Great one liners...

[Take5]

Give to any musician, and they'll play it that way.

Ive never thought of this before, but I think you are correct.

Ive just checked with an instrumentalist. Ben Webster.

Its said that he couldnt/would play a song unless he knew the words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqgct8LEdw. ( 1.15 )

Even allowing for the twiddly bits, he is still playing it your way.

His way makes the most musical sense to me.

I think its just gershwins attempt to squeeze a rhyme in even when it doesnt make sense that causes problems for singers, in respect of them trying to make sense of it from a language point of view, as well as a musical.

Maybe I need to learn some more lyrics..

 

[Yveski]

I never thought it would happen, with me and the girl from clapham.
(Could post over a hundred chris difford lyrics, he is a true wordsmith)

 

[SteveB]

Nero fiddles while Gordon Burns - HMHB again.

 

[Yveski]

My 6 year old son's current favorite:
Micky mouse grew up a cow! (Bowie life on mars)

 

[AllyD]

From Captain Lockeheed & the Starfighters - "Anybody want to buy a Starfighter? Then buy an acre of land and wait".

Ally

 

[JamesJamerson]

"I know a lovely old toe-rag, obliging and noblesse"

Billericay Dickie by Mr Dury.

 

[Wolfmancatsup]

"I know a lovely old toe-rag, obliging and noblesse"

Billericay Dickie by Mr Dury.

"Had a love affair with Nina
in the back of my Cortina.
A seasoned up hyena,
could not have been more obscener.
She took me to the cleaners,
and other misdemeanours,
but I got right up between her
rum and her Ribena".

Bit more than a one-liner but good stuff!

Mick

 

[alanbeeb]

Shining flying purple wolfhound, show me where you are.

What? Well, I suppose it was 1970.

 

[Nero]

My Maserati does one-eighty-five.
I lost my licence so now I don't drive...

 

[windhoek]

I blew up your body, then you blew my mind!

Roxy Music said that

 

[formbypc]

Pretty Women, out walking with gorillas down my street
From my window, I'm watching while my coffee goes cold

 

[Jonathan Ribee]

I met her in a hotel lobby masturbating with a magazine

Prince, Darling Nikki

(my naive teenage mind couldn't decide if she was looking at the the pictures, or had it rolled up)

Also - mysoginistic of feministic?

 

[Klyde]

"The sunshine bores the daylights outta me"

 

[Wolfmancatsup]

"The sunshine bores the daylights outta me"

A favourite song from a favourite album!

 

[SCIDB]

Hi,

"I don't know karate, but I know KA-RAZY!!!! (yes we do!!)"

James Brown - The Payback.

Dean

 

[kasperhauser]

Well, I used to go out in a Mustang, a 302 Mach One in green.
Me and your Mama made you in the back and I sold it to buy her a ring.

(2 lines, but one thought)

 

[Joe Hutch]

My Maserati does one-eighty-five.
I lost my licence so now I don't drive...

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do ...

 

[JamesJamerson]

" I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi"

Big L "Put it On"

 

[jimification]

I always liked: "an ounce of perception, a pound of obscure".

 

[Wolfmancatsup]

"I saw you out the other night. I saw somebody hold you tight. Roxette...
It was so dark I couldn't see, but I know it wasn't me..."