A new game -- favorite opening lines / stanzas from songs

[OldPhiKap]

She was a level-headed dancer/on the road to alcohol
And I was just a solder/on my way to Montreal . . . .

-- John Prine

[EarlJam]

I've been away for a few days so forgive me if this one has already been posted:

In a town of chimpanzees, I was a monkey.

-EarlJam

[billybreen]

I've been away for a few days so forgive me if this one has already been posted:

In a town of chimpanzees, I was a monkey.

-EarlJam

That's how I started the thread.

[EarlJam]

That's how I started the thread.

No fecal matter? Dayyyyyyymn. Great/insane minds think alike I guess.

Seriously, I did not know.

How about:

Two trailer park girls go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside?

-EJ

[Lavabe]

I've been away for a few days so forgive me if this one has already been posted:

In a town of chimpanzees, I was a monkey.

-EarlJam

Since you and BBreen mentioned troglodytes (species name for chimpanzee), how about one of the worst songs of all time.:
"What we're gonna do right here is go back, way back, back into time.
When the only people that existed were troglodytes"

Cheers,
Lavabe

[YmoBeThere]

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves

[4decadedukie]

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

[devildeac]

The screen door slams
Mary's dress waves

like a vision she dances across the porch
as the radio plays...

(ahh, HS and Duke memories-one of my favorite songs of ALL time-live, studio, acoustic, electric-I could listen to this many, many, many times in a row)

[YmoBeThere]

I've only been fortunate enough to hear it once in concert...but will always be my favorite Springsteen song.

[YmoBeThere]

I can hear her heartbeat for a thousand miles

[devildeac]

I've only been fortunate enough to hear it once in concert...but will always be my favorite Springsteen song.

are you originally from NJ? if so, which exit?

[YmoBeThere]

are you originally from NJ? if so, which exit?

Only if New Jersey is a small island in the Pacific...haha Born in Hawaii but my parents were in the military, so 13 states(or is it 14?) and two foreign countries* later I can say that I haven't been in NJ for more than a two weeks at one time. (Visiting my sister in New Brunswick.)

[YmoBeThere]

She's got a smile that it seems to me

[billybreen]

People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one,
And we've just begun.
Think I'm gonna have a son.

[YmoBeThere]

Son, she said, have I got a little story for you...

[billybreen]

Son, she said, have I got a little story for you...

I prefer:

At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops
With him on top
Lemmon yellow sun,
Arms raised in a V
The dead lay in pools of maroon below

[YmoBeThere]

like a vision she dances across the porch
as the radio plays...

(ahh, HS and Duke memories-one of my favorite songs of ALL time-live, studio, acoustic, electric-I could listen to this many, many, many times in a row)

I am so ashamed and proved myself the PW that I am. The song was already quoted in the early part of this thread. I tried stealing someone else's line.

[Lavabe]

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

[devildeac]

I am so ashamed and proved myself the PW that I am. The song was already quoted in the early part of this thread. I tried stealing someone else's line.

no problem with me but you may have to answer to BB, or Wilson, or Lavabe, or Tilly, or EJ, or...

You can quote that song ANYTIME.

[Windsor]

are you originally from NJ? if so, which exit?

One of my favorites as well... Exit 9 by the way