Songs with the Greatest Opening Lines

[cosmicfolklore]

Lines form on my face and hands...


I haven't been posting band or artist names. Hopefully you guys can figure them out.

 

[peregrinus]

come on guys, there has to be a few more great opening lyrics out there...

Ok...

Get your motor running / get out on the highway.”

Steppenwolf

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I said a hip-hop, the hippie the hippie, to the hip, hip hop you don't stop, rock it to the bang bang boogie, say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat...​

unfortunately, for some strange reason I know all of the words to this, uggg

 

[alaskanpiper]

I said a hip-hop, the hippie the hippie, to the hip, hip hop you don't stop, rock it to the bang bang boogie, say up jump the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat...​

unfortunately, for some strange reason I know all of the words to this, uggg

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

Sitting on this barstool talking like a damn fool
Got the twelve o'clock news blues

Styx

 

[cosmicfolklore]

When I was a young boy, said put away those young boy ways, now that I'm gettin' older, so much older, I long for those young boy days...

 

[gatorhazard]

“On a warm summer’s evening, on a train bound for nowhere, I met up with a gambler, we were both too tired to sleep”.

Don Schlitz

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I forgot to mention that I will sometimes set with a guitar for hours at a party just singing strong opening lines... and playing the first little bits of each song because I don't know the whole songs, ha ha!!

 

[Chasing Embers]

When I was a young boy, said put away those young boy ways, now that I'm gettin' older, so much older, I long for those young boy days...

I won one of 50 tickets for a private concert with him back in the late '90s. Best concert I've ever experienced.

 

[mso489]

This is my box, this is my box,
I never travel without my box ...

--from Amal and the Night Visitors

Eternal Father strong to save
whose arm doth bind the restless wave...

I don't care what train I'm on
as long as it keeps traveling on

I love you, I love you, said the little blue man

Here we go into the wild blue yonders

I thought I saw Joe Hill last night
alive as you or me, I thought you died
I said to Joe, "I never died said he,
I never died said he."

I found my thrill on blueberry hill,
on blueberry hill where I found you...

Heavenly shades of night are falling,
it's twilight time

St. Louis woman, with all her diamond rings

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I won one of 50 tickets for a private concert with him back in the late '90s. Best concert I've ever experienced.

I had five John Cougar tshirts back in high school. One for each day of the week. ha ha!!

 

[Skatutakee]

Said Red Molly to James, "That's a fine motorbike"

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I broke the law and I used a gun, I broke the Ten Commandments one by one, I always wished that I had a son, Just to teach him not to…

I love this song, but the bass and back beat sounds like porn music, ha ha.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

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

 

[Chasing Embers]

'Cause the sign at the end of the road it says
Next stop, twilight zone

 

[gatorhazard]

“Breakin rocks in the hot sun, I fought the law, and the law won”

Sonny Curtis

 

[elpfeife]

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity?
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

Lovin Spoonful

 

[trudger]

I'm gonna tell you how it's gonna be, you're gonna give your love to me.
Buddy Holly

 

[cosmicfolklore]

What I've got you've got to give it to your mamma...

 

[brian64]

"Grandpa pissed his pants again, he don't give a damn."

Warren Zevon's "Play it all night long"

You guys can keep trying, but Zevon won this thread with the first response.

And doubly appropriate because the OP is an Alabaman.