I was born...

Cafe Society
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I’ll have to call a techinal foul on that one… the crucial “I was” is missing. :wink:

A real live nephew of my uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July

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So odd many have been born to do THAT. What have you been been born to do?

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“… an American
I was raised an American
And I’ll die an American
In America
With Armenians.” - The Firesign Theatre

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by spooje *
…to love you
…to lick your face
…to rub you
but you were born rub me first- Caddyshack

[QUOTE]

Let’s go for a swim, shall we?
:smiley:
One of my favorite movie lines ever!

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Tennessee Ernie Ford (most famously), written in '46 by Merle Travis, released in '47. Ford covered it in 1955 on his NBC show, then released it later in the year as a B-side.

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“I was born ready.” ~Jack Burton (aka Kurt Russel in Big Trouble in Little China…among others who have used that phrase)

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. . .in the backseat of a Greyhound bus,
rollin’ down Highway 41- (Allman Brothers)

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…to love you like I do [Chris Isaak]

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…at half past one, almost two in the morning. (Etc., etc.)

  • Billy Bragg and Wilco (lyrics by Woody Guthrie), from Mermaid Avenue II
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. . . to wander. [Rare Earth ?]

. . . at night, but not last night.

. . . with a silver coke spoon in my nose [anonymous]

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…under a wandering star. [Lee Marvin. Yes, Lee Marvin.]

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Thanks Homebrew for the eduction re Sixteen Tons. That song’s been rattling around in my head for as long as I can remember. I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s been infected.

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Thanks Homebrew for the education re Sixteen Tons. That song’s been rattling around in my head for as long as I can remember. I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s ever been infected.

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…on a Dublin street (Come Out Ye Black and Tans-Dominic Behan)

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…long ago, somethin somethin somethin something…but what I really want to know is…are you gonna go my way?

I have a particular dislike for Lenny Kravitz but it was the first thing I thought when I saw the thread title. Oh well…

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“… in a ditch by a mother who left me there, naked and cold and too hungry to cry.”

Dulcinea (Aldonza) in “Man of La Mancha.”

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…in the dirt
I never had no home
and the places I live
you don’t wanna know
but if you wanna meet evil,
come a little bit close

Danzig, “I’m the One”

-KillerFig

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…in a small town…and that’s probably where they’ll bury me

–John Mellencamp

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… the next of kin, the next of kin to the wayward(?) wind. Title and performer long forgotten.

Mr. Motto, Lefty Frizzell is a name I haven’t heard since the mid 1950s. I wonder how many Dopers recognise it?

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Yep. Lefty Frizzell. Old country is the only country worth listening to.