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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: kendall Date: 26 Feb 02 - 02:08 PM ... my manhood is cast down in a flood of remembrance and, I weep, like a child, for the past. Dont remember the name, but, I have it on Ed Tricketts latest tape, "Echo on the evening tide" |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Midchuck Date: 26 Feb 02 - 03:18 PM Well, I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt, And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert.. - Kris Kristofferson, Sunday Morning Coming Down I remember that. Thank Gawd those days are behind me. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: jup Date: 26 Feb 02 - 04:05 PM Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,a long way from home. THIS IS A GREAT THREAD. JUP. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: DougR Date: 26 Feb 02 - 04:15 PM "Took my heart as a token, when returned it was broken, hide your face, Shame on You!" Spade Cooley (Tex Williams vocal) |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Little Hawk Date: 26 Feb 02 - 04:15 PM "Sometimes I recall what others have said Love is for lovers, in love and full grown Life's for the living and death's for the dead And the death of a heart is a fathom unknown." Buffy Sainte-Marie And IMO those are the best love song lines ever written anywhere by anyone... - LH |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,Guest Date: 26 Feb 02 - 04:17 PM "The road goes on forever and the party never ends." REK |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,Scott Date: 26 Feb 02 - 04:19 PM ...and another eye for another eye 'till everyone was blind. There were roses -Tommy Sands Scott |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Desdemona Date: 26 Feb 02 - 05:31 PM "When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind" Lennon & McCartney (well, really just Lennon!) |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,petr Date: 26 Feb 02 - 06:46 PM Little old lady got mutilated late last night. (werewolves of london again) Warren zevon. not the text but I just like the way that rolls off the tongue. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: kendall Date: 26 Feb 02 - 07:46 PM For some will lead the crippled Some will lead the blind But, what of alms for him whose wound is of the mind? My Wild Irish Rose Utah Phillips. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: kendall Date: 26 Feb 02 - 07:55 PM ...and the Mitis blood ran like a river Into the coolies they ran to hide Their dreams were washed away and their spirit died. I'm going to sing that some day; if I can do it without going blind. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Little Hawk Date: 26 Feb 02 - 08:09 PM It's a favorite at the Orillia Song Circle, Kendall. petr - Good for you, mentioning Warren Zevon! His album "Excitable Boy" is downright amazing, from beginning to end. "Send lawyers, guns, and money...the shit has hit the fan" - LH |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Bullfrog Jones Date: 26 Feb 02 - 08:29 PM How about: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes" from John Prine's 'Sam Stone' "I played The Red River Valley, and he sat in his kitchen and cried" from Guy Clark's 'Desperadoes Waiting For A Train' and a combination of the singer and the song in the way Gram Parson's voice breaks on the line "I'm your toy, I'm your old boy" from 'Hot Burrito#1' |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: kendall Date: 26 Feb 02 - 10:16 PM ..in the alley ways full of ragged strays The doorway wine I tell my troubles to I remember all these things, but, mostly I remember loving you. Utah Phillips |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Tweed Date: 26 Feb 02 - 10:37 PM "Waalll....He's harmless enough I suppose.. But the way I look at it... he oughta get rid of them Goddam books.... Readin' ain't no good fer an ignorant nigger.." Dylan's "Ballad of Hezekiah Jones" from the white bootleg album. Chills me everytime. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: rube1 Date: 26 Feb 02 - 11:14 PM Don't ever let another take a love from me...Temptations |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 27 Feb 02 - 01:15 AM "As through this world I've traveled I've seen many kinds of men Some will rob you with a six gun And some with a fountain pen." from Pretty Boy Floyd |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Steve Latimer Date: 27 Feb 02 - 01:33 AM Most of the time It's well understood, Most of the time I wouldn't change it if I could, I can't make it all match up, I can hold my own, I can deal with the situation right down to the bone, I can survive, I can endure And I don't even think about her Most of the time. Bob Dylan, Most Of The Time. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Rolfyboy6 Date: 27 Feb 02 - 02:21 AM "You better c'mon, in my kitchen, it's going to be raining outside." Robert Johnson |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Micca Date: 27 Feb 02 - 05:29 AM " You are like the Wild Geese, love you Fly where ere you will where ever the wild geese take you my arms will hold you still" Robert A Heinlein |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Dave T Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:17 AM Don't know the name of the song off hand but it's by Paul Thorn.It might be titled "Viagra" but if not it's close enough: Lord I feel like such a failure, with my broke-down genitalia I heard that when he opened for Mark Knopfler last year. -Dave T |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Crazy Eddie Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:09 AM "(My daughter married young, and went her own way), My sons are buried by the Burma railway" Eric Bogle Not a song, but a poem by Robert Service... "and the greasy smoke, like an inky cloak, went streaking down the sky."
