whats your all time favorite classic lyrics??

[John Watt]

This is an easy one for me, because if I think of all the singing I do, by far,
singing "ooo, baby baby" is my favorite lyric for sure.
Singing "ooo, love to love you baby", is second.
"I love you", always seems to creep in there.

 

[Corno Dolce]

Bridge over troubled water, Piano Man by Billy Joel........

 

[John Watt]

Yeah, "like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down", creeps into my head from time to time.
If I'm thinking songs, "Jesus Loves Me" has to top the list. It has to. The Bible told me so.
"I'm just a soul who's out searching for good, oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood",
an old "The Animals" lyric, pops into my head a lot more.

 

[teddy]

I believe the Animals beat the record with their 4m 30sec version of House of the Rising Sun, only for Dylan to come along with his 6 minute plus Like a Rolling Stone. Love the lyrics on both of them

teddy

 

[John Watt]

"And God said to Abraham, give me your son, so Abraham took him down to Highway 51".

If that's correct, and I'm never sure, that comes to me all the time.

However, "Any day now, any day now, I shall be released", is a modern hymn.

 

[White Knight]

John, Absolutely spot on with that Dylan joint. Nice going and a great song from a great album as well!:cheers:

 

[John Watt]

I still wonder about Bob Dylan.
It's hard to believe he toured arenas for over two years with white paint on his face,
singing in a completely unintelligible way.
By the way, I've never been spot on before.
My life has turned on a dime, however.

Thinking about modern classic lyrics, Jimi Hendrix is mostly thought to have sung:
"Purple haze is in my brain, lately things they don't seem the same,
kind of funny, and I don't know why, 'scuse me while I kiss the sky"

But he didn't.
When I saw him live he walked over to Noel Redding, his bassist, put his arm around him,
and sang "scuse me while I kiss this guy". Listen close to the album. That's it.

 

[teddy]

I qlways thought it was - kiss this guy - John

I never though I''d live to be a hundred......... echos through my brain

teddy

 

[John Watt]

yeah, like living "past the age of old".

As far as arguing about classic lyrics, I can top that a little.
What kind of lyrics are these? Just the third verse.

"There once was a girl, whose heart was frown,
'cause she was crippled for life, and couldn't speak a sound.
Until one day, she took her wheelchair to the edge of the shore,
and to her legs she smiled you won't hurt me no more.
But suddenly a sight she had never seen before made her jump up and say,
look, a golden winged ship is coming my way,
and it didn't even have to stop, it just kept on going,
and so castles made of sand slip into the sea, eventually."

 

[John Watt]

I'm thinking today about a previous post that mentioned Don McClean and a war song.
His "Vincent" is a great song.
Writing about Vincent Van Gogh and sounding fatherly is quite the stretch,
but he pulls that off as much as he's pushing his strings.