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Aerostar
02:43
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Room for two in an Aerostar
if you ain’t got no car, don’t be blue
I have much more space inside
It’s just nice to drive for two
Canada Dry, 7up, go on the fly shot up
For two at 6 o'clock outside the tower clock to meet you
Red Cap, cassette tape in hand and you're in the van
and I am too
Canada Dry, 7up, Everybody can dance in the Aerostar
Canada Dry, supercar, Everybody look cool in the Aerostar
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Ktel Records
03:07
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Ktel nation I grew up on radio, headphones and ELO
The Great White Hope wears a toque and sells me dope
and in my high school don’t need a car to be cool
Turntables, record show collectors
don’t take my Ktel records
You got your Iggy Pop and Weller
don’t take my Ktel records
The show sold out so took the car and blew it out
in my high school don’t need a girl to be cool
Turntables, record show collectors
don’t take my Ktel records
You got your Iggy Pop and Weller
don’t take my Ktel records
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Kung Fu
03:31
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Oooh, Kung Fu, Stay true to Kung Fu
Dont’ understand it, just wanna fight
out looking for action, out looking all right
Oooh, what you can do?
Oooh, all night through, with Kung Fu
Don’t need no talkin’, just wanna fight
out looking for action, out looking all right
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Cosmic Dave
06:23
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It's sunrise on the plain,
me & Cosmic Dave are taking in the scene in a pickup limousine.
Got crullers & Cherry Cokes, we share our last smokes,
Lone Stars are expired, and we’re feeling country wired.
The caribou upon the hills remind me of the pills,
speckled on our dashboard.
and I hear the song of gooses mingled with the juices of FM radio band,
spilling out across the sand, the Alberta sands.
I can’t drive no more, Dave
I can’t go out on the road, no more
I’m going home, you’ll be fine out on your own,
you’ll be fine out on your own.
Beneath the country stars we been hanging round in bars
and my meters run back to zero, and we're burnt out anti-heros.
and Dave’s all full of beans with a head like plasticene
the sunrise is explodin’,
now we’re hotrod supernovin’ all through Wyomin’,
we been rockin’, and we been rollin’…
But I can’t drive no more, Dave
I can’t go out on the road, no more
I’m going home, you’ll be fine out on your own,
you’ll be fine out on your own, Dave
you’ll be fine out on your own.
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Dave and Ashley
02:52
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Dave and me we’re family we been through it all
so when I said, you’d left for Boston I tried to look disinterested
Ashley save me, take me back in country
Ashley help me, I been down so downly
Ashley, duly, tell me true
cause I aint leaving you.
Back in Queens, that rotten hostel, so we rode the subways all night
found the ways through Brooklyn and Boston and,
they stole our laundry when we got back
Ashley, save me, take me back to the city
Ashley, help me, I get down so easily
Ashley, duly, tell me true
cause I aint leaving you.
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STARSHIP
03:28
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It’s the end of the world coming, don’t wanna go downtown
Calamarca oh space brother don’t wanna let you down.
We got a 2-4, we got a stereo (we got the radio on T. Rex, 2-4)
we gonna take’em out
space brother, Earth mother (check the static and roll, the real thing gonna freak me out)
come on and freak me out
So you head for California in your brothers El Dorado
and your friends try to dissuade you, and your mother says you’re crazy
All you’ve got is your conviction that your God will come to meet you
and you’re waiting for a starcar to come away at night and take you
And you’re waiting for a starship to find your hotel room and claim you
and you’re waiting for a starship to fix the world before the deluge
And you’re waiting for a starship to shine its headlights down around you
and you’re waiting for a starship to shine its heat ray down and claim you
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Continental
02:45
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Passed out at the airport and missed my aeroplane
Sugar Cane in Halifax is gonna have to wait
I'll make the next connection if I can afford the fare
stuck in a bar in Houston airport looking down a well.
Mama, I'm continental Mama
deliver me from the American road
rollin’ wanna get rolling my dear
Buddy spare a quarter so I can make the call
deliver me from evil ma, deliver me a car
a Lincoln Continental all shining racing green
if I had the nerve I'd drive it straight into the sea
Mama, I'm continental Mama
deliver me from the American road
rollin’ wanna get rolling my dear
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Silverstar
03:33
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Back in Amsterdam and I know just what I'll do
take my money down to the Silverstar Coffee Saloon
leave my friends in a fancy restaurant
root beer, red lights and a big fat Silver Star.
Tell my girl, don’t look for me at all
I'm back in Amsterdam with a big fat Silver Star.
Sincerely Ramona, California ain’t for me
sea and sand and sunshine, trade it all for a 3rd class seat
in my back pocket had keys to Lincoln car
pawned it off for down and out and a big fat Silver Star.
Tell my girl, don’t look for me at all
I'm back in Amsterdam with a big fat Silver Star
I'm back in Amsterdam with a big fat Silver Star.
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Stanley Cup Final
02:36
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I work late when my baby calls- I make it on the balls
I get off on breaking time- the game’s so good and fine
I wake up I get stoned to the morning phone in shows
he got soul, soul, soul
I got a ways to go man, I got a ways to go yeah
I wanna wake up in the Stanley Cup Final
score a goal, an impossible angle.
I wanna get up, and fade away, wake up in the final
for the Stanley Cup yeah.
Double header and my baby's home I couldn't pick up the telephone
deke pass and she slipped my mind- it happens every time-
I wanna wake up in the Stanley Cup Final
score a goal, an impossible angle.
I wanna get up, and fade away and rise up in the final
for the Stanley Cup yeah.
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My Favourite Animal
02:21
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You are one in a million so valuable you are
You are all that I needed and I hope I treat you right
I could die before I waken, I could lose my mind
I know you will find me anywhere I go
I could die before I waken, oh I could lose my mind
You are my favourite animal
I just wanted you to know
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Wichita Girlfriend
04:19
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Cowboy living has got him down
he's all on his own, he's all on his own
for all the days gone by at Big Sky.
The girls got no name but she's got legs, long and fair,
daisies in her hair and dimes on her eyes, crack in her tears,
she's got crack in her tears.
Check out cause the rooms on fire at the Holiday Inn.
Wichita man and Wichita girlfriend
saddle up Ford and go out in the world.
Gotta ride hard, gotta ride all night
to see her in the morning light.
Wide open road, chicks and cigars, radio stars
next stop LA and the Holiday Inn
Wichita man and Wichita girlfriend
saddle up the rig and go out in the world.
Gotta ride hard til he's weathered and worn
the devil's on the CB calling out,
burn.
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Ox Greater Sudbury, Ontario
Ox began in the smokey confines of East-side Vancouver’s Profile Studios- as songwriter Mark Browning’s project to remake Woody Guthrie’s ‘Dust Bowl Ballads’. What started as a musical history exercise transformed into an expression of rambling indie folk soundscape. 'Dust Bowl Revival’ bridged the burgeoning alt-country scene into cult status to reach #1 on Canada’s national college chart. ... more
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