Touché
I’ve never been to Scotland, but I have it on good authority that
in and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
Jon Anderson wrote “Roundabout” driving by a loch, and you just know he was smoking a joint the while.
And he didn’t see Nessie? (yes, I know there are numerous lochs, not just Loch Ness.)
Funny - came here to post a prog-er too.
“I’ve seen, all of the earth, witnessed my birth(!), cried at the sight of a man…and still I don’t know who I aaaaaaamm.”
– ELP
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s
His hair was perfect
WAAAAOOOOOOOO
Today as you listen to this song another 394,000 children were born into this world.
While I’m on a New Model Army kick:
“Not everyone here is scared of you, not everyone crosses to the other side”
Just one look I was a bad mess
'Cos that long cool woman had it all
Peace came upon me and it leaves me weak
So sleep, silent angel
Go to sleep
And the load
Doesn’t weigh me down at all
He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother
–The Hollies
"There’s a joke that I know very well. It’s one of those that I told you long ago.
Take my word I’m a madman don’t you know"…
Loosely is correct.
Robert Johnson played the guitar. In The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Johnny played the fiddle. Picky, picky, picky.
The lyrics to Johnson’s song Crossroads do not mention the Devil. On the other hand, Me and the Devil explicitly mentions the Devil and Hellhound on My Trail implies him.
The Charlie Daniels song reverses the traditional story. Normally, the human summons The Devil to offer their soul in return for wealth, skill, knowledge, etc. (See below.) In this song, the Devil approaches Johnny and proposes the contest.
It’s much older than that.
•There were rumors that Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) - arguably the greatest violinist ever - had sold his soul to the Devil for his virtuosity.
•In the most famous version, Faust sold his soul to the Devil (also at a crossroads) for material riches and unlimited knowledge. This ancient German legend was novelized in English by Christopher Marlowe (circa 1587) and in German by [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe in 1876. It has been updated many times. For example, If at Faust You Don’t Succeed, by Roger Zelazny (1993).
•One of the earliest examples of this story is Theophilus, a Greek version from the 6th Century, written by Eutychianus (probably a pseudonym) who claimed to have witnessed the event.
(I confess to consulting Wikipedia.)
You neglected to include my favorite part of this verse. It’s only one word.
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic’s
His hair was perfect. BIP!
WAAAAOOOOOOOO
What does “bip” mean? I don’t know and I don’t care. I love it.
It’s knowing that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
Gentle On My Mind
Performed by Glen Campbell
Written by John Hartford
What can I say about Claudette?
Ain’t seen her since January
She could be respectably married or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires
From The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar
Bob Dylan
I waited for you on the running boards
Near the cypress trees, while the springtime turned
Slowly into autumn
Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan
The whole song is eminently quotable …
And yes, i know I didn’t really follow the request for a single line - more supplying couplets. Seems common in this thread. 
Great quote, great song, off a much-maligned album.
This is the nitpick of the nitpicks: the song wasn’t originally on the “Shot Of Love” album. It was first released four years later in 1985 on "Biograph"and then later added to every re-release of the album. Yeah, “Shot Of Love” didn’t get a lot of love in 1981 and was considered the third installation of Dylan’s born-again phase, but the religious motives were deteriorating, and it had the masterpiece “Every Grain Of Sand”, certainly a religious song, but not Christian but rather pantheistic. And there are a few other outtakes from the album that also belong to Dylan’s strongest songs of the decade, like “Caribbean Wind”
how so?
How so? Isn’t the whole song about god manifesting in everything, and isn’t that the definition of pantheism? Maybe I shouldn’t have said “not Christian”, because maybe it’s meant as some kind of Christian pantheism, but the song sure is pantheistic.
You know a lot more about Dylan than I do, and I was unfamiliar with this particular song—I had to look up the lyrics. But I don’t see anything in the lyrics that strikes me as being about God “manifesting in everything” in a specifically pantheistic way (as opposed to, say, the way the hand of the Creator can be seen in his creation, or the way there is nowhere and nothing that is beyond God’s presence). And in the lines “That every hair is numbered like every grain of sand” and “Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand” I see a clear reference to the words of Jesus: