Lyr Req: biker songs

Subject: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: billy bob
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 05:44 PM

hi peeps
i've started doing a lot of motorbike rallys (again)
and noticed that while the love of a good sing songs is there
there didn't seem to be many songs that 'fitted the bill'
does any one have any short shanty type songs
that are easy to learn, so people can join in
or any other sugestions
apart from pay for a band!!!!
love and fluffy stuff

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: MudGuard
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 05:52 PM

Oh, it is about motor bikes, I thought it was for real bikes...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 06:05 PM

Try the Kippers - Biker Bill and Walter Shaw. It's a scream.

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 06:16 PM

Not exactly shanty type songs, but

I've been a Hell's Angel?

Leader of the Pack?

Teenage cremation? (Oh how I sighed as you fried etc)

Vincent Black Lightning?

And, of course, John Warner's song about Harvey v Honda (Harley Dinosaur) - chorus:

And it's oh my! you never saw before
Such a thumping great triceratops
like Harley Dinosaur.

There was a time when Maddy Prior did dreadful recitations, including
one on the lines of

I rode out on my motorbike with Ruth at the back of me

I hit a bump at 95 and rode on Ruthlessly.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Barb'ry
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 06:17 PM

In my day (good grief - how old!) we sang 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' and lots of unprintable rugby songs, which I'm sure appear in the 'bawdy' section of DT!
What are bike rallies like nowadays? I've got many fond memories....
Barb'ry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: billy bob
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 06:39 PM

the hells angel song is just about the only one we(i) know
but there is a good(?) tradision of rugby song
so i'll check the tread
dont let tht stop the suggestions though!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 06:49 PM

Oops, that should have been Harley v Honda!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 07:08 PM

G'day Billy Bob,

Just 6 days ago, I was looking at the sheet music (in someone else's collection) of a (~) '50s song that I distantly remember my aunt singing:

The Terror of Highway 101 (?)

He had black leather trousers, and motorcycle boots,
He had a hopped-up cycle (pr. 'sickle') and he drove it like a gun,
?    ?    ?    ?    ?
That fool, he was the terror of highway 1 oh 1!

I think the bit I quote was a chorus, so it should suit your purposes. I can't see the song in the DT (I searched on "black leather trousers" ... and I'm not likely to be over where I saw the music sheet (about an hour's drive south of Sydney) for some time, but it might be out on the WWW ... somewhere!

BTW: I don't know if Herga Kitty has John Warner's words for Harley Dinosaur transcribed, but I'll probably see John tomorrow night ... and I'll ask if he does (or, more likely, if his singing partner Margaret Walters has!). Either way, he's unlikely to have the music written out ... as he doesn't work from flyspots & hen-scratches!

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 07:30 PM

Bob B and Billy Bob

As I'm sure you know, John Warner (and /or Margaret) is/are incredibly generous in providing the words of his songs with the CDs, including the verses that he wrote but which were excised from the recorded versions to keep the CDs within manageable length.   (Having sung Kitty Kane without the second verse for years, I've now put it back because it's such a good verse!) The insert for "Who was here" includes the words for 4 verses of "Harley Dinosaur" It also says, "The story is true except that the dinosaur was actually a sheep... names have been changed to protect the sheep"

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 10:17 PM

"Don't want a nickle
Just wanna ride on my motorsickle".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Padre
Date: 24 Jul 03 - 10:30 PM

Bob Bolton:

The chorus for Black Leather Jacket (as I remember it) is:

He wore black leather trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped-up cycle that took off like a gun
That darn fool was the terror of highway 101

Padre (former owner of a Norton Atlas)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: mack/misophist
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 01:24 AM

Sorry, correction, please. That should have been

"Don't want a pickle
Just wanna ride on my motorsickle".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 01:43 AM

G'day,

Padre:

Thanks! That sounds a lot more correct than my faulty memory of it! (Given that I never sang it ... and heard it about 40 years ago ... it was not too bad a try - and it flushed out someone who did know it!) Was that a chorus, or just the first verse of the song?

As I said, above, I saw (indeed, handled!) the sheet music six days ago ... but it was someone else's collection and that was just one item that caught my passing fancy.

Herga Kitty: Does that mean that you have the words in a postable form ... or should I bother Margaret to email them to me so I can post them? (Of course, she could post them herself ... 'though I'm not sure if she ever "signed up" ... It looks like getting confusing for me, as another fine singer of my old acquaintance ... Margret RoadKnight, just posted ... still 'lurker' status ... to another thread today!)

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 02:22 AM

Bob

I have the CD insert, so could type the words out and post them,probably over the weekend (though I'm hoping to make a day trip to Warwick festival tomorrow). If you think you've got a quicker way, then fine, but if not I'll do my best.....


Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: AndyC
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 04:21 AM

On the IOM this year, heard someone singing 'The 12 days of TT', the gifts I recall were:

A rusty old Aermacchi
Two Speed Twins
Three Triumph Tridints
Four Honda Fours
Five Gold Wings

And then my memory fades out

HTH

Andy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 08:55 AM

G'day Herga Kitty,

There are a number of options. I have not yet loaded an OCR program on this computer ... so I can't directly scan in from the CD liner (but I do have an OCR program on a disk ... somewhere ... ?

I did not have a chance to ring Margret ... expect to see her at The Loaded Dog tomorrow night - should ring first and see if she can give me a floppy disk ... or an e-mail copy ... as she would have the text with the liner noted resources.

If that fails ... one of us will have to sit down and do some typing!

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 12:22 PM

A biker is riding over the bridge when his front tire decides to break with the gang. As the poor biker went over the rail he was heard singing:

"How could you leave me loose wheel?"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: The O'Meara
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 12:28 PM

The song was recorded by Vaughn Monroe:

Black Denim Trousers

(He wore) black Denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped up 'Sicle" that took off like a gun
that fool was the terror of Highway one-oh-one

Last lines

He met a screaming diesel California bound
And when they cleared the wreckage this was all they found

Black Denim trousers...etc

Loved the song - used to sit by the radio waiting for it to be played.
Have it on a CD of Vaughn Monroe's greatest hits - Ghost Riders, Dance Ballerina Dance, etc.

Excellent motorcycle sing along.


O'Meara

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: harvey andrews
Date: 25 Jul 03 - 03:52 PM

I sang one on the soundtrack of a ghastly movie called "Psychomania" which is now a cult! it was written by Johnny Worth who wrote all the Adam Faith hits. I got paid £15 and had a day at Shepperton studios surrounded by british actors in leathers.
The first verse went;

He really got it on
He rode that big machine just like a bomb

And got worse. The rider in question was buried sitting on his bike, onlt to roar out of the ground at night.
The soundtrack has now been released on CD and the film on DVD!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 26 Jul 03 - 12:21 AM

G'day again,

Margaret Walters e-mailed me the words of HARLEY DINOSAUR - from the CD liner notes (good CD ... and cover photograph by some bloke called Bob Bolton ...).

HARLEY DINOSAUR
John Warner, late 1991

This story is true - only the names have been changed etc. etc. Written during my "Murrumbateman Brown Period" spent at the farm a few miles north of the ACT owned by good friends,Warwick and Jenny Cole. A song to put Murrumbateman on the map and inspire the film, "Jurassic Park". (Oh - Harley was a sheep in real life!) JW

Recorded on the album: Who Was Here? (Walters & Warner)
[contact Margaret Walters for information on purchasing the album]

'Twas at the Murrumbateman tip when no one was about,
A giant egg lay in the sun and a dinosaur hatched out.
The only creature round the place, an ancient mother sheep,
Adopted him at once instead of the lamb she failed to keep.
She called him Harley Davidson, her baby dinosaur,
From a picture in a magazine she'd seen some days before,
She sang him Sheep May Safely Graze and Baa Baa Black Sheep
Until her young triceratops was safely fast asleep.

And it's oh my! you never saw before
Such a thumping great triceratops like Harley Dinosaur!

Now in the paddock by the tip, young Harley grew and fed
And by three weeks had overtopped his mother by a head.
And soon some forty head of sheep and half a dozen rams
Saw one bright, young triceratops at play among the lambs.
But springtime brings the shearing, the crutching and the like
Of the sorts of things they do to sheep to keep down blowfly strike,
And so one worthy grazier, by name of Thomas Scroggs,
Set out upon his motorbike and with him four sheep dogs.

The Honda roared across the land with rattles, thumps and bangs,
When Harley heard the racket, something ancient bared its fangs,
And as the sheep in panic fear all fled in leaps and bounds,
A fully grown triceratops stood up to face the hounds.
Now Blue and Dolly, Bill and Meg were sheepdogs of the best,
Prize winners all thought they might be, they'd never faced this test.
"Get in behind" cried Farmer Scroggs, his face a wrathful frown,
So in behind the log they got and kept their heads well down.

At this the farmer's face went red, he said a nasty word,
And revved his motor cycle round to catch that fleeing herd.
But Harley charged that mean machine, his great feet squashed it flat,
He chased the farmer up a tree, and tat, my friends, was that.
And so we leave good Farmer Scroggs, his features turning black
His sheep behind their dinosaur can laugh at all attack
I'll leave his dogs behind their log and terminate my rhyme
By saying "Harley Davidson beats Hondas, every time!"

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs
From: The Shambles
Date: 26 Jul 03 - 07:03 AM

Going up the Ace. In the Mudcat Songbook.