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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:39 pm
  

does anybody have lyrics to the 'motorcycle song'?, about the pickle, not on this website?

especially the version where arlo sings about getting to the bottom of a cliff, and after landing on the top of of a police car and not dying, there is a man with with a briefcase, and leading out of the briefcase is a 14 foot cord, and at the end of the cord is a pickle?

i really need this, since me and my friends ride around at 150 miles an hour on our motorcycles, and are afraid of the man with a pickle...

serously!

barrett
barrett skrypeck at yahoo dot com


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:30 pm
  

BlunderVirgin

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It's a longshot, but try HERE. :D


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:39 pm
  

BlunderVirgin

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Oops! I didn't catch that you were looking for a different ending than was posted here.

I did my best, but I can't find it. If nobody else can find it, I'll dig out my old album and transcribe it.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:19 pm
  

BlunderVirgin

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My curiosity was piqued, so I went ahead and pulled out my old album. It's not so much lyrics as it's a story he told within the song. I transcribed it as best I could, but Arlo's stories don't lend themselves to proper punctuation. Here it is, to the best of my ability:

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I stopped outside of the Deli, and standing outside the Deli was a man eating the most tremendous pickle. A pickle the size of four pregnant watermelons, just a huge, monster pickle! He walked up to me, pushed the pickle in my face and started asking me questions. It was about the same time I noticed the pickle in my face, I noticed a cord hanging from the long end of the pickle, and going up his sleeve, down his shirt, into his pants and shoes, out into a briefcase he had near his feet. I knew it wasn't an ordinary pickle. But it was about the same time I noticed the cord hanging out of the pickle that a four-foot cop arrived, with a five-foot gun; a cop that one time must have been about six-foot-three, but was met at the bottom of a mountain by a flying, singing, writing weirdo freak. He walked up and with one tremendous hand, he grabbed the pickle away from the other guy. He threw it a hundred feet, straight up into the air! And while the pickle was halfway between going up and coming down, he took out his gun and put a three-inch bullet hole right through the long end of the pickle. It started coming back down. He stuck out his foot. He caught the pickle on his big toe, and balancing the pickle on his big toe, he reached his huge into his little pocket, pulled out a ten-foot ticket, he borrowed my pen, he wrote it up. Then he rolled it up, and stuffed it in the bullet hole at the middle of the pickle, took the pickle with ticket, and shoved it down my throat.

It was at that very minute that the pickle with the ticket was going down my throat that I knew for sure that I didn't want a pickle.

I don't want a pickle!
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle

And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:11 pm
  

Thanks for posting the lyrics, FNRThomas!

I haven't heard that ending to the Motorcycle song in a long time. It must difficult to transcribe from an album since there is no pause or rewind button on any turntable that I am aware of.

Which album is that version of the song on?

Thanks


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:26 pm
  

BlunderVirgin

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It's on The Best of Arlo Guthrie, the very first Arlo album I ever bought.

(Actually, I think it's about time he updated that album- it's over 25 years old now, and he's done a lot of good stuff since then.)

(And I left out a word near the end: he reached his huge *HAND* into his little pocket.)


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:11 pm
  

just remember that you don't want to die you just want to ride on your motorcy


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:12 pm
  

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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2005 3:37 pm
  

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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2005 12:50 am
  

i tried to catch a pickle on my toe once. But it just bounced off and rolled under the fridge. It's still there I think.


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