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Another floof but hopefully fun down memory lane.


Classic opening lines for songs. So so many.............



for starters,

Please allow me to introduce myself.


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  • last year

    Ooh, a storm is threatening my very life today

    [Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter)

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    There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
    And she's buying a stairway to Heaven (Stairway to Heaven)



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    Goodbye Ruby Tuesday.....The Stones

    Are You Going to Scarborough Fair...S&G

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    She came down from Cincinnati (Fins, Jimmy Buffet)

    DLM2000, I was listening to that record this afternoon! (Gordon Lightfoot, that is)

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    S’wonderful


    Ella Fitzgerald , music and lyrics by the Gershwins

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    You're right, Annie. I was mixing up Lennon's Strawberry Fields Forever

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    "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school," (Kodachrome, Paul Simon).


    A lot of people's answers aren't opening lines to the songs, but to the chorus - I'm afraid pointing that out is being a party pooper, but I'm gonna anyway.

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    “I heard there was a secret cord that David played and it pleased the Lord…” (Love K.D. Lang’s version)

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    (you're all singing these instead of reading, right?)


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    jojoco, I’m singing as I’m reading and posting!👍🏻

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    I'm sticking with you, cause I'm made out of glue


    The Velvet Underground

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    Got out of town on a boat, goin‘ to southern islands

    You who are on the road must have a code you try to live by

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    S/b a secret chord

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    You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere

    Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have


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    Oh Lord it's hard to be humble

    when you're perfect in every way.

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    She's the queen of the Silver Dollar
    And she rules this smoky kingdom

    There'll be no strings to bind your hands
    Not if my love can't bind your heart

    We're a band of brothers and sisters and whatever
    On a mission to break all the rules

    Take this job and shove it

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    If you start me up
    If you start me up I'll never stop

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    If everybody had an ocean

    Across the USA



    One pill makes you larger,

    One pill makes you small

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    So many of these are my favorites!


    This one hasn't been shared yet--


    " I pulled into Nazareth,

    was feeling bout half past dead"


    The Weight /by the Band.

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    Bring tea for the tillerman...


    Who's peekin' out from under a stair way (Windy)


    Round like a circle in a spiral like a wheel within a wheel (Windmills of your mind)

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    Great topic Salonva!


    We come on the Sloop John B

    All the leaves are brown (California Dreaming)

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    Summertime, and the livin’ is easy


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    They all said 'Louise was not half bad'
    It was written on the walls & window shades

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    The old hometown looks the same
    As I step down from the train
    And there to meet me is my mama and papa


    [Green Green Grass of Home]

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    Well, I'll be damned
    Here comes your ghost again

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    Mama - just killed a man

    Queen

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    Don't know why...there's no sun up in the sky...stormy weather (Etta James)


    Riding on the City on New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie)


    When you're alone and life is making you lonely you can always go...downtown

    (Petula Clark)

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    Where it began

    Neil Diamond

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    Blue eyes, baby's got blue eyes


    Elton John

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    Hey Jude....Beatles

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    A well a everybody’s heard about the bird, b-b-bird, bird, bird is the word…


    Sorry, i just had to ya know, it’s Thanksgiving y’all! 🦃

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    "I'm your man" .... Leonard Cohen

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    This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
    restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
    that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
    Restaurant.


    Just finished listening to it. A very long time tradition in my house! Happy T-day!

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    czar, I just learned this week that listening to Alice’s Restaurant is a Thanksgiving tradition for some families!

    The Alice that inspired this song died just this week.

    Alice Brock https://ultimateclassicrock.com/alice-brock-arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-dead/

    In a message posted to Facebook, Guthrie paid tribute to his departed friend.

    “I first met Alice in 1962 when she was the school librarian at The Stockbridge School, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. I was there beginning my second of four years. I also met, Rick Robbins, another student, and we've been friends ever since,” Guthrie recalled. “Rick and I went to visit Ray and Alice for Thanksgiving in 1965. The rest is history. Alice went into the restaurant business and I began my years as an entertainer. We were, both in our own ways, successful. As well as being a restauranteur, Alice also became an author, and an artist. We worked together on various projects. During the next few decades we remained friends while our lives kept us busy. She was a no-nonsense gal, with a great sense of humor.”

    “This coming Thanksgiving will be the first without her,” Guthrie continued, describing Brock as a "lifelong friend." “Alice and I spoke by phone a couple of weeks ago, and she sounded like her old self. We joked around and had a couple of good laughs even though we knew we'd never have another chance to talk together.”

    Read More: Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire 'Alice's Restaurant,' Dead at 83 | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/alice-brock-arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-dead/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral

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    She's a rich girl.

    She don't try to hide it.

    Diamonds on the soles of her shoes.

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    When I was young I believed in Santa Claus (Father Christmas, the Kinks)


    Santa Baby, just slip a sable under the tree for me (Santa Baby, Eartha Kitt)


    I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told (The Boxer, Simon & Garfunkel)


    He was a mean individual, he had a heart like a bone (Stranded in a Limosine, Paul Simon)



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    Mother, Mother, there's too many of you crying, Brother, Brother, Brother, there's far too many of you dying...

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    omg, Carolb, Marvin Gaye got me through my 3 hour weekly commute back and forth to grad school when I was a working mom with 3 kids, including a baby and dealing with a life threatening cancer diagnosis.

    .

    Brother, brother, brother
    There's far too many of you dying
    You know we've got to find a way
    To bring some lovin' here today, yeah

    Father, father
    We don't need to escalate
    You see, war is not the answer
    For only love can conquer hate
    You know we've got to find a way
    To bring some lovin' here today

    Picket lines and picket signs
    Don't punish me with brutality
    Talk to me
    So you can see
    Oh, what's going on (

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    That album is a masterpiece - so sad it still is so relevant

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    Yes, I agree. And 1970-71 were probably the best years ever for music.

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    I have a mansion, forget the price, Ain't never been there, they tell me it's nice.


    I been drivin all night, my hands wet on the wheel.


    I saw her today at the reception.



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    Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life...

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    "One bourbon, one scotch, one beer....."George Thorogood

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    This is the end.

    The Doors - The End.

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    It's been a mystery

    And still they try to see....

    Steve Perry, Journey. Who's Crying Now

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    I'll be seeing you...

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    Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it


    ............Dire Straits, Money for Nothin'


    LadyPat, !Joe Walsh!

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    Tom, get your plane right on time.

    The only living boy in New york. ( paul simon)


    Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong

    Every day people. ( sly)


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    These are from my workout playlist:

    Doesn’t take much to make me happy

    Lord it’s the same ol’ tune, fiddle and guitar

    I like to see you boogie right across the floor

    We got married in a fever

    Good times. These are the good times…

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