next time around: "Marzie dotes and dozey dotes and little amsy-divy, a kid'll-e divy too".

Quite popular..........way back......when...
I can't remember that far back any more.

[This message was edited by Ray Montee on 08 July 2004 at 09:23 AM.]

"Drivin' nails in my coffin"

"....just what part of no don't you understand?"

"Expealadosius"

"I'm my own grandpa!"

I don't remember the exact words but Travis Tritt had a beauty. Something about ".....someone who gives or (cares)..." Sorry I don't remember, just know I thought it very clever.

"Three little fishies sittin on a dam. Boop boop didum dadum whadum choo. Swim little fishies. Swim if ya can, and de fwam and de fwan all over tha dam"

"City Lights"

"Ole Dogs and children and watermelon wine"

"Put a nickle in; in tha nickolodien"

Most of the entire song: "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"

"Steelin' the Blues"

"I was lookin back to see......"

"Movin' on"

"I been every where"

"Sleepin at tha foot of tha bed" (or should this one be in Mike's thread

Kind Regards, Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf

from "Love Song" by Kenny Loggins

In my opinion, one of the most clever, perfect lyrical lines ever written. I love the triple alliteration, especially as driven home by the silent "w" in wren.

Wouldn't have had the same impact if he had said, "there's a thrush in a willow wood."

[This message was edited by Rick McDuffie on 08 July 2004 at 01:09 PM.]

From the Randy Travis song "Is it Still Over".
http://www.countrygoldusa.com/is_it_still_over.asp

[This message was edited by Bill Llewellyn on 08 July 2004 at 09:06 PM.]

and

"You make me happy, you make me haaaaaappppyyy, you make me happy.....to be alone."

[This message was edited by Nate LaPointe on 08 July 2004 at 08:29 PM.]

"She's acting single, I'm drinking doubles..."

The sun shines brighter than Doris Day

In the country genre, my vote goes to Nick Lowe "All men are liars".

A nice bouncy cover by Dar Williams is at: http://bekkoame.ne.jp/~aabb/audio/liars.mp3
Featuring fabulous guitar by Doug Wainoris

All Men are Liars

All men, all men are liars,
Their word ain't worth no more than worn out tires,
Hey girls! Bring rusty pliars to pull this tooth,
'Cos all men are liars …….and that’s the truth !

Do you remember Rick Astley?
He had a big fat hit, it was ghastly
He said 'I'm never gonna give you up, or let you down'
Well I'm here to tell you that Dick's a clown.
Though he was just a boy when he made that vow,
I'd bet it all, he knows by now
All men………….

Of all God's creatures man must be,
The most slimy and slippery,
Here comes the naked ape in his monkey suit,
With the little moustache he grew, the ugly brute
When he's not choking on his words he ate
He's sweating on getting his story straight
All men……..

Cheers
Matt

It would be interesting to know how many forumites are (like me) songwriters first and steelers second? When I took up steel 25 years ago my ambition was to get good enough to play simple authentic steel on my song demos. I'm still working on it!

[This message was edited by Matt Dawson on 09 July 2004 at 03:12 AM.]

Gene Watson’s “When we were down to nothin’”… nothin’ sure looked good on you.

George Strait’s “Let’s Fall To Pieces Together” … why should we both fall apart..

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I was the cook, ----she was the waitress
Down at Salty Sams seafood cafe
Somewhere between the clam juice and the seaweed salad
some little shrimp... lured her away

Oh, I Lobster, n' never Flounder
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his Carp

Oh, I Lobster n' never Flounder
I Octopus his face in,
Eel only break her heart.

I said "just Squid and leave me for that piano Tuna
If you want to Trout something new"
She was the Bass I ever had and my life has no Porpoise
Oh by golly I love her, yes I do

(Speaking):

#1 I swordfish she'd come back to me!

#2 Aw, if she did, she'd just throw ya the same ole' line: "Not
tonight, dear, I have a haddock."

#1 But I've kelpt her picture in my walleye all these years, just for the
halibut. I wonder if she's kept mine in her perch.

#2 Well, we'd better quit sea-horsin' around here-these people look like
they're goin' into a state of shark!

#1 Did you say a state of shark?!

#2 Shore did!

Both Frankly scallop, I don't give a clam!

Oh, I Lobster, n' never Flounder
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his Carp

Oh, I Lobster n' never Flounder
I Octopus his face in,
Eel only break her heart

Eel only break her heart!

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Lee, from South Texas
Down On The Rio Grande

[This message was edited by Lee Baucum on 09 July 2004 at 03:22 PM.]

Here are a few of my favorites:

"When the perfect stranger became my perfect wife" Freddie Weller(?)

"As surely as the seasons, she's changing to a woman; and, I've lived enough to call myself a man" Kris Kristofferson from Jody and the Kid

"looking out my window, staring through the Pain (Pane) " KT Osland from Wall of Tears

[This message was edited by Donna Dodd on 09 July 2004 at 05:26 PM.]

On the other hand, I did like Pure Prarie League's "I'll Fix Your Flat Tire Merle".

Then there's Little David Wilkins "Who ever turned you one, forgot to turn you off"

and of course:

Cal Smith (with the remarkable John Hughey) with "The Lord Knows I'm Drinkin'"

of course, thats just me.

Ricky...

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Emmons LeGrande - 8x4
Session 400 Ltd, Peterson VS-II Tuner
Dan-Echo, E-Bow, Ibanez Distortion, Boss Comp./Sustain, Ibanez Auto-Wah, PX4 Pandoras Box

Jerusalem
(Steve Earle)

I woke up this mornin' and none of the news was good
And death machines were rumblin' 'cross the ground where Jesus stood
And the man on my TV told me that it had always been that way
And there was nothin' anyone could do or say

And I almost listened to him
Yeah, I almost lost my mind
Then I regained my senses again
And looked into my heart to find

That I believe that one fine day all the children of Abraham
Will lay down their swords forever in Jerusalem

Well maybe I'm only dreamin' and maybe I'm just a fool
But I don't remember learnin' how to hate in Sunday school
But somewhere along the way I strayed and I never looked back again
But I still find some comfort now and then

Then the storm comes rumblin' in
And I can't lay me down
And the drums are drummin' again
And I can't stand the sound

But I believe there'll come a day when the lion and the lamb
Will lie down in peace together in Jerusalem

And there'll be no barricades then
There'll be no wire or walls
And we can wash all this blood from our hands
And all this hatred from our souls

And I believe that on that day all the children of Abraham
Will lay down their swords forever in Jerusalem

t

[This message was edited by Tony Prior on 10 July 2004 at 02:41 AM.]

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Olli Haavisto
Polar steeler
Finland

[This message was edited by Olli Haavisto on 10 July 2004 at 10:35 PM.]

Me Neither is probably one of my favorite songs.

Lee- I've looked for that song for YEARS!!!!!!! What are the original lyrics, do you know that, too? (That, to me, is what really makes a parody funny.)

Lincoln