April 17Apr 17 In honor of my latest concert, I submit 2 Oh! Whiskey, gin and brandy, With a glass I'm pretty handy, I'm trying to walk a straight line, On sour mash and cheap wine, She was a fast machine, she kept her motor clean She was the best damn woman that I ever seen
April 17Apr 17 Gonna testify to some of the lesser known lyricists. Brother's runnin' powder money/Daddy's somewhere on a drunk/In the hours after washing/I do my dreamin' with a gun Miss Christina drives a 9-4-4/Satisfaction ooozes from her pores/She keeps rings on her fingers/Marble on her floors/Cocaine in her dresser/Bars on her doors
April 17Apr 17 Well, my baby, she don't want me around. She said she's tired of watchin' me fall down. She wants the good life, only the best. But I like that bottle better than the rest. Might not even be the best opening lines on that album, or from that lyricist, but I've always loved em. Edited April 17Apr 17 by Rimbo
April 20Apr 20 You shootin' glances and they're so hard to read / I misconstrue what you mean / Slip me a napkin and now that's a start / Is this your name or a doctor's eye chart?
April 21Apr 21 Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows them pearly white Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe And he keeps it out of sight Caroline laughs and it's raining all day She loves to be one of the girls She lives in the place in the side of our lives Where nothing is ever put straight My Maria Don't you know I have come a long, long way? I've been longin' to see her, when she's around she takes my blues away Where it began I can't begin to know when But then I know it's growin' strong Was in the spring And spring became the summer Who'd have believe you'd come along?
April 21Apr 21 I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds When you're lost in the rain in Juarez and its Easter time too
April 21Apr 21 I hear you're driving someone else's car now She said you came and took your stuff away All the poetry, and the trunk you kept your life in I knew that it would come to that someday Edited April 21Apr 21 by Iceman
April 21Apr 21 Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog Where no one notices the contrast of white on white And in between the moon and you The angels get a better view Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
April 22Apr 22 On 4/17/2025 at 1:29 PM, Goredho said: I mean, he's up there behind maybe only Iommi and Page as far as someone who could come up with guitar riffs as song hooks, imo
April 22Apr 22 Well, the hurricane party's winding down and we're all waiting for the end And I don't want another drink, I only want that last one again
April 24Apr 24 Ignorance of youth. First time I heard this, thought it was drugs. Then heard the rest of the song 😂 See this needle Oh, see my hand Drop, drop, dropping it down Oh, so gently
April 24Apr 24 Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait Catholic girls start much too late Sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well will be the one
April 25Apr 25 Tonight I feel so weak But all in love is fair I turn the other cheek But I feel the slap and the sting of the foul night air
April 26Apr 26 On 3/19/2019 at 2:41 PM, tbone_ said: Honey don’t walk out, cuz I’m too drunk to follow... On 4/17/2025 at 11:29 AM, tbone_ said: Honey don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow Well, which is it?
April 26Apr 26 On 2/2/2019 at 3:26 PM, mr. sunshine said: Honey don’t walk out. I’m too drunk to follow Oh, it was on page 1.
April 27Apr 27 My mother was a witch She was burned alive Thankless little bitch Oh, the tears I cried
April 28Apr 28 Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long year Stole many a man's soul and faith The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely Hey, that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again In the day we sweat it out on the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory In suicide machines Sprung from cages on Highway 9 Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin' out over the line Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run Holly came from Miami, F-L-A Hitch-hiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows along the way Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side" Said, "Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side" he was drunk depressed and crazy when he bought himself the gun over the counter in some pawn shop on south main one feel of that cold steel and he gratefully unwadded the last fifty dollars to his name
April 29Apr 29 On 4/17/2025 at 5:50 PM, GhostOfTomJoad said: Miss Christina drives a 9-4-4 That has always been one of my favorites too. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/17296-share-your-music-it-probably-sucks-but-that’s-not-why-we-do-it/page/12/#findComment-5586480
May 12May 12 I'm gonna rent myself a house In the shade of the freeway Gonna pack my lunch in the morning And go to work each day And when the evening rolls around I'll go on home and lay my body down And when the morning light comes streaming in I'll get up and do it again
May 12May 12 On 4/21/2025 at 7:50 AM, Post Oak said: Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog Where no one notices the contrast of white on white And in between the moon and you The angels get a better view Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right I get that they were huge - but the older I get and the more repetitions of their stuff I'm subjected to the more I start to think that they're kind of an underrated band.
May 15May 15 On 5/11/2025 at 8:36 PM, ztejas said: I get that they were huge - but the older I get and the more repetitions of their stuff I'm subjected to the more I start to think that they're kind of an underrated band. Welcome. They are. The later stuff isnt that great but the early stuff is really good.
May 16May 16 I’ve always liked “Born down in a dead man’s town.” Especially since Stephen King quoted it to kick off IT.
May 16May 16 Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our rice krispies Can't hear anything at all
May 16May 16 Remember when our songs were just like prayers Like gospel hymns that you caught in the air Come down, come down sweet reverence Unto my simple house and ring And ring
May 17May 17 On 5/16/2025 at 7:04 AM, South Austin said: I’ve always liked “Born down in a dead man’s town.” Especially since Stephen King quoted it to kick off IT. To me it's the second line --"the first kick I took was when I hit the ground"--that reveals the character's lot in life. The world's been beating this guy since day one, and it ain't letting up.
May 17May 17 8 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said: To me it's the second line --"the first kick I took was when I hit the ground"--that reveals the character's lot in life. The world's been beating this guy since day one, and it ain't letting up. Still remarkable that Ronald Reagan had no fucking clue what the song was about when he used it on the campaign trail. #nocloakroom
June 1Jun 1 The Mississippi Delta Was shining like a national guitar Edited June 1Jun 1 by HornOnTheBayou
June 6Jun 6 Watchin TV with the sound turned off I got water in my pipe I can't afford to call Poised and Ready Got my Crack Pipe Loaded Gotta use matches cause my lighter exploded
June 6Jun 6 On 5/17/2025 at 9:23 AM, South Austin said: Still remarkable that Ronald Reagan had no fucking clue what the song was about when he used it on the campaign trail. #nocloakroom
June 21Jun 21 You can take all the tea in China Put it in a big brown bag for me Sail right 'round all the seven oceans Drop it straight into the deep blue sea
June 30Jun 30 Don't believe the devil I don't believe his book But the truth is not the same Without the lies he made up Edited June 30Jun 30 by HiggyBaby
July 14Jul 14 Oh Lord it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way. Amarillo by morning up from San Antone. / Everything that I got is just what I’ve got on. Leroy, boy, is that you? / I thought your post-hangin' days were through
July 14Jul 14 I probably already posted this, but what the hell: Hey pretty baby, are you ready for me It's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee I'm just out of Austin bound for San Antone With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on There's a speed trap up ahead in Selma Town But no local yokel gonna shut me down 'Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound And we've come a thousand miles from a Guitar Town
July 14Jul 14 We can share the women, we can share the wine We can share what we got of yours, cause we done shared all of mine
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