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24 Jul 03 - 05:44 PM (#989954) Subject: Lyr Req: biker songs From: billy bob 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 |
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24 Jul 03 - 05:52 PM (#989963) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: MudGuard Oh, it is about motor bikes, I thought it was for real bikes... |
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24 Jul 03 - 06:05 PM (#989967) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Liz the Squeak Try the Kippers - Biker Bill and Walter Shaw. It's a scream. LTS |
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24 Jul 03 - 06:16 PM (#989978) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Herga Kitty 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 |
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24 Jul 03 - 06:17 PM (#989980) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Barb'ry 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 |
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24 Jul 03 - 06:39 PM (#989989) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: billy bob 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! |
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24 Jul 03 - 06:49 PM (#989998) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Herga Kitty Oops, that should have been Harley v Honda! |
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24 Jul 03 - 07:08 PM (#990023) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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24 Jul 03 - 07:30 PM (#990051) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Herga Kitty 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 |
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24 Jul 03 - 10:17 PM (#990132) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: mack/misophist "Don't want a nickle Just wanna ride on my motorsickle". |
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24 Jul 03 - 10:30 PM (#990137) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Padre 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) |
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25 Jul 03 - 01:24 AM (#990188) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: mack/misophist Sorry, correction, please. That should have been "Don't want a pickle Just wanna ride on my motorsickle". |
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25 Jul 03 - 01:43 AM (#990192) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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25 Jul 03 - 02:22 AM (#990202) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Herga Kitty 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 |
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25 Jul 03 - 04:21 AM (#990242) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: AndyC 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 |
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25 Jul 03 - 08:55 AM (#990355) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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25 Jul 03 - 12:22 PM (#990521) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Chief Chaos 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?" |
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25 Jul 03 - 12:28 PM (#990527) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: The O'Meara 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 |
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25 Jul 03 - 03:52 PM (#990668) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: harvey andrews 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! |
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26 Jul 03 - 12:21 AM (#990917) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: Bob Bolton 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 |
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26 Jul 03 - 07:03 AM (#991001) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: biker songs From: The Shambles Going up the Ace. In the Mudcat Songbook. |