BEST SINGLE LINE FROM A SONG

[GroverCleveland]

Home where my love lies waiting silently for me

Homeward Bound - Simon and Garfunkel

The wife of a Navy veteran who worked for us on the farm told me she would listen to Homeward Bound when they were stationed in Okinawa and cry. Funny the things you remember 50 years later.

 

[GroverCleveland]

And still the King of Hearts is well concealed

Solitaire - Neil Sedaka

 

[GroverCleveland]

I've got John Wayne stances, I've got Errol Flynn advances and it doesn't mean a doggone thing

Teach (I need you) - Elton John

 

[GroverCleveland]

Midnight on the water, I saw the Ocean's daughter

Can't Get It Out of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra

 

[bignewt]

Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims
and strap your hands across my engines

-the boss

 

[GroverCleveland]

Please, mister, please, don't play B17

Please Mr. Please - Olivia Newton-John

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round" - Queen

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"There was joy, there was hurt" - Alan Jackson

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"And I cried "Oh Lord forgive me, don't let it happen now. I want to live for you alone, oh GOD, these words I vow" - Marty Robbins

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"You're singing a song about making love to your drummer" - Hank Williams Jr.

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"Her brother was on the sofa eating chocolate pie" - John Anderson

 

[CagleMtnVol]

"Her brother was on the sofa eating chocolate pie" - John Anderson

"Mama was in the kitchen cuttin chicken up to fry"

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"Oh, there once was a time, she was top of the line...... her nights like teenage dreams" - John Conlee

 

[CagleMtnVol]

"'l'll come right out and tell you, I'd just love to lay you down" - Conway Twitty

"And as I put my arms around you
I can tell you've never been this far before" - Conway Twitty

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"She looks good in her tight blue jeans she bought in Mexico" - The Oak Ridge Boys

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"She had a West Coast strut that was as sweet as molasses" - ZZ Top

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"Well you ought to see my blue eyed Sally. She lives away down on Shinbone Alley" - Willie Nelson

 

[KB5252]

I've struggled to come up with a single line because they are all stripped down and piercing......

So I submit the entire song "For A Long While" Colter Wall

 

[KB5252]

Just for a moment, I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain
And as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned into rain

Same Old Lang Syne
Dan Fogelberg

A lot of good lines in this song, but I always like the two chorus lines and the close above

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"I spent the summertime cutting up logs for the winter." - David Allen Coe

 

[SmokeyGrayCA]

36-24-36

Only if she 5'3"!!!

 

[TN-POSSUM]

"38-24-37..... You and me, honey, we're a match made in heaven" - A Tribe Called Quest

 

[give_him 6]

"Back where I come from ----I'm an old Tennessean" Kenny Chesney

 

[volfanbill]

There’s a hole in daddy’s arm where all the money goes

“Sam Stone” by John Prine

 

[LouderVol]

maybe not the "best" but one that sticks with me:

"And as I hung up the phone, it occured to me, he'd grown up just like me. My boy was just like me."

Cats in the Cradle Harry Chapin