The last lyric that made you smile

Subject: The last lyric that made you smile
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 09:23 PM

What's the most recent verse or chorus you've heard that just plain made you feel good? I godt one at a house concert last night, from "Andi and I" (Andi and Al Tauber). The verses just walk you through an ordinary enough day in the life of a couple who are very comfortable together; the chorus goes:
   
"We'll probably never be famous,
sure as hell won't never get rich,
no wild night, no life of extravagance,
Just a wealth of days like this."

and the rhymn in the last verse is:

"our songs'll never tie up the charts
....
but we'll make a couple of happy old farts".

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 09:26 PM

that's "no wild nights".

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 11:43 PM

you're going to love hearing it...it will be on its way to you in just a couple of days...it doesn't sound as funny without the music, but it always makes me smile:

(last three verses of I'm betting the roll on Roamer)

They passed the quarter. O Lord, be kind,
For Roamer is nearly a quarter behind.
That jockey must either be dumb or blind,
And I'm bettin' the roll on Roamer. "

The crowd all yelled when they packed the line.
They pulled in the stretch and the goin' was fine.
"I thought I was rich but she slipped in a ditch, (specifically this line! He sounds SO hopeful!)
And I had all my roll on Roamer.

"There may be a big city mansion,
And there may be a home by the sea,
And the mare may be put on a pension,
But by somebody else beside me."

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 12:43 AM

Monty python!

Always look on the bright side of life....you know the rest! :0)

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 01:12 AM

Doc Watson singing Telephone Girl on the Doc Watson/David Holt Legacy album.
If you haven't heard this album, you need to.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Dani
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 08:22 AM

The Gladiator Song as sung by our own Micca at the Getaway - it still makes me giggle. As if I could choose from all the lyrics sung there that made me smile!

Also, I still smile (with a tear) thinking about El Greko's song Circles in the Air:

"And if life then was happier, I don't know
But if I only could, back again I'd go
To when father took me to the fair
And dance a few more circles in the air."


Dani

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Jim McLean
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 08:28 AM

Bob Halfin, one of the old school Jewish, Tin Pan Alley (London) songwriters wrote 'Mr Ben Nevis, you're as old as the hills'.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 08:32 AM

Everything that Les Barker's written. The man's a genius! :0)

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: moocowpoo
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 08:54 AM

I really like the poignant humour of the Kinky friedman song 'western union wire'
moo

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 09:26 AM

From Jacqui at the Getaway:
"All around my fat
I wear a Playtex girdle..."
heh heh

Anyone else remember when a lady did not go out without a girdle and it was part of the required uniform for airline stewardesses? Never could afford to burn my bra but the girdle went in 1964 and hasn't been back since. DON'T SAY IT KENDALL or anyone else who values his life.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 09:38 AM

"It's all for my true love
Who thinks I'm made this way"

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST,Crystal
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 10:16 AM

I'm working three nights and a Sunday double time
I work all day
and I work all night
To hell with you jack I'm all right
three nights and a Sunday double time

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Micca
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 10:30 AM

Sins, written by LadyP and the lyrics are in Áines song book (see drop down menu where "log in" etc is at top of page )

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 10:41 AM

Chris Wood's reworking of Hares on the Mountain:

And if all you young girls were like rain from the sky
We'd stand out in T-shirts and shun all things dry.
And if all you young girls were like the hot August sun
Then we'd sit out with ice cream and get nothing done

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 11:16 AM

Every once and awhile a song comes back to you that you haven't even thought of in years. For me I caught myself humming a song that I used to here Michael Cooney play a bunch when I was a child at the Arc in Ann Arbor Michigan. The song was Lou and Peter Berryman's The F-Word.

This brought back a whole lot of memories of their album So Comfortable that my parents bought for me - in the ever increasingly difficult battle to maintain my folk upbringing and the crap that populated the airwaves in the mid-eighties.

I bought the Berryman's album of Ebay and after listening to the familar noises from my youth I was struck with the lyrics of their song "When did we have saurkraut?" A song I loved when I was a child but never really listened to the lyrics.

In this one line, I feel that the Berryman's summed up completely what it was like to live in the Midwest - the place we moved shortly after I was given the album.

So after a long story, and a happy refind in the album:

"And by the way I stopped off at the Belvedere Oasis
Which is such a pretty name for such an ugly place to go."

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 01:10 PM

Bill Bailey "It Was Terry"

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: BTMP
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 01:31 PM

Country music has a host of songs with catchy lyrics, but this line from Merle Haggard's "I'm Going Off of the Deep End" has always been one of my favorites:

" ... My weakness is stronger than I am."

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: *Laura*
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 04:42 PM

"It didn't make sense not to live for fun,
your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb"

Smash Mouth - it's on my Shrek soundtrack!

OOh - and that one from The Proclaimers -
"I'm on my way, from misery to happiness today,
uh-huh-uh-huh-uh-huh-uh-huh,
... and now that I don't want for anything,
ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-oh,
I'm sitting on top of the world"

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:01 PM

The Queen of the Ballroom
Still glitters and shines
Each night at the old time parade.

And maybe it's something
They put in the wine
But her beauty refuses to fade

I think she got married
To a stranger, they say
Some crazy old cowboy
Who rode in one day

And the whole town still dances
And the music still plays
There's no telling what a love song can do.

- "No Telling," by Linda Thompson, as adapted by Tom Russell.

