Favorite Song Lyrics (Snippets)

[Malvern]

From the woods of Glenbower to the river Dissour
From the arms of my mother to the land ever pure
All I have to remember, is the pride that I felt
'Round the Páirc Uí Chinnéide where the boys never knelt

They'd go raring and tearing and fighting for love
For the land they call Killeagh and the Lord up above
Killeagh, la-la-la, la, la-la-la, la-la-la
For the green and the white I adore
For the parish to last evermore

 

Killeagh by Kingfishr (no "e"). These guys are good

[touch]

In the beginning
There was something of love that was mine
Now that it's gone
Whoa, I'm cryin'

 

Oh, the time that it takes for a love to grow cold
Is a wonder to me
I'm walkin' around with my head hangin' down
Tell me where is she

 

Give me silver, blue and gold
The color of the sky, I'm told
My rainbow is overdue

 

Oh, don't forsake me 'cause I love you
Don't forsake me 'cause I love you

 

Bad Company 1976

Songwriter: Paul Rodgers

[Hawkeye77]

I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. 

[touch]

There's a soul in the city
Watching over us tonight
There's a soul in the city
Saying everything's gonna be all right

 

So bring over some of your old Motown records
We'll put the speakers in the window and we'll go
On the roof and listen to the Miracles
Echo to the alley down below

 

Let the Temptations sing it one time

 

 

 

Songwriter - Larry John McNally

Rod Stewart and The Temptations  1991 

 

 

 

[Triple Lindy]

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to
So that when they turn their backs on you
You'll get the chance to put the knife in
 

- Pink Floyd

[jda]

We are the main source of all of our problems, by Led Zeppelin:

 

The thoughts of a fools' kind of careless

I'm just a fool waiting on the wrong block

[Argonne69]

I'm alright (I'm alright)
Don't nobody worry 'bout me
You got to give me a fight
Why don't you just let me be?

 

Do what you like (Ooh)
Doing it naturally (Ooh)
But if it's too easy (Ooh)
They're gonna disagree (Ooh)
It's your life (Ooh)
And isn't it a mystery? (Ooh)
If it's nobody's business (Ooh)
It's everybody's game (Ooh)

 

I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to give me a fight?
Can't you just let it be?

 

- Kenny Loggins 

 

[Argonne69]

Well my father was a gambler down in Georgia
And he wound up on the wrong end of gun
And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rollin' down Highway 41

Lord, I was born a ramblin' man
Tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best I can
When it's time for leavin', I hope you'll understand
That I was born a ramblin' man

I'm on my way to New Orleans this mornin'
Leaving out of Nashville, Tennessee
They're always having a good time down on the bayou
Lord, and Delta women think the world of me

Lord, I was born a ramblin' man
Tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best I can
And when it's time for leavin', I hope you'll understand
That I was born a ramblin' man

 

- Forrest Richard Betts (The Allman Brothers Band) 

 

[ThinkingPlus]

Rain drippin' off the brim of my hat
It sure is cold today
Here I am walkin' down 66
Wish she hadn't done me that way

Sleepin' under a table in a roadside park
A man could wake up dead
But it sure seems warmer than it did
Sleepin' in our king-sized bed

 

Charlie Pride

Is Anybody Goin To San Antone

[Triple Lindy]

But remember one thing, don't lose your head
To a woman that'll spend your bread"
 

- Rod Stewart

[Argonne69]

In the corner of my eye
I saw you in Rudy's
You were very high
You were high
It was a cryin' disgrace
(They saw your face)

On the counter
By your keys
Was a book of numbers
And your remedies
(One of these)
Surely will screen out of sorrow
But where are you tomorrow

 

I can't cry anymore
While you run around
(While you run around)
Break away
Just when it seems so clear
That it's over now
Drink your big black cow
And get out of here

 

- Steely Dan 

 

[aloha b.]

It started in the back of my daddy's ol' car

I was born beneath that old lone star

I hit the ground pickin' this old guitar

I was made in Texas

Like Bob Wills sawing on San Antone Rose

Dance hall rhythm's all in my soul

Tell everybody everywhere I go

That I was made in Texas

In Lone Star beer and Stetson hats

And in Ernest Tubb we trust

You can always tell a Texan

Oh, but you can't tell him much

It's the biggest little place in the USA

Everybody knows I'm here to stay

It's home sweet home, and I'm proud to say that

I was made in Texas

 

Made in Texas

Willie Nelson

[aloha b.]

I remember when rock was young
me and Susie had so much fun
holding hands and skimming stones,
had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own.
But the biggest kick I ever got
was doin' a thing called Crocodile Rock,
while the other kids were rocking round the clock
we were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock.

Well, Crocodile Rockin'
is something shocking
when your feet just can't keep still.
I never knew me a better time
and I guess I never will.
Oh, Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights
when Susie wore her dresses tight
and the Crocodile Rocking was-a out of sight.

 

Elton John

Crocodile Rock

[aloha b.]

One, two, three, four

Giddy up
Giddy up

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I ride a big white horse
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I ride a big white horse
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)

Well people look at me and say
Hurrah hurrah is that your horse?
(He rides from Texas on a big white horse)
Yeah

Well I'm a long tall Texan
I wear a ten gallon hat
(He rides from Texas with a ten gallon hat)

 

Long Tall Texan

The Beach Boys

[aloha b.]

It's the little old lady from Pasadena

The little old lady from Pasadena
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
Has a pretty little flowerbed of white gardenias
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
But parked in a rickety old garage
There's a brand new shiny red super stock Dodge

And everybody's sayin' that there's nobody meaner than
The little old lady from Pasadena
She drives real fast and she drives real hard
She's the terror of Colorado boulevard
It's the little old lady from Pasadena

If you see her on the strip, don't try to choose her
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
You might drive a go-er, but you'll never lose her
(Go granny, go granny, go granny, go)
Well, she's gonna get a ticket now, sooner or later
'Cause she can't keep her foot off the accelerator

 

Little Old Lady From Pasadena

Jan & Dean

[parbung]

Who loves the sun
Who cares that it makes plants grow
Who cares what it does
Since you broke my heart

Who loves the sun
Who cares that it is shining
Who cares what it does
Since you broke my heart
 

[aloha b.]

Take me back to Chicago
And lay my soul to rest
Where my life was free and easy
Remember me at my best
Take me back to Chicago
Where my music was all I had
I tried to be good as I could
And sometimes that made me sad
Take me back to Chicago, to Chicago
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
To Chicago
I still dream of the lake of peacefulness
The warm summer breeze
'Cause my life was so much simpler then
Street corners and tastee freeze
Take me back to Chicago

 

Take Me Back To Chicago

Chicago

[Argonne69]

Get your motor runnin'

Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way

Yeah, darlin', go and make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightnin'
Heavy metal thunder
Racing with the wind
And the feeling that I'm under

Yeah, darlin', go and make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild

 

- Steppenwolf

 

[touch]

That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning, yeah
That's why I'm easy
I'm easy like Sunday morning

 

 

1977 

songwriter - Lionel Richie

The Commodores 

 

 

Edited July 6 by touch

[grm24]

The ordinary will ignore
Whatever they cannot explain
As if nothing ever happened
And everything remained the same.

 

- John Joseph Lydon.

Lyrics from the Public Image Limited (PiL) song Seattle.

 

 

Edited June 29 by grm24

[Argonne69]

Darling, if you ever leave me
Well, I'll just put my heart away
I couldn't love again, believe me
No one could please me anyway
And if another ever came along
I'd just turn them down 'cause after all

 

I've been loved by the best
I can't settle now for less
Why bother with the rest
Baby, I've been to the top, I guess
With you I have been blessed
I won't take nothin' less
I've been loved by the best

 

If you ever get tired of me
Well, I won't look for someone new
'Cause looking back on how you loved me
No one could measure up to you
And if they try to win this heart of mine
I just have to say, a waste of time

 

I've been loved by the best
I can't settle now for less
Why bother with the rest
Baby, I've been to the top, I guess
With you I have been blessed
I won't take nothin' less
I've been loved by the best

 

- Don Williams 

 

[touch]

You know the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
You know the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush

 

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love?
Can I just make some more romance with a-you, my love?

 

1977 

Songwriter : Van Morrison 

Edited July 6 by touch

[Argonne69]

I can dream up schemes when I'm sitting in my seat
I don't see any flaws 'til I get to my feet
I wish I never woke up this morning
Life was easy when it was boring

 

I could make a mark, it weren't so dark
I could be replaced by any bright spark
But darkness makes me fumble
For a key to a door that's wide open

 

- The Police 

 

[caniac6]

I thought I was a child
Until you turned and smiled

I thought I knew where I was going

Until I heard your laughter flowing
And gazed upon the wisdom in your eyes

 

Jackson Browne “ I Thought I Was a Child”

[Argonne69]

In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought I could fail
No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, I've changed my name
But no one wants you when you lose

 

Don't give up 'cause you have friends
Don't give up, you're not beaten yet
Don't give up, I know you can make it good

 

Though I saw it all around
Never thought that I could be affected
Thought that we'd be last to go
It is so strange the way things turn
Drove the night toward my home
The place that I was born, on the lakeside
As daylight broke, I saw the earth
The trees had burned down to the ground

 

Don't give up, you still have us
Don't give up, we don't need much of anything
Don't give up, 'cause somewhere there's a place where we belong

 

Rest your head, you worry too much
It's gonna be alright
When times get rough, you can fall back on us
Don't give up, please don't give up

 

Got to walk out of here, I can't take any more
Gonna stand on that bridge, keep my eyes down below
Whatever may come and whatever may go
That river's flowing, that river's flowing

 

Moved on to another town
Tried hard to settle down
For every job, so many men
So many men no-one needs

 

Don't give up 'cause you have friends
Don't give up, you're not the only one
Don't give up, no reason to be ashamed
Don't give up, you still have us
Don't give up now, we're proud of who you are
Don't give up, you know it's never been easy
Don't give up 'cause I believe there's a place
There's a place where we belong

 

- Peter Gabriel featuring Kate Bush
 

[touch]

Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart?
How the music can free her, whenever it starts
And it's magic, if the music is groovy
It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie
I'll tell you about the magic, and it'll free your soul
But it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock and roll

 

 

Do You Believe in Magic

The Lovin' Spoonful 1965

Songwriter: John Sebastian

[Argonne69]

Meet the new boss 

Same as the old boss 

 

- The Who, Won't Get Fooled Again 

 

[JungleJimbo]

This Switched On Pop quiz “Is that new song you like = AI” might tickle your amygdala. 
 

https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/template-paysa-ywpnl-f4t4j-rdtka-g3wnk-nrtag-fwsbl-tfsxc-b9f7l

 

The reference to Les Paul-inspired 50s style “Phil Wildo (Door to Door salesman)” mentioned in the quiz caught my ear

(NSFW i.e. Not for prudes @Argonne69!)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 22 by JungleJimbo

[Argonne69]

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime, you'll find
You get what you need

 

- The Rolling Stones 

 

[Triple Lindy]

You can’t dress trashy ‘til you spend a lot of money.

 

 - Billy Joel