What's Your Favorite Hill Song?

[smittykitty]

When climbing hills I like to think of a good song to sing in my head. Old McDonald Has a Farm is all I could think of the other day!!!!! I end up just saying "Yes I Can, Yes I Can". (And I did!)

I really need a new song! Any ideas? What helps you ladies up those hills?

Smitty

[ny biker]

Foo Fighters' "All My Life."

DONE DONE ON TO THE NEXT ONE
DONE I'M DONE AND I'M ON TO THE NEXT ONE
DONE DONE ON TO THE NEXT ONE
DONE I'M DONE AND I'M ON TO THE NEXT

I love it but I hate the taste...

[maillotpois]

Lyle Lovett: Long Tall Texan. It has the perfect cadence for me. :o

[snapdragen]

Fair Exchange by Be Bob Deluxe

Now Venus De Milo a statue of note
She lays in the gutter, with a knife in her throat
Naked as sin no, not even a coat
She gave you a thrill so you gave her a grope
It's a fair exchange

[OakLeaf]

Snap, yikes! :eek: :p

[missjean]

I don't know what the name is, but it goes "bring me little water Sylvie, bring me little water now...bring it in a bucket Sylvie, bring it in a bucket now...every little once and a while"

It's on an old movie soundtrack CD that I have -zydeco music - movie with Dennis Quaid, New Orleans detective, beautiful blond DA, corrupt cops, can't remember the name.

[Ann G]

I'm not familiar with that song, but the movie is The Big Easy, with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Great zydeco music.

[snapdragen]

Snap, yikes! :eek: :p

I have no idea why, but that is the song that gets into my head when I'm working hard -- :o

[maillotpois]

Snap may be a little dark.

Just a little.

:p

[Catrin]

Snap may be a little dark.

Just a little.

:p

I can't say anything about that. Occasionally when I am working hard I start thinking about the song "Saint James Infirmary Blues"...

Generally, however, I am just focusing on the top of that hill. Or the next stick, bump in the road, whatever I choose to focus on. Occasionally accompanied with the refrain "youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit" (just like that. I like the idea of a song though...

[7rider]

If that don't make your booty move, your booty must be dead! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJErrp4eOw)

Love the climb.
Embrace the climb.
The climb is your friend! :p

[FlyingScot]

Any traditional bagpipe tune but it must be the Great Highland Pipes not the wussy parlor ones and definitely not Amazing Grace.

[ny biker]

I once did a very hilly 30-mile ride while singing the "Ice Cream and Cake and Cake" song from a Baskin Robbins commercial.

I also once did half a Livestrong Challenge singing my college fight song (Fight on, Pennsylvania, get that ball across the line. Fight, you Pennsylvanians, there it goes across this time. Red and Blue, we're with you, and we're cheering for your men. So it's fight, fight, fight, Pennsylvan-i-a, fight on for Penn.) This started after saw a cyclist wearing a jersey with the Penn Hospital logo on it.

[nolemom]

Bicycle Race by Queen. I think I relate to the "fat bottomed girls will be riding today"

[grey]

One I made up.
I loveeeee hills! Love them! Love this hill, love the next one!

[ivorygorgon]

AC/DC - Thunderstruck!

[snapdragen]

Snap may be a little dark.

Just a little.

:p

Maybe a little....but it's really a catchy tune..:p

http://youtu.be/6bbIInzpf6Y



//saw Be Bop at Winterland a million years ago, they will always have a place in my playlist.

[marni]

I sing my sisters song to the tune of frer Jacques

I am climbing,
I am climbing,
Yes I am,
Yes I am,
This is not a real hill,
This not a real hill,
Not it's not
No it's not.

The tempo is adjustable.

marni

[Miranda]

If that don't make your booty move, your booty must be dead! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJErrp4eOw)

Love the climb.
Embrace the climb.
The climb is your friend! :p

THAT is my probably my all time favorite vids with that song! LOVE it! I sometimes use it in my Spinning classes I teach. Oh how I *wish* I could show videos!!!

[Miranda]

AC/DC - Thunderstruck!

great tune... love me some AC/DC lol.:cool:

[Miranda]

One aquired hill song that randomly pops in my head as a result of TE is....

