Best opening line in a song

"Oh mother I can feel the soil falling over my head" treads that very thin line between truly great and utterly laughable.
 
Cuma westas chickadee
Have a housemaid on your knee
Eat an apple ev'ry day
An onion keeps ev'ryone away
 
He said, “I’m fabulously rich, come on let’s go!”
She kinda bit her lip, “Geez, I don’t know!”

Grace, Too
The Tragically Hip
 
Well brunettes are fine man
And blondes are fun
But when it comes to getting the dirty job done

I'll take a red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done
 
johnsmithsno2 said:
I was 21 years when I wrote this song, I'm 22 now but I won't be for long.

From Billy Bragg, New England. Love it. Was shocked a few years later to discover he'd "borrowed" it from a Paul Simon song.

Don't know if it was an homage or that he wasn't famous at the time and thought nobody would notice.
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This is the song and this is a superb version that I have not heard before

Simon & Garfunkel - Leaves That Are Green (Live Broadcast 1967)


 
Staying with Paul Simon this is from the song Duncan.

"Couple in the next room bound to win a prize they've been going at it all night long"
 
How does a duck know what direction south is?
And how to tell his wife from all the other ducks?

Crash Test Dummies, 'How Does A Duck Know?'
 
Caesium137 said:
My, brother, knows, Karl Marx, he met him eating mushrooms in the peoples park, he said 'What do you think about my manifesto? 'I like a manifesto, put it to the test-o.'
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I love this song, the line- it's alright to say things can only get better, you haven't lost your brand new sweater😂
 
"Well I was minding my own business, lifting some lead off the roof of the Holy Name church..."

The Smiths - Vicar in a tutu.
 
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