What's your favorite line from a song

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 17 - 02:32 PM

another, "dreaming in the night, I saw a land where no man had to fight.." (Song for Ireland)

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 11:34 AM

"I ache in the places where I used to play" from Tower of Song" by L. Cohen

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: David C. Carter
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 11:41 AM

'I look such a pillock with me bike clips on'.

Jake Thackray

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: Elmore
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 05:01 PM

"With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go." from "Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST,PatrickH
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 06:18 PM

Long past the midnight curfew we sat starry-eyed...

And (Fred would have said)

The rain falls on my yellow locks and the dew wets my skin, my babe is cold in my arms, Lord Gregory let me in.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 06:31 PM

take down this mast of gold,
Set up a mast of tree,
For it becomes not a forsaken maid
To sail so royalty.

Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jul 17 - 07:53 PM

Hamish Imlach sang in John o' Bredislee
" he is gan tae the green woods
tae ding the dun deer down, down

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

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: 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,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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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,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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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,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: Roz
Date: 17 Apr 18 - 04:17 PM

Don't confront me with my failures; I have not forgotten them