Songs with the Greatest Opening Lines

[cosmicfolklore]

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

There's something happening here... what it is ain't exactly clear...

 

[jpmcwjr]

Hello, Muddah, hello Fada,
Here I am at Camp Grenada!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

She's got a smile that it seems to me, reminds me of childhood memories...

 

[Kottan]

Bye bye love
Bye bye happiness

 

[cosmicfolklore]

They told him, "Don't you ever come around here..." "Don't wanna see your face, you better disappear..."

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Here's the story of a lovely lady... who was bringing up three very lovely girls...

 

[jpmcwjr]

Is she really going out with him?

That's the spoken opening line. First sung verse:

I met him at the candy store
He turned around and smiled at me
(You get the picture?)
(Yes we see)
Thats when I fell for
The leader of the pack

Probably a lot of us were too young when that hit the airways.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Is she really going out with him?

That's the spoken opening line. First sung verse:

I met him at the candy store
He turned around and smiled at me
(You get the picture?)
(Yes we see)
Thats when I fell for
The leader of the pack

Probably a lot of us were too young when that hit the airways.

Very 50's

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Splish splash, I was taking a bath...

The 1950's was not a time of contemplative lyrics or deep thinking.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I don't care if Monday's blue, Tuesday's grey, and Wednesday too...

 

[dino]

You're alone above the street somewhere
Wondering how you'll ever count out there
You can walk, you can talk, you can fight
But inside you've got something to write
In your hand you hold your only friend
Never spend your guitar or your pen

 

[anotherbob]

 

[anotherbob]

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden...

actually that's the only thing you promised me!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale... a tale of a fateful trip...

 

[jpmcwjr]

I'm going to sit right down and write myself a letter!

 

[Dan-o$]

We're gonna break out the hats and hooters
When josie comes home____________ Steely Dan (o$)

 

[cosmicfolklore]

There's a home place under fire tonight in the heartland... and the bankers are taking my home and my land from me...

 

[renfield]

In the corner of my eye I saw you in Rudy's, you were very high
You were high
It was a cryin' disgrace
They saw your face