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I ain't got no money but I've damn sure got it made- Charlie Daniels
But you know for you love, I ain't found no life savers yet- Hank Williams Jr
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southrnrockr wrote:
topdown wrote:A few more:
Well I told my congress man and he said, quote: "I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote" - Eddie Cochran
That is a line in Alan Jackson-Summertime blues. Was it a cover?
Yes. Alan Jackson's version is a cover of Eddie Cochran's version.
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If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
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If it comes from the heart and you add a few beers... it'll be awesome! - Mekidsmom
When in doubt ... hats. - B.G. Dude
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southrnrockr wrote:
topdown wrote:A few more:
Well I told my congress man and he said, quote: "I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote" - Eddie Cochran
That is a line in Alan Jackson-Summertime blues. Was it a cover?
Yes. It was a hit way before anyone ever heard of Alan Jackson.
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Another good one,this time from commander cody and the lost planet airmen's song hot rod lincoln. My pappy said son your gonna drive me too drinking if you don't stop driving that Hot rod Lincoln!
my papy said son your going too drive me too drinking if you dont stop driving that Hot Rod Lincoln!! Cmdr cody and his lost planet airman
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" With just a beer light to guide us" Bowie
badeye 
one caper after another
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There are just soooooooooo many!
Barbara Mandrell> If loving you is wrong I don't want to be right.
Delbert McClinton> When Rira leaves, Ritas gone.
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Jimmy Buffet - If the phone doesn't ring, It's me
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"They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me
I can’t help it if I’m lucky"
Bob Dylan- Idiot Wind
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"Cause you ain't woman enough to take my man" Loretta Lynn
I just like that phrase 
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"All my rowdy friends are commin over tonite" hank williams jr..
badeye
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The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think. Oh by the way, which one's Pink? - Roger Waters
Rule No. 1 - If it sounds good - it is good!
37 2011-01-26 13:28:19 (edited by whitewater55 2011-01-26 13:31:04)
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"I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away"
"I keep a close watch on this hard of mine,
I keep my fly wide open all the time,
I keep my pants held up with a piece of twine.
Because your mine, please pull that twine!"
Some guy in a black hat - including the second lyric...
Hank's prosepctive gutiar player said: "Mr Williams, I'm not sure I can play for you, the onliest chords I know are C D & G"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"
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My all-time favourite rock lyric - Bob Seger - "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"
Against the Wind
Hank's prosepctive gutiar player said: "Mr Williams, I'm not sure I can play for you, the onliest chords I know are C D & G"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"
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"I once had a girl, or should I say: She once had me?"
This wasn't easy for a sixteen year old German boy to understand. ;-)
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A couple from John Prine.
"Well I sat there at the table and I acted real naive, cause I knew that Topless Lady had something up her sleeve" from "Spanish Pipedream"
"While digesting Readers Digest in the back of a dirty book store a plastic flag with gum on the back fell out on the Floor" from "Flag Decal"
"I was sitting in the Bathtub countin my toes , when the radiator broke and the water all froze" from " That's the way the World goes Round" and
Continues " I was stuck in the ice without my clothes , naked as the eyes of a Clown"
Later, Wayne P
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Bod Dylan: "The ghost of electrictity howls in the bones of her face"
Beatles: "Love love me do"
Beatles: "I am the eggman, they are the eggman, I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob"
Traditional: "With me whack fol a do fol a diddly idle day"
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Hi
Julian Lennon's song Saltwater is very evocative to me with the line "We're so enchanted by how clever we are" contrasted by all of the things we are getting wrong in the world.
Another very powerful song is "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holliday which uses quite striking imagery to describe darker times in the Southern States.
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Led Zepplin- Goin to California.
"searching for a woman, thats never never never been born"
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Great lines from everyone. I'm partial to Dylan, especially Idiot Wind (mentioned earlier), but no one's included Leonard Cohen yet. He's got a way of turning a phrase in a song that sounds so profound, but makes you wonder why you didn't think of it first.
"But I feel so close to everything we've lost/We'll never, never have to lose it again" ---Tower of Song
"I'm cold as a new razor blade" ---So Long, Marianne
"Everybody knows that you've been discreet/But there were so many people you just had to meet/Without your clothes" ---Everybody Knows
Of course, Elvis Costello has plenty of them, too. My favorite:
"I said, 'I'm so happy, I could die'/She said, 'Drop dead, then' and left with another guy" ---(The Angels Want to Wear My) Red Shoes
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I thought I would throw in a few of my favorite lines from South African bands that might not be too familiar to people outside of S.A.
Fetish - liberate yourself from the web of deceit
the spider wants to make believe you are a fly
Prime Circle - she always counts out the chords that I'm playing
she always moves to the rhythm she is making
Cutting Jade - the grass is always greener on the other side of man made walls
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Bob Dylan - the sun is not yellow, it's chicken
Love the line from Cutting Jade
Also that awesome moment in Springsteen's "rosalita":
"Your papa says he knows that I don't have Any money
(papa says he knows that I don't have any money)
Well this is his last chance
To get his daughter in a fine romance
Cause the record company Rosie!
JUST GAVE ME A BIG ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!"
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Bob Dylan: God said Abraham, kill me a son
Abe say "what?" God said you can do what you want Abe, but
nest time you see me comin' you better run.
Abe said "where do you want this killin' done?
God said "out on Highway 61"
Hank's prosepctive gutiar player said: "Mr Williams, I'm not sure I can play for you, the onliest chords I know are C D & G"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"
Hank repleis, after a short pause: "Well, what else is there?"
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Good'un ww55 !!
Here's few of the hundreds of great lines written by the poet of the American working man - Merle Haggard
"I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days, while Mama used to pray my crops would fail"
"If we make it through December, every things gonna be alright I know."
"My hat don't hang on the same nail too long."
"Losin' wouldn't be so bad at all, but I'm always on a mountain when I fall."
"Sing me back home with the song I used to hear and make my old memories come alive."
"I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole, no one could steer me right but Mama tried"
"If you're runnin' down my country, man you're standin' on the fightin' side of me"
"The roots of my raisin' run deep"
"Keep your retirement and your so-called social security - big city turn me loose and set me free"
"Don't you think they'd like to stop complaining and fly like eagles out among the stars"
I want to read my own water, choose my own path, write my own songs
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Awesome topic:
"Tell me I'm wrong, Tell me I'm right, tell me there's nobody else in the world" - My Morning Jacket "Phone Went West"
" Every challenge may have paradise behind it" - Blues Traveler "Stand"
" 20 times I'd wish you'd understand, that you're breakin the heart of this heartbreakin' man" - My Morning Jacket "Heartbreakin Man"
" And he who forgets shall be destined to remember" - Pearl Jam "Nothingman"
"Since you been gone, it's a losin battle, stampedin cattle, they rattle the walls" - The Band "It Makes No Difference"
"Take me piece by piece, till there ain't nothin left worth takin away from me" - Drive By Truckers "Women Without Whiskey"
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John Prine: Some humans aint human, Some people aint kind, They lie through their teeth, with their head up their behind.
Everything is bad including me
But being bad is good policy
Reverend Horton Heat
But being bad is good policy
Reverend Horton Heat