Dazzle us with your lyrical genius here!

[mywickedshelby]

One foot on the brake and one on the gas, hey!

Well, there's too much traffic, I can't pass, no!

So I tried my best illegal move

A big black and white come and crushed my groove again!

 

CHORUS:

Go on & write me up for 125

Post my face, wanted dead or alive

Take my license n' all that jive

I can't drive É 55! Oh No! Uh!

 

So I signed my name on number 24, hey!

Yeah the judge said, "Boy, just one more

I'm gonna throw your ass in the city joint"

Looked me in the eye, said, "You get my point?"

I said "Yeah!, Oh yea!"

 

CHORUS II:

Write me up for 125

Post my face, wanted dead or alive

Take my license, all that jive

I can't drive É 55!

Oh, yea!

 

I can't drive 55! (four times)

Uh! (Solo)

 

When I drive that slow, you know it's hard to steer.

And I can't get my car out of second gear.

What used to take two hours now takes all day.

Huh - It took me 16 hours to get to L.A.!

 

CHORUS:

Go on & write me up for 125

Post my face, wanted dead or alive

Take my license n' all that jive

I can't drive 55!

 

No, no, no, I can't drive...(I can't drive 55!)

I can't drive... (I can't drive 55!)

I can't drive 55!

 

 

we printed up tshirts that said this after a friend of mine wrecked his 69 El Camino

what seems like 100 years ago.

[jdscooby]

Here's an old one.

 

 

Sniff 'N' The Tears

Driver's Seat lyrics

 

Doing all right

A little jiving on a Saturday night

And come what may

Gonna dance the day away

 

Jenny was sweet

She always smiled for the people she meet

On trouble and strife

She had another way of looking at life

 

The news is blue (The news is blue)

Had it's own way to get to you

What can I do? (What can I do? )

When I remember my time with you

 

Pick up your feet

Got to move to the trick of the beat

There is no elite

Just take your place in the driver's seat

Driver's seat, driver's seat, yeah

Doing all right

A little jiving on a Saturday night

And come what may

Gonna dance the day away

Driver's seat, driver's seat, yeah

Jenny was sweet

There is no elite

Pick up your feet, pick up, pick up

Pick up your feet, gonna dance the day away

Driver's seat, driver's seat, yeah

Driver's seat, driver's seat, yeah

 

Driver's seat

[Cali_KR]

Triumph - Fight the Good Fight

 

The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long

Feels like we're running out of time

Every day it seems much harder tellin' right from wrong

You got to read between the lines

 

Don't get discouraged, don't be afraid, we can

Make it through another day

Make it worth the price we pay

 

The Good Book says it's better to give than to receive

I do my best to do my part

Nothin' in my pockets I got nothin' up my sleeve

I keep my magic in my heart

 

Keep up your spirit, keep up your faith, baby

I am counting on you

You know what you've got to do

 

CHORUS:

Fight the good fight every moment

Every minute every day

Fight the good fight every moment

It's your only way

 

All your life you've been waiting for your chance

Where you'll fit into the plan

But you're the master of your own destiny

So give and take the best that you can

 

You think a little more money will buy your soul some rest

You'd better think of something else instead

You're so afraid of being honest with yourself

You'd better take a look inside your head

 

Nothing is easy, nothing good is free

But I can tell you where to start

Take a look inside your heart

There's an answer in your heart

 

CHORUS

 

Very nice, I've always appreciated the second best power trio to come out of Canada. Saw them in the Forum (about 2000 people) at the PNE in Vancouver in the early 80's

[mywickedshelby]

Very nice, I've always appreciated the second best power trio to come out of Canada. Saw them in the Forum (about 2000 people) at the PNE in Vancouver in the early 80's

 

Here's to hoping the first one is Rush!

 

"Listen to my music,

see what it can do,

there's something here as strong as life

I know that it will reach you!"

[Cali_KR]

Our first stop is in Bogata

To check the Colombian fields

The Natives smile an pass along

A sample of their yield

Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams

Golden Acapulco nights

Then Morocco, and the East

Fly by morning light

 

(chorus)

We're on the train to Bangkok

Aboard the Thailand Express

We'll hit the stops along the way

We only stop for the best

 

Wreathed in smoke in Lebanon

We burn the midnight oil

The fragrance of Afghanistan

Rewards a long days toil

Pulling into katmandu

Smoke rings fill the air

Perfumed by a Nepal night

The Express gets you there

 

(chorus)

 

 

Listen to this in my own purple haze throughout high school in the late 70's

 

RUSH, A Passage to Bangkok

[jdscooby]

Another great Rush song

 

My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about

He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law

And on 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 a shining car

A brilliant red barchetta, from a better, vanished time

I 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 towards 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, Ive 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...

[mywickedshelby]

indeed.

[jdscooby]

Rush was the first rock concert I went to in the 80's. They sound great live, almost like listening to the album. Yes I said album.

[Shlbylvr]

ThunderStruck - ACDC

 

I was caught

In the middle of a railroad track (Thunder)

I looked 'round,

And I knew there was no turning back (Thunder)

My mind raced

And I thought what could I do? (Thunder)

And I knew

There was no help, no help from you (Thunder)

Sound of the drums

Beatin' in my heart

The thunder of guns!

Tore me apart

You've been - thunderstruck!

Rode down the highway

Broke the limit, we hit the ton

Went through to Texas, yeah Texas

And we had some fun

We met some girls,

Some dancers who gave a good time

Broke all the rules, played all the fools

Yeah, yeah, they, they, they blew our minds

And I was shakin' at the knees

Could I come again please.

Yeah the ladies were too kind

You've been - thunderstruck, thunderstruck

Yeah yeah yeah, thunderstruck

Yeah

Oh, thunderstruck, yeah

Now we're shaking at the knees

Could I come again please.

Thunderstruck, thunderstruck

Yeah yeah yeah, thunderstruck

Thunderstruck, yeah, yeah, yeah

Said yeah, it's alright

We're! Doing fine

Yeah, it's alright

We're! Doing fine

So fine

Thunderstruck, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck

Whoa baby, baby, thunderstruck

You've been thunderstruck, thunderstruck

Thunderstruck, thunderstruck, thunderstruck

You've been thunderstruck

[dh777]

Rush was the first rock concert I went to in the 80's. They sound great live, almost like listening to the album. Yes I said album.

 

I think it was my second concert. Asia was my first. But I haven't missed on Rush tour since. The last two times they rolled around I made the trip to Vegas to see them, rent a SGT-H and drive it out to Shelby and to the dam.

[svttim]

(Toby Keith/Scotty Emerick)

 

Don't my baby look good in them blue jeans

Tight on the top with a belly button ring

A little tattoo somewhere in between she only shows to me

Yeah we're goin' out dancin' she's ready tonight

So damn good lookin' boys it ain't even right

And when the bartender says for the lady

What's it gonna be... I tell him man..

 

She ain't in to wine and roses

Beer just makes her turn up her nose and

She can't stand the thought of sipping champagne

No Cuervo, gold margaritas

Just ain't enough good burn in tequila

She needs somethin' with a little more edge

And a little more pain

She's my little whiskey girl, she's my little whiskey girl

My ragged on the edges girl, ah but I like em rough

 

Baby got a '69 mustang

Four on the floor and you oughtta hear the pipes ring

I jump behind the wheel and it's a way we go

Hey I drive too fast but she don't care

Blue bandana tied all up in her hair, just sittin there

Singin' every song on the radio

 

She ain't in to wine and roses

Beer just makes her turn up her nose and

She can't stand the thought of sipping champagne

No Cuervo, gold margaritas

Just ain't enough good burn in tequila

She needs somethin' with a little more edge

And a little more pain

She's my little whiskey girl, she's my little whiskey girl

My ragged on the edges girl, ah but I like em rough

 

She's my little whiskey girl, she's my little whiskey girl

My ragged on the edges girl, ah but I like em rough

[kevhead20]

So, so you think you can tell

Heaven from Hell,

Blue skys from pain.

Can you tell a green field

From a cold steel rail?

A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

 

And did they get you to trade

Your heros for ghosts?

Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?

And did you exchange

A walk on part in the war

For a lead role in a cage?

 

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls

Swimming in a fish bowl,

Year after year,

Running over the same old ground.

What have we found?

The same old fears.

