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I amused myself on the train home by reminding myself of great first lines in songs. (don't let any replies be from Artificial non-Intelligence...)

1. “I know a song that’ll make you feel better/ but this isn’t it...”
The Broken Family Band: Mother of Jesus

2. “I lost 10 points just for being in the right place at exactly the wrong time”
Gene Clark: Train Leaves Here This Morning

3. “I walked 47 miles of barbed wire/ I got a cobra snake as a necktie”
Bo Diddley: Who Do You Love?

4. “No one wants to hear about your 97th tear, so dry your eyes and let it go uncried, my dear”
Okkervil River: Plus Ones

5. “You push me when I'm falling and you kick me when I'm down/ I guess I missed my calling 'cause I should have been a clown”
James Carr: Pouring Water On A Drowning Man

6. “Taumata-whaka-tangi-hanga-kuayuwo
tamate-aturi-pukaku-piki-maunga
horonuku-pokaiawhen-uaka-tana-tahu
mataku-atanganu-akawa-miki-tora”
Quantum Jump: The Lone Ranger

7. “You both made your bed and now/ You're gonna have to sleep there”
The Remains: Don’t Look Back

8.” A squid eating dough in a polyethelene bag Is fast and bulbous, got me?”
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: Pachuco Cadaver

9. “A white moon appears like a hole in the sky. The mangroves go quiet.”
The Go Betweens: Bye Bye Pride

10. “No foreign pair of dark sunglasses will ever shield you from the light/ that pierces your eyelids/ the screaming of the gulls”
The Triffids: The Seabirds

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"Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This aint funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose"