Roadster Driving Songs

[66Roadster]

I agree with Dave - My favorite is Rush - Red Barchetta

Red Barchetta


My uncle has a country place
That no-one knows about
He say's it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law.

Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white haired uncle waits.

Jump to the ground
As the turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine.
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream.

I strip away the old debris
That hides the shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time.

Fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime.

Wind in my hair
Shifting and drifting
Mechanical music
Adrenalin surge.

Well weathered leather hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome the blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware.

Suddenly ahead of me
Across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air car
Shoots toward me two lanes wide.

I spin around with shrieking tires
To run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley
As another joins the chase.

Drive like the wind straining the limits of
machine and man
Laughing out loud with fear and hope
I've got a desperate plan.

At the one lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded at the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle at the fireside.



Phil
SE-ROC-ON!

[dbrick]

I agree with Dave - My favorite is Rush - Red Barchetta
Phil
SE-ROC-ON!

You have to watch that song, your speed just keeps increasing as the tempo builds and you get ito it.

Don't know if I mentioned "Dreams" by Van Halen, same effect

[spl310]

More songs...

Don't Fear the Reaper- Blue Öyster Cult

Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult

Radar Love - Golden Earring

hot rod lincoln - johnny bond

Hey Little Cobra - The Rip Chords

Pretty much any car song by Jan and Dean or the Beach Boys - especially Dead Man's Curve, Shut Down, Little Deuce Coupe, 409, and so forth...

Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

Dooley - the Dillards

[Howard R]

Buick '55 - The Medallions
Livin in the USA - Steve Miller Band
Pink Cadillac - Springsteen
Little Honda - The Hondell
Let's Go - The Routers
Wild Weekend - The Rebels
No Particular Place to Go- Chuck Berry
Boss - The Rumblers
Miserlou - Dick Dale and the Deltones
Wipeout- The Surfaris
Transfusion- Nervous Norvus

[Howard R]

TRANSFUSION (Old Song from the '50's)
Nervous Norvus

ZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM
Tooling down the hightway doing 79
I'm a twin pipe papa and I'm feelin fine
Hey man dig that was that a red stop sign-
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)
Transfusion transfusion
I'm just a solid mess of contusions
Never never never gonna speed again
Slip the blood to me Bud

I jump in my rod about a quarter to nine
I gotta make a date with that chick of mine
I cross the center line man you gotta make time-
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)
Transfusion transfusion
Oh man I got the cotton pickin convolutions
Never never never gonna speed again
Shoot the juice to me Bruce

My foot's on the throttle and it's made of lead
But I'm a fast ridding daddy with a real cool head
I'ma gonna pass a truck on the hill ahead-
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)
Transfusion transfusion
My red corpsuckles (sic) are in mass confusion
Never never never gonna speed again
Pass the crimson to me Jimson

I took a little drink and I'm feelin right
I can fly right over everything everything in sight
There's a slow poking cat I'm gonna pass him on the right-
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)
Transfusion transfusion
I'm a real gone paleface and that's no illusion
I'ma never never never gonna speed again
Pass the claret to me Barrett

A rollin down the mountain on a rainy day
Oh when you see me coming better start to pray
I'ma cuttin up the road and I'm the boss all the way-
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)
Transfusion transfusion
Oh doc pardon me for this crazy intrusion
I'm never never never gonna speed again
Pump the fluid in me Louie

I'm burning up the highway early this morn
I'm passing everybody oh nothing but corn
Man outa my way I don't drive with my horn-
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)
Transfusion transfusion
Oh nurse I'm gonna make a new resolution
I'm never never never gonna speed again
Put a gallon in me Alan

Oh barnyard drivers are found in two classes
Line crowding hogs and speeding jackasses
So rememmber to slow down today
Hey daddy-o
Make that type O huh
Atta-boy
(scrreeech-BANG!!tinkle)


!!! GET Nervous Norvus - Transfusion ringtones

[shifty]

I never realized before today that there is a Datsun mention in Devo's "Come Back Jonee".

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jonee went to the pawnshop
bought himself a guitar
now he's gonna go far
you gotta love 'em and leave 'em
sometimes you deceive 'em
you made her cry
jonee you're bad
you're gonna make her sad
jonee jumped in his datsun
drove out on the expressway
went head-on into a semi
his guitar is all that's left now
he made her cry
now she calls his name
jonee you're to blame

[truedog]

"Highway Star" Deep Purple

Guaranteed 'Ticket Getter' song!! Impossible to obey the speed limit when this is blasting on your 8-track.

Agreed!

[DnCrs13]

Car Carrier Blues - Mike Gordon, Leo Kotke

[glamoor]

Whoa,

I hate to tell you this, you are all wrong the BEST is Autobahn..by Kraftwerk..might be a tad hard to find though//

Bert
Cairns
Australia

[Linda]

Some soul from Duffy. Good for a slow cruise in your Roadster--
Rockferry
Warwick Avenue
Mercy

Linda

[dbrick]

Whoa,

I hate to tell you this, you are all wrong the BEST is Autobahn..by Kraftwerk..might be a tad hard to find though

Forgot that one, good addition.

[CWhip]

Ramblin man-Allman Brothers
Hard to handle-The Black Crowes
My Hero-The Foo Fighters
Free Bird-Skynyrd
I Want to Break Free-Queen

Just to name a few. And three songs I can't help but speed to are

Symphony of Destruction-Megadeth
Jerry was a Racecar Driver-Primus
and of course
Of Wolf and Man-Metallica

[DnCrs13]

Anything by Karate, fantastic cruise music in any car.
Tow Truck
The State I'm In
Airport
First Release
This Day Next Year

[Linda]

Got some favorite holiday driving music for the Roadster?
Here's one that's fun:
Mariah Carey, "All I Want for Christmas is You"

Bet you'll sing along

Linda

[dbrick]

Nothing at all personal, just my musical opinion.

Mariah Carey, "All I Want for Christmas is You"

Bet you'll sing along

Linda

All together now..........