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Jim Cohen
Member

From: Philadelphia, PA

posted 24 April 2003 09:24 PM     profile     
She's got the cutest laptop, and I've got my PC
And we've built our relationship electronically
We're online every evening from ten till half-past-two
And there's no limitation to the things that we can do!

(Chorus)
She's my online lover, I'm her online Jack
She's got all the right equipment, IBM PC and MAC
She's my sexy cyber-queen, and I thank God above
That ever since we met on the internet, there's a remote chance of love.

Now she's my online lover, I know all her access codes
And we have just discovered how fast cyber-love can grow
I met her in a video-chat room, when I saw her I could tell
That my web-browser would arouse her,
And I thank you AOL!

(Repeat Chorus)

She has reduced me to an icon, she can turn me on real quick
'Cause if she wants my lovin', she'll just point and double-click
She loves to flash her mouse around
She can really shake that tail
But last night we pet over internet,
They gave her 30 days in jail.

She's my online lover, I'm her online Jack
But as long as we've got e-mail I don't much care if she comes back
I'm a hard-drivin' man, I ain't got no floppy disc
Always use a virus scanner, no unnecessary risk!

Now she's my online lady, and I'm her online man,
And we couple up our laptops almost every chance we can
Though I am still at liberty, she's languishing in jail
She's in the slammer 'cause I am her electronic male!

She's my online lover, I'm her online Jack
She's got all the right equipment, IBM PC and MAC
She's my sexy cyber-queen, and I thank God above,
That ever since we met on the internet there's a chance of remote love!

--Copyright 1996, Jim Cohen

John Steele
Member

From: Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

posted 24 April 2003 09:49 PM     profile     
Alright, since I participated in the complaining thread, I guess I have to rightfully make a comment in this one too.

The song that hits me like a sledgehammer is:

The clubs are all closed,
and there's nowhere to go
and the sun won't show for hours,
The streets are all empty
and lovers lay sleeping,
and dreaming of each other...

just shoot me...
-John

Derek Duplessie
Member

From: La Jolla CA USA

posted 26 April 2003 11:34 AM     profile     
"You're making lists today of all the things you
haven't done yet. You're driving everyone crazy are you having any fun yet? Mother says you ought to get married, shrink says here's a little blue pill, to young for your mid-life crisis, miror says you're over the hill" (Simple life by Mary Chapin Carpenter)
-Derek
Bob Watson
Member

From: Champaign, Illinois, U.S.

posted 26 April 2003 11:47 AM     profile     
Every fool has a rainbow
but he never seems to find
the reward that should be waiting
at the end of the line
but he'll give up a bed of roses
for a hammick filled with thorns
and go chasing after rainbows
everytime a dream is born

And every fool has a rainbow
that only he can see
every fool has a rainbow
and the rule apply's to me

Merle Haggard

I listen to all kinds of music and I feel that the lyrics to this song are some of the best lyics ever written, any era, any genre!

[This message was edited by Bob Watson on 26 April 2003 at 11:58 AM.]

Stephen Gambrell
Member

From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA

posted 26 April 2003 06:20 PM     profile     
Bob, I always thought the line-"He'll goive up a bed of roses...." was pure poetry. But ANY of Merle's early stuff was dead on.
"A canvas covered cabin, in a crowded labor camp,
Stands out in this memory I revive."
Hard to beat the lyrics, along with THAT voice.
Bob Watson
Member

From: Champaign, Illinois, U.S.

posted 27 April 2003 01:35 AM     profile     
Stephen, Merle is truly one of the best songwriters of all time. "The Farmers Daughter", "Diana", the list goes on and on. "Every Fool Has a Rainbow" is special to me, maybe because it was one of the first Merle Haggard tunes that wasn't one of his main hits that I fell in love with. Here are a few other tunes that I think have great lyrics ... "Amazing Grace", "My One and Only Love", "Old Folks", There Will Never Be Another You", "In my Life", "My Back Pages", "People are Strange", "When the Music's Over", "Castles Made of Sand","I Met a
Friend of Yours Today", "Thanks Alot", etc.
... it goes on and on. Ain't life great!
BDBassett
Member

From: Rimrock AZ

posted 29 April 2003 09:08 PM     profile     
An old Del Reeves ditty:

I woke up Sunday Mornin with a knot behind my ear,
On the floorboards of my pickup with a half-a-case of beer,
There's lipstick on my undershirt and both my knees are sore,
thanks to Happy Harry's Honky Tonk and Package Liquor Store.