Wish you were here.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DXCHa9BYfE

[turnsignaldelete]

"Take It to The Limit" EAGLES

 

One of my 'Road Trip' songs on disk

 

All alone at the end of the of the evening

And the bright lights have faded to blue

I was thinking bout a woman who might have

Loved me and I never knew

You know Ive always been a dreamer

(spent my life running round)

And its so hard to change

(cant seem to settle down)

But the dreams Ive seen lately

Keep on turning out and burning out

And turning out the same

 

So put me on a highway

And show me a sign

And take it to the limit one more time

 

You can spend all your time making money

You can spend all your love making time

If it all fell to pieces tomorrow

Would you still be mine?

 

And when youre looking for your freedom

(nobody seems to care)

And you cant find the door

(cant find it anywhere)

When theres nothing to believe in

Still youre coming back, youre running back

Youre coming back for more

 

So put me on a highway

And show me a sign

And take it to the limit one more time

 

Take it to the limit

Take it to the limit

Take it to the limit one more time

 

[Cali_KR]

Rush was the first rock concert I went to in the 80's. They sound great live, almost like listening to the album. Yes I said album.

 

My first Rush concert was 1978 Farewell To Kings tour (my first album was 2112 in 1977) at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, my last was this past summer, Snakes and Arrows, Concord Pavilion in Concord California.

 

I've lost count but at least 2 dozen shows in a variety of venues in between. THE BEST, bar none, this cannot be debated....

 

Check out the newly released (nov 2008) Snakes and Arrows concert DVD, amazing sound and camera work! You will not be disappointed...

[SNAKE08]

Beth I hear you callin'

But I can't come home right now

Me and the SHELBY are playin'

And we just can't leave the track

Just a few more hours

And I'll be right home to you

I think I hear them callin'

Oh Beth what can I do

Beth what can I do

 

You say you feel so empty

That our house just ain't our home

I'm always somewhere else

And you're always there alone

 

Just a few more hours

And I'll be right home to you

I think I hear them callin'

Oh Beth what can I do

Beth what can I do

 

Beth, I know you're lonely

And I hope you'll be alright

'Cos me and the SHELBY will be playin' all night

[jdscooby]

My first Rush concert was 1978 Farewell To Kings tour (my first album was 2112 in 1977) at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, my last was this past summer, Snakes and Arrows, Concord Pavilion in Concord California.

 

I've lost count but at least 2 dozen shows in a variety of venues in between. THE BEST, bar none, this cannot be debated....

 

Check out the newly released (nov 2008) Snakes and Arrows concert DVD, amazing sound and camera work! You will not be disappointed...

 

 

Will check it out

[kstrong]

My Mum loved this song and this guy.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvmyTZEqlo8

 

She's A Lady"

 

Well she's all you'd ever want,

She's the kind they'd like to flaunt and take to dinner.

Well she always knows her place.

She's got style, she's got grace, She's a winner.

She's a Lady. Whoa whoa whoa, She's a Lady.

Talkin' about that little lady, and the lady is mine.

Well she's never in the way

Always something nice to say, Oh what a blessing.

I can leave her on her own

Knowing she's okay alone, and there's no messing.

She's a lady. Whoa, whoa, whoa. She's a lady.

Talkin' about that little lady, and the lady is mine.

Well she never asks for very much and I don't refuse her.

Always treat her with respect, I never would abuse her.

What she's got is hard to find, and I don't want to lose her

Help me build a mountain from my little pile of clay. Hey, hey, hey.

Well she knows what I'm about,

She can take what I dish out, and that's not easy,

Well she knows me through and through,

She knows just what to do, and how to please me.

She's a lady. Whoa, whoa, whoa. She's a lady.

Talkin' about that little lady and the lady is mine.

Yeah yeah yeah She's a Lady

Listen to me baby, She's a Lady

Whoa whoa whoa, She's a Lady

And the Lady is mine

Yeah yeah yeah She's a Lady

Talkin about this little lady

Whoa whoa whoa whoa

Whoa and the lady is mine

Yeah yeah She's a Lady

And the Lady is mine.

 

Just lyrics and voice. He did not need visual or special effects. :happy feet:

[kstrong]

So, so you think you can tell

Heaven from Hell,

Blue skys from pain.

Can you tell a green field

From a cold steel rail?

A smile from a veil?

Do you think you can tell?

 

And did they get you to trade

Your heros for ghosts?

Hot ashes for trees?

Hot air for a cool breeze?

Cold comfort for change?

