[QUOTE=Eric Cruz;607374]Just a few that occurred to me right off:
Send lawyers, guns and money. The $hit has hit the fan.
-Warren Zevon, "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
I went home with a waitress the way I always do
How was I to know she was with the Russians, too?
Great song
I always put this together with Bruce Cockburn - If I Had A Rocket Launcher
ChrisZ
From the Tubes "What do you want from life"
:Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
................................
a Winnebago--Hell, a herd of Winnebago's, we're giving 'em away,"
Herd of Winnabego's - is that like a flock of Formula Fords?
ChrisZ
Hmmm. Terms of venery. I suggestOriginally Posted by FVRacer21
A train of FVs
A pack of FFs
A thunder of F5000s
A shriek of old F1s
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.
.
Not to mention
A waddle of Prius
A bimble of MGs
Caldwell D9B - Sold
Crossle' 30/32/45 Mongrel - Sold
RF94 Monoshock - here goes nothin'
Fixed for Ya.
You can't put a small part of a Tubes song and forget...
A heated kidney shaped pool
A microwave oven--don't watch the food cook
A Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home
A kingsize Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum
A foolproof plan and an airtight alibi
Real simulated Indian jewelry!
A Gucci shoetree!
A year's supply of antibiotics
A personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
And Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number
A beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick
Rosemary's baby!
A dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams
A new Matador
A new mastadon
A Maverick
A Mustang
A Montego
A Merc Montclair
A Mark IV
A meteor
A Mercedes
An MG
Or a Malibu?
A Mort Moriarty
A Maserati
A Mac truck
A Mazda
A new Monza
Or a moped
For those who were curious, but not enough to find out, here are the actual lyrics of Louie Louie:
http://www.songlyrics.com/the-kingsm...-louie-lyrics/
From someone who lives in Washington where we tried to make Louie Louie our state song, here are the REAL lyrics:
Looweeloowhy ono sadday we gowgow
yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh sadday looweeloowhy oh bebay sadday we gowgow
Ayfain liyelkurwl away onee
eektatsh ahip oconstalee
ale wine **** wine all alowe
eenever acow aamay gitome
Aloowee loowhy nanananana heywegowgow
Oh no addeeloowee loowhy oh bebay heddeweegoddegow
"Send lawyers, guns and money. The $hit has hit the fan."
-Warren Zevon, "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
That's what I'm talking about! Eleven words, and I'm conjuring up wayward rich-kids, cheap dive-bars in Latin America, affected fedoras, Sangria, cheating at cards with dangerous men, grimy jail-cells and crooked cops. I love that song!
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
R.E.M
It's the end of the world as we know it
Concise, and timely
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
And then we have:
Anita Beer. by Scuzz Twittly
No pass out sign on the
Door set me thinking
Are waitresses paying the
Price of their winking
While stars sit at bars and
Decide what they're drinking
They stop by to die because
It's faster than sinking
Neil Young (CSNY) - Country Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDkh85lOwIU
ChrisZ
.........and then there's the title of the album by the old comedy group Firesign Theater
Everything You Know Is Wrong
or the other one.........
In The Future You're On Your Own
Or - even though it is - gasp! - 34 years old - maybe it still works:
There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is the land of confusion?
Genesis – Land of Confusion
ChrisZ
It doesn't match your theme but I always liked the title "Don't crush that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers"
ChrisZ
Speaking of cool titles, I like several of Meatloaf's:
"The future ain't what it used to be"
"Objects in the rear view mirror"
"I'd lie for you,and that's the truth"
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
Black Sun
"And there's a dumpster in the driveway
Of all the plans that came undone"
https://www.npr.org/2015/04/06/39769...y-desk-concert
ChrisZ
"Dealin' cards with the old men in the club car,
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle,
and feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of Pullman porters,
and the sons of engineers,
ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
rockin' to the gentle beat,
and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel"
[Arlo Guthrie : City of New Orleans]
Not very concise, but evocative. Never traveled by train, but this gives you the feeling, I'd think.
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
"go on and close your eyes, imagine me there,
She's got similar features, but longer hair,
and if that's what it takes to get you through
go on and close your eyes, it shouldn't bother you."
{Mellissa Ethridge; Similar features]
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
Shayla
Blondie
"Shayla worked in a factory
She wasn't history
She's just a number"
Unfortunately, after that precise and evocative line, the lyrics drift off into not just vague, but possibly completely meaningless ambiguity. Still, one of my favorites
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
Actually, written by Steve Goodman
Kind of a shame that the writers get so little recognition.
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
Steve Goodman
Long before I met her, my wife Carol lived in Chicago and for a while rented a room from Steve. During live events, he would begin the guitar intro and then say "my manager wants me to tell you that I wrote this song". There is a good (if overly long) book about Steve by Clay Eals called Facing the Music.
M
" a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse"
[album; Faces]
Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
back from the ...swamp
Months have gone by without a lyric catching my attention, but this song is all so well written it has to be added. It's really a gimmick kind of song, but every line is great, and its fun!
"One day came the rains and the rains stayed on
and the swamp water overflowed
Mosquitos and the fever grabbed the town like a fist
Doc Jackson was the first to go.
Some say the plague was brought by Hattie
There was talk of a hanging too.
But the talk got shackled by the howls and the cackles
from the bowels of the black bayou"
[Swamp Witch Hattie; Jim Stafford]
On a tangent, this month's Road & Track has a story on Ken Block's cars. The The description starts out like this:
"It's the chipmunk-quick car dressed up in a livery that looks like an optical-migraine aura"
Not lyrics, but man, I wish I'd written that!
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Jim
Swift DB-1
Talent usually ends up in front, but fun goes from the front of the grid all the way to the back.
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