Farmer...there's some good drugs out there these days...don't need a "fluffer"
I'm sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea
I've got to be free, free to face the life that's ahead of me
On board, I'm the captain, so climb aboard
We'll search for tomorrow on every shore
And I'll try, oh Lord, I'll try to carry on
I feel like a quote out of context
withholding the rest
so I can be for you what you want to see
I got the gestures and sounds
got the timing down
it's uncanny, yeah
you'd think it was me
The gypsy woman told my mama
On the day I was born
Oh, you got a boy child comin'
Oh Lord, he's gonna be a sun of a gun
Willie Dixon. Now that is a great opening line.
and then the Wolf says:
On the seventh hour of the seventh day
On the seventh month, seven doctors they say.
I've got lots of good luck, you know they all agree.
But now if ya, if you're lookin' for trouble babe,
You better not mess with me.
in the same vein
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the driving rain,
and I think it was Mr. King, Mr. ALBERT King who said
"Born under a bad sign
been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have no luck atall.
some madness from warren
Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best
Excitable boy, they all said
And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest
Excitable boy, they all said
Flettcher followed knopfler with his 2 albums withChet Atkins.fletcher did drums and keyboard . The very god paul Franklin was dobro man on the twangy cuts and , I believe, he was also the support drone guitar on the Southern Comfort Soundtrack.
Mark Knopfler has always been , to me, a guitarists guitarist
I believe you may be right...although it didn't dawn on me til I heard him on The Hillbillies album.
Mose Allison gets down and dirty:
I see you laughin'
Right in my face
I guess I'm gonna have to
Put you in your place
Because if silence was golden
You couldn't raise a dime
.....your mind is on vacation
And your mouth is working overtime
It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin
Piano Man -- Billy Joel
Yeah, the way he switches gin and tonic...clever
Sorta like this George Strait verse
Ain't love a funny thing
One day you're givin' up the dream
And the next you're pickin' out a ring
Out of the blue clear sky
It was a beautiful day
an the sun beat down
I had the radio on
an I was drivin
Runnin down a dream, Tom Pettty
Exquisite lyricist is Petty...
From The Great Wide Open
Eddie waited till he finished high school
He went to Hollywood, got a tattoo
He met a girl out there with a tattoo too
The future was wide open
And my favorite
There's pigeons down in Market Square
She's standin' in her underwear
Lookin' down from a hotel room
Nightfall will be comin' soon
Oh my my, oh hell yes
You've got to put on that party dress
It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone
I hit the last number, I walked to the road
This has been a favorite of mine for a long time. I sing karaoke but I've never found a songbook that included it much to my chagrin. Yesterday when I was young played on a 12 string guitar and sung by Roy Clark. It was written by Charles Aznavour.
Yesterday, when I was young,
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue,
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game,
The way the evening breeze may tease a flame.
