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fbharjo commented on the word arlo guthrie
"I just want to ride my motorsickle"
August 21, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word arlo guthrie
The Motorcycle Song
words and music by Arlo Guthrie
CHORUS:
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle
It was late last night the other day
I thought I'd go up and see Ray
So l went up and I saw Ray
There was only one thing Ray could say, was:
CHORUS
This song is about the time that I was ridin' my motorcycle.
Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin'
my guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a
mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was
a cliff in the air.
Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles
an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin'
a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar.
Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater
on the box side than on the neck side, because there's
more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention ..
Luckily I didn't go into the mountain - I went over the cliff.
I was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down
at the same time.
I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some
trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last
trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided
to write one last farewell song to the world.
Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper.
I sat back and I thought awhile. Then I started writin':
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."
I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't
have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast.
But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I
landed on the top of a police car. And he died. I drove away
on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin'
175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song.
I came into town, I jumped off my bike, the bike went around
the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned
itself off.
I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin'
pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the
eye and said "Nothin'".
You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just
squashed a cop...
August 21, 2009
bilby commented on the word arlo guthrie
I've heard this before, but it's still ... bahahaha!
August 21, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word arlo guthrie
sickle song
August 21, 2009
bilby commented on the word arlo guthrie
Where I went to college, one of the campus buildings was named the Alice Hoy building. With a plum sense of 60's nostalgia, the student canteen on the ground floor was 'Alice's Restaurant'. But they didn't always have what I wanted :-(
August 21, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word arlo guthrie
Quelle damage! (quelle dommage!) Slip aHoy? The canteen sounds more like a 'Rolling Stones' place *You can't always get what you want* than arlorific. What will slake your thirst?
August 21, 2009
rolig commented on the word arlo guthrie
But maybe you got what you needed, Bil.
August 21, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word arlo guthrie
alice's restaurant
August 21, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word arlo guthrie
The Motorcycle Song.
August 22, 2009