Songs with the Greatest Opening Lines

[Dan-o$]

… Just sittin' here now on this new-plowed earth
Trying to find me a little shade
With the sun beating down 'cross the field I see
That mule, old Rivers and me.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

We're not gonna take it. no, we ain't gonna take it...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack, and you may find yourself in another part of the world, and you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile...

 

[JOHN72]

I don't know what to say....................But I love this forum......

 

[Kottan]

Cosmic, you created a thread that could be a serious competitor for the monthly “What are you listening to". ?

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Billy Ray was the preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit he'd come along

- Dusty Springfield

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to

- Pixies

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

She was a girl from Birmingham
She just had an abortion
She was case of insanity
Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree

- Sex Pistols

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Cosmic, you created a thread that could be a serious competitor for the monthly “What are you listening to". ?

I’m sorry.

 

[pappymac]

After careful consideration, I believe I fall into Group 3. The bulk of humanity who do not like vapid and trite corporate soft rock. Also, hammered girls aren't my barometer for culture. :D

I've always envisioned the people who loved Nickleback as being the same ones who loved elevator music.

 

[pappymac]

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou... - Hank Williams

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Well, I took me a woman late last night
I's three-fourths drunk she looked all right
'Till she started peelin' off her onion gook
She took off her wig, said, "How do I look?"
I's high flyin', bare naked, out the window

Well, sometimes I might get drunk
Walk like a duck and smell like a skunk
Don't hurt me none, don't hurt my pride
'Cause I got my little lady right by my side
She's a-tryin' to hide
Pretendin' she don 't know me

- Dylan

I could honestly post about 50 Dylan tracks. Here's 3 more.

The sweet, pretty things are in bed now, of course
The city fathers they're trying to endorse
The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse
But the town has no need to be nervous
The ghost of Belle Starr, she hands down her wits
To Jezebel the nun, she violently knits
A bald wig for Jack the Ripper who sits
At the head of the Chamber of Commerce

Mama's in the fact'ry, she ain't got no shoes
Daddy's in the alley, he's lookin' for food
I'm in the kitchen with the tombstone blues




'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
Come in, she said
I'll give ya shelter from the storm




Ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
Well, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas that are drivin' me insane
It's a shame, the way she makes me scrub the floor
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more

 

[BSticks]

I'm not sure if its really the first thing he says, but in Aaron Lewis' I lost it all, "If I die I'll go to heaven, because I've spent my time in hell". A quote supposedly etched into a Vietnam War lighter with a knife.

 

[Peter Peachfuzz]

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I'm sorry but I have to post this one in honour of Peter Griffin.


A-Well-a everybody's heard about the bird!
Bird bird bird, b-bird's the word.
A-Well-a bird bird bird, bird is the word.
A-Well-a bird bird bird, well-a bird is the word.
A-Well-a bird bird bird, b-bird's the word.
A-Well-a bird bird bird, well-a bird is the word.
A-Well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word.
A-Well-a bird bird bird, b-bird's the word.
A-Well-a bird bird bird, well-a bird is the word.
A-Well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the word.
A-Well-a don't you know, about the bird?
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word!
A-Well-a bird, bird, b-bird's the bird.

 

[Merton]

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison singing for the lonely...

Springsteen
Thunder Road

 

[tenton]

MC5 - Kick out the jams mother fuckers.

MC5- Kick Out The Jams (Extended) - YouTube

 

[jpmcwjr]

Favorite verse:

"Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and filé gumbo
For tonight I'm a gonna see my ma cher ami-o
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayou"

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You don't have to be beautiful... to turn me on... I just need your body baby... from dusk till dawn…

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

What else should I be?
All apologies
What else should I say?
Everyone is gay
What else should I write?
I don't have the right
What else should I be?
All apologies

- Nirvana