The CRF's Greatest Lyricists Results: #40-1

Re: The CRF's Greatest Lyricists Results: #40-11

hmmm...George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix as top lyricists. Interesting.

Re: The CRF's Greatest Lyricists Results: #40-11

I posted on this thread this morning but my post has disappeared

Re: The CRF's Greatest Lyricists Results: #40-11

Very good, I was getting ready to crack some heads if Paul Simon wasn't in the top 10.

Is the vote thread deleted? I wanted to check back on who I actually voted for.

Excellent list...Really good to see Bowie in the top 5.

And, of course, Bobby D. at #1 makes me very, very happy.

jtrichey13 said:

Is the vote thread deleted? I wanted to check back on who I actually voted for.

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It's not deleted, it's just buried a bit.

Here you go: http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f4/crfs-greatest-lyricists-voting-thread-18460/

Cannons roared in the valley they thundered
While the guns lit up the night
Then it rained and both sides wondered
Who is wrong and who is right

On the wire like a ragged old scarecrow
Bloody hands and broken back
When they fire see him pirouette solo
Jump in time to the rat a tat

What a night though it's one of seven
What a night for the dancing dead
What a night to be called to heaven
What a picture to fill your head

By the wall in a silouette standing
Through a flash of sudden light
Cigarette from his mouth just hanging
Paper square to his heart pinned tight

Gather round reluctant marksmen
One of them to take his life
With a smile he gives them pardon
Leaves the dark and takes the light

CHORUS

They dispatch their precious cargo
Knock him back right off his feet
And they pray may no one follow
Better still to face the beast

When the field has become a garden
And the wall has stood the test
Children play and the dogs run barking
Who would think or who would guess

CHORUS


Did Tony CLARKIN (Magnum)even get a mention?

Jon Anderson should be there, he wrote some of the most ingenious and abstract lyrics in rock... a good list, nonetheless.