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06 Jul 17 - 05:40 PM (#3864736) Subject: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,lefthanded guitar It can be trad/roots oriented, etc. or for that matter leaving your heart in San Francisco, if you like. Mine is: " I'm going up the country where the cold wind doesn't blow, Ain't telling how much further I may go." (from: Make me a Pallet on the Floor) |
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06 Jul 17 - 06:05 PM (#3864739) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe_F Isn't that three lines? |
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06 Jul 17 - 06:10 PM (#3864740) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Steve Shaw "It's all right" (from Here Comes The Sun) |
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06 Jul 17 - 06:38 PM (#3864743) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Richard Impossible question - but possibly one of these:- The eponymous "All you need is Love" "Time is short and the days are sweet" From Dylan's Dark Eyes "What makes you go abroad, fighting with strangers?" from Our Captain Cried All Hands. "Amoebas are very small" Mike Heron - A Very Cellular Song "There is a crack in everything, that's where the light gets in" might just win by a nose (Anthem - Leonard Cohen) But I'll probably change my mind by tomorrow! |
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06 Jul 17 - 08:10 PM (#3864749) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: RTim The cork is in the bottle - but the whisky is in me! Tim Radford |
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06 Jul 17 - 09:10 PM (#3864752) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Sol "As the dish outside the window fills with rain" Time by Tom Waites. |
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07 Jul 17 - 12:22 AM (#3864756) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: mg a lot of people in previous threads have mentioned if it weren't for the alligators i'd sleep out in the swamp from lakes of ponchatrain. i love i put my head into a cask of brandy from peggy gordon |
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07 Jul 17 - 12:56 AM (#3864757) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Bee-dubya-ell "It was just too true to be good" Just Like Jim Brown, Pierce Pettis |
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07 Jul 17 - 01:01 AM (#3864758) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: rich-joy OMG! ya can't have just one, eh!! I'll start with these two though : "She'd a smile like an acre of Sunflowers" from "Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail" (Lisa Null, and many more) and "There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the Light gets in" (from Leonard Cohen's "Anthem") Cheers! R-J |
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07 Jul 17 - 02:15 AM (#3864761) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Dave Hanson From A Pub With No Beer, ' Theres a far away look on the face of the bum ' Dave H |
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07 Jul 17 - 02:17 AM (#3864762) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe Offer Here in California, fruit hangs heavy on the vines; There's no gold, I thought I'd warn you; And the hills turn brown in the summertime. Kate Wolf, "Here In California" -Joe Offer, suffering through a hundred-degree week- |
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07 Jul 17 - 02:34 AM (#3864765) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Jim Carroll From 'Rambling Boys of Pleasure' - the greatest description of youth in oral literature: after the singer has been rejected by his lover because of his poverty; "For I am young and the world is wide" A description of pregnancy from the ballad, 'Gil Morris' by a woman confessing to her husband that the youth he has just killed is not her lover but her illegitimate son: "I once was full of Gil Morris as the hip is of the stone" (the rose hip is a berry made up of a large stone surrounded by a thin layer of flesh) A bad weather omen from, 'Sir Patrick Spens': "I saw the new moon yester-e'en with the old moon in her arms" A declaration of love by a defiant young woman from 'Bonny Peggy': "It's I would lie in Jimmy's arms 'though his grave was growing green" They don't write them like that any more! Jim Carroll |
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07 Jul 17 - 03:36 AM (#3864779) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Howard Jones "If it weren't for the alligators I'd sleep out in the wood" |
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07 Jul 17 - 04:13 AM (#3864783) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,SteveT From The Bonny Bunch of Roses "If I'd lived I might have been clever" |
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07 Jul 17 - 04:40 AM (#3864786) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: IanW Keith Marsden from Prospect Providence - "and the blame gets passed right down the line till the gaffer goes and kicks the sheep" |
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07 Jul 17 - 05:01 AM (#3864790) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself With their goblin brains, They could spell their names: G-O-B! L-I-N! G-g-g-goblins! - Fred Penner |
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07 Jul 17 - 06:34 AM (#3864804) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Georgiansilver From ''The Little Pot Stove'' sung by Nic Jones ''Where the chill seeps in your soul'' https://youtu.be/Nj0phYz38NU?list=PL5B538B7C3C7BA03C |
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07 Jul 17 - 06:45 AM (#3864807) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Snuffy With a smile upon her countenance She answered "Jack Munro" |
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07 Jul 17 - 06:55 AM (#3864810) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,matt milton "little birdie, little birdie, come sing to me your song got a short time to be here, and a long time to be gone" Manages to crystallise what existentialism - indeed, most philosophy full stop - is trying to say, in just two lines. |
