Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 These are not just songs that are your favorites. These are songs that either as a child growing up, a teenager in school, or sometime during your lifetime, was listened to so extensively that you know all the words by heart, and can sing it without the music. Many people may claim to know a song well, but end up knowing only the chorus, or a few of the verses. These are songs that have truly been burned onto your brains hard drive. To be truthful, for me, these songs are rare, and this is #2 on my list. Rocky Mountain High John Denver He was born in the summer of his 27th yearComing home to a place he'd never been beforeHe left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born againYou might say he found a key for every door When he first came to the mountains his life was far awayOn the road and hanging by a songBut the string's already broken and he doesn't really careIt keeps changing fast and it don't last for long But the Colorado rocky mountain highI've seen it rainin' fire in the skyThe shadow from the starlight is softer than a lullabyeRocky mountain high (Colorado) He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds belowHe saw everything as far as you can seeAnd they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sunAnd he lost a friend but kept his memory Now he walks in quiet solitude the forest and the streamsSeeking grace in every step he takesHis sight has turned inside himself to try and understandThe serenity of a clear blue mountain lake And the Colorado rocky mountain highI've seen it raining fire in the skyYou can talk to God and listen to the casual replyRocky mountain high Now his life is full of wonder but his heart still knows some fearOf a simple thing he cannot comprehendWhy they try to tear the mountains down to bring in a couple moreMore people, more scars upon the land And the Colorado rocky mountain highI've seen it rainin' fire in the skyI know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle flyRocky mountain high It's Colorado rocky mountain highI've seen it rainin' fire in the skyFriends around the campfire and everybody's highRocky mountain highRocky mountain highRocky mountain highRocky mountain highRocky mountain highRocky mountain high Songwriters: John Denver / Mike Taylor Rocky Mountain High lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management, Reservoir Media Management Inc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Since the latest Geico commercial, I keep hearing Wild Thing. Besides, I like it. Not in the same way I like John Denver. But, I was 17 when it was released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Led Zeppelin Going To California .......Cat Brules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Vero Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 The Eagles - Hotel California has to be number 1 on my list. I cannot help singing along and even when I turn off the radio I finish the song in my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Deacon Blues by Steely Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Take Me Home Country Roads - John Denver Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Stuck in the middle with you - Stealers Wheel Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty Bad Company - Bad Company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 "Listen to the Rythym of the Falling Rain" Cascades "BRANDY" Looking Glass (probably my #1 "Unchained Melody" Righteous Bros. (probably my #1A) ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Vero Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 The rest of my list probably looks like: The Joker - Steve Miller Band Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac There was a time when Time In a Bottle - Jim Croce and almost anything by James Taylor was among them too. Thanks to my Mom's continuous playing of his records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Howdy, The list is big, real big. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raylan Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Wild Montana Skies John Denver and Emmy Lou Harris El Paso Marty Robbins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Jonny Vero said: The Joker - Steve Miller Band Oh man, I forgot about that one. I remember singing that song walking back to school in 8th grade after lunch on a beautiful Spring day. Love that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 America- Rode Across The Desert On A Horse With No Legs CCR- Rolling On A River Lots of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Steppenwolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Wichita Lineman El Paso City Silver And Gold Old Man Poncho And Lefty Sometimes out in the shop I’ll put all 7 discs of John Denver or Neil Young or George Strait or Garth Brooks or Johnny Cash or The Highwaymen or whoever. I have Direct Tv that I listen to but after the second day of the same old songs of the day before I need some of my old favorites. We have a illegal alien living in a avocado grove across the street that thinks he’s a Mexican opera singer and occasionally he’ll be singing at the top of his lungs and I get fed up with it and I’ll load up Steppenwolf, CCR, Janis Joplin and others and turn the volume up to shut him up, I win every time, the guy obviously doesn’t care for real music. It usually only takes a little while and then he’s as quiet as a church mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 The ones that I can think of off the top of my head are songs that are among my favorites. Some I simply like extremely well, if not actually "favorites." A few from my choir days will stick in my head from time to time, and decades after the fact, I still know the lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Gordon Lightfoot's, Sundown. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highwall Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Nightriders Lament I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry She Thinks I Still Care Faded Love Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Lonesome Fugitive Big Iron El Paso Wabash Cannonball Home Grown Tomatoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 blue eyes crying in the rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Small Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Long Haired Country Boy Lord It's Hard to be Humble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelve mile REB Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Hey, hey good lookin Those were the days In 1814 we took a little trip This is the big Bopper speakn Hot rod Lincoln Ghost Riders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Wilson Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Way to many favorite songs to list that are stuck in my memory that I can sing along to, Barb keeps asking me, "How can you remember all the words to all those songs?" One that comes to mind...."Seven Spanish Angels" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 When it's warm and I'm driving with my windows down I think about the song "Against the Wind", not my favorite by a long shot but it just comes to mind with the warm weather. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 10 hours ago, twelve mile REB said: Hey, hey good lookin Those were the days In 1814 we took a little trip This is the big Bopper speakn Hot rod Lincoln Ghost Riders 12-Mile, "In 1814 we took a little trip", is actually titled 'Battle of New Orleans' by Johnny Horton. The same artist who sang 'Sink the Bismarck'. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Several by Hank Jr. Hmmm, too many to list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Hangtree Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 "If I Could Only Win Your Love", as recorded by Emmylou Harris. Her harmonizing with Rodney Crowell was a treat for the ears and heart. Originally an old Louvin Brothers song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 4 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: When it's warm and I'm driving with my windows down I think about the song "Against the Wind", not my favorite by a long shot but it just comes to mind with the warm weather. Weird. Kind of funny you say that. Sometimes the thunderstorms wake me up at night and I immediately think of "Night Moves" by Bob Seger. "Woke last night to the sound of thunder. How far off, I sat and wondered....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 ADDED: I have to admit that I am terrible about remembering song lyrics. The only "song" that I can really claim to know by heart is Psalm 50 (Septuagint numbering, I think it is 51 in the Masoretic text), and can chant it without seeing the words. Well, that and the Paschal Troparion:Χριστὸς ἀνέστη ἐκ νεκρῶν,θανάτῳ θάνατον πατήσας,καὶ τοῖς ἐν τοῖς μνήμασι,ζωὴν χαρισάμενος!Хс҄рсто́съ воскре́се ᾿изˈ ме́ртвыхъ, сме́ртїю сме́рть попра́въ, ᾿и су́щимъ во гробѣ́хъ Живо́тъ дарова́въ. Christ is risen from the dead,trampling down death by death,and on those in the tombs bestowing life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: Kind of funny you say that. Sometimes the thunderstorms wake me up at night and I immediately think of "Night Moves" by Bob Seger. "Woke last night to the sound of thunder. How far off, I sat and wondered....." "Started humming a song from 1962 Ain't it funny how the night moves..." Despite it's overuse in Chevrolet commercials, I also like "Like a Rock." "Twenty years now, Where'd they go? Twenty years, I don't know..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffield, SASS #23454 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Whispering Pines Abalene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I think that the reason some songs are seared into out minds is that we associate them with something in our lives that was significant enough to remember the song that was popular(to us) at the time. Some for happy times and some for not so happy times. Some bring back bittersweet memories of a love lost, some of a love found. Amazing thing, the mind. Remembers all of the good times and forgets the hard times....until that song rolls around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twelve mile REB Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said: 12-Mile, "In 1814 we took a little trip", is actually titled 'Battle of New Orleans' by Johnny Horton. The same artist who sang 'Sink the Bismarck'. ..........Widder Yes , Widder I know however the OP asked about lyrics or at least that's what I thought it asked for rather than title and singer. Now, however after thought the song that effects me the strongest is "The Star Spangled Banner" Why? Because as it plays I see in my mind those Continentals facing the terrible British squares. I see a nation at war with itself and the bodies after the grape slashed though the line. I see those men struggling up San Juan Hill. I see those Dough Boys up and over the top and hear the machine guns rattle. I see the flag on the mountains crest as Marines struggle to secure it. I see the blood spilled at Normandy the frozen limbs at Chosen. I see those that struggled in the rice paddies and the jungles, the flares, the artillery brought in close. I see those that fought in a thousand different places in the twenty years war. Yes, that's the song that does something to me deep inside. So **** You Kapernic because those men where red, yellow, black and white but mostly they were red, white and blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 14 hours ago, Arizona Gunfighter said: Way to many favorite songs to list that are stuck in my memory that I can sing along to, Barb keeps asking me, "How can you remember all the words to all those songs?" My wife says the same thing to me about old songs and old radio programs. You see, she was born after WWII, and I'm a war baby, so I was old enough to remember Jack Benny, The Great Gildersleeve, The Fred Allen Show, The Lone Ranger (radio, with Brace Beemer as the Ranger). Songs: Roll Around Heaven All Day, Mule Train, Coming In On a Wing and a Prayer; Praise the Lord and Pass The Ammunition; later,The Kingston Trio...many songs, Peter, Paul & Mary, same; John Denver, of course; The Gambler by Kenny Rogers; and many, many more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 5 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: I think that the reason some songs are seared into out minds is that we associate them with something in our lives that was significant enough to remember the song that was popular(to us) at the time. Some for happy times and some for not so happy times. Some bring back bittersweet memories of a love lost, some of a love found. Amazing thing, the mind. Remembers all of the good times and forgets the hard times....until that song rolls around. You are so right. "Since I've Been Loving You," by Led Zeppelin, is my favorite tune by my favorite band. I couldn't listen to it for years, because it reminded me far too much of the first "great love" of my life and all that went wrong. On certain occasions, it can still bring back powerful memories. I love Christmas songs, and choir music in general. There are times when certain songs are played, or when I hear certain songs from my choir days in high school, that I get incredibly melancholy, and have to turn it off, because of the memory of one of my dearest friends, my ensemble partner, Mary Hughes. She was a kind and gentle person, more so than all but a very few I can recall. We were so close that when the ensemble would perform out, people often thought we were an item, despite the fact we weren't. She was serving as a college administrator and was murdered in her office. On the brighter side, songs like "Moondance" and "Tupelo Honey" by Van Morrison, or "Our House" by Crosby, Stills and Nash make me recall being in AIT and listening to the mix tape (remember those?) that Mrs. Doc made for me, and working my tail off to be successful and get back to her. I was in Fairborn, near Wright-Patterson AFB late last summer and heard "Retreat" begin to play, and in my mind I was transported back to those days in Basic Training at Ft. Knox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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