Best Opening Lyrics

[elkduds]

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[elkduds]

About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war
I saw my first pistol in the general store

 

[NR_Hunter]

“It was Labor Day weekend I was 17, I bought a coke and I grabbed a peen”

 

[elkduds]

There's a hole in Daddy's arm
where all the money goes

Not the opening line, but Bob Dylan's favorite lyric of all time.

 

[NR_Hunter]

About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war
I saw my first pistol in the general store

“It can get you into to trouble but it can’t get you out” always stuck with me for some reason.

 

[elkduds]

Jeremiah was a bullfrog

 

[Ben Long]

turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana

 

[Ben Long]

I ain't scared of dying and and I don't really care; if it's peace you find in dying then let dying time come near...

 

[elkduds]

One for Ken:
Mother mother ocean, I have heard you call

 

[elkduds]

Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her fingertips

 

[elkduds]

The only two things in life that make it worth livin'
Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

 

[TN2shot07]

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you've got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

 

[elkduds]

While I was out aridin' on the graveyard shift, midnight til dawn
The moon was as bright as a reading light for a letter from an old friend back home.

An old cowboy went riding out
One dark and windy day

 

[elkduds]

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss

 

[the nikster]

Wanna tell you a story 'bout the house rent blues…

 

[the nikster]

Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt

 

[rmyoung1]

Well, my daddy left home when I was three
Didn't leave much to Ma and me
Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Now I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid
But the meanest thing that he ever did
Was before he left, he went and named me Sue

Probably the greatest hook ever written. And when I found out it was Shel Silverstein, it all made sense.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Life is so strange when it's changin', yes indeed

 

[noharleyyet]

Go away from my window, leave at your own chosen speed…

 

[noharleyyet]

Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun your hand…