Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 10:38 PM from "Molly Darling" by William Shakespeare Hayes: Let your answer be a kiss! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 10:42 PM from "The Hills Of Roane County": Boys, when you write home from this dirty old prison, Put one of my songs in your letters for me! Art |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 10:46 PM from "East Texas Red" by Woody Guthrie: And Red was dead when the other two men, Sat down to eat their stew!! Art |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 10:52 PM from the Arkansas Ozark song "Father Oh Dear Father": Daughter, oh, dear daughter, go ahead and make your vow, It ain't no sin 'cause you ain't no kin to your daddy anyhow!!! Art !! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 10:54 PM All I can leave you is a handful of songs!!! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 10:59 PM This young couple were childhood sweethearts-- She was a child, and he was a hood, The lived a life of of joyful sweet devotion, Their song is ended, and I think that's good... Arthur David Thieme !!! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 11:06 PM ...he had both come and gone. (Art) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 11:12 PM Banua, banua, banua, oh-uh-oh-oh! Banua, banua, baby, please don't go! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Alba Date: 21 May 06 - 11:13 PM And at night through the bars I gaze at the stars And I long for your kisses in vain A piece of stone I will use for my pillow While I'm sleeping in shackles and chains Shackles and Chains by Jimmie Davis(?) Hi Art...sending you and yours my best as always:) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Dan Schatz Date: 21 May 06 - 11:16 PM There are so many! Here's a familiar one, and for good reason: "Oh, dear me, the world is ill divided - Them that work the hardest are the least provided." - Mary Brooksbank, The Jute Mill Song Songs by Townes Van Zandt and Utah Phillips spring to mind: "We all got holes to fill, And them holes are all that's real. Some fall on you like a storm; Sometimes you dig your own. But the choice is yours to make And time is yours to take - Some dive into the sea; Others toil out on the stone. To live's to fly - low and high, So shake the dust off of your wings And the sleep out of your eyes. Shake the dust off of your wings And the tears out of your eyes." - Townes Van Zandt, "To Live's To Fly" And even though it's spoken: "Now a traveling life might seem all right - A life without worry or care. You're always up and you're always out And you're always going somewhere. But I tell you, my friend, It's not where you are, But your reason for being there." - Utah Phillips, "Phoebe Snow" Someone mentioned Helen Schneyer - here's a traditional one she used to sing: "Oh it's hard to hear the hungry children crying When I have two hands that want to do their share." - traditional, A Miner's Prayer And the shortest, and maybe the best, written by a good friend and as yet unrecorded: "What has war to do with children?" - Lois Lyman, Sarajevo There are many, many more. Good thread! Dan Schatz |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art hieme Date: 21 May 06 - 11:22 PM Hi everyone back---! It does seem I have MANY favorite lines. If you want to get to heaven, Over on that other shore, Stay Away from those Blood-Stained Banners, Good shepherd---feed my sheep... (from singing of Jimmy Strothers---Library Of Congress Archive Of American Folk Song) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 21 May 06 - 11:25 PM If you do not when you may, you shall not when you would! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art again Date: 21 May 06 - 11:32 PM Way out on the wind swept desert where nature favors no man, A buffalo found his brother at rest on the sub-baked sand, The buffalo said to his brother, "What sickness got you this way?" But his brother never said, 'cause his brother was dead, Been dead since way last May! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art (last one) Date: 21 May 06 - 11:39 PM ...there could be hundreds more... Here's one couplet. The whole song. From the mid-1800s California gold fields... The miners came in '49--the whores in '51, Then they got together and raised a native son! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Rapparee Date: 21 May 06 - 11:57 PM There are so many! "...And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smilin' bastards lyin' to ya everywhere you go...." --Stan Rogers, Mary Ellen Carter "...But you saw the smiles of the gentry And the laughter of lords at their games, For when poor hunt the poor across mountain and moor A rich man can keep them in chains." -- The Yew Tree What the heck! It's whole songs that set the lines up for meaning. These and many others -- "And the band played Waltzing Matilda", "The Rapparree," "John Cook," "Greenland Whale Fisheries," even "Yankee Doodle" and "Nova Scotia Farewell" and "Northwest Passage" and "We Shall Overcome" and "The Willing Conscript" and I could go one but I won't. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: open mike Date: 22 May 06 - 12:24 AM Love has made a circle that holds us all inside where strangers are as family and lonliness can't hide Kate Wolf--Give Yourself to Love Stretched so tight with wire strings I have no room to grow now I am but the slave who sings when master draws the bow Laurie Lewis--The maple's Lament Follow that road back thru time back thru distance back to me Anne Hills |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Sandy Paton Date: 22 May 06 - 12:46 AM When the blues chase up a rabbit, Chase him a solid mile, Poor rabbit sit down And cry like a new-born child. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Sandy Paton Date: 22 May 06 - 12:56 AM Very well do I like your red, rosy cheeks, Very well do I like your chin, But I like Matthy Grove in his gore of blood More than you and all your kin! When I've got no shoes, I'm gonna quit the street; Take my chair and put a fan at my feet. When I've got no man, no meat, no shoes, I'll lay 'cross the bed, head in the blues. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: karen k Date: 22 May 06 - 02:10 AM From Larry Kaplan's "Old Zeb": At least I know the wind is free and we haven't run out yet. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: alanabit Date: 22 May 06 - 02:16 AM "Bless this voice that cries out alone While others stand laughing - so afraid of their own Times have been changed by just one rolling stone Bless these children" Bill Boazman - "Bless These Children" "If she could see the world through my eyes Would she change her mind? Would she try to turn the water into wine? Would her eyes see devices instead of the divine? And what would they see in mine" Rob Taylor and Alex Partick in "She Sees Spires" There are so many brilliant songs, which never become known outside of a relatively small scene. There's a thread... |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Big Mick Date: 22 May 06 - 07:52 AM "Oh bury me down in yon green garden, with Union men on every side" Ballad of James Connolly |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Big Mick Date: 22 May 06 - 07:57 AM "An' you sae douce, wha' sneer at this, ye're naught but senseless asses, O' The wisest man the world e'er saw, he dearly lo'ed the lasses, O! Auld nature swears the lovely dears, her noblest wark she classes, O' Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, then she made the lasses, O!" Robbie Burns, my kind of guy. Mick |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: kendall Date: 22 May 06 - 08:27 AM .. maybe your ticket on the last train to glory is that stranger who was sleeping on your floor. ...and when you're on the last train to glory, you'll know you're reasonably there. (Harry Tuft) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Big Mick Date: 22 May 06 - 08:47 AM From the western Canadian songwriter, Bill Gallaher. He wrote a song about a Wobbly union organizer. This organizer was shot down by police for his organizing activities, and the verse describes his funeral. The song is called "Ginger Goodwin". "There was an endless line of mourners; people came from miles around. And the workers on the mainland up and shut Vancouver down. And in a painted cedar coffin he was carried through the town. Then in death, as in his short life, Ginger went back underground." |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Big Mick Date: 22 May 06 - 08:52 AM From The Finding of Moses, two different lines. "Ah now, sez Pharoah, I'll search ever nook, from de Phoenix Park on down to Donnybrook" and then the last line "And so little Moses, got his mommy back, shows that co in cidence is a nut to crack." |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Big Mick Date: 22 May 06 - 08:56 AM The whole of "Fairytale of New York" by Shane McGowan. Damn, I could go on forever. There are so many fav's. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: C. Ham Date: 22 May 06 - 11:26 AM 'Cause if a fool be he He's a fool like me -Bruce Murdoch You are right from your side And I am right from mine We're just one too many mornings...and a thousand miles behind -Bob Dylan Let me sing to you all the old songs I know Of wild, windy places locked in timeless snow And wide crimson deserts where muddy rivers flow It's sad but the telling takes me home -Utah Phillips I never thought I was special at all I never dreamed I could be Just another coat hanging there in your hall Look at what you have done to me -Tom Mitchell If I could hide the way I feel I'd never sing again -Utah Phillips I could have loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind You know that was the last thing on my mind -Tom Paxton The miles flow on and I am gone To a wild and empty land Where time is like an empty room And space an empty hand And the things we said and the jokes we told Are echoes in the waste We'll meet again where hills are green In another time and place -Dave Van Ronk |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Mr Fox Date: 22 May 06 - 11:27 AM The rabble rout forbore to shout and each man held his breath For well they knew a hero's soul was face-to-face with death - Montrose, Steeleye Span We could leave right now maybe it's getting light out there papers in the alley just a little rain - We Could Leave Right Now, Oysterband Speaking of the Oysters, the whole of 'Granite Years' because it reminds me of the time I lived in a certain Kent seaside town that shall remain nameless. Some of the worst times of my life. But, paradoxically, some of the best too. Down there in the dark they are lying They died for nine shillings a day - Gresford Disaster, Anon And how could I forget? For England is not flag or Empire it is not money and it is not blood It's limestone gorge and granite fell it's Wealden clay and Severn mud It's blackbird singing from the may tree lark ascending through the scales It's robin watching from your spade and English earth beneath your nails - A Place Called England, Maggie Holland |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: dwditty Date: 22 May 06 - 11:34 AM Also from ANother Time and Place (Van Ronk) - See C Ham's post a couple up from here: I'd trade my time in heaven For a day with you, my dear dw |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Ebbie Date: 22 May 06 - 11:42 AM "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" U2 |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Art hieme Date: 22 May 06 - 04:17 PM from a harmonica blues as sung by Frank Hamilton--1961: I could sit right here---and look a thousand miles away! Art |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: kendall Date: 22 May 06 - 04:18 PM ..and all the things done to make a man run, the hard luck and the failures of age... ..then I stopped with a crash...we looked into the ash helpless with longing and rage. Utah Phillips (Phoebe Snow) ...the clock in the kitchen says quarter past three As the gates are flung open from hell, But time here is frozen the clock ticks no more Just the ashes the cinders and smell. Fire, by Dave Mallett |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: number 6 Date: 22 May 06 - 04:28 PM "There's a big old goofy man, dancin' with a big old goofy girl Oooh baby, it's a big old goofy world" Its a Big Old Goofy World ... by John Prine sIx |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Charmain Date: 22 May 06 - 04:51 PM Promise me we won't go into the nightclub I feel so f**ked up when I'm in there Can't tell the bouncers from the customers And I don't know which ones I prefer Promise me we won't go into the nightclub I really think that it's obscene What kind of people go to meet people Someplace they can't be heard or seen - How true... "Light Enough To Travel" the Be Good Tanyas |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Rapparee Date: 22 May 06 - 04:58 PM The killer and the cynic waltz together Their eyes are turned into their skulls They do not feel the bullets in the bodies They do not hear the dolphins or the gulls If we do these things in the greenwood, what will happen in the dry? -- Peter Yarrow, Greenwood, 1973 |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Geordie-Peorgie Date: 22 May 06 - 05:03 PM Around the world he travelled beneath the ensign, high He saw the south sea's flying finsh and the starless Arctic sky But in his heart a-pining for someone so far away AS THE BOW-WAVE SPLIT THE COOL NIGHT-AIR, HE HEARD THE LEE-WIND SAY.. "Down By The Dockyard Wall" Shep Woolley All of "We Stayed Awake" by Huw Williams - Especially the bit where his teenage daughter just has to grasp his finger..... Then I'm wrecked |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Charmain Date: 22 May 06 - 05:08 PM God forgot the Green in Greenland He made the flowers of Ice and Snow Icy Acres |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: kendall Date: 22 May 06 - 05:44 PM The world is always turning toward the morning. (Gordon Bok) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST Date: 22 May 06 - 07:55 PM From the "Jute Mill Song" aka "Ten and Nine"; Oh dear me - the world is ill divided Them that works the hardest are the least provided |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Stewie Date: 22 May 06 - 09:26 PM From 'Black Angel Cure' by Mark Germino: Now I shoot the darkness down, I puncture what is swollen And sometimes I'll tear it down, just to keep it rollin' --Stewie. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Ferrara Date: 22 May 06 - 10:10 PM I guess no one who loves to sing could have just one favorite line, huh? The first thing that came to mind when I started reading this thread was a verse from "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"" Then in despair I bowed my head, "There is no peace on earth," I said, "For hate is strong and mocks the song "Of peace on earch, good will to men." Then pealed the bells more loud and deep, "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep -- "The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, "With peace on earth, good will to men." I don't believe such a thing ever will or can happen on this earth, but the words ring out with such hope and brilliance that I love to hear or sing them. ... In an entirely different vein, here's a couple of lines I like very well. I like the intensity and honesty of the lady's anger and vengefulness! I hope there is a day a-comin' When love shall put an end to me And that there is a place of torment To contain my love for deceiving me. - From "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies," as sung by Sheila Kaye Adams. There's another version of the same song, from Arizona I believe, that has a great line in it: He'll tell to you some pleasant story, And say he loves no one but you, And this is all for to blight your day, And that's the love he has for you! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 22 May 06 - 10:53 PM "Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina, WIcked and evil while casting a spell. I was in love with this Mexican maiden, I was in love, but in vain, I could tell." Seamus |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Alba Date: 22 May 06 - 11:02 PM Indeed Ferrara, how could anyone have but one line of one Song they love to Sing or Hear:) People are strange we move around closely, only to find we are miles apart. Busy putting up fences with no Gates to open. Constructing defenses around our Hearts and I have long loved the picture this verse paints: Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout And all that stays is dying, all that lives is getting out See the geese in chevron flight flapping and a-racing on before the snow They've got the urge for going, and they've got the wings so they can go Urge for Going ~ Joni Mitchell |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: cetmst Date: 23 May 06 - 07:15 AM Another line from John Prine's 'Paradise' - I'm sorry my son but you're too late in asking, Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away. From 'Come By the Hills' - The cares of tomorrow must wait 'til this day is done. Remember me at the close of a long, long day. England hath taken me. Jean Ritchie's Now is the cool of the day. Jean Ritchie: No more will black waters run over my land. Jean Ritchie: The L&N don't stop here any more. Pretty nearly anything else by Jean Ritchie. My heart breaks as you take your long journey. A happy-ever-after life was not the kind they got But they tended to be happy more often than not. - Bob Blue,'Ballad of Erica Levine. |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: kendall Date: 23 May 06 - 08:48 AM I come home from work she meets me at the road, Not to tell me that she loves me, but the toilet overflowed. (Sandy Paton) |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: harryrages Date: 23 May 06 - 03:55 PM One sung - never forgotten OGGY MAN (Cyril Tawney) Well the rain's softly falling and the oggy man's no more I can't hear him calling like I used to before I came through the gateway and I heard the sergeant say The big boys are coming, see their stand across the way Yes the rain's softly falling and the oggy man's no more It was there that she told me when she bade me good bye There's no one will miss you one half as much as I My love will endure, dear, like a beacon in the squall Eternal as the oggy man beneath the dockyard wall Well the rain's softly falling and the oggy man's no more |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Milead Date: 23 May 06 - 05:45 PM Has anybody mentioned yet... "At the age of fourteen he was a married man, Age of fifteen the father of a son. Age of sixteen on his grave the grass was green" From "Trees they grow high" Sadness made poetry. Cheers |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: Crystal Date: 24 May 06 - 04:42 AM I bought the new SOH Album last week and decided that my current favourite line in any song is: "And a minister said his vision of hell, Is three folk singers in a bar near Wells, But I have a vision of urban sprawl, It's pubs where no-one ever sings at all." Chillingly accurate. I wasn't terribly impressed with the rest of the album to be honest though! |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: BB Date: 24 May 06 - 04:24 PM From a version of 'Cottage Well-Thatched with Straw': 'Sunday saints I despise, with their chatter and lies; They're as constant as melting snow...' |
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines From: GUEST,Dan Schatz at the office Date: 24 May 06 - 04:37 PM The very sad news about Margaret MacArthur reminded me of one of my all time favorite lines from the cowboy poem she put to music: "Religion? You don't know its primary branches If you ain't been alone with the stars." - a poem adapted by Margaret MacArthur, Them Stars |
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