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Saw this online today and thought it would be interesting. What are some of your favorite or instantly recognizable opening lines. 
The Joker -Steve Miller.

Some people call me the space cowboy

 

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Great song!
โ€And all the joy within you diesโ€

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The Chain    Fleetwood Mac

โ€Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun riseโ€

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Itโ€™s a little bit funny, this feeling inside. . .

 

Your Song - Sir Elton 

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Great song! I used to sing this song to my son when he was a newborn. It stills take me back to those moments.

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Hotel California    Eagles

โ€On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hairโ€

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When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me . . .

 

Let It Be - The Beatles

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Dixie Chicken    Little Feat

โ€œIโ€™ve seen the bright lights of Memphis 

and the Commodore Hotelโ€

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Shifting gears -

 

We all came out to Montreux . . .

Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple

 

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Sticking with Dylan is ok with me!

Tangled up in blue

โ€Early one morning, the sun was shiningโ€

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Staying with Bob Dylan - 

 

โ€™Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood . . .

 

Shelter From The Storm - Dylan / cover by Manfred Mannโ€™s Earth Band ๐Ÿ’›

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Positively 4th Street    Dylan

โ€Youโ€™ve got a lot of nerve to say you are my friendโ€

 

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Only love can make it rain . . .

 

Love, Reign Oโ€™er Me  -  The Who

 

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Wish you were here    Pink Floyd

โ€So, so you think you can tell, heaven from hellโ€

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Oh, let the Sun beat down upon my face . . .

 

Kashmir - Led Zep

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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The Love I Lost - Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes

 

--->  Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost - YouTube

 

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Reflections of my life, Marmalade

โ€The changing of sunlight to moonlightโ€

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Sittinโ€™ in the Morning Sun-Dock of the Bay/Otis Redding 

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Are you sitting comfortably, Moody Blues

โ€Take another sip my love and see what 

you will seeโ€

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Left a good job in the city . . .

 

Proud Mary - CCR / Tina Turner

 

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Stairway to heaven, Led Zeppelin

โ€Thereโ€™s a lady whoโ€™s sure all that

glitters is goldโ€

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A long, long time ago . . .

 

American Pie - Don McLean

 

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Her Strut, Bob Seger

 

โ€Sheโ€™s totally committed to major independenceโ€

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Starry, Starry, Night . . .

 

Vincent - Don McLean

 

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Continuing with the amazing S&G:

Bridge over troubled water

โ€When youโ€™re weary, feeling smallโ€

So can relate to that lineโ€ฆโ€ฆ

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Hello darkness my old friend . . .

 

Sound Of Silence - S & G

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Gypsy, Fleetwood Mac

โ€So Iโ€™m back to the velvet undergroundโ€

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Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.............WIPE-OUT

 

by the Safaris

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Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup . . .

 

Across The Universe  -  The Beatles 

 

 

โ€œWhen the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.โ€ - Jimi Hendrix
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Believe it or not, The Joker was the first 

song I thought of! But since the Beatles have

such a vast library, Iโ€™ll go with them today:

Back in the USSR, Fab 4๏ธโƒฃ

โ€Flew in from Miami Beach B.O.A.Cโ€

PS I had to google B.O.A.C ๐ŸŽผ๐Ÿ’œ

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Hereโ€™s one from The Beatles-one, two, three, FOUR and itโ€™s not All Together Now. 

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