My top 30 lyrical song openings 1. He was born in the summer of his 27th year, coming home to a place he’d never been before 2. Forty miles from the nearest gravel road 3. Endlessly facing the cold concrete floor Four cold grey walls, and no doors 4. A long, long time ago I can still remember how that music used to make me smile 5. The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called “Gitche Gumee” 6. She put him out like the burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette 7. It’s all the same, only the names will change Everyday it seems we’re wasting away 8. I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do you? 9. If man is the father then the son Is the center of the earth In the middle of the universe 10. Livin on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron Your breath as hard as kerosene 11. I am just a poor boy Though my story seldom told I squandered my resistance For a pocket full of mumbles such are promises 12. Headed down south to the land of the pines I’m thumbin’ my way into North Caroline Starin’ up the road And pray to God I see headlights 13. Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray 14. And the sign says “Long-haired freaky people need not apply” So I put my hair up under my hat and I went in to ask him why 15. Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train’Til Stoneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again 16. Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. 17. I am an old woman named after my mother My old man is another child that’s grown old 18. Some folks are born made to wave the flag Ooh, they’re red, white and blue And when the band plays “Hail to the chief” Ooh, they point the cannon at you, 19. Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day? 20. We both lie silently still In the dead of the nigh Although we both lie close together We feel miles apart inside 21. Wise men say only fools rush in 22. Come gather ‘round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown 23. All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey 24. Here in northeast Ohio Back in eighteen-o-three James and Darren Heaton found the ore that was linin’ Yellow Creek 25. She’d trade Colorado if he’d take her with him 26. Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an of-hand way 27. People smile and tell me I’m the Lucky one, And we’ve only just begun Think I’m gonna have a son 28. It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The regular crowd shuffles in 29. On a warm summer’s eve On a train bound for nowhere 30. City girls just seem to find out early How to open doors with just a smile
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:01:14 +0000
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