And did you exchange

A walk on part in the war

For a lead role in a cage?

 

How I wish, how I wish you were here.

We're just two lost souls

Swimming in a fish bowl,

Year after year,

Running over the same old ground.

What have we found?

The same old fears.

Wish you were here.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DXCHa9BYfE

:beerchug:

One of my favorites! :happy feet:

[kstrong]

Well I'm ever upper-class high society

God's gift to ballroom notoriety

And I always fill my ballroom

The event is never small

The social pages say I've got

The biggest balls of all

 

I've got big balls

I've got big balls

They're such big balls

And they're dirty big balls

And he's got big balls

And she's got big balls

But we've got the biggest balls of them all

 

And my balls are always bouncing

And my ballroom always full

And everybody cums and cums again

If your name is on the guest list

No one can take you higher

Everybody says I've got

Great balls of fire

 

I've got big balls

Oh, I've got big balls

And they're such big balls

Dirty big balls

And he's got big balls

And she's got big balls

But we've got the biggest balls of them all

 

Some balls are held for charity

And some for fancy dress

But when they're held for pleasure

They're the balls that I like best

My balls are always bouncing

To the left and to the right

It's my belief that my big balls

Should be held every night

 

Oh, we've got big balls

We've got big balls

We've got big balls

Dirty big balls

He's got big balls

She's got big balls

But we've got the biggest balls of them all

 

Oh, we've got big balls

We've got big balls

We've got big balls/And I'm just itching to tell you about them

Dirty big balls/Oh we had such wonderful fun

He's got big balls/Seafood cocktail

She's got big balls/Crabs

But we've got the biggest balls of them all/Crayfish

Just about any AC\DC song is great! :happy feet:

[kstrong]

Another great Rush song

 

My uncle has a country place, that no one knows about

He says it used to be a farm, before the motor law

And on 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 a shining car

A brilliant red barchetta, from a better, vanished time

I 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 towards 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, Ive 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...

This is the tune I cranked up when I picked up the GT500!

I had the cd and played it half a dozen times before we left.

I played RUSH the whole way home. The car is a RUSH and the music was RUSH!

Iv'e only seen them SEVEN times in concert. I even saw them when they played in TOPEKA, KANSAS!

Awsum, just Awsum.

A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me!!!!!!! My GT500 is Alloy!

[kstrong]

When the weathers nice, Supertramp!

 

So you think you're a Romeo

playing a part in a picture-show

Take the long way home

Take the long way home

 

'Cus you're the joke of the neighborhood

Why should you care if you're feeling good

Take the long way home

Take the long way home

 

But there are times that you feel you're part of the scenery

aaaall the greenery is comin' down, boy

And then your wife seems to think you're part of the

furniture ,ooohhh it's peculiar, she used to be so nice.

 

When lonely days turn to lonely nights

you take a trip to the city lights

And take the long way home

Take the long way home

 

You never see what you want to see

Forever playing to the gallery

You take the long way home

Take the long way home

 

And when you're up on the stage, it's so unbelievable,

oooohhh, unforgettable, how they adore you,

But then your wife seems to think you're losing your sanity,

oh, calamity, is there no way out?

 

ooohh, Yea!!

 

Does it feel that your life's become a catastrophe?

Oooohh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.

When you look through the years and see what you could

have been oh, what might have been,

if you'd had more time.

 

So, when the day comes to settle down,

Who's to blame if you're not around?

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

Long way home..

Long way home..

Long way home..

[jdscooby]

This song gives me chills every time I hear it.

 

 

 

Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald

by Gordon Lightfoot

 

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy.

 

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more

Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

When the gales of November came early

 

The ship was the pride of the American side

Coming back from some mill in Wisconson

As the big freighters go it was bigger than most

With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

 

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms

When they left fully loaded for Cleveland

And later that night when the ships bell rang

Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

 

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound

And a wave broke over the railing

And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,

T'was the witch of November come stealing.

 

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait

When the gales of November came slashing

When afternoon came it was freezing rain

In the face of a hurricane West Wind

 

When supper time came the old cook came on deck

Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya

At 7PM a main hatchway caved in

He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

 

The Captain wired in he had water coming in

And the good ship and crew was in peril

And later that night when his lights went out of sight

Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

Does anyone know where the love of God goes

When the words turn the minutes to hours

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay

If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.

 

They might have split up or they might have capsized

They may have broke deep and took water

And all that remains is the faces and the names

Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

 

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings

In the ruins of her ice water mansion

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,

The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

 

And farther below Lake Ontario

Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know

With the gales of November remembered.

 

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed

In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral

The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times

For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

Superior, they say, never gives up her dead

When the gales of November come early.

[turnsignaldelete]

 

Hey, Little Cobra

 

Hey, Little Cobra, don't you know

you're gonna to shut 'em down

 

I took my Cobra down to the track,

hitched to the back of my Cadillac,

 

Everyone was there just a waiting for me

There were plenty of Stingrays and XKEs,

 

Spring little Cobra getting ready to strike

Spring Little Cobra with all your might

Spring little Cobra getting ready to strike

Spring Little Cobra with all your might

 

Hey, Little Cobra, don't you know

you are going to shut them down

 

When the flag went down, you could hear rubber burn,

The Stingray pulled me going into the turn

 

I hung a big shift, and I got into high,

When I when I flew by the Stingray, I waved bye bye.

 

Spring little Cobra getting ready to strike

Spring Little Cobra with all your might

Spring little Cobra getting ready to strike

Spring Little Cobra with all your might

 

Hey, Little Cobra, Don't you know

you are going to shut 'em down

 

Around the turn into the straight away

I was blowing off everything that got in my way,

 

Stingrays and Jags were so far behind

I took my Cobra out of gear and let it coast to the line.

 

Spring little Cobra getting ready to strike

Spring Little Cobra with all your might

Spring little Cobra getting ready to strike

Spring Little Cobra with all your might

 

Hey, Little Cobra, Don't you know

you are going to shut 'em down

 

Shut'em down, shut'em down, shut'em down...

 

"Hey, Little Cobra" was written by Carol Conner in 1964. She apparently wrote "Hey, Little Cobra after she'd gone to Shelby American and purchased her very own Little Cobra. Her biggest hit was "To Know Him is to Love Him" selling 2 million copies.

[kstrong]

This one goes without saying...............

"There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed

With a word she can get what she came for.

Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

 

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure

'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,

Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,

Ooh, it makes me wonder.

 

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,

And my spirit is crying for leaving.

In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,

And the voices of those who standing looking.

Ooh, it makes me wonder,

Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

 

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune

Then the piper will lead us to reason.

And a new day will dawn for those who stand long

And the forests will echo with laughter.

 

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,

It's just a spring clean for the May queen.

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run

There's still time to change the road you're on.

And it makes me wonder.

 

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,

The piper's calling you to join him,

Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know

Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

 

And as we wind on down the road

Our shadows taller than our soul.

There walks a lady we all know

Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold.

And if you listen very hard

The tune will come to you at last.

When all are one and one is all

To be a rock and not to roll.

 

And she's buying a stairway to heaven".

 

:happy feet:

[kstrong]

This song gives me chills every time I hear it.

 

 

 

Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald

by Gordon Lightfoot

 

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy.

 

With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more

Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed

When the gales of November came early

 

The ship was the pride of the American side

Coming back from some mill in Wisconson

As the big freighters go it was bigger than most

With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.

 

Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms

When they left fully loaded for Cleveland

And later that night when the ships bell rang

Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling.

 

The wind in the wires made a tattletale sound

And a wave broke over the railing

And every man knew, as the Captain did, too,

T'was the witch of November come stealing.

 

The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait

When the gales of November came slashing

When afternoon came it was freezing rain

In the face of a hurricane West Wind

 

When supper time came the old cook came on deck

Saying fellows it's too rough to feed ya

At 7PM a main hatchway caved in

He said fellas it's been good to know ya.

 

The Captain wired in he had water coming in

And the good ship and crew was in peril

And later that night when his lights went out of sight

Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

Does anyone know where the love of God goes

When the words turn the minutes to hours

The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay

If they'd fifteen more miles behind her.

 

They might have split up or they might have capsized

They may have broke deep and took water

And all that remains is the faces and the names

Of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

 

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings

In the ruins of her ice water mansion

Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams,

The islands and bays are for sportsmen.

 

And farther below Lake Ontario

Takes in what Lake Erie can send her

And the iron boats go as the mariners all know

With the gales of November remembered.

