Does anyone sing on their bike?

[Lise]

Yep, I love to sing on the bike. Favorites: Amazing Grace, Amarillo By Morning.

I also sing magic spell songs to control the cars around me. For some reason, I usually make up songs in Spanish. The tune is almost always "Frere Jacque". For example: "Adelante, adelante, muevate! Muevate! No te pares a-qui, no te pares a-qui, muevate, muevate!" (hurry up, hurry up, move it! Move it! Don't stop he-re, don't stop he-re, move along! move along!)

I think American Pie would be a good bike song. I just don't know all the words!

[Lise]

That led me to the old New Christy Minstrels song Today that has the line "I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover, you'll know who I am by the song that I sing." (The old folks in the crowd will remember it.)

Oh. Crud. I'm officially old. I think I saw them sing that song on the Andy Williams show or something like it...

[Thorn]

What makes you sing that?
Are you Feelin Groovy?
it's really the 59th Street bridge Song

No, usually, it pops into the head when I'm pushing the pace...I wanna be out there longer, not shorter!

When I'm dragging, it is the Rawhide theme...Rolling, rolling, rolling...keep those bikes a rollin (memorize the words? Heck, no! Make 'em up as you go a long--never the same song twice! Never boring!)

And, when I'm riding down a road that was once a pretty rural road, but isn't anymore...."little boxes on the hillside...little boxes made of ticky tacky" (Pete Seeger sang it) or Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi..."they paved paradise to put up a parking lot..."

Wow....I'm really dating myself, aren't I? No, wait, I love retro music! Yeah, that's it!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

For some reason, I usually make up songs in Spanish. The tune is almost always "Frere Jacque". For example: "Adelante, adelante, muevate! Muevate! No te pares a-qui, no te pares a-qui, muevate, muevate!" (hurry up, hurry up, move it! Move it! Don't stop he-re, don't stop he-re, move along! move along!)

Oooh, I like that! I speak Spanish, so I could do that too!

New Christy Minstrels? Andy Williams?......AAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! Save me!!!!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Though the streams are swollen
Keep them dogies rollin'
Rawhide! (insert whip crack sound here)
Rain and wind and weather
Hell-bent for leather
Wishin' my gal was by my side.
All the things I'm missin',
Good vittles, love, and kissin',
Are waiting at the end of my ride

[divingbiker]

New Christy Minstrels? Andy Williams?......AAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!! Save me!!!!

Hey, you started it!

Now "Today" is going to careen around in your brain forever and you will never be able to sing anything else on your bike ever again!

hahahahahahaha.....

[Geonz]

J.K. Rowling said students used to sing Rawhide! about her when she was an English teacher. (Rowling, Rowling, Rowling...)

"Little boxes" is the song that steered me down the path of Pete Seeger etc. for life... heard it on Sesame Street. When I got my first record player, after I bought 3 John Denver albums with my allowance money (not at the same time - those things were $5.99, a lot of dough!) I remember wavering between a Fairport Convention album and... PEte Seeger's We Shall Overcome, because it had Little Boxes on it. Pete won, and I've never been the same since.
Last week Peter Yarrow dropped in to Mary Cliff's radio show. I'd say it was a flashback, except it's never *really* gone away to 'flash' back. Lots of these folks are still playing.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Now "Today" is going to careen around in your brain forever and you will never be able to sing anything else on your bike ever again!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HillSlugger]

what, no bicycle race?

i want to ride my bicycle i want to ride my biiiiiiiike

That's sorta my overall biking theme!

On my Sunday morning rides I often have the roads all to myself. Then, I tend to get the Train song "Cab" running though my head:

"Sometimes I think I'm the only cab on the road".

I've noticed lately when the riding gets really hard all rational thought disappears. No affirmations, no nothing, just the effort.

[Thorn]

Synchronicity....on our short ride today there was a little kid out playing make all those squealing kid playing noises...but as we passed the scream that came out was just like the scream on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album at the intro to the song Breathe in the Air.

Hmmm...appropriate for the top of that little incline, but the bulk of the words are rather depressing....well, time to start making up new words for that one....

[margo49]

The English classics:

Daisy, Daisy,
give me your answer do
I'm half crazy ,
all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet
Upon the seat
of a bicycle built for two

I always made a point of singing it to the children when they were little and we were riding.

and The Gypsy Rover

[cwodiva]

And, when I'm riding down a road that was once a pretty rural road, but isn't anymore...."little boxes on the hillside...little boxes made of ticky tacky" (Pete Seeger sang it)
Wow....I'm really dating myself, aren't I? No, wait, I love retro music! Yeah, that's it![/QUOTE]

I love Pet Seeger and that is such a great song! I sing that one too.

[cwodiva]

When I get dropped in a road race and I'm out in the middle of bfe Georgia or Florida, the song "All by myself" pops in my head

All by myself
Don't wanna be
All by myself
Anymore....

and I have my own little pity party until I can get it together again... haha!



I sing a lot on my rides, or hum to myself.

[RoadRaven]

Have been thinking about this... and you know, since it came up in the thread about the Sesame Street 'YipYips' a couple of weeks ago, I have "sung" the yip yip song.

It works in "slo-mo" when grinding up a hill... yip...(then breath in) yip...(then breath in) yip...(then breath in) yip...(then breath in) yip...(then breath in) yip...(then breath in) yip...(breath in) aha... aha...

... and all the way to the top of the climb...

yip yip...

[Mr. Bloom]

Umm Mr Silver..American pie? Wouldn't that make you sleep? Good song but kinda slow for a bike ride..
C

Not when you sing it fast!

Nobody has mentioned "Bicycle Race" by Queen...not very interesting words, but appropriate theme...

[annie]

I sing to myself all the time! A wordless, rythmic tune that works along with my pedaling stroke. I think if anyone actually heard me, I'd would die of embarrasment! I admire all of you who have actual songs that you ride to.