Best lines in a song


There has been a long-running thread here of 'Best quotes' but maybe it would be interesting to find out folks' favorite lines from songs. To keep it on some sort of track, let's have a few ground rules.

- Attribution is required, who sang it (or wrote it) and where can we hear it?
- Shorter is better, four lines maximum, a verse. These should be words of wisdom that can be summoned for inspiration in social emergencies.
- If you're an opera fan, you're welcome to post in Italian, just don't expect many high fives from the monolingual among us.

I'll throw out a couple for starters:

When you're rockin' and a rollin' you can't hear your momma call.
Little Richard - Good Golly, Miss Molly

All I want in this life of mine is some good clean fun.
All I want in this life and time is some hit and run.
Little Feat - Fat Man in the Bathtub
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Showing 12 responses by oregon

Newwwlllleee we-ed-ed-eds, 2 years ago, and they're still checking each other out...Family Affair, by Sly.
"Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime", Mose Allison
"Nobody loves me but my momma, and she might be jiving too" B.B. King
"My father sold chicken medicine that farmers would buy" Nashville soundtrack
"Come Together, right now, over me!" Lennon
Presidential contender group asked Lennon to write a slogan/song for their presidential campaign. For some reason, it was never used???
"...and the poets 'round here don't write noth'in at all, they just stand back and let it all be."
Jungleland, Springsteen
"Won't you scratch my itch, sweet Annie Rich and welcome me back to town?" Graham Parsons.
Darosenb,
That was the "woolly bully" , I think.
At least that's what Ally told Sally.