Best lines

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Petr
Date: 03 Apr 00 - 09:20 PM

Tom Waits

Shes been married so many times shes got rice marks on her face.

.. gets more ass than a toilet seat.

... and you cant find a waitress with a geiger counter.

(The piano has been drinking)

or Nabokov for that matter. It wasnt exactly blackmail it was more like mauvemail.

She took a drag on her cigarette and the smoke from her nostrils was like a pair of tusks.

She wasnt wearing a halter top it was more like a halt.

thats enough of that. Petr.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,ravlin hill
Date: 04 Apr 00 - 09:40 PM

"as i walk thru this lonesome valley my only friend the mournful dove the evening breeze calls your name so sadly and i recall your words of love" Brian Hunt

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: black walnut
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 10:23 AM

like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade

his ship comes shining

like a crystal swan in a sky of suns

his ship comes shining

(bruce cockburn....'all the diamonds')

~b.w.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 11:43 AM

I've got me a Martin Guitar, I carry it in an old tote sack, I've pawned it about two or three hundred times, but I always got it back,

Jimmy Martin, Freeborn Man

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Peg
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 12:51 PM

gosh so many mentioned here reminding me how many there are out there...John Gorka, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, et al...
Steve, I first heard that Halifax pier song sung by the woman who played Jeannie in the original Broadway production of "Hair"--no lie! She is pagan and can often be found at gatherings holding court with her guitar and her wonderful gravelly voice...
some of my own picks:
"Do I lie like a lounge room lizard, or do I sing like a bird released?"
"These things I should keep to myself, but I feel somehow strangely compelled/The closest I get to contentment is when all of the barriers come down."
(both by Neil Finn of Crowded House)
"Not vernal showers to budding flowers, nor autumn to a farmer/so dear can be as thou to me/my fair, my lovely charmer" (Robbie Burns)
and pretty much anything by Ian Anderson, Kate Bush, and Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance...
Oh, okay...
"I'll buy you six bay mares to put in your stable
six golden apples bought with my pay
I am the first piper who calls the sweet tune
but I must be gone on the seventh day."
(Ian Anderson)
"Out on the wily windy moors we'd roll and fall in green
you had a temper like my jealousy, too hard too greedy
How could you leave me when I needed to possess you
I hated you, I loved you, too..."
(Kate Bush)
"You heard of honest Socrates
The man who never lied:
They weren't so grateful as you'd think
Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried
And handed him the poisoned drink.
How honest was the people's noble son.
The world however did not wait
But soon observed what followed on.
It's honesty that brought him to that state.
How fortunate the man with none.

(Brendan Perry)

peg

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,mary g
Date: 05 Apr 00 - 09:28 PM

I put my head into a cask of brandy...

from Peggy Gordon

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Callie
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 03:47 AM

"Well I prayed to the saints and all the martyrs For the secret life of Frank Sinatra" -Elvis Costello

" I should have noticed my halo was slipping Someone should have followed me home My guardian angel went missing It must have had wings made of stone" -Joe Camilleri

"I see your face in every flower Your eyes in stars above" --Ray Noble

--Callie

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 10:07 AM

Woke up this morning, the blues was walking like a man.

Robert Johnson

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Mooh
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 12:47 PM

"and with every jar that hit the bar we swore we would remain, and make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again." Stan Rogers, particularly enjoyable after a few jars have hit the bar...

A few days ago another thread reminded me of this one by Jez Lowe, "As I practiced basic native tongue on the French girl I was cuddling."

Oh, and so many more. Peace Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 03:54 PM

Mmmmmmm....
KATE BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!
*dives for the CD collection!!* YAAAA!!!!!!!!

{~`

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Amos
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 04:09 PM

Thanks for the reminder, annp:

"Last night I had the strangest dream, I've never had before --
I dreamt the world had all agreed to put an end to war."

A

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Apr 00 - 08:22 PM

Catacombs
Nursery Bones
Winter Women throwing stones
Carrying babies to the river
Streets and shoes
Avenues
Leather Writers selling News

-JDM

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 07 Apr 00 - 09:45 AM

OK, this isn't from a song but it ought to be. It was in a tec' novel said about a hooker encountered in a low bar:
"She had the body of a film star and the face of a slaughterman".
OK so I've got low taste.
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Mooh
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 01:38 PM

Ah, I almost forgot...Tonoi K's Funky Western Civilization ...

"They put Jesus on a cross, they put a hole in JFK, they put Hitler in the driver's seat and looked the other way..."

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Apr 00 - 01:46 PM

Would you leave me in the autumn, love, to live out my winter alone? Peggy Seeger

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,Mrrzy-at-work
Date: 12 Apr 00 - 03:24 PM

Can't imagine why this one would come to me while at work, right?
Alack-a-day, oh no, oy vey!
This is from Carol King singing in Really Rosie, the movie made around Maurice Sendak's lovely Nutshell Library.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,Frankie
Date: 12 Apr 00 - 04:51 PM

More Tom Waits:

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.

Townes Van Zandt:

Time flies like and arrow, fruit flies like a bananna.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,Rich(stupidbodhranplayerthatdoesn'tknow.....
Date: 12 Apr 00 - 05:22 PM

"The earth was made a common treasury for everyone to share." The World Turned Upside Down, by Leon Russelson. Come to think of it, the whole song qualifies as a best line.

"Strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands" Scarlet Begonias, Robert Hunter

"Nach mise fein an fhear gan ciall ce d'hag mo chias im mo scornach" (Am I not a man without sense , who left my rent in my throat) Nil na La

Rich

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Apr 00 - 05:28 PM

This week's favorite:

"Took a Cherokee bride and she gave me five babies. I sang at the wakes and I cried at the weddings...."

Tim O'Brien and Pierce Pettis, A Mountaineer Is Always Free, on O'Brien's The Crossing.

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: GUEST,Billythenurse
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:25 AM

"My Uncle Had a wolfhound that never had to pee but Hairy Lemon snatched it down on Eden Quay"(Pete St John, The Mero)

"So Drunk to hell I left the place sometimes crawling sometimes walking." (Shane Macgowan, A Pair of Brown Eyes)

"Now for black Fitzwilliam's head, We'll send it over, dripping red to Queen Liza and the ladies" (Trad. Irish, Follow Me Up to Carlow)

Subject: RE: BS: Best lines
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:38 AM

Both man and master in the night are one,

All things are equal when the day is done,

The prince and ploughman, the slave and free man,

All find their comfort in old John o' dreams...