The song lyrics thread has made me think that you guys might enjoy a game I've been playing on another board. Link the Lyrics is played with a series of excerpts from song lyric(s); the object is to post lyrics which duplicate a word or phrase included in the immediately preceding post.
So - if I posted the lyrics from You're Having My Baby [bushasuru emoticon], someone could follow with the lyrics from Baby, Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me [bushasuru-again e]. In posting lyrics, please ~
~ confine the lyrics to four lines or less, unless the song is out of copyright
~ boldface the linking word or phrase
~ identify the title of the song, and
~ identify the composer or first performer of the song
OK. Here we go.
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Seventy six trombones caught the morning sun,
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind.
There were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds,
there were horns of ev'ry shape and kind.
-- 76 Trombones, from The Music Man, Meredith Willson
There's no use in crying, it's all over
But I know there'll always be another day
Well my heart will rise up with the morning sun
And the hurt I feel will simply melt away
Why, Christine McVie
There'll always be an England
While there's a country lane,
Wherever there's a cottage small
Beside a field of grain.
There'll always be an England
While there's a busy street,
Wherever there's a turning wheel,
A million marching feet.
There'll always be an England -- Parker & Charles
It was just any old kind of day
The kind that comes and slips away
The kind that fills up easy my life's time
Any Old Kind of Day, Harry Chapin
That's why I go with that rock and roll music
Any old way you choose it
It's got a back beat you can't lose it
Any old time you use it
Rock and Roll Music, Chuck Berry
[feeling ignored -e]
, W'ON.
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free
Woodstock-Joni Mitchell
post-edit Sorry, Jazz. If I had copied it from the way Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sang it, it would have been
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
Got to get back to the land
Set my soul free
Everybody, yeah
Rock your body, yeah
Everybody, yeah
Rock your body right
Backstreet's
back, alright
Everybody (Backstreet's Back), Backstreet Boys
Edit: posted at the same time as Connie, durn you.
Following this back could link to the 3 min earlier consuela edited post.
Everybody plays the fool sometime;
There's no exception to the rule.
Listen, baby, it may be factual, may be cruel,
I ain't lying, everybody plays the fool.
by Rudy Clark, Kenny Williams & Jim Bailey, sung by Aaron Neville (or the main ingredient?)
k
There ain't no way to hide
Your lyin' eyes
Lyin' Eyes, The Eagles
What kind of fool did you think I'd be
You said you really really loved me
Darling you run around all over town
You build me up then you let me down
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * **
What Kind of Fool (Do you think I am)
written by Ray Whitley
Originally recorded by The Tams (1963)
Also recorded by Bill Deal and the Rhondels (1969)
Here's the moral of the story from the guy who knows:
I fell in love and my love still grows.
Ask any fool that she ever knew, they'll say,
"A-keep away from-a runaround Sue."
Runaround Sue, Dion
(the drifter)
I cried when I wrote this song,
Sue me if I play too long,
This brother is free
I'll be what I want to be
Deacon Blues-Steely Dan
Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
Susanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and
I wrote down
this songI just can't remember who to send it to
James Taylor
Fire and Rain
Edit: Additional info: On October 20, 2001, in Madison Square Garden, a chilling prophetic accuracy came over this song as James Taylor, along with other rock, pop, and movie stars, entertained an audience of six thousand firefighters, police officers, emergency workers, and their families and thanked them for their dedication and hard work in the aftermath of September 11’s tragedy. Suddenly Suzanne was just one in over five thousand who died there in the attack on the World Trade Center, and it was the plans of a few terrorists that brought an end to her—and them—leaving a nation disoriented and distraught. Like James, we wrote down our feelings, but we didn’t know what to do with them.
http://www.pfmonline.net/features.taf?ID=136
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be.
-- Yesterday, Paul McCartney
I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe that your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
Affirmation, by Savage Garden
Gold (gold)
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructable
Gold - Spandau Ballet (written by Gary Kemp)
Hev - a true child of the eighties
World in changes still going through
I've got a lot to learn about you
World in changes still going through
You've got a lot to learn about me too
World in Changes-Dave Mason
[heh-heh]
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people
Power to the people, right on!
Power to the People, John Lennon
[edit]: 'in', Connie? cheap! cheap!
Man, you've got to be Quick Draw McGraw on this thread!(or, Qweeks Draw to Connie )
And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think,
That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink,
But oh how I loved everybody else,
When I finally got to talk so much about myself
(What Do You Hear In These Sounds, Dar Williams)
We're pickin' daisies
Who really cares what they think
Pickin' daisies
You should talk about it with your shrink
Pickin' daisies
They'll all end up in jail
Pickin' daisies
Marshall's is having a sale
Adam Sandler - Pickin' Daisies
Hev
could be a case of velleity
on your part my part
or anyone who thinks they see
through a decade an epoch
or maybe even centuries
what do you
think could be
your reality?
Us We Are-Shawn Phillips
How about that for using a wwftd? Extra points?
Use your mentality, wake up to reality.
But each time I do, just the thought of you
makes me stop before I begin,
'Cause I got you under my skin
Cole Porter
All that I see, seems so unreal to me,
Is it the truth or is it only fantasy,
Is it a dream or is it unreal reality?
Unreal Reality, Ray Davies (The Kinks)
(yes, a repeat... too good to pass up)
I told you about strawberry fields
Well here's a place you noticed is unreal
It's just another place you can go
Where everything glows
Glass Onion, Lennon/McCartney
(making amends for repeat)
(Scarlett) The world looks bright today but one day you'll want to cry
(Scarlett) (Ah-ah) And when your sky looks grey there's one thing I hope you'll know
There's a place you can go
Kim Wilde - Birthday Song, written by Kim & Ricki Wilde
Hev
Wild Thing
You make my heart sing
You make evvvvrything groovy
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, Wild Thing
Wild Thing, The Troggs
The keeper of your flame
I wanna be, two hearts together 'til eternity
hand in hand, side by side, stride by stride
we'll be the one who hear, when love cries
You make my heart sing...
Donna Summer
"When Love Cries"
Ebony and Ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
side by side on my piano keyboard
Oh, Lord, why can't we??
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
Ebony and Ivory
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
"Mercedes Benz"
Janis Joplin, Bob Neuwirth, Michael McClure
EDIT: This one's easy to link to one of my favorites!
Keiva said:
???, W'ON?
Let me put back the full original post for you, that was mailed to my home address as with all my public repsonses here:
Unless I'm missing something, W'ON, you need to take a look at the rules here.
Funny how your antagonistic posts always seem to change after your targets see them. This is a fun thread.
What's your problem here?
Sparteye's rules are very clear.
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song,
and I'll try not to sing out of key.
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends.
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends.
McCartney/Lennon)
Recorded: March 29-30, 1967, Abbey Road Studios, London
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates,
You've got a brand new key,
I think that we should get together
And try them don't you see?
Brand New Key, Melanie
>> What's your problem here?
Whit -- immediately after clicking of my original post I modified it to be more gentle to you -- surely you do not object to that? [Though I don't think the original was particular unkind or antagonistic.]
I do not see how your "Wild Thing" post links to the previous one (Hev's) under sparteye's rules -- nor how your prior "Any Old Kind of Day" post links up. Please illuminate me by PM. Thank you.
I've got a brand new house by the roadside
made out of alligator hide.
I got a brand new chimney made on top,
made from a human skull,
So come on take a little walk with me, Arlene
And tell me who do you love.
Whom Do You Love, Bo Diddley
It's a long, long journey so stay by my side.
When I walk through the storm, you'll be my guide.
If they gave me a fortune, my pleasure would be small;
I could lose it all tomorrow and never mind at all.
But if I should lose your love, Dear, I don't know what I'd do,
For I know I'll never find another you.
Tom Springfield
Oh this is one of my favorite songs, and i have been waiting for a chance to post these lyics!
it really easy for two people to respond to the same song, at almost the same time.. given the lag of our ISP's and modems, we might not be aware of it. it seem Whit, that you, like I, repsonded a 30 seconds or so after an other post. It doesn't take a genius to see which song you were responding too.., and that you were not ignoring anyone. just as i wasn't -- but i was the second responder (again, momemts after the first to The Falible Fiend. Fortunately, they realized i am also falible, and didn't chastize me!)
[Dang ... I could have sworn there was a takeoff titled The Ram's Suicide, with the line I know I'll never find another ewe.]
Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya tomorrow!
You're always a day a way!
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!
The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow, from Annie
When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky
You can bet that he's doing it for some dolls
When you spot a John waiting out in the rain
Chances are he's insane as only a John can be for a Jane.
-- Guys and Dolls Reprise, from Guys and Dolls, Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head.
The stars in the sky looked down where he lay,
The little Lord Jesus asleep in the hay.
Hm, my lord (hare krishna)
My, my, my lord (hare krishna)
Oh hm, my sweet lord (krishna, krishna)
Oh-uuh-uh (hare hare)
My Sweet Lord, George Harrison
()
Hey hey, my my,
Rock'n'roll will never die.
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away...
Rock'n'Roll Will Never Die, Neil Young
While we're living
The dreams we have as children
Fade away
Fade Away - Oasis (N. Gallagher)
Hev
It's been a slow turnin' from the inside out
A slow turnin' but you come about
Slow learnin' but you learn to sway
A slow turnin' baby not fade away
Slow Turnin' John Hiatt
And it's been awhile
Since I could hold my head up high
And it's been awhile
Since I first saw you
And it's been awhile
Since I could stand on my own two feet again
And it's been awhile
Since I could call you
It's been a while - Staind
Hev
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head high!
Hold Your Head Up, Argent
Oh yeh, I'll, tell you something, I think you'll understand.
When I'll, say that something, I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand.
I wanna hold your hand - The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)
Hev
Hold up your head and don't let yo' conscience get you down.
'cause if you never lie to me, I'll always
be hanging around-
I'm not gonna let you down.Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide -Sonny Boy Williamson
Whitman, Whitman, in the name of lovers of great lyrics everywhere, give us lyrics with more than four words.
Post Edit: And as for you
HEV, I would have beat you to the post if you had taken the care to make your post more colorful.
Stars in the sky they never lie
Tell me you need me, don't say goodbye
I love you only
Love, love of my lifeLove of my life - Frank Zappa
Better, milum?
Hev
No matter how hard I try
I always make you cry
Come on baby it’s over, let’s face it
All that’s happenin’ here
Is a long goodbye
The Long Goodbye
Brooks and Dunn
...and since hev took unfair advantage of my slow poke nature, I get another turn.
I want to tell you something, Junior,
I'm gonna tell you something that will make you see.
I only got two eyes and I offer you one,
Now don't you think well of me?
Born Blind -"Sticks" McGee and "Blind Sonny"(Junior)Terry.
Post Edit: OK, thats it, you drop your pencil and you're four posts behind. I quit. I'm outa here. I gonna clean this unfair scene. Or as Chuch Berry might say,
I'm gone like a coooool breeze. Good-bye.
skipping back to Angel/just 'cause you took a freebie milum I'm looking for a
hard headed woman, one who will
take me for myself, and if I find my hard headed
woman I will need nobody else.
I'm looking for a hard headed woman, one who will
make me do my best, and if I find my hard headed
woman, ooh, I know the rest of my life will be blessed,
yes yes yes.
Hard Headed Woman, Cat Stevens
And in the spirit of Juan:
Ooh, I'm just a woman, ooh
I'm just a woman, ooh
I'm just a woman, you are the only manmilum will hate this one too
I'm just a woman - Sung by Bonnie Tyler, written by Scott & Wolfe
Hev
You are
woman, I am
manYou are smaller so I can be taller than
You are softer to the touch
It's a feeling I like feeling very much
You are Woman, I am Man
From
Funny GirlEdit in response to remarks below in Keiva's post: If mine is false, what does yours say about you?
Lighten up...we are teasing each other!
He's shy on height
He's short on weight
But he's the
only manCan make my coffee percolate
I never dare
My cornet player man...
-- Cornet Man (Jule Styne/Bob Merrill; from
Funny Girl)
[Dammit Angel, you beat me!
]
[But I claim precedence, because your lyric "I am man" is clearly false.
]
No song, but... SI = 56/282 = 0.20. Nice work Sparteye.
She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you
to see
She hides like a child
But she's always a woman to me
She's Always A Woman, Billy Joel
They say that I can move the mountains
And send them falling to the sea
They say that I can walk on water
If I would follow and believe
with faith like a child
Like a child - Jars of Clay
Hev
I believe, for every drop of rain that falls,
A flower grows . . .
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night,
A candle glows . . .
I Believe
By: Drake, Graham, Shirl, Stillman
Like turbo tigers in the night,
we are at top speed tracking you down.
Like turbo tigers in the darkest night,
now it's turbo time..
Go!
Turbo Time - Power Rangers Movie Soundtrack
Hev
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
American Pie
Don McLean
Playmate, come out and
play with me
And bring your dollies three
Climb up my apple tree
--
Oh Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me, Saxie Dowell
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/playmate.htm
The apple tree that grew for you and me,
I watched the apples falling one by one.
And as I recall the moment of them all,
The day I kissed your cheek and you were gone
First of May the Bee Gees
...We shall not all sleep,
But we shall all be changed,
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye!
At the last trumpet....
Aria (1 Cor. 15:51-52) preceding The Trumpet Shall Sound, Messiah, Handel
Here you go, milum! One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
Hey mister bartender come here
I want another drink and I want it now
My baby she gone, she been gone two night
I ain't seen my baby since night before
last One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, John Lee Hooker
Here you go, milum!
Privite to Mister W. O'Neil:
sssshh, be discreet Whitie-o, these people aren't that dumb. They might catch on to our collusion.
(spoken) Hey there's Charlie. Hey Charlie! Man am I glad to see you. Look Charlie, I want another drink, you know when I got money I always buy you a drink. Look at me, I'm shaking like a leaf. At least you could stand me for a ten-cent shot. You will? Man you're looking good to me!
Thank You, thank you, thank you, Big Mary.
Thank you for what you done for me.
You'd be my woman, if you hadn't gone back to your use ta be.
Ten cent Shot, Piano Red.
Charlie don't surf but we think he should
Charlie don't surf but we know that it ain't no good
Charlie don't surf for his hamburger mama
Charlie's gonna be a napalm star
Charlie Don't Surf - The Clash (from Sandanista)
You'll be the Queen of my Highway
My Motorcycle Mama
And we'll see the world from my Harley
And we'll see the world from my Harley
Motorcycle Mama, J.J. Cale
The day she died, the neighbours came to snicker
Well, that's what comes of too much pills and liquor
But when I saw her laid out like a queen
She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
"Cabaret", Kantor & Ebb
And I remember how you held me the night my father died
I didn't have to tell you I just broke down and cried
You're sewn into the fabric, the pieces of my life
And I just can't remember why we said goodbye
Why We Said Goodbye ~~ Tim McGraw
Sometimes a bottle of perfume
flowers and maybe some lace
Men brought louise 10 cent trinkets
Their intentions were easily traced
And everybody knew at times she cried
Ah but women like Louise they get by
Louise-written by Paul Siebel, performed by Leo Kotke
[last 3 posts: "corpse", "died", and "cried"... sheesh!]
What happened to that funny face
My little tomboy now wears satin and lace
I can't believe my eyes you're just a teenage dream
Happy birthday sweet sixteen
If I should smile with sweet surprise
It's just that you've grown up before my very eyes
You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen
Happy birthday sweet sixteen
-- Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, recorded by Neil Sedaka
I'll get by
As long as I
Have you
Though there be rain
And darkness too
I'll not complain
I'll see it through
Hi, Connie
Louise, The sweetest girl I'll ever know.
I'd walk from Chicago,
to the gulf of Mexico.
You know the night time is the right time,
to be with the one you love, you know when night comes Baby,
God knows, you so far away, Louise...
Louise, John Lee Hooker
EDIT: Sigh. Please apply this post to Consuelo's about a half a mile back.
Oh I've seen fire and I've seen rain,
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end,
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend,
But I always thought I'd see you, baby, one more time again.
Fire and Rain, James Taylor
[maybe we should just give it up... too many folks all playin' at the same darn time. :]
ron (gallimaufry) obvious
I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
I could be happy the rest of my life
With a cinnamon girl.
A dreamer of pictures I run in the night
You see us together, chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.
[heh-heh]
Cinnamon Girl-Neil Young
Wanna take you where flamingos fly, flamingos fly
Way over yonder in the clear blue sky
That's where flamingos fly
Flamingos Fly-Van Morrison
So you think you're a Romeo
Playing a part in a picture-show
Take the long way home
Take The Long Way Home-Supertramp
We were sailing along
On Moonlight Bay,
You could hear the voices calling,
They seemed to say,
"You have broken my heart,
Now don't go away,"
As we sang our old sweet song on Moonlight Bay.
--Early 20th century popular song, USA (I'd have to look up the composer)
Home...where my thoughts are strayin'
Home...where the music's playin'
Home...where my love light's waiting
silently for me.
Homeward Bound, Simon & Garfunkle
I stole that from Willy the Shake!
You know--"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"
Romeo, Romeo talk to me!
Talk to Me-Joni Mitchell
What? Ron Obvious scared y'all away from this thread?
Come and talk to me
Please talk to me
Talk to me, talk to me
Mr. Mystery
same song, same performer
Take out the papers and the trash
Or you don't get no spendin' cash
If you don't scrub that kitchen floor
You ain't gonna rock and roll no more
Yakety yak (don't talk back)
-- Yakety Yak, The Coasters
Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah,
Someone's in the kitchen, I kno-o-o-ow,
Someone's in the kitchen with Di-naaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
Stummin' on the old banjo...
If it's too late to get on this train, that's fine with me
I came from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee,
I'm goin to Louisiana,
My true love for to see.
Oh! Susanna
American Traditional Song
I know a triflin' man,
They call him Triflin' Sam,
He lives in Birmingham,
'Way down in Alabam,
Aggravatin' Papa-Alberta Hunter
They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning,
no-one you see, is smarter than he,
and we know Flipper, lives in a world full of wonder,
flying there-under, under the sea
Theme from Flipper, TV Series
Hev
Lord, I was born a ramblin' man,
Tryin' to make a livin
And doin' the best I can,
But when it's time to leave
I'll hope you'll understand,
I was born a ramblin' man.
Ramblin' Man, The Allman Brothers
Road trippin' with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It's time to leave this town
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Anywhere in the U.S.A.
Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost
Road Trippin' - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Hev
I've got fourteen men now, I only want one more
I've got fourteen men now, and I only want one more
As soon as I can get one, I'll let these fourteen go
I can take my monkey men, and stand them all in line
Anybody can count them, one two three four five six seven eight times
Chicago Monkey Man Blues-Ida Cox
Do you bury me when I’m gone
Do you teach me while I’m here
Just as soon as I belong
Then it’s time I disappear
HA!!!
I disappear - Metallica Yeah!
Hev
in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
"Angel"
Sarah McLachlan
Rise up with the new dawn's early morning
Feel the sunshine warm upon your face
Tomorrow's come a long, long way to help you
Yes, it's your saving grace
Saving Grace -Steve Miller Band
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Feeling Good - Muse
Hev
Sunshine go away today,
I don't feel much like dancin',
Some man's gone and tried to run my life,
I don't know what he's askin'.
How much does it cost? (I'll buy it)
The time is all we've lost (I'll try it)
And he can't even run his own life,
I'll be damned if he'll run mine!
Sunshine, Jonathan Edwards
I drink so much coffee, till I grind it in my sleep
I drink so much coffee, I grind it in my sleep
And when it get like that, you know it can't be beat
It's so doggone good that it made me talk out of my head
It's so doggone good it made me talk out of my head
And it's better to me than any that I have ever had
Coffee Grindin' Blues -Lucille Bogan
Ha ha! I beat ya W'ON, but I'll be gracious...
Wrong or right be mine tonight
Harsh world be damned we'll make a stand
Love can bind but mine is blind
Others stray, but I won't walk away
I won't walk away - Jewell
Hev
My analyst told me
That I was right
out of my headHe said I'd need treatment
But I'm not that easily led
He said I was the type
That was most inclined
When out of his sight
To be out of my mind
Twisted -written by Ross & Grey, performed by Joni Mitchell
Post-edit-OOOOPS! just gone to 100 posts! Nice SI, SE