Car, Car

(Peter, Paul & Mary version)

Words & Music:

Woody Guthrie

New words by Peter, Paul & Mary

 

CHORUS:

A                          E7

Take me for a ride in your car, car.

E7                         A

Take me for a ride in your car, car.

A                   D

Take me for a ride, take me for a ride,

A             E7           A

Take me for a ride in your car, car.

 

[spoken]  Go get ‘em, grandpa!

Take me for a ride in your Stanley Steamer?

‘Bout as bad as riding in the Locomobile with the eight wheels, isn't it?

I'd rather ride in the Model T pickup with the bronze hubcaps & the beaver tail.  Twenty-three skidoo!  Uh-huh!

[Someone make engine sounds of a model T-era car starting up & backfiring]

 

[spoken]  College grad-u-ate!

 

CHORUS:

Take me for a ride in your Mack truck.

Take me fro a ride in your truck, mac.

Take me for a ride, take me for a ride,

Take me for a ride in your Mack truck...mac!

 

CHORUS: [repeat that verse two times and the regular chorus once.  Someone make engine sounds over it of a more modern car trying to start.]

 

REPEAT REGULAR CHORUS ALL:

 

[spoken]  Well, wait a minute!  Here come one now, daughter.  See if you can't get this here feller.  [Someone make sound of a high-performance engine slowing down & screeching to a stop.]

 

[sung in a sultry fashion]

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 3.5-liter Ferrari with torsion bar suspension and those imported Venturi carburetors.

 

[spoken]

Hello, sports fans and welcome to Daytona Beach.  You are about to hear the sound of an Austin-Healey Sprite, trying desperately to keep up with the other Volkswagens in the race.  It will speed shift directly in front of the microphone and traveling approximately 1000 yards further down the track will crash into a brick retaining wall.  This entire spectacle starring Steve Reeves as the handsome, wind-blown driver is being witnessed by a crowd of over 20,000 sadistic sports fans.  We take you now to the track and the sound of the race.

 

[Someone makes the sounds of passing race cars, then after a pause, the sound of a two-cylinder engine trying desperately to keep up, engine dying, then being restarted, then shifting through the gears until it crashes.]