Some songs just have a great opening line - one that starts things off perfectly. Please click on "comment" and post yours. I'll start with two favorites!
"I was cutting the rug down at a place called "The Jug" With a girl named Linda Lou... "
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walkin' through the streets of Soho in the rain..."
Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime, his sister had another one she paid it for de lime...
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"Can I scream ...."
ReplyDelete"In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey..."
ReplyDelete"Gone are the days when the ox fall down
ReplyDeletehe'd take up the yoke and plow the fields around."
--Mike K.
"After closing time at the Guernsey Fair,I detect the El Supremo from the room at the top of the stairs..."~Steely Dan
ReplyDelete"I've been so many places in my life and time/I've sung a lot of songs, I've made some bad rhyme/I've acted out my life in stages/with 10,000 people watching/but we're alone now, and I'm singing this song for you...Leon Russell, A Song For You
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ReplyDeleteMary' dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch
As the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely
Hey that's me and I want you only
Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
ReplyDeleteThat David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah ~ Leonard Cohen
Last night when we were young
ReplyDeleteLove was a star, a song unsung
Life was so new, so real so right
Ages ago last night
"Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street..."
ReplyDelete"As I got on a city bus to find a vacant seat..."
ReplyDelete- Nadine (Is That You?) by Chuck Berry