What is the best first line of a song?

[jimmythegreek]

can't argue with

On a warm summer's eve On a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler

 

[loomis41973]

I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand

 

[CHOPTALK]

Oh when the Saints go marching in

 

[REDEYE]

Please allow me to introduce myself

+1

 

[CHOPTALK]

Blame it all on my roots. I showed up in boots. And ruined your black tie afair

 

[StevieRay]

She's a very kinky girl
The kind you don't take home to mother

 

[StevieRay]

Got out of town on a boat
Goin' to Southern Islands

 

[jimmythegreek]

neal peart has penned a few decent opening lines:



Know your place in life is where you want to be


Why try - I know why


There's no bread - Let them eat cake!


When they turn the pages of history...


Sprawling on the fringes of the city...


Packaged like a rebel or a hero
Target mass appeal


Well, you can stake that claim
Good work is the key to good fortune


Here we go...vertigo

 

[jimmythegreek]

Look out the left the captain said...



Welcome to the jungle - we've got fun and games

 

[cloverleaf]

This has been a fun read...maybe because I love the great lyrics in music.

I'll add one more from one of the best guitarist in the world. Joe Bonamassa's Shade to Blue.

"When you got nothing left to lose, might sound good but I'm not sure that's true."

 

[jimmythegreek]

Got a good reason for taking the easy way out


When i get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide


Standing in the dock at Southampton, Trying to get to Holland or France.


It was twenty years ago today...

 

[Bourn]

Yo, VIP, let's kick it

lol

 

[jimmythegreek]

Well I don't know where they come from but they sure do come...


Kamikazee from the hundredth floor swan dive to the street


Sister Christian Oh, the time has come And you know that you're the only one To say, okay


We rented a truck and a semi to go


Born down in a dead man's town


Well my name's John Lee Pettimore Same as my daddy and his daddy before

 

[Bourn]

Brass monkey, that funky monkey
Brass monkey junky, that funky monkey

 

[shdw01]

Yo this a story all about how my life got flip turned upside down.

 

[slapshot]

It's hell in the morning to look at you lying in my bed



I feel better when I'm drinkin

 

[Bourn]

All I do is win win win no matter what

I'm gonna fight 'em off, A seven nation army couldn't hold me back

Blame it all on my roots, I showed up in boots

 

[JohnnyMac]

She's got legs, and knows how to use them

 

[GoSooners]

In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream. At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines.

 

[The Guesser]

Baby we can talk all night
But that ain't getting us nowhere
I told you everything I possibly can
There's nothing left inside of here