Best lines

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 02:20 PM

profound eh?

Just about anything written by John Gorka qualifies in my book... Like...

"When her sweet summer love had turned and gone
He put a bigtime Moses lonesome on
He got back the ring with the note she'd sent
When he tried to make it permanent"

I don't know what a bigtime Moses lonesome is but it's sounds horrific!! LOL!!

Or this one...
"He's never been far from trouble
Trouble is as loyal as a dog
He drinks in the muddy water
And he sleeps in the hollow log
His troubles all have mirrors
And they double up the size
His problems all have patches
And they cover up his eyes"

Simple and brilliant... the best of both worlds...

{~`

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:59 PM

I was hoiping for something a little more profound folks..

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:53 PM

I think you'll always find a lot of John Prine songs in a thread like this. Here's one from PARADISE

Where the air smelled like snakes, and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Here's a traditional one I've always loved:

Ev'ry time I come to town
The boys keep kickin' my dawg aroun';
Makes no diff'rence if he is a houn',
They gotta quit kickin' my dawg aroun'.

(HOUND DOG SONG)

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,Mrrzy-while-at-work
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:39 PM

Do these lines have to be from folk songs? How about:

I believe in coincidence. Coincidences happen every day. I just don't trust coincidences.

Or:

Joel: Try reality, Ed! Ed: (laughs) No thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:39 PM

Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine. Bob Dylan

And in the shade of an oak, down by the river, sat an old man and a boy, settin' sails, spinnin' tales and fishin for whales, with a lady that they both enjoy Willie Nelson

Mr. engineer, let a po' boy ride the blind, he said I'd love to fella, but this railroad train ain't mine. Blind Willie McTell.

Pearline, what's the matter with you, Pearline, what's the matter with you, Pearline, what the hell did I do? Son House.

Hey there Brother, who you jivin' with that Cosmic Debris? Frank Zappa.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:19 PM

Hello, in there. Hello?

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Bert
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:16 PM

but when your heart's heavy, and you're shackled and pinned, you can reach out for help with the Blue Clicky Thing

From "The Blue Clicky Thing" by McGrath of Harlow.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Mooh
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 01:16 PM

"...Kick at the night 'till it bleeds daylight..." Bruce Cockburn "...Rama lama fa fa fa..." MC5 Matthew 7:12 is pretty good too.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: The Beanster
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 10:07 AM

"Never take no cut-offs and hurry along as fast as you can."

Virginia Reed, surviving member of the Donner Party. Her words of advice in a letter to another family member who was about to embark on the journey from Illinois to California.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: SDShad
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 10:02 AM

I'm on a Shane MacGowan kick these days:

McCormack and Richard Tauber are singing by the bed
There's a glass of punch below your feet and an angel at your head
There's devils on each side of you with bottles in their hands
You need one more drop of poison and you'll dream of foreign lands

"The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn"

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 08:05 AM

and their dreams were washed away, and their spirit died..

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 08:00 AM

"Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?"...Pat Sky

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 07:28 AM

????

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Gypsy
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 12:40 AM

If i'm gonna add to a THREAD, just have to add the immortal "stringamajig" ya know, that thing that you play with when not on a keyboard?

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 12:27 AM

"Like a sick man longs for the dawn
I do long for the light of her smile"

from Is Ar Eireann Ni Nosfain Ce Hi

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Gary T
Date: 28 Mar 00 - 12:18 AM

There's a little girl who is worth her weight in gold
And that's a decent dowry, don't you see

From the Irish folksong, "Bridget Flynn"

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,Frankie
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 11:06 PM

The dust that Pancho bit down south, Ended up in Lefty's mouth.

(Townes Van Zandt)

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Stewie
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 05:47 PM

'Naked as the eyes of a clown' - John Prine.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: DonMeixner
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 05:31 PM

And the Bush has friends to meet him,

and their KINDLY voices greet him,

In the murmur of the breezes and the river on it's bars,

And he views the vision splendid on the sunlit plains extended,

And at night the wonderous glory in the everlasting stars.

"Clancy of The Overflow", A. B. Paterson

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Kara
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 04:03 PM

and I said let grief be a falling leaf at the dawning of the day

(Ragland Road)

Subject: Best lines
From: kendall
Date: 27 Mar 00 - 03:58 PM

We have had threads on the best songs, and, the worst lines, so, how about a thread on best lines?
To start, how about Rick Fieldings Margins of my neighborhood,Charlie in the library baffled by the printed word, stroking the books and saying "Let me in" that really grabs me. Another line..Bob Coltmans rewrite of Patrick Spense.. the waves rolled up like mountain tops, and the wind like a thing in pain.. Utah Phillips,.."then I played up the booze and the holes in the shoes of a man whose life is a cage, and all the things done to make a man run, the hard luck and the failures of age.. .. I stopped with a crash, we looked into the ash, helpless with longing and rage..