Rich Weiss
Member

From: Woodland Hills, CA, USA

posted 29 April 2003 10:01 PM     profile     
"Spent most of the mornin' lying in bed, lunch was black coffee, and three cigarettes. They say it'll kill me, but I got a hunch - this broken hearts, gonna beat 'em to the punch."
A very descriptive verse from Mirror, Mirror, by Diamond Rio.
Eric West
Member

From: Portland, Oregon, USA

posted 29 April 2003 11:00 PM     profile     
Your lipstick's smeared across your cheek, your makeup is a mess. Most of what you're drinking is running down your dress.

To keep from falling off your barstool's about all you can do. I'll make my proposition, cause I'm just as drunk as you.

Ch: ( everybody )

Let's do something Cheap and Superficial.

Let's do something that we might regret.

Let's do something shabby and insensitive.

Hey, this might be the only chance we get.

( I forgot the second verse. Anybody?)

Loved that one. Burt Reynolds ( Smokey and The Bandit II)

ALSO. Did anybody happen to see the uncut version of "Any Which Way you Can" with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks' "Everyone's doin' it?

EJL

David Reeves
Member

From: Florida

posted 30 April 2003 12:14 AM     profile     
Who is the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and towel in the picture on the billboard in the field by the big ol' highway?

I'll betcha she'd be gone if somebody came along and pulled a dirty trick and stole that towel away!!

Andy Volk
Member

From: Boston, MA

posted 30 April 2003 02:47 AM     profile     
MARTIN MULL:
"They never met, it could have been so right. He worked the day shift, she worked the night."

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN:
"... [She]
No little shack do you share with me,
We do not flee from a mortgagee,
Nary a care in the world have we,

[He]
How can love survive?

[She]
You're fond of bonds and you own a lot.
I have a plane and a diesel yacht,

[He]
Plenty of nothing you haven't got!

[Both]
How can love survive?

[She]
No rides for us on the top of a bus
In the face of the freezing breezes

[He]
You reach your goals in your comfy old Rolls Or in one of your Mercedes-es!

[She]
Far, very far off the beam are we,
Quaint and bizarre as a team are we,
Two millionaires with a dream are we,
We're keeping romance alive. ...."


CHIP FOSSA
Member

From: Monson, MA 01057 U.S.A.

posted 01 May 2003 11:33 PM     profile     
..off the coast of Africa..
bound for South America..
a world away from here..
is a ship that sails the sea..
is a man who's just like me..
and I wish that I was there..

I'm a lonely Lighthouse..
not a ship out in the night..
watching the sea..
seas come half-way round the world
to see the light..
and to stay away from me..

there is a shipwreck lying at my feet..
some weary refugee from the rolling deep..
how, could you lose it all and fall for me..

couldn't we shine [my golden moments into one]..
like to shine like the sun..
one more summer day..
like to shine like the lighthouse
one last summer night..
flashing on, flashing..
fading away..

(well)if you feel lost and lonely..
and don't know where to go..
and you here this song on the radio..
or even if you're feeling healthy and strong..
you might like to sing along..

(but) just because I might be standing here..
that don't mean I won't be wrong this time..
you could follow me and lose your mind..

couldn't we shine (my golden moments into one)..
like to shine like the sun..
one more summer day..
like to shine like the lighthouse..
one last summer night..
flashing on, flashing..fading away..


off the coast of Africa....................


I'd like to shine like the sun..
one more summer day..

shine like the lighthouse..
one last summer night..

see me flashing-on, flashing..
fading away..

couldn't we shine..
just one more time..

I'd like to shine like the sun..
one more summer day..

like to shine like the lighthouse..
one last summer night..

flashing-on, flashing-on
fading away..

James Taylor..