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07 Jul 17 - 07:02 AM (#3864812) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,matt milton I also always thought that these opening lines were absolutely amazing: "The trees they do grow high and the leaves they do grow green, The day is past and gone, my love, that you and I have seen." Never liked the rest of the song much, to be honest. I've sometimes wondered whether I could sing just those two lines, as a sort of haiku of a song... or maybe use them as the springboard for a song about getting old and handing over the real business of living to the next generation. (God that sounds depressing, ha ha!) |
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07 Jul 17 - 07:10 AM (#3864814) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Mo the caller Depends on your mood when you hear them. And I suppose the lines that stick are the ones that echo a sad mood. ...died in the church and was buried along with her name -nobody came. |
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07 Jul 17 - 07:43 AM (#3864823) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,DaveA Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes And found my cleanest dirty shirt Sunday Morning Coming Down - Kris Kristofferson |
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07 Jul 17 - 08:31 AM (#3864827) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Steve Shaw One line from The Grand Coulee Dam by Woody Guthrie: "In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray" Sheer poetry. Beautiful alliteration. The rest of the verse is equally good but I'm only allowed one line! |
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07 Jul 17 - 10:23 AM (#3864850) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: fat B****rd "You know how many leaves there is on a tree You know who killed the Dead Sea" Willie Harper "The Power Of Love" "The pump don't work 'Cause the vandals took the handles" Guess Who? |
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07 Jul 17 - 10:29 AM (#3864852) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Dave the Gnome The Turtles I really think you're groovy, let's go out to a movie So bad it is good. They reckon it was ironic but I am not so sure :-) DtG |
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07 Jul 17 - 10:31 AM (#3864854) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Jackaroodave "New Jersey Turnpike in the wee, wee hours . . ." |
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07 Jul 17 - 10:32 AM (#3864855) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Tiger "Bone and blood is the price of coal" ... The Ballad of Springhill — Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger |
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07 Jul 17 - 10:47 AM (#3864865) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: andymac There's too many. My favourites change depending on the mood but some of the ones which always move me are "Like waves the sheep rolled in as they drove us from the glenside". The dark Loch- Alistair Hulett "Ah but ye're no the first that thon Scots have beguiled..". Flooer O Northumberland- Trad. But the sparkle of her laughter ever after I'll recall, Like the linklin, trinklin jinklin as the mountain burns fall" Bonnie Lass O the Morning- Jack Foley "you must rise up with the dawn and trudge to the mill in the early morn" Handweaver and Factory Maid- Trad Ask me tomorrow and it'd probably be slightly different. |
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07 Jul 17 - 02:42 PM (#3864920) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: robomatic Acknowledged by NPR and Susan Stamberg: Yip Harburg, "The Eagle and Me" Ever since the day when the world was an onion The first thing I think of when the subject is brought up: Warren Zevon, "Jungle Work" We parachute in....we parachute out |
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07 Jul 17 - 06:57 PM (#3864948) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: StephenH Impossible task! However, here's a line from "No Gods (and Precious Few Heroes)" by Brian McNeil. It's actually full of lines which could qualify as favourites, but I like the wry humour of this one: "Try goin' down the broo with your claymore in your hand and count all the Princes in the queue" |
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07 Jul 17 - 07:16 PM (#3864949) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gabriel My favourite line of any song (and a wonderful opening line) id from 'Sweet Carnlough Bay'. "When winter was brawling, o'er high hills and mountains" |
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07 Jul 17 - 07:17 PM (#3864950) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: frogprince I tried to get this in last night, but the post wouldn't take. From "Zebra Dun", author unknown, sung by Cisco" Then Shorty grabbed a lariat, and he roped the zebra dun, and gave him to the stranger, and we waited for the fun. |
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07 Jul 17 - 07:18 PM (#3864951) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Deckman "You could make me believe, By the falling of your arm, That sun, rose in the West" From "Pretty Saro" as sung by Walt Robertson bob(deckman)nelson |
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07 Jul 17 - 08:34 PM (#3864958) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,GUEST Marcia Palmater From Robert Burns' My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose: "Till a' the seas gang dry, my love, and the rocks melt wi' the sun ...' |
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08 Jul 17 - 05:24 AM (#3865013) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Effsee "But for two thousand years, he's brought nothing but tears, and the cross that they plant on the graves" ...Harvey Andrews. |
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08 Jul 17 - 05:54 AM (#3865016) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Steve Shaw I'll post this in the hope that Jack may not be reading this thread. 😉 Almost any line from a Jimmy MacCarthy song. In the words of Christy, he's been given the gift. "And she like a ghost beside me goes down with the ease of a dolphin And emerges unlearned, unshamed , unharmed." |
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08 Jul 17 - 07:04 AM (#3865030) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Raggytash From Peter Bond's Stillness That The Snow Brings: "And in the evening hear the peals the bellman sends, leap from the tower and tumble laughing down the hill" |
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08 Jul 17 - 07:46 AM (#3865037) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Sandra in Sydney from John Warner's Bring out the Banners How dare we lose what they have won? |
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08 Jul 17 - 08:48 AM (#3865050) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Michael " May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold" John Martyn. Mike |
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08 Jul 17 - 09:04 AM (#3865055) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Desi C From Song For Ireland Drinking All The Day, In Old Pubs Where Fiddlers Love To PLay From Raglan Road The Queen Of Hearts Still Baking Tarts, and I not making Hay From I'm So Lonesome The Silence Of A Fallen Star, Lights Up The Purple Sky |
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08 Jul 17 - 12:18 PM (#3865098) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: oldhippie "Life is a rainstorm, but love is the ark" |
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08 Jul 17 - 04:35 PM (#3865131) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,MacTalla From Woody's Pretty Boy Floyd: "Some will rob you with a six-gun; some with a fountain pen." |
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08 Jul 17 - 06:20 PM (#3865146) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Bert About the hemp rope on his neck the golden ringlets clung - Roddy McCorley. |
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08 Jul 17 - 08:16 PM (#3865157) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gallus Moll Robert Burns 'Highland Mary': The golden hours on angel wings flew ower me and my dearie Hamish Henderson 'Freedom Come All Ye': Roch the wind in the clear day's dawin', blaws the cloods heelster-goudie ower the bay Iain Ingram 'Beneath The Painted Veil' Beware of fools and words of doubtful wisdom, the hawk who masquerades as gentle dove |
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09 Jul 17 - 12:27 AM (#3865181) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,gopherit From The Goodnight Loving Trail by Utah Phillips regarding getting old "There's nothing that can change it, there is no one to blame." |
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09 Jul 17 - 12:38 AM (#3865182) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Stewie From Blues in the bottle: Little chickens don't do nothin', but they strut their stuff --Stewie. |
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09 Jul 17 - 02:57 AM (#3865186) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Erich "I'm headin' into trouble with a big grin on my face" also "she grabbed me by my balls and said I'm so in love with you" from "Sir" Oliver Mally - Headin' into trouble |
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09 Jul 17 - 03:21 AM (#3865189) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: David Carter (UK) Kristofferson has featured already, never had a lot of time for him myself. But: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" Ought to be tattoed on the foreheads of Boris, Gove, Farage et al. |
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09 Jul 17 - 12:18 PM (#3865266) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Roz The cops and the legislators called them dangers agitators, and they laid Jesus Christ in his grave. Woody Guthrie's Jesus Christ, to the tune of Jesse James. Another favorite, the first time I ever heard the Mingulay Boat Song, I was part of a group of people rowing hell-bent thru the San Juan Islands, where summer homes looked down upon our sorry selves, and I mis-heard the line 'what care we how wide the minch is' as 'what care we how white the mansions' and still sing it that way. |
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09 Jul 17 - 02:04 PM (#3865282) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: David C. Carter "I forced my hands in my pockets,and felt with my thumb, And gallantly handed her my very last piece of gum". The Boy himself. |
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09 Jul 17 - 06:16 PM (#3865321) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: McGrath of Harlow Depends on how I'm feeling, and also on what "favourite line" means - some lines stick in your head, and some lines feel good to sing or to say, and they aren't necessarily the same lines. And sometimes when you check on it the lines that stick in your head it turns out you've changed them. One like that I thought I couldn't get out of my head was a Johnny Cash song "Beer for breakfast once again" which turned out to be "Beans for breakfast once again, it's hard to eat them from the can". And there's words that sum up a whole story succinctly - Hank Williams "My son calls another man Daddy". And another is a song I was haunted by for years just because of the line "I still remember what was on the jukebox when she turned", which was from a song Nic Jones sang. And seing this thread set me thinking about that, and if you open a thread that was at time of writing just next to this, called "Obit: Jonathan Eberhart", and scroll to the end, you'll see a story about where that led me. |
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09 Jul 17 - 06:25 PM (#3865323) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: RTim The first line of the next song I am going to sing.................. Tim Radford |
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09 Jul 17 - 08:47 PM (#3865338) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Rapparee Well, there are so many! "Be silent or agree with me." --Wolf Tones, Radio Toor-i-li-ay "You must give me lessons For I've never killed before." --Tom Paxton, The Willing Conscript Lift your glasses friends with mine and give your hand to me I'm the tyrant's foe, I'm freedom's friend, I'm an outlawed rapparee. --Trad., The Outlawed Rapparee So pass the billy 'round boys, don't let the pint just stand there For tonight we drink the health of every overlander. --Trad., Queensland Overlanders |
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10 Jul 17 - 12:50 AM (#3865348) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself He's gone where the good doggies go. - 'Bellman' |
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10 Jul 17 - 03:03 AM (#3865359) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,.gargoyle by Meredith Wilson Did ja ever try steppin' on a piss ant? Well, there's one now. Jump 'im, stomp 'im! Thinkin' you got 'im? Thinkin' he's quit? He don't think so. There he goes! And ja can be gol-durn sure I'm as good as any piss ant that were down or haint that were up. Sincerely, Gargoyle Hell if I'm gonna eat cat-fish heads all my life! ! ! |
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10 Jul 17 - 03:40 AM (#3865367) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Rob Naylor Bad blood is like an egg stain on your jeans - you can lick it, but it still won't go away. (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) |
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10 Jul 17 - 09:08 AM (#3865415) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Send lawyers ,guns and money ,Dad The shit has hit the fan Warren Zevon |
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10 Jul 17 - 12:36 PM (#3865453) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Roger Knowles I can still remember when I bought my first guitar - Kevin Johnson, "Rock 'n' roll, I gave you all the best years of my life" |
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10 Jul 17 - 12:49 PM (#3865456) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST "Sitting in the shade of a rain-soaked orange blossom" Opening line of Lulu's"My The Peaceful Heart" |
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10 Jul 17 - 12:50 PM (#3865457) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Auto correct grrrrrrrs. "Me, the Peaceful Heart" |
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10 Jul 17 - 02:30 PM (#3865468) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker quite possibly... "I'm sittin' here, la, la waiting for my ya ya.. Uh huh, uh huh"... 😎 Ya Ya |
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10 Jul 17 - 02:40 PM (#3865473) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself I hear "sittin' IN la-la" (but I remember it as "sittin' in THE la-la" - and I trust my memory!). Actually, "sittin' in la-la" makes a bit of sense - in the sense of "la-la land" ..... |
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10 Jul 17 - 02:51 PM (#3865474) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker Guess it depends on the recording.. and I can never hear enough of 'em.. "sitting on my la la" being another... I think I read a serious critical analysis of the lyrics 20 odd years ago... uh uh.. or uh um...??? |
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10 Jul 17 - 03:44 PM (#3865481) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,James Fryer "Beans could get no keener reception/In a beanery" Mountain Greenery (Lorenz Hart, lyrics) |
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10 Jul 17 - 04:07 PM (#3865485) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Neil D From "Famous Blue Raincoat" by L Cohen: Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. Perfectly written but better when heard in the song, the way his phrasing lets the line unfold a step at a time, surprising in the direction it takes. |
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10 Jul 17 - 05:10 PM (#3865492) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Bill D "♫Since it is no better, I'm glad it is no worse.♫" |
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10 Jul 17 - 07:08 PM (#3865512) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Steve Shaw I bet you think this song is about you, don't you, don't you, don't you? |
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11 Jul 17 - 06:05 AM (#3865544) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Derrick If a drunk should come in and see you he'd go straight out and sign the pledge. Benny Hill the Andalucian Gypsies |
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11 Jul 17 - 08:59 AM (#3865567) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: David C. Carter It must be jelly,cause jam don't shake lie that. Br-549 |
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11 Jul 17 - 09:38 AM (#3865578) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: gillymor The dust that Pancho bit down south, Ended up in Lefty's mouth. |
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11 Jul 17 - 10:14 AM (#3865588) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Fred Maslan "You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train." Gordon Lightfoot |
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11 Jul 17 - 12:00 PM (#3865607) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,guest "You give a goodbye sniff of Benzedrine to the convent budgerigar" - "Sister Josephine" by the wonderful Jake Thackeray. |
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11 Jul 17 - 03:20 PM (#3865640) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Phil E "We marched them forth in inveterate streams" - Boney's Lamentation "The sun is just a-glimmering - arise my dear" - Lemany And a magical half line from Searching for Lambs - "strike off the morning dew" |
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11 Jul 17 - 05:03 PM (#3865655) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Some blasphemer Who the fuck are you? From Who Are You / The 'Oo |
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11 Jul 17 - 05:26 PM (#3865660) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker ...Alice...??? |
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11 Jul 17 - 08:09 PM (#3865684) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Lou Judson It's a marvelous night for a moondance - Van Morrison And it stoned me to my soul. - ibid just my mood today, there are a thousand others! |
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11 Jul 17 - 09:01 PM (#3865687) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Tattie Bogle Bad rhymes get me: From Eric Bogle's "Belle of Broughton": They were in love besotted by the bonnie Belle of Broughton. But I'll forgive him, because it's a lovely song! |
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12 Jul 17 - 12:22 AM (#3865694) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Mrrzy Robocop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk, Darth Vader, Lo Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger Or maybe Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan |
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12 Jul 17 - 02:50 AM (#3865696) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself The moon is swimming naked, and the summer night is fragrant .... - Closing Time, L. Cohen |
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14 Jul 17 - 02:26 AM (#3866000) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: DMcG A friend wrote a show (with others) about the sinking of the Titanic but much more how it affected all the people of Southampton who provided the majority of the crew. One of the songs contains the line "It was a night to remember, and a job to forget" No one talked about PTSD at the time, of course, but this line captures it for me. |
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19 Jul 17 - 03:01 PM (#3867166) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: jojofolkagogo Far too many to write here . . . |
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19 Jul 17 - 03:20 PM (#3867168) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Skivee, guesting in "Fight on, m'lads, for I'm wounded but nae slain. I'll sit me doon tae bleed a while, and then rise tae fight again." |
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19 Jul 17 - 07:15 PM (#3867202) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Guest "You'll be shot if you're caught out there rapping" From a version of Waterford Boys Far too good for 'em (rappers) I reckon! |
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20 Jul 17 - 03:53 AM (#3867232) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Mike Yates Many, many years ago I flew to the island of Fiji. It was late afernoon and the light was fading. At the time the fields of sugar cane were being set on fire prior to being harvested (in order to kill off the rats and snakes) and as I looked down on the scene from the aircraft I thought of these lines from "The Flying Cloud" : "To the burning shores of Africa/Where the sugar cane does grow." OK it wasn't Africa, but it was an image that has remained in my mind for over fifty years, as has those old song lines. |
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20 Jul 17 - 12:04 PM (#3867324) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Guest Correction The rapper line is from "The Piper & The Cow" |
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20 Jul 17 - 05:41 PM (#3867383) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Shakey from the moment i could talk i was ordered to listen Cat Stevens While I'm here may I just say that I've not been on this site for ten years an I could still log in with my old ID - impressive. Hats off to mudcat |
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21 Jul 17 - 03:25 AM (#3867431) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: The Sandman The lily of the valley and the primrose of the dell, bogies bonny belle |
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21 Jul 17 - 03:38 AM (#3867435) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe Offer I've got another one, from John Prine's "Paradise":
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. |
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21 Jul 17 - 03:48 AM (#3867438) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe Offer Oh, another one, from Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash:
-Joe- |
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21 Jul 17 - 03:50 AM (#3867439) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Puttin wood in the stove And water in the cup, You worked so hard That you died standing up Anna McGarrigle |
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21 Jul 17 - 04:06 AM (#3867440) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Sorry, The Work Song is by Kate, not Anna McGarrigle |
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21 Jul 17 - 08:25 AM (#3867478) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Dave Sutherland "The curfew had been lifted, the gambling wheel shut down, Anyone with any sense had already left the town" Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan "Got a job and tried to put some money away, But I've got debts that no honest man can pay" Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen |
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21 Jul 17 - 11:31 AM (#3867531) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Ned of the hill Dark is the evening; silent the hour. |
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21 Jul 17 - 02:38 PM (#3867558) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: David Carter (UK) My dreams, they aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be. |
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21 Jul 17 - 04:58 PM (#3867583) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,kenny From "Oor Hamlet", by Adam MacNaughton : "A sword fight was arranged for the interested perties, Wi' a blunted sword for Hamlet, and a shairp sword for Laertes" Jimmy Crowley, "Invitation To A Funeral" : "Someone hit Moloney with the carcass of a cat" |
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22 Jul 17 - 04:03 PM (#3867753) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Elmore "There ain't no cure for the summertime blues" by Eddie Cochran |
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22 Jul 17 - 04:05 PM (#3867756) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker there is.. more Eddie Cochran records... 😎 |
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23 Jul 17 - 01:31 PM (#3867879) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,IanA I put my hand upon her breast, Mark well what I do say, I put my hand upon her breast And the wind from her arse blew sou' sou' west. |
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24 Jul 17 - 01:57 PM (#3868053) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: voyager If the river was whiskey and I was a diving duck I'd dive to the bottom and I'd never come up. If the River Was Whiskey |
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24 Jul 17 - 02:21 PM (#3868058) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: kendall Alone on the hillside your lover is lying, and pale is the hew of his cheek Kirsten. |
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24 Jul 17 - 02:32 PM (#3868061) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: kendall another, "dreaming in the night, I saw a land where no man had to fight.." (Song for Ireland) |
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25 Jul 17 - 11:34 AM (#3868231) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Elmore "I ache in the places where I used to play" from Tower of Song" by L. Cohen |
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25 Jul 17 - 11:41 AM (#3868233) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: David C. Carter 'I look such a pillock with me bike clips on'. Jake Thackray |
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25 Jul 17 - 05:01 PM (#3868275) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Elmore "With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go." from "Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers. |
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25 Jul 17 - 06:18 PM (#3868294) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,PatrickH Long past the midnight curfew we sat starry-eyed... And (Fred would have said) The rain falls on my yellow locks and the dew wets my skin, my babe is cold in my arms, Lord Gregory let me in. |
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25 Jul 17 - 06:31 PM (#3868298) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST take down this mast of gold, Set up a mast of tree, For it becomes not a forsaken maid To sail so royalty. |
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25 Jul 17 - 07:53 PM (#3868309) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Hamish Imlach sang in John o' Bredislee " he is gan tae the green woods tae ding the dun deer down, down |
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25 Jul 17 - 08:08 PM (#3868312) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: RobbieWilson That was me , by the way |
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25 Jul 17 - 10:42 PM (#3868325) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Tackleberry828 "I'm up and gone at the crack of dawn I've been working like a regular dog to keep my woman and the lights and the water and the phone turned on" -David Allan Coe "Time Off For Bad Behavior" When they put them handcuffs on me, Lord how I fought to resist But agent clamped 'em tighter, 'til that metal bit into my wrist They took my belt and my billfold, my fingerprints, and the profile of my face And then they locked away the only hell my mama ever ever raised -Johnny Paycheck "Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised" |
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26 Jul 17 - 03:22 AM (#3868335) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: the lemonade lady "See how the Cormorant swoops and dives, Must be some thrill to go that deep Down to the basement on this life Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps From Noel Brazil's Columbus |
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26 Jul 17 - 04:37 AM (#3868342) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Willierespond "I'm going now, from bonds and from bosses, they privatised the boom and socialised the losses" I'm Going Now Kevin Doherty (solo CD -- member of 4 Men and a Dog) |
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26 Jul 17 - 06:08 AM (#3868355) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Big Al Whittle You made me love you |
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26 Jul 17 - 07:47 AM (#3868368) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Andiliqueur "We'll never see what lies ahead if we keep on looking back" from the last verse of Leaving the Land by Eric Bogle. |
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26 Jul 17 - 11:50 AM (#3868407) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Elmore Love is never wasted even when it's hard love. From "Hard Love" by Bob Franke. |
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26 Jul 17 - 02:42 PM (#3868435) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker I saw a mouse! (Where?) There on the stair! (Where on the stair?) Right there! A little mouse with clogs on Well I declare! Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair Oh yeah! |
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26 Jul 17 - 02:46 PM (#3868436) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: punkfolkrocker I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and Things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it. You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world. I'll give you anything, ev'rything if you want things. |
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27 Jul 17 - 02:26 PM (#3868674) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Elmore "If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed" from "Tonight We Ride", by Tom Russell. |
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06 Aug 17 - 08:23 PM (#3870359) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: mg from boatie rows muckle lighter is the load when love bears up the creel.. |
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07 Aug 17 - 02:15 AM (#3870373) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Jon Dudley 'For it's many a dark and a cloudy morning turns out to be a bright sunshiny day...' Banks of the Sweet Primroses. |
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07 Aug 17 - 11:50 AM (#3870423) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,I was there I never died, said he. (Least favourite, as you asked: This land is your land (because it WASN'T)). |
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07 Aug 17 - 01:06 PM (#3870435) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: gillymor "That was a million light beers ago." |
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07 Aug 17 - 02:15 PM (#3870439) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST Of the house I was born in there is but a stone on a stone. The Chieftans, The May Morning Dew |
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07 Aug 17 - 04:29 PM (#3870463) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Richard "Her hands so soft, her breath so sweet, her tongue did gently glide" from "When a man's in love" (trad.) Here's one we should all agree on:- "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain" Trenchtown Rock - Bob Marley But compare: "Be not afeared: the isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not" Great minds.... |
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07 Aug 17 - 05:41 PM (#3870468) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Deckman "Do you remember our nights of courting, When your head lay on my breast, You could make me believe by the falling of your arm, That the sun rose in the West" .... Walt Robertson bob(deckman)nelson |
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07 Aug 17 - 08:07 PM (#3870476) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Hagman "Her daddy was lazy and no-count, claimed he had a bad back" Polk Salad Annie - Tony Joe White. Very concise! |
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07 Aug 17 - 08:35 PM (#3870478) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: gillymor "Going on down to the railroad track, Let the 4:19 scratch my back." The Band "If I thought it would do any good, I'd stand on the rock where Moses stood." also The Band |
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09 Apr 18 - 06:28 AM (#3916060) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gabriel I have a new favourite. From th eCape Breton song 'When first I came to Caledonia'. "He had a daughter; she made good tea." |
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09 Apr 18 - 07:03 AM (#3916069) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Joe Nicholson Whenever some daft executive told us to do something silly which in my working lif was quite often I always thought of the line Our officers commanded us and them we must obey. |
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09 Apr 18 - 07:18 AM (#3916074) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,David Coxell You pick up a girl and you think you're so smart She's acting kinda coy, you swear you're breaking her heart, But all that you're left with when she's emptied your purse, Is a jibe from the doctor and a jab from the nurse. The Train Song - Jonathan Kelly |
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09 Apr 18 - 07:36 AM (#3916079) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Andiliqueur "But we never learn, trusting in the fire while the cool flame burns" Richard Thompson 'Persuasion'. |
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09 Apr 18 - 11:11 AM (#3916125) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Andiliqueur Oh dear. I'm wrong. I always thought it was "cool flame" but it's "cruel flame". Don't like it as much now. I'll get me coat.... |
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09 Apr 18 - 11:47 AM (#3916143) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Observer Or to lie on the decking on a warm Summer's evening And watch the red sun fall burning beneath the Earth's rim - Eric Bogle OR: Now prosperity is the finest tree that stands in all creation Beneath it's boughs we will speed our plough to join the Polish Nation - Brian McNeill The latter could have been written by Robert Burns. |
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09 Apr 18 - 03:00 PM (#3916187) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: meself Save your money when you're young, my boys, You'll need it when you're old. |
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09 Apr 18 - 04:50 PM (#3916194) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: mg for donald was the bravest man and donald he was mine...from highland widow's lament. |
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10 Apr 18 - 03:04 AM (#3916243) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch “A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom! Tutti frutti, good booty.” |
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10 Apr 18 - 03:18 AM (#3916249) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Harry For me, the greatest first line : The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar . . . . Oooooo the possibilities ....... and, the line that always makes me chuckle: She told me again she preferred handsome men but for me she would make an exception. |
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10 Apr 18 - 03:32 AM (#3916250) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Harry EVERY line in Tom Waits' Heart Attack and Vine but especially: Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk? And (another chuckle): See that little Jersey girl in the see through top, Over by the pedal pushers suckin on a soda pop. I bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five to nine. You can see a million of them on Heart Attack and Vine. Come to think if it, pretty much every line from the pens of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits; and, most of Paul Simon's. |
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10 Apr 18 - 09:25 AM (#3916316) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Mrrzy In English: I'll set my sail of silver, I'll loose my rope of silk My mast is of the cypress tree, my mast is of the cypress tree My track is as milk I'll set my sail of silver, I'll steer towards the sun |
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10 Apr 18 - 09:31 AM (#3916320) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Gordon Jackson "Lend me your ears while I call you a fool." The Witch's Promise, Jethro Tull. |
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10 Apr 18 - 12:26 PM (#3916367) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,keberoxu Nobody else can walk it for you, You got to walk it by yourself |
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10 Apr 18 - 03:55 PM (#3916435) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Jerry If anyone asks you who composed this song Tell them it was me and I sing it all day long. It’s nothing special or even remotely profound, but I love the bravado sentiment. |
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11 Apr 18 - 12:06 AM (#3916491) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: dick.hamlet Tom Lehrer's MLF Lullabye: ...and one of the fingers on the button will be German. Craig Johnson's Keweenaw Light: The lies and the highways that carried me away. In Terrytown: For she has gold and riches more than me. |
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11 Apr 18 - 04:07 AM (#3916510) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Hamish "Just when you least expect it: just what you least expect". Er, The Pet Shop Boys |
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11 Apr 18 - 04:23 PM (#3916635) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,ottery "Last night I dreamed a dreadful dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye I saw a dead man win a fight And I think that man was I" From the Battle of Otterburn, as sung by June Tabor. |
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13 Apr 18 - 07:42 PM (#3917143) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: robomatic Dan Bern: "Everything I know I learned from my dad, He learned it all from his, And his dad just happened to be- WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING!" |
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14 Apr 18 - 04:19 PM (#3917275) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Philippa I might think of a different favourite line from a song, but the one that comes to my mind just now is from "The Boys of Barr na Sráide", especially the second half of : We jumped for joy beneath the sky; Life knew no print or plan ... {I can't say I'm enamoured of what comes next about hunting for the wren!) |
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14 Apr 18 - 05:39 PM (#3917279) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,wallacemacnow Ive got teeth to keep my gold in and whiskers on my soul. Bob Coltman - Sleepy Owlsey |
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14 Apr 18 - 06:12 PM (#3917282) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: BTMP I've always liked the line from Merle Haggard's I'm Going Off the Deep End: My weakness is stronger than I am. |
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14 Apr 18 - 08:02 PM (#3917294) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: GUEST,Captain Swing Mother Superior jump the gun |
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17 Apr 18 - 04:17 PM (#3918040) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Roz Don't confront me with my failures; I have not forgotten them |
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18 Apr 18 - 11:06 AM (#3918213) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: leeneia There are lunatic survivalists with Gucci bandlieros taking tacky, khaki walkie-talkies to the rendezvous... from 'The F-word' by Peter and Lou Berryman |
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20 Apr 18 - 06:09 PM (#3918815) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe_F I went down in my socks and ran into the fox. |
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20 Apr 18 - 08:01 PM (#3918833) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Lighter "Thunderin' Jazus! Ye think I'm dead?" |
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20 Apr 18 - 08:12 PM (#3918839) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: kendall "If I had it to do all over again, I'd do it all over you." |
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21 Apr 18 - 06:16 PM (#3919034) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Joe_F When out of blossomed Normandy another pirate came. If ever you heard a little dog bark. |
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21 Apr 18 - 06:57 PM (#3919038) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Paul Burke Last year, when I wasn't listening, Joe Offer wrote "Joe Offer, suffering through a hundred-degree week" They are American degrees- Fahrenheit degrees- not real degrees. Only 78 in EuroDegrees, not what we call hot oop North, Favourite line(s)? She has taken a brace of pistols And she has shot her false Willy O... |
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22 Apr 18 - 01:41 PM (#3919176) Subject: RE: What's your favorite line from a song From: Bonzo3legs Step right up folks See Little Egypt do her famous dance of the pyramids She walks she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile Just one thin dime, one tenth of a dollar Step right up folks!! |