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George Pazin

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Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« on: July 27, 2010, 03:58:38 PM »
Okay, as more threads turn to the dark side, I propose some silliness:

Share a favorite song lyric and associate a favorite golf course with it.

Here's a favorite stanza from The Replacements:

If you were a pill
I'd take a handful at my will
And I'd knock you back with something sweet and strong...


For the golf course, I'll pick a course I've played called The Rawls Course.

Your turn.
Big drivers and hot balls are the product of golf course design that rewards the hit one far then hit one high strategy.  Shinny showed everyone how to take care of this whole technology dilemma. - Pat Brockwell, 6/24/04

Jim Colton

Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2010, 04:25:10 PM »
Sebonack...look at me!

Mac Plumart

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2010, 04:44:25 PM »
It's time, it's time
It's time to align your body and your mind,
It's hero time, it's time to shine

Kiawah Ocean

EDIT...the song is from The Rollins Band and it titled Shine.
« Last Edit: July 27, 2010, 05:08:39 PM by Mac Plumart »
Sportsman/Adventure loving golfer.

Tim Leahy

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2010, 04:58:02 PM »
the Eagles:

They carve it with their steely knives,
but they just can't kill the beast

Pebble Beach-Hotel California
I love golf, the fightin irish, and beautiful women depending on the season and availability.

Peter Pallotta

Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2010, 04:59:28 PM »
Nice idea, George.  Ira Gershwin-Vernon Duke's "I Can't Get Started (With You)":

I've flown around the world in a plane
I've settled revolutions in Spain
The North Pole I have charted, but I can't get
started with you

(Pine Valley)

Around the golf course I'm under par
Metro-Goldwyn wants me to star
I've got a house, a show place, but I get no
place with you

(NGLA)

You're so supreme, lyrics I write of you
Scheme, just for a sight of you
Dream, both day and night of you
And what good does it do?

(Ballyneal)

In 1929 I sold short
In England I'm presented at court
But you've got me downhearted, cause I can't get
started with you

(Cypress Point)

You're so supreme, lyrics I write of you
Scheme, just for a sight of you
Dream, both day and night of you
And what good does it do?

(Walton Heath)

Ben Sims

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2010, 05:00:30 PM »
I'm not a dad yet, but I'm guessing a few guys on here can identify with this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOKuSQIJlog

By the way, if I ever get into the golf business I can't wait to say, "..these greens ain't got nothing on my manscape"

As for a course to match that lyric?  I'll take CommonGround with Eric Iverson in his best duds.  

Kirk Gill

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2010, 09:16:57 PM »
What I wanna know now
is Why oh Why....
does she treat me like a snowman?
                 -xtc


Any course where I score an 8.
"After all, we're not communists."
                             -Don Barzini

Bill Brightly

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2010, 09:22:53 PM »

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and...

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you, don't you?


Old Head

Bill Brightly

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2010, 09:33:53 PM »
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
h-Oh, Someday girl I don't know when
we're gonna get to that place
Where we really wanna go
and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us
baby we were born to run

Oh honey, tramps like us
baby we were born to run

Come on with me, tramps like us
baby we were born to run


All four courses at Bandon

Charlie Goerges

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2010, 09:47:56 PM »
Well I'll pass the bar on the way
To my dingy hotel room-
I spent all my money
Been drinkin' since a half past noon-
I'll wake there in the mornin'
Or maybe in the county jail-
Times are hard getting harder
I'm born to lose and destined to fail



Ball and Chain by Social Distortion.


I think I'll dedicate this one to El Niguel
Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this. - Marcus Aurelius

Jason Topp

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2010, 10:05:11 PM »
I posted this five years ago but it has been long enough to repeat


Think Edmund Fitzgerald:

A dark day in May
When Jon went away
to do battle with the forces of evil

Everything was fine
til he got to nine
then the winds of November blew early

A chunk in the ground,
a plop in the soup
The first rumbling sounds of anger

A helicopter sound
rushed out to the sea
A titanium driver caused danger

Despite his fate,
Jon soldiered on
But his friends knew what to do

"Sir if you please
My club caught a breeze
Do you by chance have a canoe?"

Lest you think this is a tale full of woe
I beg you sir take note
The Harvester it seems
swallow's men's dreams but thank god . . .

titanium floats.


This was in honor of a friend who lost it on a hole with a lake left and decided to throw his driver.  He thought better of it half way through the throw, but in stopping managed to launch it at a 90 degree angle 100 feet straight out into the lake.  It floated to shore by the end of the round.  I didn't know that drivers floated.