Kris heard me singing it, and said, "That makes me think of Kendall and Jacqui." That had already occurred to me.

Peter

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:07 PM

"Lying naked on the bed"

Its a long story....

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST,Brian
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 05:22 PM

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 12:10 AM

Either IN SPITE OF OURSELVES sung by John Prine and Iris Dement, or WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY THE GUITAR? by Pat Donahue.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST,caiterade
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 11:11 PM

it's never too late to start the day over | it's never too late to pick up the phone | it's never too late to lay your head down on my shoulders.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Flash Company
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 08:33 AM

katlaughing- Thanks for the memory! It must be 50 years since I heard I'm Betting the Roll on Roamer. I remember the last lines as:-

And that mare can be put on a pension,
But by some other sucker than me!

FC

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:21 AM

I agree with Strollin' Johnny, Les Barker is a Genius!

One lyric that, not so much makes me smile, but is so wonderfully poetic it makes me thankful for my hearing is from Jez Lowe's, Tenterhooks, "Bad news has the wings good news must dream of growing".

Magic!

muppitz x

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Jeanie
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 03:55 AM

Always guaranteed to make me smile (at the very least) are contrived rhymes, as in:

"Do whatever steps you want if
You have cleared them with the Pontiff"    (Vatican Rag, Tom Lehrer)

and (the most recent new example I've heard):

"And although your hair is greying and you're glad to be alive, it's
True a touch of romance can still stimulate your privates"

(Nifty When You're Fifty, Tony Winn).

I don't know if there's a technical name for this kind of rhyme, where one half of the pair is formed from at least two words (usually not nouns) and the other from one word (usually a noun). Whatever it is, it works particularly well, scattered here and there, in humorous songs.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 04:13 AM

The parody of Winter Wonderland...

'Later on, if you wanna, we can dress, like Madonna'....

Has me rolling around (metaphorically speaking... can't really do that at work) and giggling hysterically!

Then there's the whole of Weird Al's thing about driving a truck with high heels on, which has totally escaped me this morning..... it's on my terminal at work.

And of course, my dear friend Les... although, I've raised more than a smile over most of his works, the serious stuff has also raised some wry grins, the odd eyebrow and even a tear or two... a much misunderstood man... he only gets the recognition he deserves in the States and Canada. Most Brits only want him for his parodies.

LTS

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 04:39 AM

Incredible String Band - I'm still on a high from seeing them last week!

This moment is different from any before and this
moment is different it's now
And if I don't kiss you
That kiss is untasted
I'll never get it back
But why should I want to
I'll be in the next moment
Sweet moment
Sweet lover
Sweet now

Grinning like a Chesire cat:-)

Best unintentional (I think!) one is John Denver with
"There's a little bit of cowboy in the lady"

Cracks me up anyway. Mind you, it doesn't take much...

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Little Robyn
Date: 13 Nov 04 - 03:29 PM

Do you know Bernard Bolan's Basingstoke, about the cat who fell in the fire? It's here Basingstoke

Mitch sings it and it always cracks up everyone, even those that have heard it many times.
Robyn

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 08:40 AM

This one is so profound - that it always makes me smile.

There ain't no one for to give you no pain.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST,Jane
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 11:12 AM

'Miss Punta Blanca' by Jane Siberry

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST,Pete
Date: 14 Nov 04 - 11:24 AM

Saw Sid Kipper friday night. Didn't stop smiling from start to finish. Probably need to be British (or even English) though.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Splott Man
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 03:29 AM

Jeanie

When I was at school (in the 60s) we were taught that multi syllable rhymes were called "feminine rhymes" and single syllable rhymes were "masculine rhymes".

Times may have changed.




I agree, Tom Lehrer is a master at contrived rhymes.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Fossil
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 06:44 AM

Song heard on BBC Radio 4's "The Now Show", on Saturday - don't know the exact title, but it was something like "Let's Have a Minute's Noise for Peel". Referring to the late, great John Peel and his love of very loud guitars...

Made me smile, anyway. Would love to have the lyrics.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Hovering Bob
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 07:17 AM

Almost anything by Malcolm Austen, when he's in parody-ing mood.
Such as in "Mississippi," the song about the ship built with a bend in the middle,
'And a shot across her bow blew the stern away'.
Then in "The cat that roamed," he wrote the immortal line,
'It was 1950, that's ten to eight.'

Ahh Butt, I'd wish he'd write more.

Bob

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: GUEST,Linael
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 07:18 AM

Not very PC, so apologies TWIMC but:
The chorus to "My proper name is Clarence":

"My proper name is Clarence, but you can call me Clare,
I wear sexy undies and I peroxide my hair,
My politics are liberal, my outlook's liberal too,
In fact my dear, I'm a little bit queer and I've taken a shine to you."

Linael

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Splott Man
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 07:21 AM

Fossil.

Mitch Benn's song made me laugh oy loud (as he often does) funny and respectful at the same time.

Somewhere below there's a thread where someone has posted the words and chords - it may be a BS.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 10:49 AM

"When you're in love with a beautiful woman, It's hard"!!!!!!!!

Best wishes.

Subject: RE: The last lyric that made you smile
From: Partridge
Date: 15 Nov 04 - 11:51 AM

From the divine comedy, song called "National Express"

"Well its hard to get by
when your ass is the size of a small country"

Always makes me smile

Pat x