GL songs which reference, of all things, food! A new quizzer...
 

Mr. Lightfoot has incorporated a wide variety of food and/or beverage lyrics in his songs. So I thought we could have some fun and see how many we can identify.

Very easy rules....

1) The food/beverage must be used in the context of FOOD. That's it! Very easy. For example, rainbow trout, as used in the song "Rainbow Trout" wouldn't qualify. Make sense?

2) More than one example contained in the same song will count as a unique examples

3) The same food/beverage can be used in multiple songs, which is also ok. Each submission will count.

4) Format is also easy. Simply state the line of lyrics in which the food/beverage word is used along with the song title. Be sure to give ~GL credit, too.

I'll try to keep track as members submit examples. I might even have to play my own game too if that's ok.

Shall I start?

Pardon me if I don't turn back or even say goodbye
I surely have enjoyed your cup of tea ~GL

Have fun! At the very least we'll all be hungry by the time it's all said and done:)

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I cautiously tread into these waters filled with the promise of simple rules......

Song : Triangle

Lyric : "The best of all friends will say goodbye again, there's still time for one last glass of ale".

Is that ok ?

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Yes, perfect!

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love and MAPLE SYRUP go together

i'd like to be in BISCUIT city

pick wild STRAWBERRYS together

rolling smokes and drinking up the WINE

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Lyric: Was she drinking CHAMPAGNE when she made up her mind..

Song: On The High Seas


Lyric: I'm bent but not broken and all I need is my share of a bottle of that very rare, Blackberry wine

Song: Blackberry Wine

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This may test the peaceful waters......but I submit :

Song : Let It Ride

Lyrics :

Hear the steeple bell ring out above my lobster pots
I might be out here fishing man, but that ain't where it stops
The mouths I feed are many and they all say thanks a lot
They just let it ride

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Song : Seven Island Suite

Lyric : You seem to think because you got chicken-to-go you're in luck

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I'll take 2 coffees please (black)

Song : Lazy Mornin'

Lyric : Such fun, coffee's in the kitchen, woman on the run
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Song : Second Cup Of Coffee

Lyric : I'm on my second cup of coffee, still can't face the day

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HOLD the phone I'm callin' my attorney - the reference to chicken in this song, to the enlightened..ahemm... is that allegorically metaphorically in a neo-pseudo-crypto-fascist analogy of dread of nuclear war is that he is "chicken", as in afraid - not food, the listenener that Lightfoot puts in neo-protagonist role is being asked of themselves....

I Challenge Ron... I am not happy about this.... we are allready spiralling out of control OMG where's the phone o o OH... lol lol lol... O I am only kidding bro... had to pull it once.... -revenge for all the heckling from ya RON.... oh I am so only kidding.....-sigh-

Actually, I have truly (embarrassed to say) thought when I was younger he DID mean chicken as in scared, then when it hit me as he meant like KFC chicken to go, I felt REAL stupid...(NO comments on that lol).. good call Ron... I have always loved that song.... and that is one of the most HUMAN words in the lyrics...really... it grounds you for a second he lives in the real world too...
picture: Lightfoot picking up Chicken-to-go at KFC - and saying to the kid at the pay window "ya know... I wrote a song about this, that is a favourite of audiophiles (really) on the 1/2 speed masters series of Sundown, did you know that , ma'am (to the lady taking money, who signals to the boss and puts her hand by the red button under the counter, pensively wondering where this guy is going with this...ooh boy..wrote a song about chicken, eh ? OK...talk him through it nice and easy, and it'll go OK... lol)

Poor guy - can you imagine Lightfoot in real-life everyday situations coming across things from his songs, and no doubt trying, out of humility, to NOT comment on his poignant lyrics or braggadosio on his fame and fortune and...work...artistry..pertaining to the moment - great ice breakers...but if they don't know him.... could be funny.. poor guy.. :confused: :headbang: :clap:

All in fun... great post Oh,Linda! I will try one.... 'tseeer (I did not explain that word to you Oh,Linda, my daughter, who is now 26, made up that imaginary phonetic contraction at AGE 3 or so 'tseeer contracting- conflating she was saying allready - and stemming - long before the Lightfoot corfid controversy over stemming and Navvy, even before alt.music.Lightfoot... it means ('tseeer) = Let's see here - when she was two or three....still in underGrad work... but it fit in her thesis option...for the x-fer FWD to PhD option....lol....when she got her Doctorate in Comparitive Literature in Medieval English age 10...she slowed down a lot...those hopcotch sessions got to be obsessive INSTEAD of STUDYING...I'd let her go to sleep by 2am - whats the big deal ?

- anyway - her doctorate with an emphasis in punctuation cryptography for the time period...they are still currently translating dots and dits and quotes,and ... stuff like that.... for post-doc stipend funded by DowChemical again Char lol.... oh Mamie got her PhD when she was 12.... OK 'nuff joking. I'm punchy tired from all the ten over in Basic inedible Lyrics 201....lol... great idea here. lemee see..'tseeer:lyrics, title, credit..OK....

now 'bout the liquid route:
Much more fluid lyrics...
Lyrics: -groan-

The train that I'm on is a hundred boxcars long
So I don't sleep through to the morning
That's some chilly wind in this gondola I'm in
I wish I had a glass of beer

Song Title: 'Borderstone' ~gl

OK on them Apples ? oh oh oh: that reminds me of another song I love, funny I know a lot of people find it tedious or unappealing (PEELING APPLES LOL ...--sigh- OK...), but the imagery towards the end is very redeeming - I love it:
Lyrics:
Songs of the season, apples of the sun
There is no rhyme or reason, just a time for each and every one

Song Title: 'A Lesson in Love' ~gl
- allthough, with apples (little green apples in the summertime - another song...Glen Campbell (sings it)?
Anyway - with regard to the very straightforward rules, this I think may violate the context de rigeur of food per se, maybe its illustrative further of what does not qualify ? I'm not sure... Oh,Linda ? (can we call you Linda ? - easier for my two finger hunt and slip) lol... ?? ruling ?

Great Game Oh,Linda . I'll bet there are a bunch......o dem appose (as Mamie used to say around 3 -4 appose plural...... lol

Thanks for thinking up this thread Linda, I get to play too ! :) :biggrin: :clap: :headbang:

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I somewhat thought the same as you Geo Steve on the chicken one. Refering to the person being chicken ?? :)

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Great idea for a thread Oh, Linda ! :)

Song: Circle Of Steel

She tips her gin bottle back till it's gone
The child is strong.

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Song: Steel Rail Blues

Now I ain't had a home cooked meal and Lord I need one now ??????????

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Song: Uncle Toad

He said, kid stop drinkin' that brew
Plan while ya can or the joke's on you

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Song: Baby Step Back

Whiskey and wine help me pass the time

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Song: Pony Man

"They live on candy and apples
Instead of oats and hay."

Actually, all four aforementioned foods also happen to resemble my typical vegan breakfast

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I'm still confused as to why Rainbow Trout isn't an answer..it's a food..
and if I follow along the rule as stated then several of the subsequent submissions wouldn't qualify..
but then again..I may be wrong..
;)

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I don't know how hungry we'll be, but we'll certainly be inebriated.

Song :Triangle

Lyric : Just sip on your rum, or I'll give you my thumb.

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Song : Salute

Lyric :

May all of your martinis be forever dry

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I'm feeling woozy.....

Song : Christian Island

Lyrics :

And when the gale comes up I'll fill my cup
With the whiskey of the highlands

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two words Ron - Alcoholics Anonymous
;)

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Have you been reading my Private Messages ?

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should I be?

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Just checking......ok......back to the game :

Song : Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Lyric :

Living on stew and drinking bad whiskey

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So far,all I can find is ... "Makin' Hay With No >Gravy< , brings the good folks down.

