First Lines of Billy Joel Songs

Anthony works in the grocery store / Savin' his pennies for someday

It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday / Regular crowd shuffles in

Friday night I crashed your party / Saturday I said, "I'm sorry"

Don't go changing to try and please me / You never let me down before

Some people stay far away from the door / If there's a chance of it opening up

Listen, boy, I don't want to see you let a good thing slip away / You know I don't like watching anybody make the same mistakes I made

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray / South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Got a call from an old friend, we used to be real close / Said he couldn't go on the American way

Well, you went uptown riding in your limousine / With your fine Park Avenue clothes

A bottle of white, a bottle of red / Perhaps a bottle of rose instead

Some folks like to get away / Take a holiday from the neighborhood

All the waiters in your grand café / Leave their tables when you blink

In the middle of the night / I go walking in my sleep

Slow down, you crazy child / You're so ambitious for a juvenile

What's the matter with the clothes I'm wearing? / Can't you tell that your tie's too wide?

Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait / You Catholic girls start much too late

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes / And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies

Well we all have a face / That we hide away forever

Ali dances, and the audience applauds / Though he's bathed in sweat, he has't lost his style

Some love is just a lie of the heart / The cold remains of what began with a passionate start