The greatest first line to a song ever?

[Buzzer]

My favourite is one of these three but don't ask me to choose as they are all just the best opening lines ever:

Son I'm thirty I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty

I never thought it would happen with me and a girl from Clapham

I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden

 

[hans kraay fan club]

You missed 'I will be in the bar with my head on the bar'

I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving,
England is mine and it owes me a living.

Farewell to this land's cheerless marches...

 

[tinycowboy]

Park the car at the side of the road - you should know, time's tide will smother you

 

[Cosmic Joker]

Hey ho, let's go
Hey ho, let's go

 

[PFJ]

I ****ed a sheep and I have ****ed a goat , I had my cock right down its throat.

Not the first line granted, but worth a mention.

The first line of ' I've been to Hastings , I've been to Brighton , I've been to Eastbourne too , So what !!! ...is definatly worth a mention as are the three words that proceed the first line. .... Especially surreal when the song is covered by a mega huge band from California, and not the original oiks from Tunbridge Wells.

Great gig down the Haunt the other week by the way .

 

[Seagull58]

I am an antichrist, I am an anarchiiiiist

 

[loz]

I love tube disasters, I want to marry a tube disaster, I want another one like the last one cause I live for tube disasters.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Here she is parading on the quayside
You can find her every night
Ah, waiting for a stevedore from Tyneside
Why, its Rene, the dockers delight

Rene, The Small Faces

 

[KNC]

Plaistow Patricia by Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Don't you want to write them down, Hiney?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I would say I'm sorry if I thought that it would change your mind.

 

[spring hall convert]

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do

Nick Cave , Into my arms.

Oi! I'd already said that one. Seriously though, that song is a lyrical masterclass from the great man.

 

[spring hall convert]

Well they might wear classic Reeboks, or classic Converse or trackie bottoms tucked in socks

Nice one! That takes me back.

 

[Nitram]

"There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief
("There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth)

Bob Dylan, All along the watchtower either Hendrix or U2 version

Probably bettered by

I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola

Lola by Ray Davies, The Kinks

 

[The Modfather]

My favourite is one of these three but don't ask me to choose as they are all just the best opening lines ever:

Son I'm thirty I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty

I never thought it would happen with me and a girl from Clapham

I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden

Great minds and all that. I posted 2 of those 3 earler in the thread

 

[Tarpon]

I'd like to drop my trousers to the queen,
Every sensible child will know what this means.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

the Brighton train it goes real soon,my Brighton belle is in her room

Burning Up Time

The Stranglers

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Now I wanna sniff some glue, now I wanna have something to do, all the kids wanna sniff some glue, all the kids want something to do

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

finished with my woman cause she couldn't help me with my mind

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

 

[Stoo82]

'I don't want to be another big star'

Ocean Colour Scene, Big Star.
For me anyway.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

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