Craig A Davidson
Member

From: Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA

posted 03 May 2003 06:46 AM     profile     
Bob, There is also a Haggard line that goes: "You've fallen in love with a picture on the wall, and the sad part is the picture is not of me. (This Song Is For You)

Also, "Hands Can say a lot beneath the table, and yours just told me all I need to know." (Johnny Bush)

------------------
1985 Emmons push-pull,Evans SE200


Dave Van Allen
Member

From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

posted 07 May 2003 07:47 AM     profile     
quote:
And I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground.

KR



Eric, actually it was M-m-mel what wrote Ruby!!

"what a fool I was to think I could get by, with only these few million tears I've cried" Merle

"When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy,
In the company of strangers,
In the quiet of a railway station, runnin' scared.
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters,
Where the ragged people go.
Lookin' for the places, only they would know."

Paul Simon

"What's goin' on" MGaye

"The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky.
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry." Hiram


"I just came in here from force of habit, I don't intend to spend too much time in here. But I saw you matchin' for the music, and if you play A-11 there'll be tears"
Hank Cochran


Each night I make the rounds
To every spot in town
A lonely man with lonely time to kill
All I can say is what a way to live
The paths my memories take
Just make my poor heart ache
I think of her I guess I always will
All I can say is what a way to live

Chorus
I?d rather lay me down tonight
And never wake again
 Than to face another day the shape my life is in
The jukebox playing loud
A face among the crowd
So much like hers it makes my heart stand still
All I can say is what a way to live

Willie again

I couldn't sleep last night, just walked the floor
Don't know how I'll stand this anymore
Lonely all the time since I lost you
Received your invitation to the blues

I don't know why you cause me such pain
I just hope I'll never go through this much again
Lonely me, I don't know what to do
Received your invitation to the blues

You took the laughter from this world of mine
Thanks to you the sun will never shine
Walked the floor so much wore out my shoes
Received your invitation to the blues

Roger Miller

Once you said you'd do most anything to keep our love, you'd tear out your tongue before you'd tell me lies
Once you said you'd crawl on hands and knees to be with me...today you wouldn't even cross the street to say 'goodbye'
Willie!


What goes wrong in the mind of a man in a bar?
...one drink, then another
'til he's out of control
G. Jones

One more drink of wine
and if she's still on my mind
one more drink
just one more
and then another
ET sang it dunno who wrote it


I got loaded last night on a bottle of gin
and I had a fight with my best girlfriend
'cause when I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend
please Baby wait for me until they let me out again
Charlie Rich

Maybe it's better, but I don't understand
why God would take the woman,
and leave the children and a man....
a mournful song as the hearse rolls on,
down to the grave yard
where the weeping willows weep
Six pall bearers cryin'
and my baby lies asleep
Bill Phillips sang it

All Eyes Go by Scott McKnight :

Tell me again, look in my eyes and I'll try to divine
What you really mean when you say what you say
Maybe I'm blind but I'm not deluded, I haven't concluded
What you really mean when you say what you say

All I know is what I'm told
All eyes go when they get old

I won't pretend, it's harder than hell to tell what you're telling me Reading in between what you say when you say what you say
Things that you're doing, you say how could it harm us, But you made a promise
Did you really mean what you said when you said what you said

Tell me again, look in my eyes and I'll try to divine
What you really mean when you say what you say
Maybe I'm blind but I'm not deluded, I haven't concluded What you really mean to me anymore
Do you mean anymore
To me anymore

Angelina
Eric Brace (Dry Diggin Tunes, BMI)

You look so far away, across the room
I wish I could tell you what's been running through my head
Wish I could cross the floor and hand you a ticket
To fly away with me, to fly away with me

My angel, Angelina, hold my hand
With your alabaster fingers, I hope you'll understand
My angel, Angelina, kiss me now
Put your cool lips on my brow

Would you fly across the sky with me, sit by my side
Would you lean across the armrest and whisper all your secrets
Every time I catch your eye I wonder what's behind it
I don't know where happiness hides, but I'm game to try to find it

My angel, Angelina, hold my hand
With your alabaster fingers, I hope you'll understand
My angel, Angelina, kiss me now
Put your cool lips on my brow

I could go on and on and on and on

[This message was edited by Dave Van Allen on 23 May 2003 at 06:07 AM.]

