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New Car Hop is from the album Rockabilly Boy an original album of 10 Rockabilly songs written, produced and with lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas with music exclusively commercially licensed to Paul.
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New Car Hop lyrics
I had a new car
A 56 bright red Chevy
I had a new car
A 56 bright red Chevy
Drove it night and day
It was my shinning star
It would purr and roar
Like a lion in a cage
It would purr and roar
Like a lion in a cage
My friends all told me
Grow up and act your age
Drove it all night and day
Engine would never ever stop
Drove it all night and day
Engine would never stop
Polished it up real good
And drove it down to the hop
Won’t you ride in my car
Girl, I won’t go too fast
Won’t you ride in my car
Girl, I won’t go too fast
I’ll let you shift the gears
All the way from first to last
My beautiful shiny Chevy
Was so big was so fast
My beautiful shiny Chevy
Was so big was so fast
But I drank too much at the Hop
And drove it straight off the levy
It floated then it sunk
Slowly all the way down
It floated then it sunk
Slowly all the way down
I’ll never again drive drunk
Well I could have almost drowned
Bought an old white Cadillac
They sure are built to last
Bought an old white Cadillac
They sure are built to last
Dreamt of a pretty girl in the back
But it didn’t go as fast
Polished it up real good
And drove it to the hop
Polished it up real good
And drove it to the hop
Not much worked under the hood
Had to press the brakes hard to stop
Won’t you ride in my car
Girl, I won’t go too fast
Won’t you ride in my car
Girl, I won’t go too fast
I’ll let you shift the gears
All the way from first to last
The wind shield’s broke and cracked
It don’t drive so smooth
The wind shield’s broke cracked
It don’t drive so smooth
Don’t take it out so much
We’ll its rusty paint is turning black
Tyre’s are bare and worn
Can’t climb that big hill
Tyre’s are bare and worn
Can’t climb that big hill
Someone broke the horn
But I swear there’s life in that engine still
Always runs out of gas
No matter what I do
Always runs out of gas
No matter what I do
It’s lost it’s style and class
Nothing ever can stay new
Won’t you ride in my car
Girl I won’t go too fast?
Won’t you ride in my car
Girl I won’t go too fast?
I’ll let you shift the gears
All the way from first to last
No-one wants to ride
In this old beat up car
No-one wants to ride
In this old beat up car
They look at it and laugh and sigh
And walk the other way
What good is a car
If no-one wants to ride
What good is a car
If no-one wants to ride
This engine shakes and rattles
It’s stuck in over drive
This engine shakes and rattles
It’s stuck in over drive
Paul Robert Thomas PRS No. 497904008 (London)
PRS Tunecode: 996859GR ISWC: T-340.009.629-5
Audiosparx Catalog ID: 1406362 ISRC: US5UL2633795
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