Subject: ADDPOP: BLACK DENIM TROUSERS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTS
From:
Benson
Date: 30 Dec 98 - 08:25 AM
Well Joe, since you asked, how about Black Denim Trousers?
BLACK DENIM TROUSERS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTS
Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller,
As recorded by The Cheers, 1955.
CHORUS: He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots,
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back.
He had a hopped-up sickle that took off like a gun.
That fool was the terror of Highway 101.
Well he never washed his face and he never combed his hair.
He had axle grease embedded underneath his fingernails.
On the muscle of his arm was a red tattoo,
A picture of a heart sayin' "Mother, I love you."
He had a pretty girlfriend by the name of Mary Lou,
But he treated her just like he treated all the rest,
And everybody pitied her 'cause everybody knew
He loved that doggone motorcycle best. CHORUS
Mary Lou, poor girl, she pleaded and she begged him not to leave.
She said: "I've got a feeling if you ride tonight, I'll grieve,"
But her tears were shed in vain and her ev'ry word was lost
In the rumble of his engine and the smoke from his exhaust.
He took off like a devil; there was fire in his eyes.
He said: "I'll go a thousand miles before the sun can rise,"
But he hit a screamin' diesel that was California bound,
And when they cleared the wreckage all they found—
Was his black denim trousers and motorcycle boots,
And the black leather jacket with an eagle on the back,
But they couldn't find the sickle that took off like a gun,
And they never found the terror of Highway 101.
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