West


21 comments:

abi said...

You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking down chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End Town
Call the police, there's a madman around

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Sylvia said...

From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia,
rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand

Ballad of Billy the Kid ~ Billy Joel

Sandra Dodd said...

Western wind, when wilt thou blow
The small rain down may rain

(some old snippet of some old song, usually spelled all middle-englishly)

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

West End Avenue.
Babies in carts and poodles barking,
West End Avenue.
Planning your day around the parking.

You tell yourself, "I will be free."
West End Avenue,
You won't get me.

(Stephen Schwartz)

HoosierNan said...

And when I die, you can bury me
'Neath the western sky
On the lone prairie.

--Traditional cowboy ballad

Sally said...

Good news! She's dead!
The Witch of the West is dead!

from "Wicked"

abi said...

Go west, life is peaceful there,
Go west, in the open air,
Go west, where the skies are blue,
Go west, is what we're gonna do

Go West - Pet Shop Boys (again :-)

HoosierNan said...

In Christ there is no east or west,
In Him no south or north.

--Hymn

Deborah in IL said...

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl

Marty Robbins

Sandra Dodd said...

Turn to the east, Turn to the west,
Bow to the girl you like the best.

(a part of something unimportant in some old dance calls, I think... Vague in my head. )

Deborah in IL said...

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving

Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin

Sylvia said...

Now face west
Think about the place where you live

Stand ~ REM

Anonymous said...

Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.

John Denver

Sally said...

Go west, young man.
Go west, young man, when evil goes east.

Michael W. Smith

Shanona Ryder said...

Skip town
slow down
push it to the east coast
step down
turn around
push it to the west...

---Metric, "Dead Disco"

HoosierNan said...

Yippie ky yay, yi yay, yippie ky yo
For the toughest critter
West of the Alamo.

--From a song about Pecos Bill that I remember from an album my parents had of cowboy songs. You can learn more about Pecos Bill here: http://www.americanfolklore.net/pecosbill.html

Deborah in IL said...

And it's all over now
Don't you worry no more
We're gonna go west to the sea

Blues For Baby and Me
Elton John/Bernie Taupin

Elisha said...

Go west young man, haven't you been told
California's full of whiskey, women and gold

Toby Keith, "Should've Been a Cowboy"

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

I want to ride to the ridge
Where the west commences
Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses
Can't look at hovels
And I can't stand fences
Don't Fence Me In.

(Cole Porter)

Gunwaldt said...

A way out west they've got a name for wind and rain and fire,

"They Call the Wind Maria"
from Paint Your Wagon
Lerner & Loewe

Bob Collier said...

Sandra wrote: "Turn to the east, Turn to the west,
Bow to the girl you like the best.

(a part of something unimportant in some old dance calls, I think... Vague in my head. )"

I remember this one from years and years ago:

Little Sally Walker sitting in a saucer
Ride, Sally, ride
Wipe your weeping eyes
Turn to the East, turn to the West
Turn to the one that you love the best

Little Sally Walker, Huddie Leadbetter (Leadbelly)