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    Best Opening Lyrics: No. 4

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    "Well, she was just seventeen -- you know what I mean"
    --The Beatles' 'I Saw Her Standing There'

    And with that, screaming girls across the globe had hope.
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    JLat 1-30-2008

    Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, Now it looks like they're here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday. - You can't pick one that shouldn't be in the TOP TEN. - Beatlemaniacs UNITE!

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    JLat 1-30-2008

    yIKES! In My Life.... sung in my wedding and I left it off here. more BEATLES

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    Pegat 2-10-2008

    Go back to #19 - I agree with that post. It was the best 1st opening line of too many to count by the Beatles. I was fortunate to have grown up with it and lived the Beatles revolution. The Beatles would put out an album and maybe make one bad song on it. I wish you all could have it that way instead of today, where it's the other way around - one good song and crap for mostof the others. And they wonder why the music industry is faltering...........

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    bradat 2-16-2008

    def agree with numbetr 7.

    i read news today, oh boy.

    single greatest opening line ever.
    the first line.
    from the best song.
    from the best band.

    seems simple to me.

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    justinat 2-23-2008

    o god gimme a break the beatles are the worst thing to happen in the history of the world i think they were even worse then the german nazi camps

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    shempbatat 12-07-2009

    I think that YOU are the worst thing to happen in the history of the world!! Freakin meathead!!

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    Baracousat 2-29-2008

    1. Ahhh...the greatest band of all time. You just can't beat 'em.

    Kelley at 9:51PM on Aug 6th 2007

    But apparently you can shoot & stab them.

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    Ronat 3-01-2008

    i sure as hell remember where i was when first i heared this its my No. 1

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    Debbiat 4-01-2008

    Sorry kidlets, I WAS around when this song came out, and yes, it was the one that made knees buckle!! And, while I may be old, and a real live Beatlemaniac (OMG can it really be THAT long ago!!??) it's just too bad that Paul turned out to be a real jerk. I hope Heather gets the change that fell out his pockets and into the couch!! The best thing about Paul after the Beatles was Linda....sorry....

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    Across The Universe195at 4-27-2008

    when it comes 2 the Beatles, every opening line is pure gold!!!!!

    to bad Yoko (demon lady) just HAD to screw them up.

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    Francescaat 8-28-2008

    to all the people complaining that they could've picked a better line: IT'S THE BEATLES. they have way to many good songs; no matter which line they picked, someone else will think they could've picked one better.

    *sigh*

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    deesjointat 6-10-2009

    ''is there anybody going to listen to my story, all about the girl who came to stay?'' that's the song that comes to my mind right now...oh, that's ''girl'' from ''rubber soul''

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    P J M 9 8 9 8at 6-18-2009

    "just a small town girl, living in a lonely world" - Journey

    WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE????

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    Amyat 9-12-2009

    "She came in through the bathroom window..."

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    Aaronat 1-25-2010

    What about "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?

    "Picture yourself in a boat on a river with Tangerine trees and Marmaldae skies". If that isn't a prime example of a great opening lyric, I don't know what is.

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    Kelleyat 8-06-2007

    Ahhh...the greatest band of all time. You just can't beat 'em.

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    jshlncstrat 11-09-2008

    u r kinda forgetting acdc aerosmith and metallica. but the beatles r awesome

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    Pageat 8-06-2007

    THIS SONG? Of all the Beatles lyrics in all the Beatles songs, you pick this one? There are many others that are much more meaningful to the times and actually stuck in your head. Songs and lyrics that you can remember exactly where you were; exactly what you were doing; and exactly who you were with. Songs that take you back to times that meant something. Who is on the Spinner Staff and is someone with some lyrical knowledge and sense close enough to smack the crap of of this so called musical staff?

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    crank65230at 12-17-2008

    You moron! I was four years old when I first heard this song. It is THE first distinct memory of my life. My sister first played it for me on her portable record player and I started dancing and smiling and laughing. Remember, it's all about opening lines NOT complete lyrics and songs. We're talking 1964 and the opening line is all about the need to bang a 17 year old. Enough said.

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    Meat 8-06-2007

    Well, obviously somebody beat them, they are only #4 ..............

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