Some folks will remember Peter, Paul and Mary doing this on their "In Concert" album.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAR-CAR (Woody Guthrie) Folkways Music Pub. Inc. BMI (This song is a combination of spoken segments with vocal sound effects and singing. This will be the basic lyric only as the performance is far more than can be easily written down).

(Chorus)
Take me for a ride in your Car-Car
Take me for a ride in your Car-Car
Take me for a ride, Take me for a ride,
Take me for a ride in your Car-Car

(spoken and sound effects segment)
Take me for a ride in your Mac Truck
Take me for a ride in your truck, mack
Take me for a ride, take me for a ride,
Take me for a ride in your Mac Truck, Mack

(spoken and sound effects segment)

(Chorus)

(Spoken segment, with sound effects, then Mary sings...)
Take me for a ride in your car-car
Take me for a ride in your car-car
Take me for a ride, take me for a ride,
Take me for a ride in your 3.2 liter Ferrari with tortion bar suspension
and those ported venturi carburetors!

(another spoken and sound effects segment to the end of the song)

Now, Woody wrote this as a children's song. No deep Freudian meaning here, just some fun. So you've got the idea, now wing it! Make up your own words. Repeat lines you've already used. Enjoy it! Folk pedantry be damned! All hail the folk process. You haven't done this song right unless you've folked it up! PP&M gave Woody the copyright and then let fly. For once they did it right! I think Woody would'a been happy.

'Nuff said.

Big RiB