happiest lines in song

Subject: happiest lines in song
From: Andy7
Date: 18 Jul 19 - 06:34 PM

The sun is a-shining to welcome the day,
Hey ho! Come to the fair!
The folk are all singing, so merry and gay,
Hey ho! Come to the fair!   
    (Helen Taylor/Easthope Martin)

My sweetheart, come along,
Don't you hear the sweet song,
The sweet notes of the nightingale flow?
Can you hear the fond tale
Of the sweet nightingale,
As she sings in the valley below?
As she sings in the valley below?
    (Cornish Traditional)

I can see clearly now the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way,
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind,
It's gonna be a bright, bright, sunshiny day!
    (Johnny Nash)

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 19 Jul 19 - 04:04 AM

Now in a cottage down by the sea
They're joined in wedlock and well agree.

Or the end of pretty well any broken token song.

Or the end of The Streets of Derry or any version of Child 95 The Maid Freed from the Gallows.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: G-Force
Date: 19 Jul 19 - 09:16 AM

I'm H-A-P-P-Y.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 Jul 19 - 09:50 AM

"Lucky, lucky, lucky me..."

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Jul 19 - 10:04 AM

Spencer the rover

"And his children come around him with their prittle prattling stories
With their prittle prattling stories to drive care away"

Makes me smile anyway :-)

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Ged Fox
Date: 19 Jul 19 - 10:52 AM

"But lo! a boat towards her came, a sailor hard was rowing.
The sun rose up in sheets of flame, and all the East was glowing.
'My Husband, Husband home from sea,'
She cried, 'He comes, he comes to me!'
Then pain and sorrow both do flee,
Just as the tide was a-flowing."

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Joe_F
Date: 19 Jul 19 - 09:23 PM

Downstairs they went and a frolic they had,
Which made both their hearts feel merry and glad.
They looked like two flowers that pleased the eye.
With many full glasses, all wished them great joy.

*

And now I have lived, I know not how long,
But still I rejoice in a cup and a song,
So while with both hands I can hold the cup steady,
Here's to you, my hero, my soldier laddie!

*

A little of what you fancy does you good.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Jul 19 - 10:18 PM

Paid for all the meat* that we ate, stood a treat*... And went home to ruminate on the spree that day...

*rhyme with ate

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 20 Jul 19 - 02:02 AM

He picked her up all in his arms
Kisses he gave her one two three
Saying here I am my own true love
I am your long lost John Riley




Pharrell
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Cause I' m happy
Clap along if you feel that happiness is the truth
Cause I' m happy

Smokey Robinson -
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside I got the month of May
I guess you say ; what can make me feel this way
My girl.


Stevie Wonder -
I just called to say I love you
And I mean it from the bottom of my heart



Alan Sherman
Sun is shining , Gee that's better
Mudda Fadda kindly disregard this letter


Pete
This land belongs to you and me

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Billy Weeks
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 06:26 AM

I'll sing you this song
It won't take me long....

BW

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 06:35 AM

"This land..." was Woody!

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 06:39 AM

Kissed her once again at Wapping,
Flow sweet river, flow
After that there was no stopping,
Sweet Thames flow softly

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 11:11 AM

'This land' was written by Woody, but was popularized ( in my time) by Pete, and was a staple in his concerts. Of which I've attended many- and sang the song along with Pete.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 11:13 AM

Ha-ha Steve: that's one of my favourite lines from "Sweet Thames Flow Softly", which you also quoted (last verse) in the saddest lines thread. Takes me back to my studnet days in the E end of London and a certain boyfriend!

I nominate "The sun has got his hat on", especially the line:
"Jump into your sunbath, hip, hip, hip hooray": always makes me laugh!

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 12:21 PM

Funnily enough, Tattie, I too had a student romance that didn't end well which involved many a balmy evening on the Embankment. As the autumn nights said goodbye to the warmth, so the passion went too. Hers first, sadly. Story of me life! I actually lived in west London at the time but moved to Poplar soon after when I got my first teaching job.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: GUEST,Dtm
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 02:56 PM

"When You're Smiling" .... the whole world smiles with you.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 Jul 19 - 06:52 PM

The ending of The Maid in Bedlam:

I love my love because I know my love loves me.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: meself
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 01:33 PM

Take this, me jolly tinker, and we'll go another round!

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 01:43 PM

By far - nowadays
"We are young and the world is wide"
Frim 'Rambling Boys of Pleasure'
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: GUEST,Larry Poole
Date: 22 Jul 19 - 03:17 PM

The Blue Sky Boys (Bolick Brothers) from Happy Valley, Tennessee:

Happy Sunny Side of Life (Chorus)

O the happy, sunny pretty rolling dales
Where the sweetest joy and gladness ever there prevails,
Where the sunshine always lingers on the grand majestic hills,
On the happy sunny side of life

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: JHW
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 02:19 PM

There's many a dark and a cloudy morning turns out to be a bright sun shiny day

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: GUEST,ottery
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 02:51 PM

I like Tim van Eyken's alternate ending to Seventeen Come Sunday:

So now she's with her soldier bright
Where the wars they are alarming;
And her delight is to dance all night
And a pint of rum in the morning.

And it's a bit soppy, but I can't help but love the last verse of Jock o' Hazeldean:

The kirk was deckt at mornintide, the tapers glimmert fair;
The priest an bridegroum wait the bride an dame an knight were there.
They searcht for her in bower an haa the lady wisnae seen—
She's owre the border an awa wi Jock o Hazeldean.

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 03:41 PM

Played at Balnain House, Inverness one time about 20 years ago- the lovely hospitable lady we stayed with (Betty.....) was a social worker & asked if we'd do a bit at her drop-in daycentre for the less fortunate of the city.

We said OK & duly attended at a place by the shoogly bridge on the riverside next day- we had a lovely time, but one chap ignored us totally & kept his newspaper held up- no complaints, nor noise, but no interest either!
Anyway, one singer near the conclusion stood up & pondered aloud (to herself really) 'Shall I sing a happy one or a sad one?'

Before she could continue, the man put his newspaper down & said 'Sing us a sad one & then we'll be happy when ye've done'

I've always treasured that one....

Subject: RE: happiest lines in song
From: Vic Smith
Date: 25 Jul 19 - 04:31 PM

From The Sheepstealer

When the constable do come,
I'll stand with me gun
And I'll swear all I have is me own, me brave boys
And I'll swear all I have is me own.

My favourite lines from English folk song. I get a thrill every time I hear them sung.