What's your favorite lyric from a song?


Just curious what stays with people...
arthursmuck
The lyric for Golden Slumber is from a 17th cent. poem by Thomas Dekker
McCartney saw a song in his sister's songbook and made up his own version

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
Care is heavy, therefore sleep you,
You are care, and care must keep you ;
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby,
Rock them, rock them, lullaby.
"'My daddy was no jockey, but he taught me how to ride" Kansas City David Bromberg version
"You must be a millionaire's daughter
I can tell by the way you walk..."
Mississippi Fred McDowell