Man


20 comments:

Glenda said...

Hey man, oh leave me alone you know
Hey man, oh henry get off the phone I gotta
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face
This mellow-thighed chick just put my spine out of place

("Suffragette City" by David Bowie)

Sandra Dodd said...

There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

Buffalo Springfield, I think; don't know the name of it without looking

Sally Lopez said...

Mister, I'll make a man out of you

from Disney's "Mulan"
8 words!

Deborah in IL said...

I took the life of pretty Flo and that good for nothing man

They're Hanging Me Tonight
Marty Robbins

Glenda said...

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

(Bob Dylan)

(it bugs the heck out of me for that sentence to end with "to"!)

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

The night is bitter
The stars have lost their glitter
The moon grows colder
And suddenly, you're older
And all because of the man that got away

(Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin)

Glenda--I feel your pain about the ungrammatical "going to" in Mr. Tambourine Man!!

abi said...

I'm waiting for my man,
Here he comes he's all dressed in black
?? and a big straw hat

Waiting For My Man - Velvet Underground

Glenda said...

I'm starting with the man in the mirror,
I'm asking him to change his ways,
And no message could've been any clearer,
If you wanna make the world a better place,
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.

(Michael Jackson)

Sandra Dodd said...

I'm a man
Can't you see what I am

"To Love Somebody" (the bee gees??)

Sandra Dodd said...

Turn back oh man
Forswear your foolish ways

Godspell (8 words)

Roxana said...

Play us a song, you're the Piano Man
Play us a song tonight
Cause we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling all right

(or something like that...)

Piano Man -- Billy Joel.

Alternately, the Weird Al version...

Sling us a web, you're the spiderman
Sling us a web tonight
Cause we're all in the mood for a hero now
And there's evil-doers to fight!

Roxana said...

He's a man, he's just a man
And I've had so many men before
In very many ways
He's just one more.

"I Don't Know How To Love Him", Jesus Christ Superstar

Sally Lopez said...

Go west, young man
Go west, young man when the evil go east

Michael W. Smith

Ellen (nursescrubs) said...

Oh, my man, I love him so
He'll never know

(Maurice Yvain/Channing Pollack, memorably sung by Billie Holiday, and by Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl")

Sandra Dodd said...

Sally, you gave me a freebie. Thanks!

"Go west" reminded me of YMCA:

Young man
There's no need to feel down

HoosierNan said...

It took another man's wife
In the real-world life
To make this boy a man.

--"I Want to Learn a Love Song," Harry Chapin

HoosierNan said...

Another man might have been angry,
And another man might have been hurt.
But another man wouldn't have let her go.
I stashed the bill in my shirt.

--"Taxi," Harry Chapin

HoosierNan said...

You know I'm just a dirt man
From the North Dakota plains.
You're one girl from the city
Who has been thrown out on her own.

--"Mail Order Annie," Harry Chapin

HoosierNan said...

And the church bell chimed
'Til it rang 29 times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

--"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Gordon Lightfoot

HoosierNan said...

The Candy Man takes,
And everything he makes,
Is satisfying and delicious.

--"Candy Man," Sammy Davis, Jr.