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Your hair is a strawflower that sings in the sun My darling, my beautiful daughter So went the dream of the drowned submariner Cast away on the water

Road signs flow into the headlights Whisper names and fall behind He finds some honor in the darkness Hopes for grace and peace of mind And he thinks of how they'd lay together He'd run his fingers through her hair And he wonders if she'll ever Come to know that he was there

Sad but topical song

Not Yankees but just heard on MLB in a cool segment about Arraez (who I really like) that it was 9 years ago that my all time favorite player, Tony Gwynn, passed away. It seems like yesterday. I wish he were still around to talk about Arraez.

Matching my lyrical response entry (do I get double points?)

Scarred for life no compensation Private Investigations

I’m not sure but my guess would be a variety show of some sort.

When November brings the poppies on Remebrance Day When the vicar comes to say May God bless them every one Lest we forget our sons We will remember them remember them remember them

My point was partly statistical but more so to emphasize the degree to which they helped put their sport on the map. Brown’s presence helped move the NFL to a much greater prominence. Ruth did the very same thing. He did it earlier and not just for baseball but for all of sports. If there were a Mount Rushmore with one person for each major sport, I think Brown and Gretzky are as easy to choose as Ruth. The NBA is the only tricky one. Personally I don’t think I could narrow that down to five choices.

Lean streaky music spawned on the streets I hear it, but with you I had to go 'Cos my rock 'n' roll is putting on weight And the beat, it goes on Arc of a diver, effortlessly My mind in sky, and when I wake up Daytime and nighttime, I feel you near Warm water breathing, she helps me here

He was basically the Babe Ruth of football.

They had a last supper the day of the beaching She's a dead ship sailing skeleton crew The galley is empty, the stove pots are cooling What's left of the stew? The time is approaching, the captain moves over The hangman steps in to do what he's paid for With the wind down the tide, she goes proud ahead, steaming And he drives her hard into the shore So far from the Clyde Together we ride, we did ride

Ownership aside, that intro is all Geordie and always will be.

Well, the Bills are a small market team performing well of late with a loyal long starved fan base. Why not drive 6 hours and see another team like that with an intro like this:

I had a brush with luck It wasn't close enough To burn this table down But it's learning to stay When love comes your way That's laying your best hand down

Lady luck's still a mystery with her head on my shoulder And I don't know why I still want her to dance I guess that's all history what it is is I'm older And I'm still a fool for your one-way romance Her dice were red rubies, they rolled and they tumbled And I never saw time running out with my roll And in the wasteland of cut glass my dreams were all crumbled And I've paid with whatever I had left for a soul

Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon But I swear you'll make me mad The West will kill us both You gullible Geordie lad You talk of liberty How can America be free A Geordie and a baker's boy In the forests of the Iroquois Now hold your head up, Mason See America lies there The morning tide has raised The capes of Delaware Come up and feel the sun A new morning has begun Another day will make it clear Why your stars should guide us here We are sailing to Philadelphia A world away from the coaly Tyne Sailing to Philadelphia To draw the line A Mason-Dixon Line

Once there was a little girl Used to wonder what she would be Went out into the big wide world Now she's just a memory There used to be a little school here Where I learned to write my name But time has been a little cruel here Time has no shame

We had no way of staying afloat We had to leave on the ferry boat Economic refugees On the run to germany We had the back of maggie's hand Times were tough in geordieland We got wor tools and working gear And humped it all from Newcastle to here

This is obviously very subjective. I'll go with singers who at various times have made me say wow. In alphabetical order Emmylou Harris Whitney Houston Martina McBride (way underrated, watch her God Bless America from the Rose Bowl parade) Ruth Moody Linda Ronstadt There are a lot of honorable mentions. I'll offer one (in hopes that someone will start a male singers thread) Natalie Cole

You walk out on the high wire You're a dancer on thin ice You pay no heed to the danger And less to advice Your footsteps are forbidden But with a knowledge of your sin You throw your love to all the strangers And caution to the wind