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1) DRIVE by THE CARS
2) BABY YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR by THE BEATLES
3) PINK CADILLAC by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
4) LITLLE RED CORVETTE by PRINCE
5) MUSTANG SALLY by WILSON PICKET

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Re: SONGS ABOUT CARS

Fast Car Tracy Chapman
Stick Shifts and Safety Belts by Cake
Satan is My Motor by Cake

There are many, many more

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Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody
King of the Road (ok, it's a freight car on a train, but it's a car) - Roger Miller
Little GTO-  Jan & Dean (?)
Coupe De Ville - Jan & Dean (?)
One Piece At A Time - Johnny Cash
Little Nash Rambler - ??? "Hey buddy how do you get this thing out of second gear?"  You know the song.
Guitars and Cadillacs - George Straight(?)
Pickup Man - Some Country dude I can't remember right now

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Hey Guys ,
   What about " Little Deuce Coupe " and " 409 " ( Beach Boys ) I think....???
   Sorry Zurf , hope you were'nt trying to forget those............L O L .
       
                       Jerry

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Nah, those are cool.  I was trying to remember Little Deuce Coupe when I came up with Coupe de Ville and Little GTO. There's also Little Ol' Lady From Pasadena, which is actually about her car but the car isn't mentioned in the title.  Wasn't there also a Beach Boys song about a Woody wagon? 

I just remembered a few more:

Swing Low Sweet Cadillac - Dizzy Gillespie

Little Red Rodeo - don't remember, another Country song.

The Red Corvette - John McCutcheon

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Zurf ,
   The Beach Boys song you're thinking of is " Surf City " . I think the first line goes.................
  " Got a thirty nine wagon , and we call it a woody ........
surf city here we come......."
   And how about " Fun Fun Fun , till her daddy takes the T-Bird away...............

                     Jerry

   (  Boy , this stuff is bringing back too many memories ).............L O L .

" Just reading the lyrics , it's hard to hear the song , but if the words tug at the heartstrings......it's enough for now........... "
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Also
chasing blue cars-Dishwalla
Cars-gary Neuman
Crosstown Traffic-Hendrix

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Buck Rodgers:Feeder
or at least the first verse is

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I've always argued that there are only three kinds of songs.

Songs about women, songs about liquor, and songs about Cadillacs.

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I cannot believe no one has mentioned
Madness' "driving in my car"

Classic song!!

I dont know how big they got in america or but what a band!!

lyrics for it   http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.u … ;id=258771

and also blue oyster cult sing " last days of May" were driving in a stolen car to go get some dugs then they all got killed I think by the dealer,lol. Not heard that song in years!

other ones are ( taken from Chordie's list, i dont even know most of them)

Car....built to spill
car crash....our lady peace
car phone......roger McGinn
car underwater....armor for sleep
car wheels on a gravel....lucinda williams
car wrecks and plane crashes.. across five aprils

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Two blasts from the past for you.

Seven Little Girls Sitting On the Back Seat - Paul Evans

Beep Beep (The Bubble Car Song) - The Playmates

Roger

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how about;

"V-8 Ford" and "Little Car Blues" by Willie Love

Recorded in 1950 with Sonny Boy Williamson.
 
Great listening.... Badeye..:cool:

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No Money Down - Dusty Rose's band mate so far as I know (Dusty Rose being the stage name for a musician local to my area)

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I wrote one about a rally race once...

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Stray Cats - Look At That Cadillac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Af7kU4Vlqo

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Nation Wide - ZZ Top

Easin' down the highway in a new cadillac,
I had a fine fox in front, I had three more in the back.

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"Benchseat" Fred Eaglesmith

"It's got a benchseat baby,you don't have to sit over there."

Later, Wayne P

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Question - is Born to Run about cars or bikes ?

I haven't a clue what "hemi-powered drones" means ! But then I drive a Yaris.

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Headlights On Dark Roads - Snow Patrol
And there's a line from a Straylight Run song that goes 'Like Deer And Headlights'
Not so much a Car theme as a Headlight theme, but hey...

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How about " Thunder Road " , isn't that one as much about the car as the moonshine it's carrying ?
   Hey Zurf , when you mentioned " Hot Rod Lincoln "
It reminds me of years ago ,
I taught myself to pick that song at speed , which was no small feat . Then I taught it to my little bro. After that I just never really played it much . A few years later that tune came up at a jam and my little bro started picking it and I just could'nt keep up .
That's what we get for showing someone else our chops right ??  L  O  L.........

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G S E wrote:

A few years later that tune came up at a jam and my little bro started picking it and I just could'nt keep up .
That's what we get for showing someone else our chops right ??  L  O  L.........

                   Jerry

Sure!  The pleasure of hearing a dear friend (I assume your brother was a dear friend from your comments in other threads) play something cool.  Sounds like a good payoff from where I'm sitting!

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Zurf ,
   It certainly is pleasant payoff , but you have to know that this type of thing has been a fun joke between us for years . Sometimes if we're playing together at a jam and one of us has some new lick or riff , we turn away from the other so they can't see what you're doing with the fingers . It sometimes makes for some interesting cord tanglements when the other keeps try to come around and see ! Then we just start laughing so that we can't hardly play . We have a lot of fun with it , and so does whoever is watching...........L O L........

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alansheeran wrote:

Question - is Born to Run about cars or bikes ?

I haven't a clue what "hemi-powered drones" means ! But then I drive a Yaris.

I just wet myself!

How about

Tell Laura I Love Her by Ray Peterson
Cars and Girls by Prefab Sprout

and "We're loadin up my Woody with the board inside" Was from Surfin Safari by the Beach Boys

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Thanks Bonedaddy ,
   I was thinking it was called
" Surf City " , but you're right it was " Surfin Safari ".
   Thanks for refreshing my memory .............

                      Jerry

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Doesn't Alan Jackson have one about a Mercury or something?

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