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05 May 99 - 02:28 PM (#75823) Subject: YOUR Best original single lines. From: The Shambles The best single lines thread was good, but I thought it would be nice to have one for our best original lines. The ones that you think of that would be a good song or a poem but just never seems to get written. It may even inspire you to finish it. |
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05 May 99 - 02:29 PM (#75824) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: The Shambles Some people play, while others they slave away- |
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05 May 99 - 02:34 PM (#75829) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Sheye Dear Sanity: The next time you go, please don't stay away so long. |
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05 May 99 - 03:01 PM (#75835) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: MMario I never knew what pain was, 'til I woke and you weren't there. |
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05 May 99 - 03:34 PM (#75846) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: katlaughing No more, we, along the banks of the river meet; the memory in my heart lies sweet. On leaves in a New England autumn: As a mother with her children, Nature let them play all day. Meadowlark trills echoing far...Stormclouds gather, Spring's not far. The meeting amounted to a lesson in masochism by way of intolerant political correctness in all its extremes. Nice thread, Sham. kat |
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05 May 99 - 04:08 PM (#75851) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Alice I took a train from Paradise to Butte...
-------- my mantle opens, and your face impressed, sweet jungle savage, engraving flourished torments on my youth
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05 May 99 - 04:10 PM (#75852) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Mudjack |
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05 May 99 - 04:20 PM (#75855) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Vixen You can count on me \ to be \ undependable V |
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05 May 99 - 05:08 PM (#75866) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Songbob Here are several lines from songs of mine. I don't have a favorite, but these are some of the ones I like: (I've interpreted "lines" to be "sentences," even when the sentence covers more than one line of the lyric.) Then one lone voice began to sing, and others joined along, Till from a thousand throats there came the notes of this one song: (from: The Corliss Engine) Ebeneezer is the focus of the fuss! (from: The Scrooge In All of Us) The change she saw within him then brought fear into her life -- Cold passion, without compassion's trace. (from: Cold Passion) When I was young, it seemed to me There wasn't a thing I couldn't be. (from: World of Time) One last, long, lazy, looning laughing lark, Before the winter comes so cold and dark. That should be enough, I'd say. Bob Clayton |
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05 May 99 - 05:10 PM (#75867) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Songbob Ooops -- that last line above, the "lazy loony laughing lark," comes from "Labor Day." Bob Clayton |
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05 May 99 - 05:33 PM (#75873) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Rick Fielding Favourite lines, eh? "Single girl, single girl, she goes where she please. Married girl, married girl, got a baby on her knees." I think Sarah Carter understood the dark humour. Can't say what the best line would be from one of my songs (that's for others) but the one that is the most hopeful comes from "Voices of Struggle". "til death machines and crimes against humanity have ceased, Wherever people gather, we must raise our voice for peace."
These days, for me that means assault rifles, bombs, AND destructive video games, films, and recordings sold to kids STRICTLY for monetary greed, and without conscience. rick |
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05 May 99 - 05:46 PM (#75876) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Greg Baker I must have done wrong in my previous life and that's why I ended up here. |
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05 May 99 - 07:00 PM (#75892) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Mudjack I was born in the San Joaquin Valley, where the sun always shines, and the dust devils blow, and the sun always sets on the vines, where the sun sets on the vines. ...Mudjack...Where the dust devil's blow..being my favorite. |
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05 May 99 - 07:09 PM (#75897) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Max From Bert on Max's machine.
Ah! Best lines from OUR songs. I must have some somewhere. Of course we now HAVE to write a memorable line every time we write a song - Damn You. |
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05 May 99 - 09:40 PM (#75931) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Charlie Baum You're the worm in the apple of my eye. (A country and western sort of love-gone-wrong song) --Charlie Baum |
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05 May 99 - 10:42 PM (#75951) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Valentine (inactive) God bless the truth, the friend of the poor And the wild grass growing at the poor man's door "God Bless the Grass," Malvina Reynolds (who by no means always wrote cute songs) |
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05 May 99 - 10:57 PM (#75959) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: campfire SongBob - I think I'd like to hear those songs. Are they available anywhere??? Everything I've ever tried to write turns out sounding like a BAD country/western song (not at all what I was aiming for) so I've never finished any of them. But one line I still like is: Your memory loves me more than you ever did from an attempt at a song about (obviously) being haunted by the memory of a lover, when in reality the relationship wasn't all that great. campfire |
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06 May 99 - 12:34 AM (#75989) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Sandy Paton I once did a parody of "Home on the Range" that included: A cowboy, for fun, might draw his six-gun, But it's usually his foot that he shoots, 'Cause he's gone plumb insane from the terrible pain Caused by wearin' them silly damn boots. Check the punctuation; it's all one sentence/one line. Therefore, it appears I am using SongBob Clayton's interpretation of the thread title. By the way, as an aside to Bob: Digging out my copy of the People's Song Book last night, I came across your book on how to play the 5-string banjo! Now I need a copy of your Master's thesis on the Washington folk scene during the McCarthy years! I read a quote from it recently. (Was it in Cantwell's book?) Are you coming to Indian Neck this weekend? Sandy |
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06 May 99 - 12:45 AM (#75992) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: BK If you're not confused, then you don't really understand the situation... Cheers, BK (who's usually understanding that the situation -is thoroughly confusing) |
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06 May 99 - 09:01 AM (#76066) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Bert Hey campfire, all my songs sound like bad Country songs as well but I still sing 'em. So get in there and finish them and hurry up and send one to Max for the Mudcat CD> Bert. |
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06 May 99 - 09:47 AM (#76075) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: KingBrilliant Three from the same song (about daughter Amoret).. Storm grey eyes, lemon blue .. & Strong like the land, like the clay and the soil and the sand. & I am old but I cannot grow dim while you shine in my eyes. - Kris |
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06 May 99 - 10:02 AM (#76077) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Peter T. This isn't my line, and it will ruin a fine Leonard Cohen song ("Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye) for you -- if you love that song and do not want it permanently affected by the graffiti to come, read no further! STOP HERE!!!! A girl I knew rewrote the line "Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm" to "Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy armadillo". A line calling out to many a dark night. Yours, Peter T. |
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06 May 99 - 10:56 AM (#76092) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: folk1234 From a song written at a Pat Humphries song writting workshop at Pinewood ('91). "I been to Missouri a'singing my song. Been to the Bay of St. Johns. I've walked in the sunlight of love's sweet refrain, Woke up in the falling rain. I was born in the country southwest of Gran' Fork, Raised in the streets of New York. Remembered the good times, forgot all the bad; My Jenny was the best I had." From a song for friends when we though we were leaving OK: "The martins brought the spring and north-wind squall. Our summer saw the pines, they grew so tall. And the snow geese brought the fall and coyotes' call, To the golden rolling fields of Oklahoma (repeat)" |
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06 May 99 - 10:56 AM (#76093) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Jon W. Woke up this morning, armadillos all round my head, lord lordy lordy... NO WAIT, that's not my song. How about this one: I know I love you baby, I just can't remember the reason why... |
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06 May 99 - 11:53 AM (#76115) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: danl a week that maybe i can hardly remember. the taste of the memories fading for ever. how can i doubt longer? i see with angels eyes. life is so much stronger, im soaring to the skies. was i the first in the world to cry? you were the first to give me these tears. playing patience for hours, but losing it all. the first of pure blue ocean skies i saw today. springs in the air... just bits and pieces really that have never really fitted the rather naff songs i wrote them into. except the last one which is my favorate line from a compleat song.i'll have to work on the other ones now...! love ivy b. |
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06 May 99 - 12:55 PM (#76128) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Sandy Paton FOLK1234: How about posting the full text and tune of the "Golden Rolling Fields of Oklahoma?" My Dad grew up there and is celebrating his 100th on May 26. We'll be down in Virginia Beach that day to sing for him and for the other antiquities where he lives. I'd kinda like to include the song, if I could learn it fast enough. Sandy |
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06 May 99 - 01:52 PM (#76144) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Charlie Baum From a version of Lord Randall:
What did you have for your supper, JOhn Randolph, my son? --Charlie Baum |
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06 May 99 - 05:11 PM (#76184) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: puzzled "you can say what you may it will be written in clay because we don't write in stone around here." |
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07 May 99 - 02:27 AM (#76310) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Barbara "You shall know the truth and it shall make you laugh."
SAndy, let me check and see if that song is on the Pat Humphries CD in the house... |
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07 May 99 - 11:39 AM (#76398) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Sandy, thanks for the compliment. Here's the whole song with notes. We wrote this song for our many precious friends just before we left Stillwater, OK. We thought we were going to move out of state, but we moved to Ada, OK instead. We actually lived out in the country 6 miles NE of Stillwater. This was our introduction to Oklahoma (having spent the previous 11 yrs in CT) and to the beauty and serenity of country life. We were leaving a lovely underground house surrounded by birds, flowers, and wild life. In the winter about 500 geese stayed over on our 22 acre pond/lake. THE GOLDEN ROLLING FIELDS OF OKLAHOMA Phil & Carol Norton, 1993. Adapted (plagiarized?) from "The Red-Tailed Hawk" by George Schroder, 1975) and sung beautifully by the late Kate Wolf on her 'Live at Austin' album. The(Am) red-tailed hawk writes (G) songs across the (Am)sky, There's (Am) music in the (G)waters flowing (Am) by. And (Am) you can hear a (G) song each time the wind (Am) sighs, In the (G) golden rolling fields of (Am) Oklahoma (repeat line). The martins brought the spring and north-wind squall, Our summer saw the pines, they grew so tall. And the snow geese brought the fall and coyote's call, To the golden rolling fields of Oklahoma (repeat line). It's been too short, friends, since we've said hello, Our life, because of you, has flowered so. But to the far side of the hill we must go, From the golden rolling hills of Oklahoma (repeat line. (Repeat 1st verse) Happy 100th to your your dad. I wish I could be there to hear you & Caroline. Don't forget to sing Tom Paxton's "Deep Fork River Blues", which you and Caroline taugh to me at Pinewoods '91. Happy chords, Phil (aka folk1234) |
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07 May 99 - 08:49 PM (#76537) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: katlaughing Hey, SandyGramps! My twin grandsons, Akira Lorenzo and Elijah Lacumbe whom I KNOW you've heard all about and hopefully will meet at Mytsic in June (not with me, their mom),share a birthday with your dad! They will be one year old on the 26th of May! Now, I KNOW that bodes well for them! kat |
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08 May 99 - 06:17 AM (#76694) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: The Shambles The past spreads behind us like a bruise. |
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08 May 99 - 01:30 PM (#76728) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Sandy Paton Thanks, Phil & Carol: I'll work on getting the words into my head in time for the party. It's nice to learn who folk1234 is in real life. We'd heard you were sort of missing the Pinewoods folk scene since moving out yonder, but you've probably created a scene of your own by now. Hope so. Sandy |
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08 May 99 - 04:27 PM (#76755) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Alice from a verse I added to the folk song "The Bad Girl". --my whole life was wasted by the liquor I tasted. |
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08 May 99 - 04:50 PM (#76764) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: lingolucky From "The Key of G": As you strum through life you'll find less strife if you play in the proper key It's G, G , G, the people's key, Let"s play in harmony. Thanks |
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09 May 99 - 01:19 PM (#76980) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: gargoyle Trees exploding in an orgasim of color
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10 May 99 - 08:18 AM (#77158) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Mike Ireland like the tail on a donkey, always behind. |
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10 May 99 - 09:55 AM (#77176) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Roger the zimmer From "Rose" as sung by Leon Redbone: "She ain't Rose,but she ain't bad & Rose ain't here" ! |
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10 May 99 - 12:50 PM (#77220) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: WyoWoman "When, oh, when, will I ever learn, Which bridge to cross, Lord, Which bridge to burn?" kc |
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10 May 99 - 02:46 PM (#77247) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Gordon Dougherty in the Great White North About the Black Watch... "From Greenoch quay we sailed away, For to fight on the fields of Amerikay..." |
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10 May 99 - 11:52 PM (#77394) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: katlaughing I came up with this one to tell my brother when I was VERY frustrated with him! "If you live in the past, it will define the future." |
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11 May 99 - 12:27 AM (#77403) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: gargoyle Ahh ... Laugh-Kat It appears to be a family trait. |
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11 May 99 - 12:37 AM (#77405) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: KYST (inactive) "Ain't life a brook" Classic Ferron line |
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11 May 99 - 12:44 AM (#77408) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: katlaughing Ah, Kyst, even though this is supposed to be YOUR best single lines, you've posted one of my favs! ferron's got a lot of classics. katlaughing |
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11 May 99 - 11:27 PM (#77693) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: manylodges "And the hair would stand up on my arm with the stories they can tell, of liftin hair and fighting with the painted face of hell." from Raised in the settlements. |
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12 May 99 - 12:17 AM (#77708) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: gargoyle Very Nice ---- manylodges
Has the "ring" of a classic line I would expect to be penned by Robert W. Service. |
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12 May 99 - 06:09 AM (#77773) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Roger the zimmer This could qualify for best or worst: horribly graphic from "Send me to the 'lectric chair" Stabbed her with my Bowie Stabbed her in the side STOOD AROUND HER LAUGHING WHILE SHE WOBBLED ROUND AND DIED |
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12 May 99 - 11:59 PM (#78004) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: gargoyle Nice one Rodger -
I will undoubtably add that one to my routine. Well done. It adds sort of a personal touch to "Tom Dooley."
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13 May 99 - 01:52 AM (#78026) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Len N (inactive) From a song called "the youngest child blues"....................... "being two years old, ain't very much fun.... especially if there ain't no one around whose only one" Len |
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13 May 99 - 03:11 AM (#78038) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: katlaughing Len, that's a really GOOD one! Thanks for sharing it. katlaughing |
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13 May 99 - 06:53 AM (#78061) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Liam's Brother Hi! I don't much care for parodies of folk songs, they strike me as sacrilegious. How about a parody of a Beach Boys' surfing song? No harm there, after all, the Beach Boys weren't surfers themselves...
Headin' outta town in a Sikorsky, I don't think I'll finish it.
All the best,
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13 May 99 - 06:56 AM (#78062) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: Len N (inactive) kat.... thank you! Len |
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14 May 99 - 12:18 AM (#78283) Subject: RE: YOUR Best original single lines. From: WyoWoman "There I was, eating all that crow, roasted over my burning bridges ...." |