 

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed

In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral

The church bell chimed, 'til it rang 29 times

For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

Superior, they say, never gives up her dead

When the gales of November come early.

:beerchug:

[ken07gt500]

THE CARS, I DON,'T MIND YOU COMN HERE WAISTING ALL MY TIME TIME, KEN

[DubbsFaris]

My first song I cranked up before I even started the car at the dealership...

 

Ooooooh, yeah, ooh, yeah

 

Everythin', everythin', everythin's gonna be alright this mornin'

Ooh yeah, whoaw

Now when I was a young boy, at the age of five

My mother said I was, gonna be the greatest man alive

But now I'm a man, way past 21

Want you to believe me baby,

I had lot's of fun

I'm a man

I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn

That represents man

No B, O child, Y

That mean mannish boy

I'm a man

I'm a full grown man

I'm a man

I'm a natural born lovers man

I'm a man

I'm a rollin' stone

I'm a man

I'm a hoochie coochie man

 

Sittin' on the outside, just me and my mate

You know I'm made to move you honey,

come up two hours late

Wasn't that a man

I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn

That represents man

No B, O child, Y

That mean mannish boy

I'm a man

I'm a full grown man

Man

I'm a natural born lovers man

Man

I'm a rollin' stone

Man-child

I'm a hoochie coochie man

The line I shoot will never miss

When I make love to a woman,

she can't resist

I think I go down,

to old Kansas Stew

I'm gonna bring back my second cousin,

that little Johnny Cocheroo

All you little girls,

sittin'out at that line

I can make love to you woman,

in five minutes time

Ain't that a man

I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn

That represents man

No B, O child, Y

That mean mannish boy

Man

I'm a full grown man

Man

I'm a natural born lovers man

Man

I'm a rollin' stone

I'm a man-child

I'm a hoochie coochie man

well, well, well, well

hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry

Don't hurt me, don't hurt me child

don't hurt me, don't hurt, don't hurt me child

well, well, well, well

 

Yeah

 

cranked it as loud is I could, driving it out of the parking lot...but switched it as soon as I got ready to pull out on the street...but we will save that for tomorrow!

[sportscars]

Who started this gay thread? Any way how 'bout some good ol Texas music:

 

Walt Wilkins - Poetry

 

Some things I've done make my conscience burn

My very spine shudder and burn

I only hope that I've learned from my sins

I heard a voice when I was thirteen

Got baptized and wash up clean

but the world has a way if you know what I mean

of scuffing you up again.

 

I cant explain a blessed thing

not a falling star or a feathered wing

or how a man in chains has the strength to sing.

Just one thing is clear to me,

there's always more than what appears to be

when the light is just right I swear I see poetry.

 

Now somebody made everything

from the soul inside out to Saturn's rings

how my baby smiles and how Ray Charles sings,

of course we were created.

The clouds make rain the ocean makes sand

the earth breaths fire and lava makes land

now that took a mighty hand and a wild imagination.

 

I cant explain a blessed thing

not a falling star or a feathered wing

or how a man in chains has the strength to sing (like a bird).

Just one thing is clear to me,

there's always more than what appears to be

when the light is just right I swear I see poetry.

 

The dreams I've dreamed came back ten fold

The friends I have, the woman I hold

I look down and I'm on a street of gold

after all the mud along the way

Sometimes the big 'ol mystery just leans right in on me

and whispers I am home and I am free and I'll take that anyday, anyday.

 

I cant explain a blessed thing

not a falling star or a feathered wing

or how a man in chains has the strength to sing (I'll fly away).

Just one thing is clear to me,

there's always more than what appears to be

when the light is just right I swear I see poetry.

[mywickedshelby]

Rush was the first rock concert I went to in the 80's. They sound great live, almost like listening to the album. Yes I said album.

 

I saw them twice in the 80s (Nassau Colliseum & Radio City Music Hall)

and again last summer.

Just as tight as ever.

Great band.

[DubbsFaris]

I saw them twice in the 80s (Nassau Colliseum & Radio City Music Hall)

and again last summer.

Just as tight as ever.

Great band.

 

 

Rush was one of the few GREAT bands I've seen that I cant actually remember the concert...I was smashed! So then I saw them in 1994-95 again and Im glad I did...I think that was the start of me going to concerts sober, and if they were good I would stay that way...if they were bad, I would get wasted...LOL :happy feet: