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

[Oh, Linda]

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

[RM]

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 ?

[Oh, Linda]

Yes, perfect!

[joveski]

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

[charlene]

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

[RM]

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

[RM]

Song : Seven Island Suite

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

[RM]

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

[geodeticman.5]

Originally Posted by RM

Song : Seven Island Suite

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

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..

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 !

[Jesse Joe]

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

[Jesse Joe]

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.

[Jesse Joe]

Song: Steel Rail Blues

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

[Jesse Joe]

Song: Uncle Toad

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

[Jesse Joe]

Song: Baby Step Back

Whiskey and wine help me pass the time

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

[charlene]

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..

[RM]

Originally Posted by Oh, Linda

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

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.

[RM]

Song : Salute

Lyric :

May all of your martinis be forever dry

[RM]

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

[charlene]

two words Ron - Alcoholics Anonymous

[RM]

Originally Posted by charlene

two words Ron - Alcoholics Anonymous

Have you been reading my Private Messages ?

[charlene]

Originally Posted by RM

Have you been reading my Private Messages ?

should I be?

[RM]

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

Song : Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Lyric :

Living on stew and drinking bad whiskey

[Borderstone]

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

Hay & gravy??!! YUK!!!

[Oh, Linda]

Originally Posted by geodeticman.5

Oh,Linda ? (can we call you Linda ? - easier for my two finger hunt and slip) lol... ad Linda, I get to play too !

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.