Favorite Jim Croce song?

There must be some Jim Croce fans here.

That and Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.

I've heard it dozens of times, and if I'm in a certain frame of mind it can still really get to me.

*sigh*

double sigh

Edited to Add: Now I have that song in my head and my kids are asking me not to sing it 'cause I'm driving them crazy. :)

That's something I could never figure out.

Catch tune

besides, Jim is dead, iirc

Hilarious.

on edit: Don't sing this one for the kids.

was my favorite song.

1. I got a name

2. Time in a bottle

3. Operator

2.
3.
1.

Gonna tell you a story that you won't believe
But I fell in love last Friday evenin'
With a girl I saw on a bar room T.V. screen

Well I was just gettin' ready to get my hat
When she caught my eye and I put it back
And I ordered myself a couple o' more shots and beers

Chorus:

The night (you know) that I fell in love with a Roller Derby Queen
(Round and round, oh round and round)
The meanest hunk o' woman
That anybody ever seen
Down in the arena

She were five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama
With a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle
And she knew how to scuffle and fight

And the roller derby program said
That she were built like a 'fridgerator with a head
Her fans call her "Tuffy"
But all her buddies called her "Spike"

(Repeat Chorus)

Bridge:

Round and round, go round and round (3 times)

Well I could not help it
But to fall in love
With this heavy-duty woman
I been speakin' of
Things looked kind of bad
Until the day she skated into my life

Well she might be nasty
She might be fat
But I never met a person
Who would tell her that
She's my big blonde bomber
My heavy handed Hackensack mama

There could be other answers, but you'd better have a good story attached to it.

i started with the first album, Jim & Ingrid Croce. Tons of growth between that start and his early 70's work.

Sorry

That is one of the best love songs ever written.
:loveya:
Well, I know it's kind of late
I hope I didn't wake you
But what I got to say can't wait
I know you'd understand
Ev'ry time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song

Yeah, I know it's kind of strange
But ev'ry time I'm near you
I just run out of things to say

I know you'd understand
Ev'ry time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song

(Instrumental)

Ev'ry time the time was right
All the words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song

Yeah, I know it's kind of late
I hope I didn't wake you
But there's something that I just got to say
I know you'd understand
Ev'ry time I tried to tell you
The words just came out wrong
So I'll have to say I love you in a song

What sweet lyrics.

Tomorrow's Gonna Be A Brighter Day...First time I ever heard of Croce was the movie 'Time In A Bottle'...been a fan ever since.

I meant the movie 'She Lives'...

And when I realize I'm no longer there and I'm no longer that person, it saddens me. Ironic, ain't it?

This is the man who made me want to become a guitarist. That goal long since accomplshed, now I want to buy the Jim Croce model Martin. Someday, maybe. They don't make them anymore, though, so I'd have to search for one.

Sigh.

..Steadily Depressin' Low Down Mind Messin' Working At The Carwash Blues.

the one whose title escapes me: One of the lyrics goes "I used to be a terror, but now I am a tired man."

1. Careful Man

2. Thursday

3. The Hard Way Every Time