Best Opening Line to Any Song

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[The Muzzler]

"Hey kids, shake it loose together
The spotlight's hittin' something
Thats been known to change the weather"

........BBB Bennie and the Jets

 

[Bevo Incognito]

No I can't forget this evening or your face as you were leaving but I guess that's just the way the story goes ...


Now I'm lying here with Linda on my mind

 

[HookEm]

God damn, you half-Japanese girls, do it to me every time.

 

[TTK]

My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus

 

[Hu_Fan]

"Well, it's one for the money, two for the show, three to make ready, now go cat, go!"

"I've got sunshine, on a cloudy day."

"You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain."

"Well I'm a honky tonk man, and I can't seem to stop."

"There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief."

"Love me tender, love me true, never let me go."

"How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man?"

"The red-headed stranger from Blue Rock, Montana, Rode into town one day."

"Georgia, Georgia, The whole day through"

"In the town where I was born ( lived a man who sailed to sea) "

"Something in the way she moves... Attracts me like no other lover"

"Imagine there's no heaven..."

"I keep a close watch on this heart of mine..."

"The warden threw a part in the county jail.."

finally.....

"Somewhere... over the rainbow..."

Yeah, I know... I know...

Okay, one last one... the one... the all-time single greatest opening line to a song, ever...

"I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you..."



EDIT.... spelling ... new is now "knew" a man Bojangles... thx to Napoleon on that one

 

[PFD]

"Well, my name's John Lee Pettimore,
same as my daddy and his daddy before."

 

[El Mariachi]

Don't know if I missed it, but I can't believe this hasn't made it in yet:

"Well it was all that I could do to keep from crying"

 

[Shark4]

"Oxford town around the bend, went to the door but he couldn't get in."

"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?"

 

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[reckoner11]

"How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?"

 

[LITNIN HORN]

"Crazy"

 

[Ignatius]

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds/I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down...

Pistol shots ring out in a barroom night...

You can't get romantic on a subway line/Conductor don't like it, says you're wastin' your time...

Well Portland, Oregon and sloe gin fizz/If that ain't love then tell me what is...