What's your favorite lyric from a song?

If talking were illegal
You'd be living a life of crime
Your mind is on vacation but
Your mouth is working overtime

Asleep at the Wheel

Take a little trip back with Father Tiresias
Listen to the old one speak
of all he has lived through

and...

The sands of time were eroded by
the river of constant change

From Ol' Man River- Don't like livin' but keep on dyin'. Not very uplifting but profound.

Very profound indeed, Jim (Broadstone). A correction to the words, though, if I may. They are actually "I'm tired of livin' and scared of dyin'."

Here is a link to the famous performance of the song by the great Paul Robeson in the 1936 version of "Showboat".

Best regards,
-- Al

Thanks, Al. You're absolutely right; I looked it up and those lyrics are, indeed, as sung in Showboat. Even those specific lyrics, though, as many others, were changed by Robeson for the performance. Many others, it seems, were modified along the way to adjust for changes in cultural sensitivities and the song has been performed by hundreds of different artists. In 1952 it was one of my favorite songs and we played it on a wind up Victrola.