Best Opening Lyrics

[JV842]

Well it's three eggs up on whiskey toast
Home fries on the side
You wash it down with that roadhouse coffee
It burns up your inside
It's just a Canyon Colorado diner
A little waitress I did love
Well we sat in the back 'neath the old stuffed bear
And a worn out Navajo rug

 

[JV842]

Winnebagos and airstreams, all headed north in a line
friends and relations, on a coastal vacation
well I sure hope they've had a good time

 

[44hunter45]

Lather was thirty years old today
They took away all of his toys
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys

 

[44hunter45]

Roll my tape
Ooh, ooh, ooh
30 days
Anyone doin' that one?
Which one?
30-
I'm doin' that one

 

[Bow Bullet]

And the meek shall inherit the earth

 

[Southern Elk]

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Goin' home late last night
Suddenly, I got a fright

 

[noharleyyet]

Dylan's haunting little ditty, my preference is Van Morrison's rendition...

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out, the saints are coming through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue

 

[noharleyyet]

...not the opening, but the crux

The yellow-haired lady came down to the tavern
An' looked up the stranger there
He bought her a drink, an' he gave her some money
He just didn't seem to care
She followed him out as he saddled his stallion
An' laughed as she grabbed at the bay
He shot her so quick, they had no time to warn her
She never heard anyone say

Don't cross him, don't boss him
He's wild in his sorrow
He's ridin' an' hidin his pain
Don't fight him, don't spite him
Just wait till tomorrow
Maybe he'll ride on again

 

[Ben Lamb]

Sweat Baby, Sweat

 

[44hunter45]

My uncle has a country place
No one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the "Motor Law"
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the turbine freight
To far outside the wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits

 

[44hunter45]

When the still sea conspires in armor
And her sullen and aborted currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instance and the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping their stiff green gallop
And heads bob up
Poised, delicate
Paws consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined and sealed over

 

[JV842]

Sweat Baby, Sweat

Let the music take control

 

[noharleyyet]

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all
Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam
And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-40 victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

 

[noharleyyet]

Low down leavin' sun
Done did everything that needs done
Woe is me, why can't I see
I'd best be leavin' well enough alone?
Them neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights
Keep a-hauntin' me in memories
Well, there's one in every crowd, for cryin' out loud
Why was it always turnin' out to be me?

 

[44hunter45]

It ain’t so much a question of not knowin’ whut to do,
I knowed whut’s right and wrong since I been ten.
I heared a lot of stories—and I reckon they are true—
About how girls’re put upon by men.
I know I mustn’t fall into the pit,
But when I’m with a feller—I fergit!

 

[44hunter45]

Well a woman who'll kiss on the very first date
Is usually a hussy.
And a woman who'll kiss on the second time out
Is anything but fussy.
But a woman who waits 'til the third time around,
Head in the clouds, feet on the ground!
She's the girl he's glad he's found--she's his
Shi-Poo-Pi! Shi-Poo-Pi! Shi-Poo-Pi! Shi-Poo-Pi!

 

[Tradewind]

Your everlasting summer you can see it fading fast

unfortunately so

 

[elkduds]

Well a woman who'll kiss on the very first date
Is usually a hussy.
And a woman who'll kiss on the second time out
Is anything but fussy.
But a woman who waits 'til the third time around,
Head in the clouds, feet on the ground!
She's the girl he's glad he's found--she's his
Shi-Poo-Pi! Shi-Poo-Pi! Shi-Poo-Pi! Shi-Poo-Pi!

Meredith Wilson wrote hip hop for this musical in 1957.
Trouble (oh, we got trouble)
Right here in River City (right here in River City)
With a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool

 

[noharleyyet]

In a place you always dream of, where your soul is always free
Silver stages, golden curtains, filled my head plain as could be
As a rainbow grew around the sun, all my stars above, who died
Came somewhere beyond the scene you see
These lovely people played for me