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33 comments:

Anonymous said...

When I was seventeen
It was a very good year...

(Ervin Drake, notably sung by Frank Sinatra)

Ashlee said...

I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.

As Good As I Once Was
Toby Keith

Sally said...

Old Dan Tucker was a fine old man
Washed his face in a frying pan

American folk song

Sylvia said...

that umbrella we employed it,
by August she was mine

Bus Stop ~ The Hollies

Sarah said...

There she was just walking down the street

Sandra Dodd said...

I was looking back to see
If she was looking back to see
If I was looking back to see
If she was looking back at me

(something from before my time; I know the tune, and the rest of that verse, and that's all I know)

Deborah in IL said...

Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked was way beyond compare

I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles

Sandra Dodd said...

I was cold and you were fire
And I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of the ice field

"For Cryin' Out Loud," Meat Loaf

Deborah in IL said...

Well there is only one girl that I will ever love
But that was so many years ago

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
Meatloaf

Sarah said...

She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an L on her forehead

Smashmouth

Deborah in IL said...

And at the moment that my camera happened to find you
There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes

Fountain of Sorrow
Jackson Browne

Sylvia said...

At seventeen I learned the truth, that love was meant for beauty queens

Seventeen ~ Janis Ian

Sandra Dodd said...

Good and bad we defined those terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now.

I know it by The Byrds in my head, but it's a Bob Dylan composition.

Deborah in IL said...

First I was afraid, I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side

I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor

Sylvia said...

For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while

Time of Your Life ~ Green Day

Sandra Dodd said...

It was a teenage wedding
And the old folks wished them well

"You Never Can Tell"

Sylvia said...

she was a long cool woman in a black dress

The Hollies

Deborah in IL said...

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine

Joy to the World
Three Dog Night

Sally said...

There was a time when men were kind

"I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables" (The best audition piece I had in my repertoire, but, thanks to Susan Boyle, now totally unusable for the next century.)

Deborah in IL said...

My challenge was answered in less than a heartbeat
The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor

El Paso
Marty Robbins

Sandra Dodd said...

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy
Was he

One of the best songs I've ever known. Short and sweet and surprising for little kids.

Deborah in IL said...

Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow

Sarah said...

Played until my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69

Brian Adams

Holly said...

When I was a girl
My mom and I we always talked

"When I was a Boy," Dar Williams

Sandra Dodd said...

I was dancin' with my darlin'
To the Tennessee Waltz

Bob Wills and others

Sarah said...

I was sittin' there
Sellin' turnips on a flat bed truck

Billy Currington

Sylvia said...

You were meant for me and I was meant for you

Jewel

Anonymous said...

It was the third of June
Another sleepy, dusty, delta day

("Ode to Billy Joe")

Deborah in IL said...

In '69 I was twenty one
And I called the road my own

Running on Empty
Jackson Browne

Deborah in IL said...

She was a friend to me when I needed one

That Girl Could Sing
Jackson Browne

Deborah in IL said...

Here come those tears again
Just when I was getting over you
Just when I was gonna make it through another night
Without missing you

Here Come Those Tears Again
Jackson Browne

Deborah in IL said...

Though I keep a watch over the distance
Heaven's no closer than it was yesterday

Farther On
Jackson Browne

Deborah in IL said...

Looking hard into your eyes
There was nobody I'd ever known
Such an empty surprise
To feel so alone

Late For the Sky
Jackson Browne