Greatest Opening Lines to a song

[Sid C]

There once was a man and his name was Ged

 

[Manc baggie]

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable
But in the end, it's right
I hope you had the time of your life

 

[billblu]

Early one morning the sun was shining was laying in bed wondering if she'd changed at all if her hair was still red

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

I'm mad, I've always been mad

 

[Manc baggie]

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
And…..

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

There once was a man and his name was Ged

Do you mean
"Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed?

 

[billblu]

I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham out on the windy common that night I ain't forgotten when she dealt out the rations with some or other passions I said you are a lady perhaps she said I may be

 

[Sid C]

Do you mean
"Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed?

I think so lol

 

[Grassland Blue]

Stood still on a highway I saw a woman by the side of the road
With a face that I knew like my own, reflected in my window
Well, she walked up to my quarter light and she bent down real slow
A fearful pressure paralysed me in my shadows
She said: Son, what are you doing here?
My fear for you has turned me in my grave
I said: Mama, I come to the valley of the rich, myself to sell
She said: Son, this is the road to hell

Or -
Well I'm standing by a river
where the water doesn't flow
it boils with every poison you can think of
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway
oh no, this is the road to hell....

 

[Blue Mist]

This one beats all others hands down because of the instrumental opening and then......
It was the 3rd of of September
That day I'll always remember, yes I will
Cos that was the day that my daddy died
Never heard nothing but bad things about him
Mama I'm depending on you to tell me the truth.......
Mama just hung her head and said son

Papa Was A Rolling Stone.