Best Opening Line to a Song

I just listened to Sunday Morning Coming Down written by Kris Kristofferson. Performed by Johnny Cash and consider it one of the best what are your favorites?...Russ
 
Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.

Go on home yer mudder's callin',
Yer fadder just fell in da garbage can.
Go on home yer mudder's callin',
They come to collect yer old man.
 
Jimmy Durante

This is the opening to "Aqualung" by the British group Jethro Tull...

Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snots running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes
Hey Aqualung

I always enjoy upbeat lyrics...   

There stands the glass
fill it up to the brim
till my troubles grow dim
it's my first one today.

The beast in me
Is caged by frail and fragile bonds
Restless by day
And by night, rants and rages at the stars
God help, the beast in me

I once had a girl,
or should I say,
she once had me.

chewingthefat


There stands the glass
fill it up to the brim
till my troubles grow dim
it's my first one today.

I'm wondering where you are tonight.
I'm wondering if you are alright.
I wonder if you think of me
In my misery.

ROAD FOOD
Jollywood, Jollywood, Chippa Chippa Chee Chee
ROAD FOOD
Drag queens, rhumba boogie, grabbin' for the prime time
ROAD FOOD
Bonafide, certified women in the washroom
ROAD FOOD
Better have a whiskey so I'll feel all right.

From one of our favorite Sinatra songs:
 
I have dreamed that your arms are lovely
And I have dreamed what a joy you'll be
 

Carolina Bob


This is the opening to "Aqualung" by the British group Jethro Tull...

Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent
Snots running down his nose
Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes
Hey Aqualung

I always enjoy upbeat lyrics...        

  
  That's good one Bob! lol! 

harriet1954


From one of our favorite Sinatra songs:
 
I have dreamed that your arms are lovely
And I have dreamed what a joy you'll be
 

Sinatra? That's I have Dreamed, from the King And I with music by Richard Rogers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein.

Michael Hoffman

harriet1954


From one of our favorite Sinatra songs:
 
I have dreamed that your arms are lovely
And I have dreamed what a joy you'll be
 

Sinatra? That's I have Dreamed, from the King And I with music by Richard Rogers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein.

 
Yes. When Sinatra sings it. I'm totally familiar with the King & I, but I have sentimental reasons for Sinatra's version.

 

"Istanbul was Constantinople.
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople.
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night."

I remember that Constantinople song! They used to play that on Dr. Demento!

If you want a fancy fan
Or a turkey born in Turkey-stan
Or a slave that's awfully African
Or a teapot early Ming
Come to the supermarket in old Peking

By the way, There Stands The Glass was a Webb Pierce song, wasn't it?

It was the third of June
another sleepy, dusty delta day


Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, 
I fell in love with a Mexican girl

joerogo


ROAD FOOD
Jollywood, Jollywood, Chippa Chippa Chee Chee
ROAD FOOD
Drag queens, rhumba boogie, grabbin' for the prime time
ROAD FOOD
Bonafide, certified women in the washroom
ROAD FOOD
Better have a whiskey so I'll feel all right.

Well done!
Odd song by The Guess Who...Russ

 

 

Down to the drugstore, to be with the crowd

A candy sodapop for cryin' out loud
All day long, sittin' on a stool
Drinking milkshakes again, she giggles like a fool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTvHdhdnLh0

--Ken

Yo Vip....Lets Kick It....Robert Van Winkle

...Russ

Dark Star crashes, pouring it's light into ashes.

ken8038


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTvHdhdnLh0

Great one. Forget "best opening line in a song" and think "best opening

sound in a song" and this would surely be in the running:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr2fKFkcxsg

 

PIZZA PIE
(Norman Fox)
NORMAN FOX & THE ROB ROYS (Capitol 4128, 1959)
Well, we were standing on the sidewalk
Just admiring the view
And we thought that we would go down down
And find something to do
And we saw this place upon the corner
And it looked real swell
So we opened the door, we went inside
This is what we yelled
Now pizza pie-i-i-i-i-i-i-i
Hey pizza pie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap5OqZy6vbY

GNeedles59


Dark Star crashes, pouring it's light into ashes.

 

 

"Are you a pothead, GNeedles59?"

i95

GNeedles59


Dark Star crashes, pouring it's light into ashes.

 

 

"Are you a pothead, GNeedles59?"

When I cook for my service providers I wera a Tye Dyed Chef Coat......Spark it UP...Russ

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me: won't see another one
And then they sang a song
The rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away and dreamed about you

Michael Hoffman


By the way, There Stands The Glass was a Webb Pierce song, wasn't it?

Yep, great song!

Well my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55
As I drove away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.
Tom Waits

...Russ

chewingthefat

Michael Hoffman


By the way, There Stands The Glass was a Webb Pierce song, wasn't it?

Yep, great song!

Brother I'm on my way.......Russ