Lyrical Response

[Gray Beard]

I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June or July

Snow time ain't no time to stay outdoors and spoon
So shine on
Shine on harvest moon for me and my gal

[SinceThe70s]

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Red lights, green lights, strawberry wine,
A good friend of mine, follows the stars,
Venus and mars are alright tonight

 

[Gray Beard]

Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
'Ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today

[WhoTom]

I sat on a rug biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two and then she said
"It's time for bed"

 

She told me she worked
In the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

There's a fly in the window
A dog in the yard
And a year since I saw you
There's a trunk in the corner
I keep all my letters
My bills and demands I keep too

Well I can't help thinking
About the times
You were a wife of mine
You aimed to please me
Cooked black-eyed peas-me
Made elderberry wine

 

Drunk all the time
Feeling fine on elderberry wine
Those were the days
We'd lay in the haze
Forget depressive times
How can I ever get it together
Without a wife in line
To pick the crop and get me hot
On elderberry wine

Edited September 24, 2019 by The Real Buffalo Joe

[Gray Beard]

Raspberries, strawberries, the good wines we brew.
Here's to the girls of the countryside, the ones we drink 'em to.

 

Paris nights are warm and fair. The summer winds are soft. 
A young man finds the face of love in every field and loft.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Finally made the plane into Paris
Honeymooning down by the Seine
Peter Brown call to say
You can make it O.K.
You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain

 

Christ you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They're going to crucify me

[Gray Beard]

You took me from the shelter of my mother
I had never known or loved any other
We kissed after taking vows
But that night on our honeymoon
We stayed in separate rooms
 

[row_33]

20 hours ago, WhoTom said:

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond

You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze

Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine

 

That coyote is really a crazy clown,

When will he learn he can never mow him down?

Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,

Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.

 

[anyone over 40 should be singing to these fast and complicated lyrics very quickly, maybe they don't have the last line down without seeing it....]

Edited September 24, 2019 by row_33

[row_33]

 

did any other band use the words "opaque" or "pataphysical" in lyrics?

 

 

songs that more than 1,000 have heard/herd

Edited September 24, 2019 by row_33

[SinceThe70s]

12 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

did any other band use the words "opaque" or "pataphysical" in lyrics?

 

 

songs that more than 1,000 have heard/herd

 

More spoken word than song lyric and not at all mainstream:

 

Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top (Zappa/Beefheart)

I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug.
Opaque melodies that would bug most people.
Music from the other side of the fence.

23 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

That coyote is really a crazy clown,

When will he learn he can never mow him down?

Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,

Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.

 

[anyone over 40 should be singing to these fast and complicated lyrics very quickly, maybe they don't have the last line down without seeing it....]

 

Back to our regularly scheduled broadcast:

 

Once again the roadrunner
Leaves the coyote in the dirt
You've got another plan of action
But we all know it ain't never gonna work
 

[Gray Beard]

Well they're headin' for their car but I hit the gas
And spun around and headed them off at the pass
Well I was slingin' gravel and puttin' a ton of dust in the air

 

Well I had them all out there steppin' an' a fetchin'
Like their heads were on fire and their asses was catchin'
But I figured I oughta go ahead an split before the cops got there

 

When I hit the road I was really wheelin'
Had gravel flyin' and rubber squeelin'
An' I didn't slow down 'til I was almost to Arkansas

 

[WhoTom]

1 hour ago, row_33 said:

 

did any other band use the words "opaque" or "pataphysical" in lyrics?

 

 

songs that more than 1,000 have heard/herd

 

Phish, NICU:

 

Would you please
Make clear to me
I'm peering out through your opacity
Though you rehearse
Tomorrow's verse
Forgive me if I don't sing in your key

 

(Close enough?)

[row_33]

RIP Robert Hunter, penned the lyrics for Jerry's songs about gamblers and hired guns and other badassery of the Old West...

 

If I had a gun for every ace that I had drawn
I could arm a town the size of Abilene
Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
And you know I'm only in it for the gold

 

All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars (note 1)
And I could pay you back with one good hand
You can look around at the wide world over
But you'll never find another honest man

 

Last fair deal in the country, sweet Susie (note 2)
Last fair deal in the town
Put your gold money where your love is baby
Before you let my deal go down

 

Don't you push me baby, 'cause I'm moaning low
Well I know a little something you won't ever know
Don't you touch hard liquor, just a cup of cold coffee
Gonna get up in the morning and go

 

Everybody's bragging and drinking that wine

I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to daddy on an inside straight
Well I got no chance of losing this time
Well I got no chance of losing this time

Edited September 24, 2019 by row_33

[WhoTom]

More from Robert Hunter:

 

Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down,
And it looks like the old man's getting on.

[Gray Beard]

Come hear uncle John's band by the riverside,
Got some things to talk about, here beside the rising tide.

Come hear uncle John's band playing to the tide,

Come on along, or go alone, he's come to take his children home.
Wo, oh, what I want to know, how does the song go.

[PastaJoe]

Well long, tall Sally
She's built for speed, she got
Everything that Uncle John need, oh baby
Yeah baby, woo baby
Havin' me some fun tonight, yeah

 

Well, I saw Uncle John with long tall Sally
He saw Aunt Mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley oh baby
Yeah baby, woo baby
Havin' me some fun tonight, yeah, ow

[WhoTom]

And I don't got no diamonds, don't have no gold
Got a lot of lovin' to satisfy your soul
I'm built for comfort, I ain't built for speed
But I got everything all the good girls need

 

[Gray Beard]

Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray
They built you a temple and locked you away
Aw, but they never told you the price that you pay
For things that you might have done
Only the good die young

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

You choke down all your anger
Forget your only son
You pray to statues when you sober up for fun
Your anger don't impress me
The world slapped in your face
It always rains like hell on the loser's day parade

You see, you'd love to run home, but you know you ain't got one
Cause you're living in a world that you're best forgotten, around here
When you're thinking you're a joke and nobody's going to listen
To the one small point I know they've been missing around here

 

Broadway's dark tonight
A little bit weaker than you used to be
Broadway's dark tonight
See the young man sitting in the old man's bar
Waiting for his turn to die