Bad Behavior" When they put them handcuffs on me, Lord how I fought to resist But agent clamped 'em tighter, 'til that metal bit into my wrist They took my belt and my billfold, my fingerprints, and the profile of my face And then they locked away the only hell my mama ever ever raised -Johnny Paycheck "Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised" |
Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: RobbieWilson Date: 25 Jul 17 - 08:08 PM That was me , by the way |
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