Eric West
Member

From: Portland, Oregon, USA

posted 07 May 2003 03:37 PM     profile     
Dave. Please Do.

Made me think of several.

Man with the Blues WN

Evangelina HA

One from MH that I'm trying to remember about him apologizing for not being able to be somebody to be proud of. I'll find it..

The Wall. (?)

Big Iron MR?

One Dying and a Buryin RM

River in the Rain RM

Old Friends (?)

Reasons to Quit WN

Last thing I needed.WN

Nothing I can do about it Now WN

Leave us not forget Jonnny Russell...


EJL

Dave Van Allen
Member

From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth

posted 07 May 2003 08:06 PM     profile     
I wonder why I bother coming home at night
you turn me off each time I turn to you
your thoughts are far away each time I hold you tight
you're so cold I'm turning blue

Ice cold woman
I don't think you're human
you breathe and you live
you do everything but give

How can you just stand there when I hurt like this?
Baby, can't you feel my need for you?
The time will surely come when I won't want your kiss.
You're so cold, I'm turning blue

Hugh X Lewis sang it Pete Drake played it, dunno who wrote it
http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/youresocold.mp3

You are the promised kiss of springtime
That makes the lonely winter seem long
You are the breathless hush of evening
That trembles on the brink of a lovely song

You are the angel glow that lights a star
The dearest things I know are what you are

Some day my happy arms will hold you
And some day I'll know that moment divine
When all the things you are, are mine
J Kern/O Hammerstein

Yesterday is gone
Tomorrow is uncertain
So if you care at all
then Love me, please love me today
I'm so in love don't put it off

A stitch in time saves nine
One kiss may make the difference
So if you care at all
then Love me, please love me today
I'm so in love don't put it off

Don't put off til tomorrow what you can do today
why take a chance on sorrow?
drive my blues away

Autry Inman

Bill Fall
Member

From: Boston, MA, USA

posted 08 May 2003 08:16 AM     profile     
"The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me," Eddy Arnold
Stephen Gambrell
Member

From: Ware Shoals, South Carolina, USA

posted 08 May 2003 12:42 PM     profile     
I AM a Christian, but even if you disregard the message(Which I hope you don't):

"When Christ shall come, with shouts of acclamation,
To take me home. What joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art."
Absolute poetry!

And of course, Jimmy Martin---
"So I'll just keep touchin' up my grey hair,
Live and hope, someday she'll understand.
That it don't matter, If I live to be a hundred,
There'll always be a place in my heart, for Mary Ann."

R. L. Jones
Member

From: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA

posted 10 May 2003 08:02 PM     profile     
Nank Williams Sr. Ilke a bird thats lost its mate in flight, I`m alone and oh so blue tonite ,,

Like a piece of driftwood on the sea,,may you never be alone like me


Hank Williams, Sr. Did you ever see a nite so long, when time goes crawling by

The midnite train is whining low , I`m so lomesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star,, lights up a purple sky,,and as I wonder where you are I`m so lonesome I could Die

Roger Rettig
Member

From: NAPLES, FL

posted 17 May 2003 08:07 AM     profile     
Good one, Chip Fossa, only I thought it was unfair to include James Taylor. Surely his consistently thought-provoking lyrics put him at the top of the 'all time' list.

This one just popped into my head, though...

'Now from Washington to Oregon, you can hear the factories hum,
Making chrome and making manganese, and white aluminum.
Now roars the Flying Fortress for to fight for Uncle Sam,
Along the cold and clear Columbia, by the big Grand Coulee Dam

In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windy spray,
Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave,
Though she tore their boats to splinters she gave men dreams to dream,
Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream'

Written by Woody Guthrie - reprised in 1957 by Lonnie Donegan. Wonderfully evocative - especially to a thirteen year old living in grey old London back then....

------------------
Roger Rettig

[This message was edited by Roger Rettig on 17 May 2003 at 08:11 AM.]


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