Hay & gravy??!! :eek: YUK!!! :p

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Of course, since my name is indeed Linda. The member name "Linda" was already taken, so I went for "Oh, Linda" (I love the fact GL sings the song to just the bass guitar!) but Spin, Spin was a close runner up.

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Works!

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Most submissions thus far work just fine, but agree we've got a few that aren't quite used in the context of a food, like Biscuit City. Yes it's a bread roll of sorts but not necessarily in this song. You could argue lobster pot and gin bottle too but since they are a food and beverage respectively I'd let them slide even if it's the container being referred to. Candy apples and oats are great, but do people really eat hay?

Chicken To Go works just fine since it is used in the context of a food, all be it one you can conveniently pick up through a drive thru.

Now as for Rainbow Trout, this littly fishy is used as a metaphor for a woman in the song with the same title, not in the context of a food. Since Gordon incorporated many examples of fish in his songwriting there are many examples that will work perfectly well and I suspect we'll be seeing submissions shortly.

Does the above make sense? If it's too confusing we can say "let 'er rip" to any and all with or without context of food. As long as the song was indeed written by GL himself. What does everyone think?

P.S. My faves so far...."home cooked meal," You just can't beat 'em--and chicken to go! (never knew of that one before!!)

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OK if I play my own game? Also in Lazy Mornin---

I took time to make town and stock a pint or two, the most delicious brew ~GL

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Song: I'd Rather Press On



Wouldn't it feel fine--to return to the women and the wine
And all of the sunshine that we knew

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Oh, I'd never eat hay without gravy....

Home From the Forest - "And the wine was runnin' low"

Rosanna - "The dinner's served at eight o'clock on time
And all is well by nine"

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There is a Gordon Lightfoot song where we actually hear him consuming a beverage. It's halfway into the song Cabaretwhich is the last song in the Summer Side of Life album/CD. It is the sound of a pull-tab on a aluminum can, which could've contained a beer or cola beverage, he drinks it, and does the drink-sigh sound we all know.

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Face of a Thousand People:

'bodies clothed in uniforms, to REAP THE HARVEST of their pride'


ok, this may violate rule 1.1a, but i couldnt resist

i'm still in Thanksgiving mode (well, my liver is still aching)


The Watchman's Gone:

would 'washing the bullpoop down' qualify in any shape or form?

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Would this one count?

Now the dinner's served and the cards are dealt

from Ballad of Yarmouth Castle ~gl

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you eat bullpoop? !

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Is that what that is?? I always thought it was a cigarette lighter (the kind with the flip top) and the sound of taking a puff !! Who knew.....Sounds like this one could easily fit in the other thread of misunderstood lyrics, talk about a misunderstood sound:)

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Yes. Dinner=meal (technically)=food and used in context of food. So I'm going to say yes.

Now as for that bull&#%@ I don't think so...;) but what a line.

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I'm surprised that B'stone forgot in his own song..."And the sounds of the beans boiling through the evergreeens sure do please a hungry man."
DQ

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It, The Great Mystery Sound Theory(ies), by quorum vote, goes all the way back to alt.music.lightfoot in AOL chat days,c 1998 (?+/-) been ascribed to opening a canned beverage, quaffing it, and ahhh sound of enjoyment, along with the infamous Zippo Lighter and first drag.... of the chat in those days - and one poor person who was ribbed mercilessly for years over it.. despite our essential concurrence -but we gave him a customized T-shirt !- and various sundry other theories...lol.... BTW - see the Stonewall vistory - Cabaret - you'll see the Lighter, the Beer can, the glass of beer; and.. the cigarette dragged upon..
:biggrin::headbang:

REDEEMING ON-THREAD ENTRY:

Lyric:
Remember when Mr. Barnum presented Jenny Lind
They named a candy after her, a circus after him
Song:'A Lesson in Love' - gl

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This would be a wonderful question to ask Gord, because it can very well be a cigarette lighter (the kind with flip top) and the sound of taking a puff... That is also what I always thought it was... Sure sounds like it... :)

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Was this actually solved ? :confused: