Favourite lines from songs

[nimnarb]

[Peter Postlethwaite]Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it Turnips, not compared to how people matter.[/Pete Postlethwaite]

I get knocked down but I get up again

(Wash, rinse, repeat)

AiY

What an actor and what a film........................(ex Euphonium player and very rarely brassed off)

[Sorcery]

I tried to post earlier my current favourite lyric but TLM didn't like a certain word and changed it to MANURE, unfortunately this meant that it didn't scan.

Not every song from the sixties is a classic
When you think about it
for every hit
there must be some sh*t

From the album Brothers in Brooklyn by The Dreaming Spires.

Husband is currently listening to his favourite band The Clash. Just heard the lyric " Vacuum cleaner sucks up budgie"

Sucking up budgie with a vacuum cleaner is something boys usually 10+ get up to when their female members of the family are out shopping.
Is that the way the Clash meant it?

[Urbandreamer]

I posted earlier, with my choices.

However what I didn't say is that I exposed my kids, while driving!

One of my daughters was noted at school singing "Die d-Die, Die Die Die".

Though she was more keen on the line "Hero is a four letter word" from another song.

She was quite shocked to find that the song "Death to the world", was sung in her church with the lines "Joy to the world"!

Not sure yet if she has forgiven me.

[brightncheerful]

This morning's' rendition (Bob Dylan)

My love she speaks like silence
Without ideals or violence
She doesn't have to say she's faithful
Yet she's true like ice like fire

and:

She's got everything she needs
She's an artist, she don't look back

--


whilst walking the puppy:

Raindrops keep falling on your head

--

Incidentally, for the op, i was going to include, from Three Billy Goats Gruff, but thought better of it:

I'm a troll, fol-dee-rol, I'm a troll, fol-dee-rol
I'm a troll, fol-dee-rol and I'll eat you for supper

[Rhyd6]

In my youth my cousin Bryn, who was 6 years older than me, taught me a song which I duly performed for the family one Sunday.

Little boy kneels at the foot of the stairs
Clutched in his hand was a bunch of which hairs
Oh my just fancy that
Christopher Robin's castrated the cat

In my defence I was only 3 but I've never been allowed to forget my performance.

R6

[bungeejumper]

Oh, we all had those disruptive relatives. My cousin got me to tell my mother that we'd been playing cowboys and indiebums all morning. She sort of wobbled, then laughed loudly, then wanted to know who'd put me up to it? I had no idea what she was talking about.

In later life: "Let's hold on to what we've got. It doesn't really matter if we're naked or not."

Not forgetting Freddie Mercury's unforgettable: "Hit me with the windows, doesn't really matter to me."

BJ

[stewamax]

Stephen Foster's "Some folks..." Goes round and round my head!

Some folks like to sigh
Some folks do, some folks do
Some folks long to die
But that's not me nor you

(Chorus)
Long live the merry, merry heart
That laughs by night and day
Like the Queen of Mirth
No matter what some folks say

etc

This song was often sung by my grandparents' housekeeper as she went about her work.
I had never heard of Foster until I looked him up. He was astonishingly prolific: "Camptown Races", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Folks at Home" ("Way down upon the "Swanee River"), "Beautiful Dreamer",....
Some were admittedly racist in the Black-and-White Minstrel tradition.

[AleisterCrowley]

Oh, we all had those disruptive relatives. My cousin got me to tell my mother that we'd been playing cowboys and indiebums all morning. She sort of wobbled, then laughed loudly, then wanted to know who'd put me up to it? I had no idea what she was talking about.

In later life: "Let's hold on to what we've got. It doesn't really matter if we're naked or not."

Not forgetting Freddie Mercury's unforgettable: "Hit me with the windows, doesn't really matter to me."

BJ

No Mondegreens, we'll be here all night...

[tjh290633]

I am beginning to think of some of the songs which we sang when doing National Service.

All 96 verses of Eskimo Nell.

The Bastard King of England.

The Ball at Kirriemuir

and many more.

Come give me a drink....

TJH

[nimnarb]

I have no idea where this came from but I was asked when very young(probably heard it from school) as we were traveling on a plane somewhere as a family and my father asked me what I would do if the plane was going down, think at the time they were trying to explain to me about life jackets, etc and I seem to recall telling my father this as probably thought there were no parachutes on board, like a film I had watched...

"Me no mad, me no silly, me hang on to Daddy's Willy."

The look on my Mother's face was just incredible. That I do remember.

And now my better half just remembered when she was about 6 and proudly rushed home to tell her Mother this............

My uncle Billy had a 6 foot willy, he showed it to the girl next door, she thought was a snake, so she hit it with a rake and now its only 4 foot 4. Her Mother's face turned ashen and sharply asked where she heard this from. From School Mummy, from school....

Deary me.

[malkymoo]

Incidentally, for the op, i was going to include, from Three Billy Goats Gruff, but thought better of it:

I'm a troll, fol-dee-rol, I'm a troll, fol-dee-rol
I'm a troll, fol-dee-rol and I'll eat you for supper

For years I have been frightening/amusing my grandchildren by singing "...eat you for my dinner!" , the dinner being sung very loud and accompanied by a grab for the child. I checked up and I found your version was correct and I have been wrong. Too late to change my ways now I think, old dog new tricks etc.

[Rhyd6]

OOoooo 96 verses to Eskimo Nell, I'm really impressed, I only know 9

R6

[tjh290633]

OOoooo 96 verses to Eskimo Nell, I'm really impressed, I only know 9

R6

You must have been a well brought up young lady.

One of my favourite verses contains:

"And though she grinned
It put the wind
up the other 39".

TJH