In order to "help him out" I did request a canoe at the turn.

Adam Clayman

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2010, 11:20:21 PM »
Heard this this morning.

These boots were made for walk'in
and that's just what they'll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.

Guess where?
"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing your whole life." - Mickey Mantle

DMoriarty

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #12 on: July 27, 2010, 11:41:30 PM »
Here is one I posted a while back about the Angola State Prison Golf Course in Louisiana, but it fits with La Purisima outside of Lompoc as well.

'Gola Prison Blues, to the tune of Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. 

I hear them duffers comin'
They're hackin' 'round the turn
And I can't go a golfin'
'Cause I forged my tax return
I'm stuck in 'Gola Prison
And there's a course outside
Tried to make a tee time
but I have been denied.

When I was just a caddy,
Cad' master told me, "Son,
Always carry two bags,
Don't ever carry one,"
Well totin' bags I earned some
But didn't declare the tips
Now my cellmate bends me over
He's givin' me the yips.

I bet there's rich folks ridin',
In them fancy golfin' carts,
They're probably drinkin' Guiness,
And smokin' big cigars,
Its a twilight round their playin',
Almost too dark to see,
But those hacks they keep a-golfin',
And that's what tortures me.

Well, if they freed me from this prison,
If that golfin' course was mine,
I'd crush this friggin' Prison,
And build another nine,
Outside this bunker prison,
That's where I'd like to play
I'd let my awful golf swing,
Slice my blues away.
Golf history can be quite interesting if you just let your favorite legends go and allow the truth to take you where it will.
--Tom MacWood (1958-2012)

Garland Bayley

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #13 on: July 28, 2010, 12:25:59 AM »
"Jawbone got a thousand tricks"

"Jawbone" by Jim Lauderdale

for Jawbone Creek Country Club
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Pat Burke

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #14 on: July 28, 2010, 03:04:58 AM »
"The Resolution"  by  Jack's Mannequin

There's a lot that I don't know
There's a lot that I'm still learning
When I think I'm letting go
I find my body it's still burning

TOC

Neil_Crafter

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2010, 07:48:48 AM »
Maybe I’m going to get paid today
Maybe I’m going to get made today
Maybe I’m going to go back to Garden City

Lloyd Cole "NYC Sunshine" from Antidepressant. No prizes for guessing the course.

Jason Topp

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2010, 07:51:31 AM »
America's Favorite Pastime (The Ballad of Dock Ellis)
From The Excitement Plan - Todd Snider

http://www.eighteenminutes.com/lyrics/americas_favorite_pastime.html
http://www.toddsnider.net/fr_home.cfm

dock ellis didnt think he was pitching that day
back in 1970
when he and his wife took a trip to the ballpark
a little bit differently
so by the time that he hit the bullpen
half the world had melted away
thats about the time coach murtaugh came and said
dock your pitching today

taking the mound the ground turned into
the icing on a birthday cake
the lead off man came up and turned into
a dancing rattle snake
the crowd tracked back and forth
in waves of color underneath the sun
the ball turned into a silver bullett
his arm into a gun

i took a look all around the world one time
finally discovered
you cant judge a book

three up three down for three straight innings
in a zero zero tie
as all those batters names come ringing
from a voice out of the sky
hallucinating halloween scenes
each new swing of the bat
his sinker looked like it was falling off a table
but nobody was hallucinating that

i took a look all around the world one time
finally discovered
you cant judge a book

by the top of the seventh he was up one to nothing
and giving them padres fits
by the top of the eighth he was up two to nothing
and they still hadnt got any hits
with one out left to go in the game
the batter looked like a baby child
that birthday caking was shaking
them waves of color was going wild

by the time that he mowed the last man down
he was high as he had ever been
laughing to the sounds of the world going around
completely unaware of the win
and while the papers would say he was scattered that day
he was pretty as a pitcher could be
the day dock ellis of the pittsburgh pirates
threw a no hitter on lsd

i took a look all around the world one time
finally discovered
you cant judge a book


Tot Hill Farm


Andy Gray

Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2010, 08:06:52 AM »
For me just one line sums up my recent experience at Bandon Resort, Lakeside and Riviera.

Wide awake, still asleep

From the song Goliath by Karnivool.

I felt like I was dreaming the whole time I was there... Great people, awesome courses and beautiful scenery... Couldn't ask for more.

JC Jones

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2010, 08:19:06 AM »
This song sums up recent trips to The Dunes Club and Kingsley Club:

Zac Brown Band - Different Kind of Fine

She make a train take a dirt road
Make it stop on a dime
Make you wonder which way to go to
make a man change his mind.
She's a lawyer's queen and a truckers dream
in a baseball hat fit for a queen
A genuine, a different kind of fine

Cadillacs and caviar, well that ain't how she rolls
Implants and tummy tucks, she sure don't need those
She's a cool drink of water when the summers mean
Poured into those Levis jeans
She's country as the day is long.

She make a train take a dirt road
Make it stop on a dime
Make you wonder which way to go to
make a man change his mind.
She's a lawyer's queen and a truckers dream
in a baseball hat fit for a queen
A genuine, a different kind of fine
I get it, you are mad at the world because you are an adult caddie and few people take you seriously.

Excellent spellers usually lack any vision or common sense.

I know plenty of courses that are in the red, and they are killing it.

TEPaul

Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2010, 09:54:39 AM »
Wonderful stuff guys. I suppose it lightens things up with lyrics and golf courses.

I do take note though of David Moriarty's inclusion----the Angola State Prison Farm golf course. Does Angola State Prison Farm in Louisiana actually have a golf course? And if it does I wonder if the Angola State Prison Farm is the very same thing as Angola State Prison?

I ask for sort of a personal reason which I'll explain later but it is my understanding that the Angola State Prison in Louisiania is anything but light; from what I've heard it just may be the roughest and most dangerous prison in America. I say that because I know someone (the brother of a former brother-in-law of mine) who has been in there for over thirty years and it's a pretty sure bet he will be there for the rest of his life, as he should be.

And ironically, that former brother-in-law of mine who I had not seen in over twenty years, I ran into in LA when I went there in 2001 to see particularly Riviera, just as he developed brain cancer, and was helped wonderfully for a time by a famous LA cancer doctor who was recommended to him by at least one who participates on the website.

Small world.

George Pazin

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2010, 11:37:11 AM »
Lots of good stuff indeed. I think Bill Brightly's two offerings are the best so far.

Neil Crafter, JohnV picked out that same line when we went to see Lloyd perform a few short years ago. Seems like yesterday...

Speaking of which:

Yesterday,
Love was such an easy game to play,
Now I need a place to hide away,
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Reminds me of my home muni where I learned the game - well, tried to learn the game anyway - North Park GC.
Big drivers and hot balls are the product of golf course design that rewards the hit one far then hit one high strategy.  Shinny showed everyone how to take care of this whole technology dilemma. - Pat Brockwell, 6/24/04

Michael Dugger

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2010, 11:45:58 AM »
The summer wind, came blowin' in - from across the sea
It lingered there, so warm and fair - to walk with me
All summer long, we sang a song - and strolled on golden sand
Two sweethearts, and the summer wind

What does it matter if the poor player can putt all the way from tee to green, provided that he has to zigzag so frequently that he takes six or seven putts to reach it?     --Alistair Mackenzie--

TEPaul

Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #22 on: July 28, 2010, 12:24:53 PM »
George P;

You know speaking of the song Yesterday, I think the last time I was out in Easthampton, I ran into Sir Paul McCartney three times within a little over 24 hours. The first time was in this Polo child's shop, and when I told my wife, who's a massive damn star-searcher, to turn around and look who was right behind her she damn near fainted. The third time I ran into him over a day later was in some Indian take-out lunch place and that time he looked at my cap which said Prairie Dunes and he asked me what that was. I just told him: "Who wants to know?" To that he cracked up. So, I said; "You're Sir Paul McCartney aren't you?" He said that yes he was, and so I asked him with all his money and fame if he'd considered perhaps changing his clothes from one day to the next since I had noticed he had on the very same clothes he had on YESTERDAY. To that he completely cracked up.

He seemed like a down to earth real good guy!

Jim Colton

Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #23 on: July 28, 2010, 12:25:55 PM »
Now you can get this, or you can get with that
I think you'll get with this yes, for this is kinda phat
If you get with that, then you will surly miss,
Because that is so wack, I think you'll get with this

Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours
Ballybunion - Old and Cashen

Colin Macqueen

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Re: Time to lighten up: song lyrics and golf courses
« Reply #24 on: July 29, 2010, 09:31:53 PM »

And we'll all go(lf) together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will you go(lf) laddies go(lf)

Boat of Garten


Colin
"Golf, thou art a gentle sprite, I owe thee much"
The Hielander