# Let's make a story using lines from songs. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 24, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973 "2012-11-24T11:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/221 "2012-12-10T20:10:13Z")
Some say the devil is dead, the devil is dead, the devil is dead. Some say the devil is dead and buried in Killarney. More say he rose again, more say he rose again, more say he rose again, And joined the British Army. ---
**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/222 "2012-12-10T20:24:42Z")
You’ll take my life but I’ll take yours too, You’ll fire your musket but I’ll run you through, So when you’re waiting for the next attack, You’d better stand there’s no turning back. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/223 "2012-12-11T01:17:35Z")
Thought I heard a rumblin’ Callin’ to my name. Two hundred million guns are loaded, Satan cries, “Take aim!” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/224 "2012-12-11T01:21:38Z")
Bang Bang I got mine Bang Bang reach for the sky ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/225 "2012-12-11T01:44:15Z")
Come out, Lyndon with your hands held high Drop your guns, baby and reach for the sky Got you surrounded and you ain’t got a chance Send you back to Texas make you work on your ranch. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/226 "2012-12-11T01:49:37Z")
When I die, take my saddle from the wall Place it on my old pony, lead him out of his stall Tie my bones to my saddle and turn our faces to the West And we’ll ride the prairie we love the best ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/227 "2012-12-11T03:56:50Z")
Oh bury me not on the lone prairie Where the coyotes wail and the wind blows free And when I die don’t bury me Beneath the western sky on the lone prairie ---
**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/228 "2012-12-11T04:52:07Z")
Here we come, reach for your gun, And you better listen well my friend, you see It’s been slow down below, Aimed at you we’re the Cowboys From Hell. Deed is done again, we’ve won Ain’t talking no tall tales friend, ‘Cause high noon, your doom Comin’ for you, we’re the Cowboys From Hell. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/229 "2012-12-11T15:29:34Z")
Sometimes I sleep, sometimes it’s not for days The people I meet always go their separate ways Sometimes you tell the day By the bottle that you drink And times when you’re all alone all you do is think I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride I’m wanted dead or alive ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/230 "2012-12-11T15:51:59Z")
If you want to save your soul from Hell, a-riding on our range, then Cowboy, change your ways today or with us you will ride, trying to catch the Devil’s herd across these endless skies. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/231 "2012-12-11T19:44:44Z")
The cattle are prowlin’ the coyotes are howlin’ Way out where the dogies bawl ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/232 "2012-12-11T20:33:10Z")
Big deal if I’m afraid to ride a horse With a broken nose and a fucked up knee Well maybe this cowboy scene just ain’t for me. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/233 "2012-12-11T21:14:44Z")
So there he was, the first punk rock cowboy, Always wondering how it would be ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/234 "2012-12-11T21:30:56Z")
Just a Rhinestone Cowboy ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/235 "2012-12-11T22:53:02Z")
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm. A boy filled with wanderlust who really meant no harm He changed his clothes and shined his boots and combed his dark hair down. And his mother cried as he walked out, “Don’t take your guns to town, son.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/236 "2012-12-11T23:04:36Z")
Just about that time the front door flew in And there stood some scumball all covered in sin he said “That’s my woman” I said “that’s no lie” And I blew a hole in him just as big as the sky. ---
**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/237 "2012-12-12T02:19:23Z")
Skyyyyyyyyyyy Pilot. Skyyyyyyyyyyy Pilot. How high can you fly? You’ll never, never, never reach the sky. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/238 "2012-12-12T02:48:55Z")
Off we go into the wild blue yonder, Climbing high into the sun ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/239 "2012-12-12T02:58:38Z")
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy ---
**Author:** ![EMCEE\_98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@EMCEE\_98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EMCEE_98)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973/240 "2012-12-12T03:37:43Z")
Sunshine, every single day Helps to light my way, And darlin’, right before my eyes It don’t come as no surprise, That it’s easy, Easy lovin’ you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-a-story-using-lines-from-songs/641973.md?page=13)