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#65632 04/16/2002 4:57 PM
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Better start another! 4 continuations must be a record!

The last entry was from Angel:

I would never be able to forgive myself if I didn't cross thread this one!

Lookin out on the morning rain
(Ah-ooo)
I used to feel so uninspired
(Ah-ooo)
And when I knew I had to face another day
(Ah-ooo)
Lord it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you
Life was so unkind
But your love the key to my piece of mind

Cause you make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel
Like a natural woman (woman)

"A Natural Woman"
~~the queen of soul........Aretha Franklin



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Early Morning Rain

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand
I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved one so
In the early morning rain with no place to go

Out on runway number nine big 707 set to go
But I'm stuck here on the grass where the cold winds they do blow
And where whiskey was and bars and the women they were fine
There she goes my friend, she rolling down at last

Here the mighty engines roar, see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound, far above the clouds she'll fly
There the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shines
She'll be flying over my home in about three hours time

This old airport's got me down it ain't no earthy good to me
Because I'm stuck here on the ground, cold and drunk as I can be
You can't hop a jet plane like you can a railroad train
So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain

Gordon Lightfoot



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>4 continuations must be a record!

...and 23 rounds of hogwash is what? Piggy Chow®?!
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...chopped boar's liver?!
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Yeahbut, Hogwash don' reach 100 posts ever time, do it?

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So kiss me and smile for me,
Tell me that you'll wait for me,
Hold me like you'll never let me go.
Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again -
Oh Babe, I hate to go.

"Leaving On A Jet Plane"
~~the late, John Denver


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...and 23 rounds of hogwash is what? Piggy Chow®?!

Oink! Oink!

[edit]: and notice there's a mention of that famous porker Babe in the preceeding lyric, so that just goes to show ya...????


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You know if you break my heart I'll go,
But I'll be back again,
'cause I told you once before goodbye,
But I came back again.

--I'll Be Back, by John Lennon (Hard Day's Night album)


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Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.
And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.
So remember if you're untrue
Angels up in heaven are looking at you.

You'll never get to heaven if you break my heart.
so be very careful not to make us part.
You won't get to heaven if you break my heart

"You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)"
~~music by Burt Bacharach



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You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye on the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and...

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't You?

You're So Vain, Carly Simon


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You probably think I've lost my mind.
Takin' this chance crossin' that line
But I promise to be truer than true
Dreamin' every night with these arms around you.

I can't wait any longer
This felling's gettin' stronger
Help me find a way

"How Do I Get There"
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If you change your mind
On the first in line
Honey, I'm still free,
Take a chance on me
If you need me, let me know
Gonna be around
If you've got no place to go
When you're feeling down.

Take A Chance On Me, ABBA Oh yeah, baby!


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One toke over the line, Sweet Jesus,
One toke over the line,
Sittin' dowtown in a railway station
One toke over the line.

One Toke Over the Line, Brewer & Shipley

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Fool if you think it's over
'Cos you said goodbye
Fool if you think it's over
I'll tell you why
New born eyes always cry with pain
At the first look at the morning sun
You're a fool if you think it's over
It's just begun

Fool (if you think it's over)- CHRIS REA

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I'm sitting in the railway station, got a
Ticket for my destination
Mm_________
On a tour of one night stands, my
Suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
For a poet and a one man band

Homeward Bound by Paul Simon

Hey, Connie, you beat me out.

#65647 04/17/2002 11:20 PM
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Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
Thought I didn't need you no more

But now I'm just laughing
hiding the tears in my eyes
Cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry.

boys don't cry--the cure


#65648 04/18/2002 12:20 AM
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Laughing -- the things you're doin' to me
Laughing -- that ain't the way it should be
You took away everything I had
You put the hurt on me

Laughing, The Guess Who


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Go 'way from my window,
Leave at your own chosen speed.
I'm not the one you want, babe,
I'm not the one you need.
You say you're lookin' for someone
Never weak but always strong,
To protect you an' defend you
Whether you are right or wrong,
Someone to open each and every door,
But it ain't me, babe,
No, no, no, it ain't me, babe,
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Bob Dylan


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Whether I'm right
Or whether
I'm wrong
Whether I find a place in this world
Or never belong.
I've gotta be me!
I've gotta be me!
What else can I be
But what I am?

I've Gotta Be Me!, Sammy Davis, Jr.

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See the halibuts and the sturgeons
Being wiped out by detergents.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly,
But they don't last long if they try.



Pollution, by Tom Lehrer


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Fear is keeping time with the beating of my heart
Doin' way too much thinkin'
And it's tearing me apart
But I, I feel You reach for me

From lost and not found, to run and not hide
My hand inside ... (Your hand)
Losing my grip falling so far
My hand inside Your hand

"Hand"
Jars of Clay

#65653 04/18/2002 4:38 PM
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No time left for you) On my way to better things
(No time left for you) I found myself some wings
(No time left for you) Distant roads are callin' me
(No time left for you) Da-un-da-un-da-un-da-un-da

No time for a summer friend
No time for the love you send
Seasons change and so did I
You need not wonder why
You need not wonder why
There's no time left for you
No time left for you

No Time, The Guess Who


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My baby went shopping yesterday
she bought what she needs for Santa Claus
she wrote a note and left it on the dresser
saying she'd take her's with her,
and she'd leave mine in her dresser drawers.

Naturally that started me to ramblin'
Pulling out all my Baby's dresser drawers
I just had to find out,
What did my Baby buy me for Santa Claus.

The landlady saw me ramblin', got mad, and called the law.
The landlady tole the police
-I caught dat man with his hand
in the ladies dresser drawers.

I just kept on, pulling out all my Baby's dresser drawers, Still trying to find out
what she done bought me for Santa Claus.

The Judge said Sonny Boy,
what you doing with your hands in that ladies dresser drawers ?

I showed the judge the note from my Baby
that showed that Sonny Boy,
Was just trying to find his Santa Claus.

SANTA CLAUS -Sonny Boy Williamson

Edit: Thank You WO'N, you upstaged me without me bothering to dress my post in a rainbow of colors.

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She comes in colors everywhere,
She combs her hair,
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors


She's A Rainbow, The Rolling Stones

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Oh the cuckoo is a pretty bird that waggles as she flies.
But she never sings cuckoo till the very day she lies.

I've gambled in England, I've gambled in Spain.
And I bet you ten dollars that I'll beat you once again.

I built me a cabin on a mountain so high,
So I can see Mary as she goes right by.

I wish I was a poet and could write a fine hand.
I'd write my love a letter, Lord, she would understand.


Traditional Folk Song



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There's an odd sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery, an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say cuckoo
(Cuckoo, cuckoo...)

Regretfully they tell us, but firmly they compel us
To say goodbye to you!


So Long, Farewell, from The Sound of Music (R&H)


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My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor.
It was taller by half than the old man himself,
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn of the day that he was born,
And was always his treasure and pride;
But it stopped, short, never to go again
When the old man died.

-- Henry Clay Work (1876)



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Continuing on the theme here....

There was a man like you and me, as simple as a man could ever be;
And he was happy as a king, except for one peculiar thing.

He had a clock that worked all right,
It worked all right, but not exactly quite;
Instead of going "tick, tock, tick",
the crazy clock went "tock, tick, tock".

"The Syncopated Clock"
Words by Mitchell Parish
Music by Leroy Anderson



#65660 04/19/2002 2:27 AM
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Now the time has come (Time!)
There's no place to run (Time!)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time!)
But I had my fun (Time!)
I've been loved and put aside (Time!)
I've been crushed by the tumbling tide (Time!)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time!)

Now the time has come (Time!)
There are things to realize (Time!)
Time has come today (Time!)
Time has come today (Time!)

Time Has Come Today, The Chambers Brothers


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The very thought of you, and I forget to do
The little ordinary things that everyone ought to do
I'm living in a kind of daydream
I'm happy as a king
And foolish though it may seem, to me that's everything 

The mere idea of you, the longing here for you
You'll never know how slow the moments go till I'm near to you
I see your face in every flower
Your eyes in stars above
It's just the thought of you
The very thought of you, my love

The Very Thought of You by Ray Noble



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Wow! 28 seconds, slithy! I think that's the closest post, yet!

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Some days I just can't win.

And all you could come up with was and? Geez!


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Laughing in a crown of jewels,
numbness from a sceptors wound.
Toss and Turn, I spin and learn,
"catch yourself before you burn."

A joker's dance before the king,
jangling beads, a silver ring.
Close your eyes and bare the sound,
jumping up - falling down.

"Center Stage"
The Indigo Girls - 1988

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Ring-a-Round a Rosie
A pocket full of posies
Ashes, ashes
We all fall down.


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What's wrong with your frequency, Kenneth?
Why do you keep on, on-and-on?

You keep on trying to try the judge and jury,
And one day you'll fall down - all alone

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Don't Try The Jury -Johnny (Goodman) Washington


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The judge said five to ten
But I say double that again
I'm not working for the clampdown
No man born with a living soul
Can be working for the clampdown

"Clampdown", The Clash


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Here come da judge!
Here come da judge!
Order in da court
'Cause here come da judge!

--Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In jingle, Flip Wilson (and others)

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Though all my law be fudge,
Yet I'll never, never budge,
But I'll live and die a Judge!
(And a good Judge, too!)

Yes, I am a Judge!
(And a good Judge, too!)
Yes, I am a Judge!
(And a good Judge, too!)
Though homeward as you trudge,
You declare my law is fudge.
Yet of beauty I'm a judge.
(And a good Judge too!)

-- Gilbert & Sullivan, Trial by Jury

PS to Milum: what was that all about?


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I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
I'm pickin' up good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
Good good good good vibrations
She's giving me excitations
Good good good good vibrations
She's giving me excitations


Good Vibrations
written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love



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She can heal with a smile she can wound with her eyes,
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies,
But she can't be convicted she's earned her degree
Blame it all on yourself cause she's always a woman to me.

She's Always a Woman to Me - Billy Joel

This is from memory and I'm convinced I've mixed up a few verses

EDIT - Thanks consuelo - http://www.billyjoelmusic.com/Albums/TheUltimateCollection/Track14.shtml

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