Songs with the Greatest Opening Lines

[Casual]

My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about. He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law.

 

[boatme99]

Says Red Molly to James "that's a fine motorbike"

 

[STP]

I could be on here all day... last one: “Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove”

 

[peregrinus]

Couple that should be mentioned.

“I was born by the river in a little tent and just like the river I’ve been running ever since”
Sam Cooke
A Change Is Gonna Come

“Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods in the evergreens”
Chuck Berry
Johnny Be Good

“What you want, baby I got it”
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Written by the great Otis Redding and immortalized by the Queen of Soul-
Aretha Louise Franklin

 

[cosmicfolklore]

One of my favs...

You see that mountain over there? Yeah? Well, one of these days I'm gonna climb that mountain.

 

[crawdad]

Hmmmm,mmm, Is you ever seen a one-eyed woman cry?

Earl Hooker - probable my most favorite line of any song. I mean, damn...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

When I was a child my family would travel down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born...

 

[boatme99]

When I first met you baby you fed me on chicken and wine..

Steve Goodman

 

[Duke of Erinmore]

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
(Boomtown Rats - I don't like Mondays)

Blame it all on my roots
I showed up in boots
And ruined your black tie affair
(Garth Brooks - Friends in Low Places)

and a special for German/Austrian Speakers

Du hast a Post
A Apotheken
An Kreisverkehr
Hast du aa
(Thomas Stipsits - Freibad in Stinatz)

In English that would translate to
"You've got a post office
A Pharmacy
A traffic circle too".

 

[boatme99]

Listen fellas, you see these fine women with the fine diamonds, the fox furs, and fancy clothes?
Well they're lookin for a husband, and your listnin to a man who knows!

 

[crawdad]

Someone told me long ago
There's a calm before the storm
I know, it's been comin' for some time

CCR

 

[crawdad]

Such a Night
It's such a night
Sweet confusion under the moonlight.

Dr John

I need to stop, I can go all damn day with this

 

[crawdad]

In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines

der Boss

 

[prairiedruid]

Hello Darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again.......

Sound of Silence..... I prefer the Disturbed version

 

[cosmicfolklore]

She packed my bags last night pre-flight, zero hour 9:00 a.m.

 

[yaddy306]

Sweet baby Jesus on fire
Ima need a damn lawyer and a miracle
To pull my ass out of this

 

[Old School 3319]

When I was a child my family would travel down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born...

Love John Prine one of the greatest of all time he deserved so much more than he was recognized for

 

[jaytex1969]

I walk the line between good and evil....
-Alien Sex Fiend

 

[Skatutakee]

If I ventured in the slipstream, between the viaducts of your dream

 

[mikethompson]

Tickin' away the hours that make up a dull day