"I've been a wild rover, for many a year..."
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Steve Latimer Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:16 AM Dave T. I saw Paul Thorn a few years ago, he opened for Jeff Beck. I thought he was very good, very funny. I liked Joanie The Jehovah's Witness Stripper and Burn Down The Trailer Park. Apparently before his music career he was a world ranked boxer, I believe he actually had a title fight against Roberto Duran. I meant to get his CD and didn't get around to it. Thanks for reminding me. Sorry for the Thread creep. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Pete Jennings Date: 27 Feb 02 - 10:45 AM Your mother stands a-cryin' As to the earth your body's slowly cast Your father stands in silence Caressing every young dream of the past - Bert Jansch ("Needle of Death") |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Joe_F Date: 27 Feb 02 - 06:56 PM Too late, but never mind. A flower among her flowers, content. He was born on land, but he sure enjoys the sky. Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Little Hawk Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:16 PM From Stan Rogers' song "Lies"...
"Then she shakes off the bitter web she wove What a superb song. - LH
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Chicken Charlie Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:14 PM ...and he carries a reminder/ Of every glove that laid him low ... "The Boxer," Simon & Garfunkel
Feed on your water, shovel in your coal;
I got a gal and she live cross town; ...penny a point; ain't no one keepin' score ... (City of New Orleans) ...I'll just go on livin' free and lovin' you a little every day .... "The Way You Got Me Feelin'" Let me forget about today until tomorrow. "Tambourine Man" enuff... CC
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: kendall Date: 27 Feb 02 - 10:26 PM Old Dogs and children, and watermellon wine. Tom T Hall |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,PoohBear Date: 28 Feb 02 - 12:05 AM She's just a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling. Jimmy Buffett. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: swirlygirl Date: 28 Feb 02 - 07:54 AM "The things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget..." Tom Waits (or something like that...) :) xxx |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Micca Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:05 AM For anyone who has EVER been to sea as a job.. " I dream of distant waters , tho' my fishing days are gone and for 30 years I've worked the factory floor but at night as I lie sleeping, I still hear howling gales as we hauled our nets and brought our fish on board Linda Kelly |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST Date: 28 Feb 02 - 09:52 AM "whatever you say, say nothing". Old Mafia proverb?Paddy Joe. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,Aunt Jerry & Uncle Mary Date: 28 Feb 02 - 10:17 AM I'll bid my heart be still, and check each struggling sigh For there's none e'er shall know My soul's cherished woe When the first tears of sorrow are dry. Scotts Traditional, I've heard |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Dahlin Date: 28 Feb 02 - 12:47 PM There's another train, there always is.You must get on another train. From the singing of Artisan. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Little Hawk Date: 28 Feb 02 - 12:54 PM "they asked me for some collateral, and I pulled down my pants..." Bob Dylan Ha! Great sarcastic line in one of his talkin' blues songs. - LH |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: bflat Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:41 PM "Are you going away with no word of farewell?" (The Last Thing On My Mind--Tom Paxton) The whole darn chorus actually. So many of his songs hit me in the chest i.e., Anytime; Getting Up Early; You Are Love. Ellen |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: kendall Date: 28 Feb 02 - 01:48 PM If I had a hammer, there wouldn't be any folksingers. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: nosluap57 Date: 28 Feb 02 - 02:01 PM From "Big Tex's Girl" by the Austin Lounge Lizards: All her friends in school were non-conformists So she became a non-conformist, too
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: harpgirl Date: 28 Feb 02 - 02:36 PM "I need a little sugar in my bowl,I need a little hot dog on my roll." |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,Midchuck downstairs Date: 28 Feb 02 - 03:08 PM The last time the moon was full it showed its darker side. The mundane had the magic annulled making vinegar out of wine. Jack Hardy, Eclipse (as sung by Gillette and Mangsen) (Of course, the song I'm working on at the moment always gets to me most. I guess I'm frivilous.) Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Anahootz Date: 28 Feb 02 - 04:41 PM "...Our ugliness is gone / I'm sure we'll all be friends / I'll try to break your back / and you'll try to make amends..." Afghan Whigs, "Creep". "...Such dreams, such dreams as these, I know that they mean no good / For I dreamed that my bower was full of red swine and my bride's bed full of blood" Tim O'Brien/Dirk Powell, "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" "...I see angels and ariels, in leather and chrome / Swooping down from heaven to carry me home" Richard Thompson, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" And one of my all-time favorite first lines... "We were drinkin' like the Irish, but we were drinking scotch..." Patti Griffin, "Mad Mission" |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: JudyR Date: 28 Feb 02 - 04:51 PM God, there are so many. This morning what's in my head is: What has happened down here, is the winds have changed Clouds roll in from the north and it started to rain It rained real hard, and it rained for a real long time Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline The river rose all day, the river rose all night Some people got lost in the flood, some people got away all right The river had busted through clear down to Placker Mine Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline Louisiana, Louisiana They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away Oh Louisiana, Louisiana They're trying to wash us away, they're trying to wash us away And the heartbreaking simplicity of the McGarrigles': Sometimes a heart is just like a wheel/when you bend it/it can't be mended But my love for you is like a sinking ship/ And my heart is like that boat out on the ocean. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Lonesome EJ Date: 28 Feb 02 - 05:55 PM All that I am, that I would be Then I would be what I am not But I am what I must be What I would be, I can not Oh little lallie day, oh the little lee oh day ....from Katy Cruel
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Joe_F Date: 28 Feb 02 - 10:43 PM When out of blossomed Normandy another pirate came. I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land. O Thou Who changest not, abide with me! I hear the noise of wings. And she said, No I don't, but you kiss just fine. And if ever you heard a little dog bark, She makes a small hole in the frost on the window, Say, don't you remember, I'm you pal. Walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn. While Joseph stood around. Where many a rooster like himself stood waiting for his tea. And so far, no dead ends. I'll get myself up in some right high degree. The sun shines owre the westlin hills by the lamplicht o the mune, Grind, children, grind for a clear and wakeful mind First flower of their wilderness, star of their night Glorior labore. When friends by shame are undefiled, And turns to set the mirror, gently, face down by the stove, Die Liebe dauert, oder dauert nicht Wenn sich die spaeten Nebel dreh'n And some of them will marry, and one will marry me. Tonight there'll be but three. The silent stars go by. Goodnight, and joy be with you all. Alas, it was to none but me. Rechka dvizhitsa i ne dvizhitsa, Your face will shine through all our tears. And in the fight that followed Till I want to go out and swear. A dragon lives forever, but no so, little boys. Put my boots on tall, read the writing on the wall, Married girl, married girl, rocks the cradle and cries. We weren't lovers like that, and besides, it would still be all right. I think of you often, I like you a lot, Getting older every day, I'm a fair-weather bum. Chickens crowing on Sourwood Mountain. Brave bracelets strong, sweet whips ding-dong |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: mkebenn Date: 01 Mar 02 - 08:23 AM In my belly's a gravin', got a shakin' in my head. BSM Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it. Zevon Mike |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: mkebenn Date: 01 Mar 02 - 08:33 AM It's "cravin'" Stupid |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,jaze Date: 01 Mar 02 - 10:18 PM But the sun comes up without her, it doesn't know she's gone. And it remembers nothing that she said. Gram Parsons- "Brass Buttons" |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: GUEST,Bill Date: 01 Mar 02 - 11:22 PM For various reasons, these are some of my favorite lines...all of which still give me that cold shiver. All modern stuff. "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." Johnny Cash/Folsom Prison Blues "You've painted up your lips and combed and curled your tinted hair...." Mel Tillis/Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." Bob Seger/Against The Wind "You may drive a pink Cadillac but don'cha be nobody's fool." Elvis Presley/Baby Let's Play House "Now you wear your skin like iron your breath's as hard as kerosene." Willie/Merle/Pancho and Lefty "I am he as you are he as you are we and we are all together." The Beatles/I Am the Walrus "Pulled in to Nazareth was feelin' about a half past dead." The Band/The Weight "Well I was drunk the day my ma got out of prison..." David Allen Coe/You Never Even Called Me By My Name And a chorus: "Well it's up against the wall Redneck Mother Mother who has raised a son so well He's 34 and drinkin' in a honky-tonk Just kickin' hippies asses and raisin' hell". Jerry Jeff Walker/Redneck Mother And one last one (I could go on and on...) "Big Legged Woman you sit there quite as a mouse bet my bottom dollar there ain't a cherry in the house!" Jerry Lee Lewis/Big Legged Woman Hope you got this far down the thread. Hope you enjoyed mine. Bill
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: MarkS Date: 02 Mar 02 - 09:15 PM More Lovin' her was easier than anything I'll ever do again. |
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Subject: RE: Lines that really grab you From: Ian Darby Date: 02 Mar 02 - 10:20 PM "A blinded priest was seen to bless both dying and the dead. As he stumbled round the battlefield, his cassock running red. If uniform were black or white, His eyes could never see. And death made no distinction, Whatever man, he be." From 'The Battle' off the first Strawbs album, written by Dave Cousins. |
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