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Topic: Most ironic lyrics you've ever heard? |
Bill Llewellyn
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San Jose, CA
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 2:15 pm |
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What do you think are the most ironic lyrics you've ever heard?
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--Elton John, listed by ABC news as the second wealthiest musician in Great Britain, behind Paul McCartney. 
Ok, folks, shoot!
I hope this thread stays humerous, and doesn't get political or anything serious like that....
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John Steele
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Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 2:30 pm
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I've got two:
"Play that mountain music" and
"If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band".
By Alabama of course - the band with no fiddle player, who seemingly wouldn't know "mountain music" if it crawled up their butt and laid eggs.
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John Steele
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Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 2:40 pm
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Ok, one more:
Felix Powell, composer of the melody for "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile" committed suicide in 1942.
That has to be one of the darker ironies in the history of musical composition.
Interesting topic.
-John |
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 2:47 pm
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"Tootie Frootie Aw Rootie"
from the lips of terminally white Pat Boone with the priceless look of cluelessness on his face as he begs his manager to explain what it means?? and his manager tells him to shut up and sing the song like it was wrote.
It carries its own kinda irony. |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 6:43 pm
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| "I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive" by Hank Williams Sr. So sad........ |
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 6:53 pm
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No matter how I struggle and strive..
I'll never get out of this world alive.
or:
You wore out a brand new trunk,
Packing and unpacking your junk.
Same writer; different songs...
Regards, Paul[This message was edited by Paul Graupp on 28 November 2003 at 06:56 PM.] |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 7:22 pm
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"I Wanna Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" Faron Young
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 7:34 pm
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"Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce. He sang: quote:
There never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them...
and then he died.[This message was edited by Bobby Lee on 29 November 2003 at 10:19 AM.] |
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John Steele
From:
Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 28 Nov 2003 11:15 pm
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"the kid is not my son"
-Michael Jackson
Somebody had to say it.
"Alright, Jackson, Drop the baby and come out with your hands up ! " |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 12:16 am
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"i'm BAD !"
Michael Jackson too  |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 12:48 am
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I'll Quote first. from the ONLY Bill Anderson song I ever liked.. at the risk of "cross posting".
"It's my Life.. Throw it away if I want to.."
If doing every other song he ever did wasn't a perfect example, I don't know what is..
Runners up include.
"And you can have my heart to break". BJ after divorce #?
"And so castles made of sand melt into the sea, eventually". JH (and so they did)
"Forever" was their main complaint" JH
"All I need is a pint a day, if I ever get out of here." Sir Paul
"Nothing really matters much to me." F Mercury
"I done my time in a Twin Reverb Amplifier." ( and a stupid flanger) DAC
I'll think of more.
Irony is everywhere..
EJL
[This message was edited by Eric West on 29 November 2003 at 01:09 AM.] |
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Rich Paton
From:
Santa Maria, CA.,
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 3:28 am
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"I hit the city and I lost my band; I watched the needle take another man. Gone, gone, the damage done"
Neil Young in "The Needle and the Damage Done", not very long before Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten and CSNY roadie and close friend Bruce Berry overdosed on heroin and went off to the big smakeroo in the sky.
Also very sad as well as ironic. And of course it is all moronic. |
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Eric Stumpf
From:
Newbury, NH 03255
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 4:38 am
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| "Shame, Shame on You" : Spade Cooley. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 7:20 am
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How about "I am woman, hear me roar". Sung (barely above a whisper), by Helen Reddy.
That song needed Ethel Merman! |
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Larry Miller
From:
Dothan AL,USA
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 8:02 am
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| "I am woman, hear me roar |
.....or Michael Jackson |
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Bill Llewellyn
From:
San Jose, CA
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 8:54 am
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| At the same time (or very nearly so) Helen Reddy had "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" out as a single, she also put out a song called "That Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady." Is that ironic or just a mix of tough and tender? |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 29 Nov 2003 9:31 am
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Ethel Merman...... umm........
nevermind..
I'm sure it'll come to me....
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 30 Nov 2003 2:09 pm
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Where did Robinson Crusoe go (with Friday on a Saturday Night) - What a question (by Texas Jim Lewis. Think about that problem, it's almost philosophical!
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Bob Watson
From:
Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
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Posted 30 Nov 2003 2:50 pm
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"I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer... the future's uncertain and the end is always near"
Jim Morrison, from the song "Roadhouse Blues"
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 30 Nov 2003 3:24 pm
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| Bad, Bad, LeRoy Brown |
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Eric West
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Nov 2003 4:09 pm
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"Gotta get down to it, soldiers are gunning us down. Shoulda been done long ago.." CSNY
I never could figure out which way to take that one...
EJL
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Paul Graupp
From:
Macon Ga USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2003 7:47 pm
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Donny: ..to the rescue...!! as always, my friend !
Regards, Paul |
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2003 8:19 pm
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| "He broke my heart at Walgreens and I cried all the way to Sears" by some female country singer. |
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Gary Walker
From:
Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 30 Nov 2003 9:23 pm
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| Roger Miller's. "My uncle used to love me but she died" and "You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd." Roy Lanham had a song "We had a formal wedding, white shotguns", and how about "Tears in my ears from lyin' on my back, crying over you" for starters. [This message was edited by Gary Walker on 30 November 2003 at 09:25 PM.] |
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