Favorite quotes from classic Rock n Roll songs

[Old Dog]

Midnight on the water
I saw the ocean's daughter
Walking on a wave she came
Staring as she called my name

ELO- Can't Get It Out Of My Head

 

[Old Dog]

The eastern world it is exploding
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war but whats that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'

But you tell me
Over and over and over again my friend
Ah, you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction

Barry McGuire- Eve Of Destruction

 

[TR1032]

Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
And I learned much from both of their styles


Son of a Son of a Sailor -
Jimmy Buffett

 

[Timjoebillybob]

Rush-Trees

Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw

 

[Hookeye]

She came to me with a serpent's kiss
As the Eye of the Sun rose on her lips
Moonlight catches silver tears I cry
So we lay in a black embrace
And the seed is sown in a holy place
And I watched, and I waited for the dawn

 

[Bugzilla]

There are 2 lines in the classic ballad about ballroom dancing I find especially moving, titled Big Balls sung by the late Bon Scott and AC/DC:
”I believe that my big balls should be held every night” and
“But we have the biggest balls of them all!”
I almost tear up just thinking about these moving lyrics.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Forces of evil in a bozo nightmare
Ban all the music with a phony gas chamber
'Cause one's got a weasel
And the other's got a flag
One's on the pole, shove the other in a bag
With the rerun shows
And the cocaine nose-job
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
Slab of turkey-neck
And it's hanging from a pigeon wing
You can't write if you can't relate
Trade the cash for the beat
For the body for the hate
And my time is a piece of wax
Falling on a termite
Who's choking on the splinters

Beck - "Loser"

 

[Gunmetalgray]

There are 2 lines in the classic ballad about ballroom dancing I find especially moving, titled Big Balls sung by the late Bon Scott and AC/DC:
”I believe that my big balls should be held every night” and
“But we have the biggest balls of them all!”
I almost tear up just thinking about these moving lyrics.

No mom, it's a song about ballroom dancing....
Nothing to see here...
Forgotten classic, thanks for sharing

 

[semperfi211]

I rode a tank
Held a general's rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

 

[Kcustom45]

This thread took me forever to get thought because I kept having to go to youtube and listen to the good songs people were quoting. Also, some people played a little fast and loose with the classification "Classic Rock n Roll". Those who quoted Gordon Lightfoot I'm looking at you.

Also, for what it's worth, the first quote that popped into my head was taken on the first page in post #14.

I asked my wife for the first classic rock quote that popped into her head and she said -

"The more I think about it, Old Billy was right. Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight."

"Get Over It" Eagles

 

[Cozy439]

Reading over all these brought back tons of memories. No memory of a lyric tops getting called out in the Mess Hall during Airborne School at FT BENNING for talking when we should have been eating... The entire conversation was "Please pass the pepper. Thanks" " Your welcome" The Black Hat nearest us came unglued and told us if we had time to talk we had time to entertain our classmates. He went on to say... "Sing me some of that Madonna **** you all listen to in college." This was the summer of 1984 and 15+ members of my class were ROTC cadets. Neither me or my cohort from Middle Tennessee State University knew many Madonna songs. Quickly he asked if I knew the "Perfect country" song by David Allan Coe, the added verse. I said yes and he started off...

"Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in the pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train"

The Instructor grinned and walked away. Our classmates were entertained.

 

[JCSR]

From the rocking of the cradle
To the rolling of the hearse
The going up was worth the coming down

KK The Pilgrim

 

[pute62]

CDB Reflections

It was October in St. Louis town
When we heard that the Free Bird had fell to the ground
And we all said a prayer
Before we went down to play

And Ronnie, my buddy
Above all the rest
I miss you the most
And I loved you the best
And now that you're gone
I thank God I was blessed,
Just to know you

But it's all right now
Keep on singin' loud
It's all right now
Heaven should be proud

 

[indyjohn]

Fitting for the times, I believe....

"Yes, we know
It’s nothing new
It’s just a waste of time
We have no need for ancient ways
Our world is doing fine
Another toy
That helped destroy
The elder race of man
Forget about your silly whim
It doesn’t fit the plan"

 

[BugI02]

Well, I hadn't intended
To bend the rules
But whiskey don't make liars
It just makes fools
So I didn't mean to say it
But I meant what I said

Too long in the wasteland
Too long in the wasteland
Must've gone to my head

---- James McMurtry, Too Long in the Wasteland

 

[tomcat13]

Monday, Monday-Can't Trust that Day!

 

[Lost Californian]

Here I am, on a road again
There I am, on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Bob Seger, Turn the Page

Call me a relic, call me what you will
Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill
Today's music ain't got the same soul
I like that old-time rock 'n' roll

Bob Seger, Old Time Rock and Roll

 

[Fire Lord]

Outgunned. Outnumbered. Though never outclassed.

Bolt Thrower

 

[Alpo]

And I remember what she said to me,
How she swore that it never would end.
I remember how she held me oh so tight.
Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

"Against the Wind," Bob Seeger

Definitely my favorite song.

The years rolled slowly past
And I found myself alone
Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends
I found myself further and further from my home, and I
Guess I lost my way
There were oh-so-many roads
I was living to run and running to live
Never worried about paying or even how much I owed
Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time
Breaking all of the rules that would bend
I began to find myself searching
Searching for shelter again and again

 

[Alpo]

No worries. Still all GREAT tunes! 3 of my favorites. I consider Blind Faith to be one of the first "super groups" with their personnel. You had overlap between Traffic, Derek and the Dominoes and Cream. And of course Winwood was also with the Spencer Davis Group too.

"Can't Find My Way Home". The lyrics aren't that memorable, but the guitar playing in Drop D tuning is about as good as anything around.