Sounds more like something Woody would write....

Great words!! We need to use the idea today!! The other day I was listening to Presidential Rag and thought about how in a lot of ways that song applied to today. Maybe Arlo will do a new Presidential Rag.

Just some ideas friends:

The Idiot Rag

The Freedom Through Bombing Rag

The Screw The Working Man Rag

The One World Government Rag

The Sharp As A Bowling Ball Rag

Only problem with my earlier mention of Presidential Rag is this time we don't even know for sure if (the burning) Bush is the one we voted for, and his friends are the Bin Ladens. Not just bashing. Look it up....

Peace

Moon Song might be the best collection of words Arlo ever put together. Even my wife (who isn't a fan) likes this one.

Beneath this balcony of stars
Beyond the searchlight stage where we've become
The stuff of time amid the waves
Whose nets are cast along the shore when day is done
As the seabird flies aboce
My songs are sung to those I've come to love
The petals strung into the leis
The flowering of days I've just begun
A second chance to grasp a dance
Beneath the last rays setting of the sun
Tears along the trail of sand
Footprints in the water lead me back to who I am
When gods and goddesses decreed
The mountains raised up from beneath the seas
The sound of sovereign thrones
Above the hand tied bureaucrat who moans
This crazy love amazes me
As I just gaze into your eyes
The liquid sun is split upon the sea
I want to be where I can see the moon arise
A second chance to grasp a dance
Before the moment fades to summarize
Tears along the trail of sand
Footprints in the water lead me back to who I am
Along the lonely stretch of sand
Reduced to just a woman and a man
Bathed in the lunar light
The likes of which I might just understand
Among the myths I know are real
The goddess disguised as herself revealed
I sang her song out loud
She sat herself beside me in the crowd
A second chance to grasp a dance
Into the moment that she would allow
Tears along the trail of sand
Footprints in the water lead me back to who I am

I was gonna suggest to Ian that he hitch to Warrensburg so we can see Arlo, you should do it, too. Although UCCS to Lawrence is a bit further than Springfield/Warrensburg.

"Settle me down in my dreams tonight, tomorrow's another day to blow my blues away."

I was going through this little depressed thing, and while driving to school, Days are Short was playing, and I heard this and got full chills and just knew everything was alright.

Oh and I miss you, man.

Dude, I grew up on that poem! My parents read it to me all the time!

My favorite lyric would have to be the immortal "Now, Alice's Restaurant wasn't the name of the restaurant, ti was just the name of the song"

Oopds I forgot "Officer, I cannot tell a lie: I put that envelope under that garbage."

i saw a couple references to "stealin'" which is a great great song! i'd love to hear arlo's version of it!

there are many favorite lyrics to choose from, so this is tough - one of my absolute faves though is:

Maybe you've been lying down in the jailhouse
Maybe you are hungry and poor
Maybe your ticket on the last train to glory
Is the stranger who is sleeping on your floor

I ain't a man of constant sorrow
I ain't seen trouble all day long
We are only passengers on the last train to glory
That will soon be long, long gone

OMG! There are so many awesome lyrics to pick from.....I say my favorite lyric is:

Coming in from London
From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?

CHORUS:
Coming into Los Angeles
Bringing in a couple of keys
Don't touch my bags if you please
Mister Customs Man

There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico
No, he couldn't look much stranger
Walking in the hall with his things and all
Smiling, said he was the Lone Ranger

CHORUS

Hip woman walking on a moving floor
Tripping on the escalator
There's a man in the line
And she's blowing his mind
Thinking that he's already made her

CHORUS

Coming in from London
From over the pole
Flying in a big airliner
Chickens flying everywhere around the plane
Could we ever feel much finer?


To me its a rock song and I have to be a turkey not a chicken to pick this one and with the way the world is today I would flying in a turkey bird and for the ones in the air force flying high

Lorie

hmmm..........I LOVE Oh Mom but I have to say my favorite Arlo moments are invariably his in-between song stories .......Reuban Clamzo gets a vote, just so many........Arlo could have been a comedian and his talents are vast and diversified. I love the man and have since I can remember.

There are so-o-o many great lyrics to choose from. One for each mood you're in! I picked one from Amigo "Take my hand across the water, You won't leave no tracks behind. Step all over the moonlit ocean, it's only in your mind" and I also had to choose one from Mystic Journey (from Stairs) "Ever since the world began and back before that too, You took me in your confidence and told me I was you, It just seems kind of funny now to walk along the path, And I wouldn't be standing here about to laugh. . . "

There are so many great lyrics. Lately I'm posessed with Drowning Man.

Goin down for the third time
and I need a helping hand
the rooster crows and and I'm sinking
heart of stone, drowning man.

It's almost a shame to list any favorites as it somehow demeans the other treasures Arlo has given us.

Ridin on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday mornin rail

T2NO is supposed to leave Chicago on Dec. 5? It is a Monday.

RIP, Steve Goodman

My favorite is Cooper's Lament. I do love the lyrics and the message.

If Arlo ever sees this- what is your favorite? Can you pick just one, since they are all great?

The best song I ever wrote, is the one I'm working on... :)

adg

Good deal AG! After reading this entire thread, I assume most fans love all your songs.

Is the new song, a long song? Curiousity killed the cat.

I like that song too! LOL!!!