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Posted by: Beeboppin71 1 year ago193 Comments Report this Story
You Loved This Opening Lyric, but It's Not No. 1 on List: When we compiled our Best Opening Lyrics, we knew we'd break your little hearts by leaving off some of your favorites. We were also pretty darn sure you'd let us know. Here are the 25 you shouted about the loudest. Hey, no hard feelings.
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Beeboppin711 year ago
This is not an opening line but it's still one of my favorites:
There is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Oh, so this is what she means
She means we're bouncing into Graceland
Paul Simon - Graceland
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gamahuche1 year ago
Have to get back to you if you want original thoughts, I'm bone dry at almost 5 am.. It was hard enough clicking through the list!
Tonight my favs were 3) Rolling Stones, 2) Jerry Lee Lewis and 1) Grace Slick - and probably these wd win anyway but the order would depend on the day and the mood..
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gamahuche1 year ago
Got it got it got it!!!
[Spoken]:
Good Evening. I'm from Essex, in case you couldn't tell, my given name is Dickie and I come from Billericay and I'm DOING very well!!
[Sung] :
Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my Cortina
A seasoned-up hyena
Could not've been more obscener
She took me to the cleaners
And other misdemeanours
And I got right up between 'er
Rubbin he ribena
Ian Dury and the Blockheads on Stiff Records, London early punk period..
Stiff had a T-shirt with the logo "If it ain't stiff it ain't worth a f***"
Alas the t-shirt and Ian are both gone forever.
Ian was a lovely guy who happened to have a wicked filthy brand of expression. He was pretty crippled from polio and died of liver cancer a couple of years ago
Aside from Ian chalk one up for me for Van Morrison - amost anything from Astral Weeks or maybe "Moondance" or the Crazy World of Arthur Brown "FIRE" - but you have to imagine the flaming headdress that went with that.
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Shadowolf1 year ago
Irish Rovers - The Unicorn lyrics
A long time ago, when the Earth was green,
There was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen.
And they ran about and played while the Earth was being born,
And the loveliest of all was the unicorn.
There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
The loveliest of all was the unicorn.
The Lord seen some sinning and it caused Him pain.
And He said, "Stand back, I'm going to make it rain!"
He said, "Hey, Brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do,
Go and build me a floating zoo,"
"and take some".......
"Green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born.
Don't you forget My unicorns."
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Shadowolf1 year ago
Old Noah was there to answer the call
He finished up making the ark just as the rain started to fall
He marched the animals two by two
And he called out as they came through
Hey Lord,
I've got green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I'm so forlorn
I just can't find no unicorns"
And Noah looked out through the driving rain
Them unicorns were hiding, playing silly games
Kicking and splashing while the rain was falling
Oh, them silly unicorns
There was green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
Noah cried, "Close the door because the rain is falling
And we just can't wait for no unicorns"
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icono11 year ago
"It's floodin' down in Texas an the telephone lines are down."
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"Excuse me while I kiss the sky."
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"I can't stop lovin' you no matter how hard I try."
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"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
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"I drink alone with nobody else
You knows.. I drinks alone with nobody else
...When I wake up in the morning
...no coffee or tea for me.
...Just me and my good Buddy Weiser
...is all I ever need.
'Cause when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself."
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"The bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar
we are the blessed we are the Spiders from Mars."
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MonkeyBiz1 year ago
Thanks beeboppin. That was a lot of fun!
They missed a classic from a great American poet...
"Well, they'll stone ya when your try'n to be so good,
They'll stone ya just like they said they would,
They'll stone ya when your try'n to go home,
Then they'll stone ya when your there all alone,
But I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned!"
Bob Dylan - Rainy day women #12 & 35
Or the quirky..
"Yes, I see you got your brand new leopard skin pill box hat,
well you must tell me baby, how your head feels under something like that"
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gamahuche1 year ago
Yeah.. definitely the 1st one! I did a lot of living with that.. Had a good friend and roommate who showed up in London before Dylan was really well known there with stories of travelling from Madison [I believe!] to nyc with Dylan when he first went there and played one of the famous clubs.. I'll remember the name tomorrow [The Bitter End perhaps?]
Well Fred was always full of incredible yarns [maybe I beat him 40 yrs later!] and about 5 yrs ago I picked up a bio of Dylan and there was Fred, sure enough..
Made me feel good and rotten at the same time..
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MonkeyBiz1 year ago
That song and those lyrics have some meaning for me also. Got thrown in the local cross bar hotel for screaming those lyrics out as loud as I could, drunk and partying at two AM in the middle of a residential area. They let me out the next day to report to my draft physical (that's why I was drunk and disorderly).
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Shadowolf1 year ago
Who can name THIS tune???
"Well I know it's kinda late,
Hope I didn't wake ya...
But what I gotta say can't wait
Hope you'll understand...
Every time I try to tell ya,
the words just came out wrong,
So I'll have to say I love you
In a song
I know it's kinda strange,
But every time I'm near you
I just run outta things to say
I know you'll understand
Every time the feeling's right
All the words just come out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you
In a song..."
(This is the song I sang to my wife to be just before proposing...)
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Beeboppin711 year ago
Jim Croce. You are such a sweet heart. What an awesome proposal.
"Uptown got its' hustlers, the bowry got its' bums
And 42nd street got a big Jim Walker
He a pool-shootin son of gun
Yeah he big and dumb as a man can come
But he's stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night you know they all call big Jim "boss." Just because"
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"Like the pine trees lining the winding road
I've got a name
I've got a name
Like the singing bird and the croaking toad
I've got a name
I've got a name
And I carry it with me like my daddy did
But I'm living the dream that he kept hid
Moving me down the highway
Rolling me down the highway
Moving ahead so life won't pass me by"
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