"Can't Get Enough" by Bad Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Bm6t6Ic94

Gnat23 had posted her CA Valley Death Ride vid. There were a group of guys riding, just randomly singing (note, wind to spare to sing, on said mountain) this song. It just cracked me up. Oh, and Gnat23's bar tape "I Eat Hills" lol.

So, when I'm dieing outside climbing this pops in my head occasionally. Putting a smile on my face. Plus, I do love that song. Ya... "can't get enough of hill love".


:)

[goride]

My hill song is probably not any better than "Old McDonald Had a Farm." I am also pretty sure it doesn't say anything very good about me, but from the Wizard of Oz - Almira Gulch's song, when she is riding away on her bike with Toto in her basket. No words, just tada tada ta dada... It's okay, though, one day our group was out riding and one of the other rider's commented that the tree we had just passed reminded her of the apple-throwing tree in the Wizard of Oz. Hmm.

[Chicken Little]

The boss: There's a darkness on the edge of town.

[smittykitty]

Thanks for all the replys. This has been really fun to read. I should be able to find myself a new, motivating tune now. How to choose? Thanks.

No more Ole' McD's Farm for me!

[TsPoet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQHG4I-jO8

I can't stand the song, and I can't ever remember the lyrics - but as soon as my legs start to burn even the littlest bit.


And I wonder how I never got the burn
And if I'm ever gonna learn
...then my mind makes up stupid stuff that sort of rhymes after that.

[tealtreak]

Wow, I feel so embarrassed that some of you have such sweet and light motivating songs, I always end up singing "knock em down" by dropkickmurphy or any other embarrassingly violent fight song! Especially on really technical uphills (which I love!) but I just seem to need that "get mad" feel............

[smittykitty]

Maybe more "mad feel" would be "more better" for getting me up those hills.

Nursery rhymes aren't cutting it. And where do they come from anyway. My kids are grown, no grand kids yet. Songs I haven't thought of in 25+ years.

[missjean]

I'm not familiar with that song, but the movie is The Big Easy, with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Great zydeco music.

That's it! Thanks.
Dennis Quais was so cute with that big ol' smile.

[Norse]

Driving My Life Away by Eddie Rabbit; it's an old trucker song with some good lyrics and the right tempo:

Well the midnight headlight find you on a rainy night
steep grade up ahead slow me down makin no time
gotta keep rollin
those windshield wipers slappin out a tempo
keepin perfect rhythm with the song on the radio
gotta keep rolling

Ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a better way, for me
ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a sunny day

Well the truck stop cutie comin' on to me
tried to talk me into a ride said I wouldn't be sorry
but she was just a baby
Hey waitress pour me another cup of coffee
pop me down jack me up shoot me out flyin' down the highway
lookin for the morning

Ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a better way, for me
ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a sunny day

[spokewench]

I don't usually find a song that I sing when I climb; but quite a few years ago, I was doing a very long, epic, very technical mountain bike ride in the mountains near Show Low Arizona. We had gone about 15-20 miles - just the beginning and I crashed and took off half of one of my elbows in the crash on a rock. I did not want to stop and go back or get sagged back in so I kept riding.

At one point towards this last 1/4 of the ride, we were riding through this beautiful meadow with long grass, flowers and a small pretty stream. I was starting to lag a bit and feeling kinda low and my girlfriend behind me started singing that song that gos I'll be going round the mountain when she comes, etc. Yikes, she knew all the choruses.

I'm not sure if it was her singing or what, but I got going faster after that! :D

[tealtreak]

I don't usually find a song that I sing when I climb; but quite a few years ago, I was doing a very long, epic, very technical mountain bike ride in the mountains near Show Low Arizona. We had gone about 15-20 miles - just the beginning and I crashed and took off half of one of my elbows in the crash on a rock. I did not want to stop and go back or get sagged back in so I kept riding.

At one point towards this last 1/4 of the ride, we were riding through this beautiful meadow with long grass, flowers and a small pretty stream. I was starting to lag a bit and feeling kinda low and my girlfriend behind me started singing that song that gos I'll be going round the mountain when she comes, etc. Yikes, she knew all the choruses.

I'm not sure if it was her singing or what, but I got going faster after that! :D
love that story! nothing like a friend to motivate you (: