Alright, then the Best Lyrics. Serious or ?

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 22 Apr 2003 11:57 pm

One that Mr Renn Sparked me to think of off the same Beatles Album:

Some of these are the ones that reeally have stuck with me.

Life goes on Within you, and Without you.

John Lennon

How does it Feel to be the Brand New Mister Me?

M-Mel Tillis.

So I said "You're gonna pay, both you and Dave, cause I'm gonna see you in
your grave."

And they laughed at me... and then I shot 'em. And then I dragged their
cheatin', schemin' bones to Miller's Cave

M-Mel

Does any body have a little black book I can borrow? Cause the girls in mine are all dead or in the Old Folks Home.

So turn me loose and point me towards the party. Good music and women and liquor and neon lights.

And don't some tryin to find me for a month of Sundays, cause I'm gonna have me a month of Saturday Nights.

ET.

There's a new star in heaven tonight.

ET.

"But your story I'm not Buyin. And it's all over but the Cryin.

Hank Jr.

My Love for you has died, like the grass out on the lawn, and tonite I'll wed another, Dear John.

Kitty Wells.

She's much too young to realize why mommy can't come home. And that her daddy wanted things this way.

We kiss goodbye and my heart breaks, to walk away alone To have to be a mommy for a day.

KW

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand, and an achin in my heart, and my pockets full of sand.

LWIII?

Well he's traded off his Martin, but his troubles are not over, cause his feet are nearly frozen and the sun is sinking low. Won't you listen to me brother, if you ever loved your mother then pull over on the shoulder if you're going Milwaukee way. It's 10 degrees and getting colder down by Boulder Dam today.

GL

..gonna lay down my old guitar. Well I wish I could tie it to my side, and take it along with me.

Dunno.

I killed her dead as she could be because she would not marry me.

( Banks of the Ohio-?-)

Gotta be at least as many of these kind..

A go go girl called my hand. I said "I cain't, I'm a married man. Said "If you ain't gonna steel, then you better not prowl."

TC

EJL[This message was edited by Eric West on 23 April 2003 at 11:04 AM.]

nick allen · Post by **nick allen** » 23 Apr 2003 12:37 am

Hi, it's Mr Picky Jnr here

Within You, Without You was written by George Harrison
In the early morning rain, with a dollar...
was written by Gordon Lightfoot.

As discussed on a previous thread, I believe Shel Silverstein wrote some of the greatest humorous AND serious songs in country music...
"You're headed somewhere, but I've been to somewhere,
And found it was nowhere at all,
And I've got a couple more years on you babe and that's all".

And anyone who's into lyrics and story songs should try to hear Bobby Bare's version of Silverstein's "Rosalie's Good Eats Café"...

Nick
P.S. Also, "This Guitar Is For Sale", also recorded by Bobby Bare... talk about "Sad Songs And Waltzes", there's one for sure...[This message was edited by nick allen on 23 April 2003 at 01:45 AM.]

David Reeves · Post by **David Reeves** » 23 Apr 2003 1:27 am

She was just a moonshiners daughter, but,
I love her STILL

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Ulf Edlund · Post by **Ulf Edlund** » 23 Apr 2003 2:59 am

It's a fine line between best and worst sometimes, but i'd like to nominate almost everything by John Prine in the "best" category.
-Let'talk dirty in Hawaiian. (Just the idea of it)
-Lake Marie: "the wind was blowing, especially through her hair" "...trying to save our marrige and perhaps cath a few fish, whatever came first"
-Jesus, the missing years.
-Space monkey.
-Dear Abby.
-Souvenirs.
-Quit hollerin' at me.

And the list goes on.

Uffe

Roy Ayres · Post by **Roy Ayres** » 23 Apr 2003 4:52 am

The Willie Nelson line:

"Always in search of and one step in back of themselves and their slow moving dreams."

Eric Myers · Post by **Eric Myers** » 23 Apr 2003 4:59 am

Alriiiiittte! Wango z tango! 1-2-3-4....
- Mr America

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 23 Apr 2003 5:28 am

It's dark in here
can't see the sky
but i look at this blue wing and i close my eyes
then i fly away
beyond these walls
up above the clouds
where the rain don't fall
on a poor man's dream.....

Tom Russell

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 23 Apr 2003 6:21 am

Don't worry, it won't be a loud party,
Dreams don't make noise when they die...

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 23 Apr 2003 7:00 am

There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run
When the wild majestic mountains stood alone against the sun
long before the white man and long before the wheel
when the green dark forest was too silent to be real


Lightfoot "Canadian Railroad Trilogy"

CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 23 Apr 2003 9:20 am

"Compared to What ?'" Les McCann
"Married Man's a Fool" Ry Cooder
"Mary don't you Weep" Aretha Franklin
"Big Rock Candy Mountain"
"Do Ré Mi" Woody Guthrie
"Like a Rollin' Stone" Bob Dylan
"What Grandma Told me" JB Lenoir
"Axis; Bold as Love" Jimi Hendrix
"the ballad of Ira Hayes"
"One World" Sting
and many many more....

JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 23 Apr 2003 9:22 am

But I'll still sing you love songs
Written in the letters of your name
And brave the storm to come
For it surely looks like rain

Bob Weir/John Barlow
"Looks Like Rain"
ACE/Grateful Dead.

JB

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Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 23 Apr 2003 9:31 am

A couple more I spose.

I'll be breaking out again tonite.

Dunno

The Sweetest Gift, a Mother's Smile.

She brought a smile you can remember. She's gone to heaven, of heartaches free, these walls around you will never change you. You were her baby, and ere will be.

Dunno.

I survived every situation, Knowin when to Freeze and when to run.

WN

You can sing a Happy Song if you're glad.
You can sing a protest song if you're mad.

But If you want to sing The Blues,Then Boy, you better learn how to Lose.

D Bromberg.

And I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground.

KR

Will Santy come to Shanty Town

EA

I'm on TV here Locally, and I can't quit. I'm a Star.

RM

It's Full Speed ahead, down the wrong road in life. I can't hold myself in line.

Paycheck?

He's a Pilgrim and Preacher, and a Problem When he's Stoned.

KK

If I knew the Way, I would take you Home.

JG

I can't say I beat the Devil, but I drank his beer for nothing.

JC?

Starfish and giant Plumes greet us with a smile.

Before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise

Of the "Out of style".

JH

I am not the only Soul accused of Hit and Run.

Tire tracks all across your back. I can see you've had your fun.

JH

Castles made of sand, melt into the sea.

Eventually.

JH. ( Yep. CB, they don't make em much better.)

There's a hole in Daddy's arm, where all the money goes.

JP

He said he wanted Heaven, but Prayin' was too slow.
So he bought a one way ticket, on an Airline made of Snow.

Hoyt.

Boy. There's a bunch, aint there?[This message was edited by Eric West on 23 April 2003 at 11:01 AM.]

Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » 23 Apr 2003 9:49 am

From Harley Allen's "Learning to live with Me";
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Is anybody satisfied with who they really are
You could be the moon
And still be jealous of the stars
You gotta' learn to swim
If you can't walk upon the sea
So I'm learning to live with me<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Respectfully,

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Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » 23 Apr 2003 10:42 am

Try this link to a previous thread we did a while back on a similar subject...
http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum10/HTML/001943.html

Respectfully,

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JERRY THURMOND · Post by **JERRY THURMOND** » 23 Apr 2003 11:16 am

Going Away Party------Later on a tear may drop by. Jim you beat me to the best one.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 23 Apr 2003 11:38 am

"Now, you don't have to call me 'Waylon Jennings'
And you don't have to call me 'Charlie Pride'
You don't have to call me 'Merle Haggard' (anymore)
Even though you know you're on my fightin' side

So I'll hang around as long as you will let me
I never minded standing in the rain
You don't have to call me 'darlin'', darlin'
But you never even call me by my name."

-- Steve Goodman

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 23 Apr 2003 12:12 pm

Yep/ Steve Goodman.

I liked some of his the Best like:

My Old Man

That one, IOU, and Old Blue always put me in a space I'm not always comfortable being.

Gotta go get some air now....

EJL

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 23 Apr 2003 12:14 pm

Eric, the line you quoted: ",,not saying I beat the Devil, but I drank his beer for nothing..." is from "To Beat the Devil", written by KK. I seem to recall that Johnny Cash had recorded it at some point. One of my favorites, as is also "The Pilgrim" which you quoted. I'd say they ain't writing songs like that anymore, but Tom Russell for one is writing some dandys, for example:

"How's the weather in Winnipeg
broke down nag with the bandaged legs at Assiniboia Downs
the night we painted the town
dark dark blue".

Great thread - it's one thing to hit on songs you think are silly, but another to come out and fess up to the ones you love......

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 23 Apr 2003 12:24 pm

"The Song Remembers When" Trisha Yearwood
"Then They Do" Trace Atkins
"Have You Forgotten" Darryl Worley
"Stay Gone" Jimmy Wayne

Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 23 Apr 2003 1:20 pm

Randy Travis sang:

That lie that I told you was told with good intention. It's just another way of protecting you from the truth.
(Something like that.)

It makes me think of the movie with the line "Are you going to belive what you see or what I tell you?

Great lines!

Randy Pettit · Post by **Randy Pettit** » 23 Apr 2003 1:24 pm

Just about anything penned by Walter Becker and Donald Fagan.

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 23 Apr 2003 3:28 pm

I felt that way until the summer of 74. I was hitch hiking at the east end of N Dakota and got picked up my a guy in a scout with a V-8 stuffed in it. He had to drive 45 cause the driveline was out of line. He had a "roll of crosstops" a few beers and a huge jug of coffee. Turned out he was going a mile from my house in Portland. We took the "scenic route". He wanted to see "some country".

He also had an 8 track tape player,and only ONE tape. Pretzel Logic. That night we ran out of gas, and had to siphon gas out of a Hesston. My mouth was raw from eating the crosstops, chain smoking cigarettes, leaded stale gas and drinking cold coffee. Spiders were appearing on the windshield. "You were just Italian in their eyes.."

After thirty or forty times of hearing Rikki don't lose that number, at about White Sulphur Sprgs in MT I bailed out, and said goodbye. went to the hearest redneck bar, drank about two dozen beers, walked to the edge of town, sacked out under a juniper. After I woke up, it was about 5 years until I could bear another "Is there Gas In the Car" or "Babylon Sisters, shake it". Oh it's great music, but I think it made a little too much of an impression on me...

I'll sure never forget the lyrics tho..

EJL

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 23 Apr 2003 6:32 pm

The line that always caught me.

"Oh Lord don't let that cold wind blow,
Till I'm too old to die young."

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 23 Apr 2003 8:16 pm

"I Used To Be A Country Singer" written by
Steve McGowen, recorded by Gordon Lightfoot.

..."I was sittin' in my hotel room strummin'
my old guitar * Not much to do when you're far away, playin' some smokey bar * I was feelin' a little empty and feelin' a little blue * When the maid came in and asked me, if she could do my room"...

..."I put down my old guitar, and she gave me a smile * She had a crusty voice and a drinker's look, but she had a friendly style * She dusted my room and made my bed and she talked of days gone-by * She spoke of when she wooed the men, a tear came to her eye..."

[chorus]"...(and she said)... I used to be a country singer * I could sing a mean Patsy Cline * My husband he could yodel like Wilf Carter * Kitty Wells was a real good friend
of mine..."

[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 23 April 2003 at 09:22 PM.]

Mike Perlowin · Post by **Mike Perlowin** » 24 Apr 2003 2:46 am

Duplicate post, deleted.[This message was edited by Mike Perlowin on 24 April 2003 at 09:05 AM.]