Friday Tunes / Music: All In The Lyrics

[fishing4sanity]

Sometimes the lyrics make a song, sometimes they ruin a song, sometimes they're just so weird you like it. What song lyrics come to mind for a special event, person, great hunt, etc?

I always liked this song and lyrics like 'wind through the barbed wire' and 'frost settles in on the sage' carry a lot of visual imagery for me.

This one is so strange it works.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Bungle in the Jungle by Jethro Tull , always liked the lyrics of this song

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Lyrics make a song as much as the musical arrangement of the instruments

 

[BearFoot]

Simple Man

Mama told me when I was young
"Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say
And if you do this it'll help you some sunny day"

"Oh, take your time, don't live too fast
Troubles will come and they will pass
You'll find a woman and you'll find love
And don't forget, son, there is someone up above"

"And be a simple kind of man
Be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can"

"Forget your lust for the rich man's gold
All that you need is in your soul
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try
All that I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied"

"And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can"

Oh, yes, I will

"Boy, don't you worry, you'll find yourself
Follow your heart and nothing else
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try
All that I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied"

"And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can?"

"Baby, be a simple, be a simple man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of simple man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can?"

 

[blueridge]

 

[recon6036]

Simple Man

Mama told me when I was young
"Come sit beside me, my only son
And listen closely to what I say
And if you do this it'll help you some sunny day"

"Oh, take your time, don't live too fast
Troubles will come and they will pass
You'll find a woman and you'll find love
And don't forget, son, there is someone up above"

"And be a simple kind of man
Be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can"

"Forget your lust for the rich man's gold
All that you need is in your soul
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try
All that I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied"

"And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can"

Oh, yes, I will

"Boy, don't you worry, you'll find yourself
Follow your heart and nothing else
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try
All that I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied"

"And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can?"

"Baby, be a simple, be a simple man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby, be a simple kind of simple man
Oh, won't you do this for me, son, if you can?"

This ^.

 

[BirdManMike]

 

[BirdManMike]

Tongue firmly in cheek. (But Sabaton is awesome).

Here is one:

 

[Deleted member 28227]

 

[BirdManMike]

 

[Big Slick]

 

[noharleyyet]

 

[crock239]

The Bird Hunters

The covey took wing
There were shotguns a-singin'
A pointing dog down in the old logging road
Danny got three and looked back grinning
I fumbled and tried to reload
The country was cold with the sun westward sinking
It's good to be back in this place
With my hands around a Belgian made Browning
My mind on the lines of her face
Danny's my buddy
We grew up like family
Hunted timber before we could drive
And the old English Pointer once belonged to me
But I 'give' him up when I moved in '05
Off with a girl, off to the city
Off on a wing and a chance
Hell, I thought It's play out just like some story
We fell in love at a rodeo dance
She said go back to Cherokee County
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
Babe, If you need me I'll be where you found me
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
Dan says, "Look at ol' Jim
A dozen Decembers behind him no worse for the wear
And your time spent in Tulsa did not help your shooting
Just look at the gray in your hair
How good does it feel?
You belong in these hills
It's best that you let it all end
If you'd have married that girl, you'd have married her family
You dodged a bullet my friend"
She said go back to Cherokee County
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
Babe, If you need me I'll be where you found me
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home
I was beginning to deal with it ending
The old dog had pointed while part of me died
And a flutter of feathers
Then a shotgun to shoulder
I thought of the Fourth of July
She'll be home on the Fourth of July
I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July

Dan says, "Hell of a shot, looks like you've still got it
Thats what we came here to do
It's light enough still, at the foot of the hill
We could kick up a single or two"
She said go back to Cherokee County
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
Babe, If you need me I'll be where you found me
Go on to hell, honey, I'm headed home

 

[Deleted member 28227]

 

[BigHornRam]

 

[belshawelk]

I have two songs, I will post separately. I am a Rush fanatic, mostly because their song lyrics are about life, very few about drugs or women. None ever about negative way. While I have many favorites this one is pretty close to who I am, flying the coop at an early age to get a head start on life.

 

[crock239]

"Don't be falling in love as she's walking away..."

Might have inspired me to have the courage to ask a pretty girl for her phone number, and we've been married over a decade now.

 

[belshawelk]

Well here is number 2. Long story but I grew up a single child and only grandchild on a farm. Just me and my dad. He installed the truth in me that I could be or do whatever I set out to do. Do not wait for other people to provide for me, do what's right, take care of those who need help, yet do not let those take advantage of me. Man up, the world is tough, so I got to be tougher than what its going to try and do to me. I played this song at his funeral. God I miss him.

 

[Ben Lamb]

 

[BigHornRam]

Steve Earle is a gifted song writer. This one is my favorite. Last verse is exceptional.

The old man loaded up everything that he owned
On a wagon and headed out west
The old woman fearlessly faced the unknown
'Cause she figured he knew what was best
And they settled down hard on a government grant
With six mouths to feed and forty acres to plant
And the rain came down
Like an angel come down from above
And the rain came down
It'll wash you away and there ain't never enough
Fall turned to winter another year gone
Over and over again
Some took their lives from their land and moved on
And some stayed on to plow it back in
And the good Lord he giveth and he taketh away
And the restless shall go and the faithful shall stay
Now my grandaddy died in the room he was born in
Twenty-three summers ago
But I could have sworn he was beside me this morning
When the sheriff showed up at my door
So don't you come around here with your auctioneer man
'Cause you can have the machines but you ain't taking my land