Lee Henderson's Car Song Lyrics

Car Songs

by Lee Henderson

all lyrics
© 2001-2004 Lee Henderson.
Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study.
note: some suggested tunes not public domain

QUEENS OF THE ROAD
Key: A Tune: "Kings of the Road"

Sometimes we travel slow,
And take time to stop and say hello.
Sometimes we travel fast;
We never whine about the price of gas.
It's simple, you can see
Bikes are good for you and me
We'll be folks of means by all means,
Queens of the road.

Got healthy heart and legs,
Never go to Jenny Craig.
Don't pay no parking fees.
Don't need no I.C.B.C.
Sold our old Chevrolet
'Cause we found a better way.
Now we're girls of means by all means,
Queens of the road.

Bikes don't use up the earth a lot
Or turn it all into a parking lot.
Bikes don't add to air pollution.
Bikes are the urban green solution.

Sometimes we travel slow...
....
Queens of the road.
Queens of the road.

PEDAL POWER ROUND
Key: C Tune: "Kookaburra"

Pedal power rolls down the right-of-way,
Rockin' way to get around every day.
Living way to go.
Breathing, don't you know
that bikes are here to stay.

LONG LIVE THE LAND
Key: D Tune: "God Save the Queen"

Long live the rivers,
Long live the valleys,
Long live the land.
Rivers of salmon
and valleys of fruitfulness,
Earth turning under us:
Long live the land.

Evenings and mornings,
Winters and summers,
Long live the land.
With gifts of creation past,
Present and yet to come
God crown the earth our home:
Long live the land.

all lyrics
© 2001-2004 Lee Henderson.
Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study.

HEY YOU SWIMMERS
Key: A Tune: traditional Cape Breton Gaelic: He mo leannan!

Salmon of the ocean,
salmon of the currents,
salmon of the river,
salmon of the stream.
Hey, you swimmers,
ho, you swimmers!
Hey, you swimmers,
welcome home.
Salmon of the sunrise,
salmon of the sunset,
salmon of the daylight,
salmon of the night.
Hey...
Salmon of the rainfall,
salmon of the strong winds,
salmon of the dense fog,
salmon of the clouds.
Hey..
Salmon of the planets,
salmon of the starlight,
salmon of the sunlight,
salmon of the moon.
Hey...
Salmon of the ocean,
salmon of the currents,
salmon of the river,
salmon of the stream.

DAISY BELL
Key: D Tune: "Daisy Bell"

1900 HE:
Daisy, Daisy..

1950 answer SHE:
Arthur, Arthur, here's your answer true:
I'm no martyr and I will not marry you.
If you can't afford a Mercedes,
Well you can go to Hades.
And I'll be damned if I'll be crammed
On a bicycle built for two.

2000 He: Daisy...

2000 SHE:
Michael, Michael,
Here's your answer true:
I like to cycle. I'm happy that you do too.
So cool, you're not a gas junkie
and your quads are ripped and hunky.
But I must be in charge
of the front handlebars...
HE:
Then I'll check out your glutes
and let you choose the routes...
ALL:
On our bicycle built for two.

TRAFFIC LULLABY
Key: A Tune: "Brahms' Lullaby"

Please watch out, hang up the phone.
Please drive slowly and carefully.
Kids here walk to school,
Parents bike to work,
Streets are narrow, you can see.
Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas.
You don't need to go so fast.
Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas.
You don't need to go so fast.

Traffic calming is so good
For a cool urban neighbourhood.
People walk and play
On the streets each day
and life is looking good.
Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas.
No one needs to drive thro' fast.
Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas.
No one needs to drive thro' fast.

The traffic circle looks so sweet
In the place where our two streets meet.
Let's plant flowers and make it ours
With tiles of all the children's feet.
Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas.
No one needs to drive thro' fast.
Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas.
No one needs to drive thro' fast.

WHOLESOME UNDY
Key: A Tune: "Guide Me O Thou""

Hey, Vancouver, in one week
A road-rage orgy in False Creek.
The Molson Indy in our town
Roaring squealing round and round.
Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best.

The Wholesome Undy is so cool;
Organic produce is the fuel.
The Wholesome Undy smells like folks
And no un-wholesome race car smoke.
Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best.

The Wholesome Undy sounds so sweet,
A pedal chorus in your street.
The Wholesome Undy sings along
A little traffic calming song.
Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best.

The Wholesome Undy looks so bright.
The Undy folks can travel light.
The Wholesome Undy looks so smart
With pedal power, life and art.
Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best.

Gaunch is wholesome, ginch is cute
And so's a cyclist's birthday suit.
A teddy's sexy, a thong is hot,
Long Johns cover up a lot.
Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best.

all lyrics
© 2001-2004 Lee Henderson.
Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study.

BEAUTIFUL CITY
Key: E7 Tune: African-American "12 Gates to the City"

Who's that ahead
with streamer handlebars?
It's a bike chick cutie
and she's passing all the cars
On a bike lane through the middle
of the city.

Who's that ahead in crash pad gear?
It's a pedal power
full suspension mountaineer
On a bike lane through the middle
of the city.

Let's make us a beautiful city,
Let's make us a beautiful city,
Let's make us a beautiful city,
With bike lanes through the middle
of Vancouver.

Who's that ahead
with those flashing lights?
It's a road race team in spandex tights
On a bike lane through the middle
of the city.

I see by the bags on their handlebars
They've been shopping
in downtown retail stores
On bike lanes through the middle
of the city.

Let's make us a beautiful city,
...
On Adanac Bikeway, who's rolling along?
It's the raging grannies
here to sing us a song
For bike lanes through the middle
of the city.

Let's make us a beautiful city,
....


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	Car Songs by Lee Henderson all lyrics © 2001-2004 Lee Henderson. Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study. note: some suggested tunes not public domain QUEENS OF THE ROAD Key: A Tune: "Kings of the Road" Sometimes we travel slow, And take time to stop and say hello. Sometimes we travel fast; We never whine about the price of gas. It's simple, you can see Bikes are good for you and me We'll be folks of means by all means, Queens of the road. Got healthy heart and legs, Never go to Jenny Craig. Don't pay no parking fees. Don't need no I.C.B.C. Sold our old Chevrolet 'Cause we found a better way. Now we're girls of means by all means, Queens of the road. Bikes don't use up the earth a lot Or turn it all into a parking lot. Bikes don't add to air pollution. Bikes are the urban green solution. Sometimes we travel slow... .... Queens of the road. Queens of the road. PEDAL POWER ROUND Key: C Tune: "Kookaburra" Pedal power rolls down the right-of-way, Rockin' way to get around every day. Living way to go. Breathing, don't you know that bikes are here to stay. LONG LIVE THE LAND Key: D Tune: "God Save the Queen" Long live the rivers, Long live the valleys, Long live the land. Rivers of salmon and valleys of fruitfulness, Earth turning under us: Long live the land. Evenings and mornings, Winters and summers, Long live the land. With gifts of creation past, Present and yet to come God crown the earth our home: Long live the land. all lyrics © 2001-2004 Lee Henderson. Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study. HEY YOU SWIMMERS Key: A Tune: traditional Cape Breton Gaelic: He mo leannan! Salmon of the ocean, salmon of the currents, salmon of the river, salmon of the stream. Hey, you swimmers, ho, you swimmers! Hey, you swimmers, welcome home. Salmon of the sunrise, salmon of the sunset, salmon of the daylight, salmon of the night. Hey... Salmon of the rainfall, salmon of the strong winds, salmon of the dense fog, salmon of the clouds. Hey.. Salmon of the planets, salmon of the starlight, salmon of the sunlight, salmon of the moon. Hey... Salmon of the ocean, salmon of the currents, salmon of the river, salmon of the stream. DAISY BELL Key: D Tune: "Daisy Bell" 1900 HE: Daisy, Daisy.. 1950 answer SHE: Arthur, Arthur, here's your answer true: I'm no martyr and I will not marry you. If you can't afford a Mercedes, Well you can go to Hades. And I'll be damned if I'll be crammed On a bicycle built for two. 2000 He: Daisy... 2000 SHE: Michael, Michael, Here's your answer true: I like to cycle. I'm happy that you do too. So cool, you're not a gas junkie and your quads are ripped and hunky. But I must be in charge of the front handlebars... HE: Then I'll check out your glutes and let you choose the routes... ALL: On our bicycle built for two. TRAFFIC LULLABY Key: A Tune: "Brahms' Lullaby" Please watch out, hang up the phone. Please drive slowly and carefully. Kids here walk to school, Parents bike to work, Streets are narrow, you can see. Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas. You don't need to go so fast. Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas. You don't need to go so fast. Traffic calming is so good For a cool urban neighbourhood. People walk and play On the streets each day and life is looking good. Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas. No one needs to drive thro' fast. Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas. No one needs to drive thro' fast. The traffic circle looks so sweet In the place where our two streets meet. Let's plant flowers and make it ours With tiles of all the children's feet. Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas. No one needs to drive thro' fast. Cool the roadrage, lay off the gas. No one needs to drive thro' fast. WHOLESOME UNDY Key: A Tune: "Guide Me O Thou"" Hey, Vancouver, in one week A road-rage orgy in False Creek. The Molson Indy in our town Roaring squealing round and round. Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best. The Wholesome Undy is so cool; Organic produce is the fuel. The Wholesome Undy smells like folks And no un-wholesome race car smoke. Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best. The Wholesome Undy sounds so sweet, A pedal chorus in your street. The Wholesome Undy sings along A little traffic calming song. Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best. The Wholesome Undy looks so bright. The Undy folks can travel light. The Wholesome Undy looks so smart With pedal power, life and art. Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best. Gaunch is wholesome, ginch is cute And so's a cyclist's birthday suit. A teddy's sexy, a thong is hot, Long Johns cover up a lot. Indy No, Undy Yes. The Wholesome Undy is the best. all lyrics © 2001-2004 Lee Henderson. Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study. BEAUTIFUL CITY Key: E7 Tune: African-American "12 Gates to the City" Who's that ahead with streamer handlebars? It's a bike chick cutie and she's passing all the cars On a bike lane through the middle of the city. Who's that ahead in crash pad gear? It's a pedal power full suspension mountaineer On a bike lane through the middle of the city. Let's make us a beautiful city, Let's make us a beautiful city, Let's make us a beautiful city, With bike lanes through the middle of Vancouver. Who's that ahead with those flashing lights? It's a road race team in spandex tights On a bike lane through the middle of the city. I see by the bags on their handlebars They've been shopping in downtown retail stores On bike lanes through the middle of the city. Let's make us a beautiful city, ... On Adanac Bikeway, who's rolling along? It's the raging grannies here to sing us a song For bike lanes through the middle of the city. Let's make us a beautiful city, .... email: foss@vcn.bc.ca				CAR INSURANCE RATES Key: D Tune: "Old Gray Mare" outside BC: "Car insurance rates" Car insurance rates are unfair to me. I don't drive much you see, At least not habitually, Car insurance rates rates are too much for me; I don't drive much at all. (x3) My workmate Hal drives a great big SUV. He drives it incessantly from here to eternity. My workmate Hal drives each day from Langalee And pays the same rates as me. He pays the same rates as me. (x2) Guys like Hal endanger society Roarin' them SUVs Makin' the children flee Guys like Hal are spewin' that smoke ya see And they should pay twice the fee But they pay the same rates as me. I'm giving them a subsidy. Most every place I go ain't very far. I don't hardly use my car. My bike can get me thar. Most every day I grab the handlebars. I wanna pay by the mile. I think I could save a pile If I could pay by the mile. Car insurance rates rates are too much for me; I don't drive much at all. (x3) Car insurance rates....all all lyrics © 2001-2004 Lee Henderson. Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study. TRAFFIC JAM Key: C Tune: "Workin On the Railroad"" I'm just waitin' in the traffic half of my workin' day, so I had to get a cell phone to take some calls along the way, had to move out to the suburbs, had to buy an SUV. Now I'm waitin' in the traffic for half an eternity. I'm steppin' on the gas, I'm leanin' on the horn, ragin' in the traffic jam, I am. I'm standin' on the brake, I'm flippin' you the bird, I'm ragin' in the traffic jam. Oh. How I hate this drivin'! Gotta get in to work (it's so far). Oh. How I hate what I do there, But I gotta pay for my car. God damn traffic jam, Ragin' in this jam I am, God damn traffic jam, This is where I am. UNDER THE FREEWAY Key: C Tune: "Under the Boardwalk" In the web of freeways that enthralls America, In the maze of pavement that dazzles us where'er we go, Roads are our poverty, Our fossil fool economy, Our infernal combustion economy: Nitrous Oxides as the tailpipes pass Groundlevel Ozone that will burn your ass Carbon Dioxide the famous Greenhouse Gas Carbon Monoxide and into sleep we pass, Under the freeway, Under the freeway. Out the Transcan Highway at the turnoff to the mall, there's a concrete culvert where my love and I will crawl under the freeway. Down by the petro refinery, in a culvert with my baby, That's where I'll be. Nitrous Oxides.... DEAD RIVER VALLEY Key: D Tune: "Red River Valley" We're the dinos, extinct old Albertans; we've emerged from the rocks beneath this place. We've come upstairs to ask a few questions of the fossil-burning human race. Like, why are you digging up the fossils so we cannot rest in peace under the ground? Tell us Why do you burn us in your engines and why are you driving all around? Did you think you could make a suburb heaven? Hey now, how did it become a pavement hell? Was it when you built the mall and the highway, the McDonalds and the tacky Taco Bell? Tell the dinos from Dead River Valley, We're your neighbours and we would like to know, Can you turn off the highway to extinction And let us fossils rest down below? Tell us what will you say to your children? Hey now, how will you look them in the eye When they ask the most innocent question, "Daddy why did the planet have to die? all lyrics © 2001-2004 Lee Henderson. Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study. PEDAL POWER GODDESS Key: D Tune: "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain" There's a pedal-power goddess in the sky And she turns the Milky Way between her thighs. She's the pedal-power goddess And she doesn't wear a bodice, She's the pedal-power goddess in the sky. There's a pedal power goddess in the stars. In the cosmos there's no lasting place for cars, So the goddess doesn't drive one And her energy's a live one And there are no fossils burning in her arse. There's a pedal power goddess on the way And we pedal by her power every day. Through the road rage and pollution, We will make a velorution, By the goddess we will find a better way. There's a pedal power goddess in the earth, In the wheel of living dying and rebirth. In the endless carbon cycle Living elements recycle, Giving, taking and remaking grief and mirth. LIGHTCLOUD LADY Stardance, lightcloud, Spiral weaving stardance, Churning waves, singing spirals Turn in heaven, spiral wide. Stardance woven by her fingertips, Starspell springing from her chanting lips, Lightcloud shining on her curving breasts, Stargems flashing on her swaying hips. Lightcloud Lady, Lightcloud Lady Lady Lightcloud danced. Swaying hips, curving breasts, Chanting lips, weaving fingertips. OLEUM PETROLEUM Key: D Tune: "I ain't a Gonna Grieve" You can't get to heaven in a limousine 'Cause the Lord don't sell no gasoline, no Oleum Petroleum. You get bad karma from a Mercedes 'Cause others pay for your life of ease, for your Oleum Petroleum There's bogus karma in an S.U.V., Ain't neither sport nor utility, its just Oleum Petroleum. You can't get to heaven in a four-by-four 'Cause heaven 's got a real narrow door, no Oleum Petroleum. We ain't a-gonna burn no fossil fuels, We ain't a-gonna be such fossil fools, We ain't a-gonna be such fossil fools. We don't burn diesel, we don't burn gas, We burn the lard right off our ass, Not oleum petroleum. We ain't a-gonna burn... You can roll into heaven on a rickety old bike. The angels will shout, "That's what I like, Not oleum petroleum." We ain't a-gonna burn... There's no need to feed no war for oil Take heed not to breed no war for oil There's no need to seed no war for oil We don't make danger; we don't make war. We don't think gas is worth fighting for. ONWARD, AUTOMAKERS Key: C. Tune: Onward, Christian Soldiers Onward, automakers and major oil companies, Drive your asphalt nations to wars across the seas. Build a market for road-rage and stoke the lust for war. A fossil fuel entitlement is what your crusade's for. Onward automakers and major oil companies Drive your asphalt nations to wars across the seas. Onward haughty oiligarchs in monster SUV's You who build America's one world economy Your consumer birthright lies beneath Arabia's sand. Manifest your destiny: Now go and bomb Saddam. Onward automakers and major oil companies Drive your asphalt nations to wars across the seas all lyrics © 2001-2004 Lee Henderson. Licence granted for free performance and reproduction for study.
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