OT: songs that mention bicycles

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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Zachariah wrote:
    It was only last year when listening to the Queen song that I finally realised it isn't about Bicycles at all...

    really? What's it about then?

    And I quote from the all truthful soothsayer Wiki: "Mercury came up with the idea while on holiday in France when the Tour de France went past his hotel room window"

    Wiki aslos states this: "The video featured a collection of naked models riding around a race track on bikes hired from British cycle shop chain Halfords. When returned, Queen was ordered to pay for all the seats as Halfords wouldn't accept them knowing what they had been used for."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_race
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,376
    Christophe3967 wrote:
    WheezyMcChubby wrote:
    *invoking Greg T's Circle of Trust*

    Not a cycling song

    But occasionally (well frequently) this song pops into my head when cycling

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZqRL7nJ ... re=related

    I know, I'll see myself out.

    Yes well in future, kindly leave it there. I clicked on that link and now the children have woken up :roll:

    Sorry about that.

    Wasn't that loud though.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • pedal-pusher
    pedal-pusher Posts: 7
    I'll go with Pedal Pusher from MC Abdominal, a bit of cycling rap!
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Bike ride to the moon by The dukes of stratosphear

    Bicycle Built for Two by Daisy Bell (It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'd look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two)

    I think you should take a look at my earlier post on first page. I'll repost it for you here so save you looking as you missed it first time round :wink: .
    dilemna wrote:
    Daisy Bell composed by Harry Dacre 1892.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell
    There is a flower within my heart,
    Daisy, Daisy,
    Planted one day by a glancing dart,
    Planted by Daisy Bell.
    Whether she loves me or loves me not
    Sometimes it's hard to tell,
    But there are those that would share the lot
    Of beautiful Daisy Bell.
    Chorus:

    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'd look sweet upon the seat
    Of a bicycle built for two.
    We will go tandem as man and wife,
    Daisy, Daisy,
    Wheeling away down the road of life,
    I and my Daisy Bell.
    When the nights dark, we can both despise
    Policemen and lamps as well.
    There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
    Of beautiful Daisy Bell.    (Chorus)

    (Below, ending of the Edward M. Favor version); This version, with music arranged for barbershop quartet,is available on the Internet[5].

    I will stand by you in "wheel" or woe
    Daisy, Daisy
    You'll be the bell(e) which I'll ring you know
    Sweet little Daisy Bell
    You'll take the lead in each trip we take
    Then if I don't do well
    I will permit you to use the brake
    My beautiful Daisy Bell.
    The song has entered the folk tradition, giving rise to a number of "answer-song" versions consisting of only two choruses -- the original, then another in which Daisy refuses her suitor. The most common answer-song chorus [6] appears to predate the advent of the motorcar, as it refers to a carriage. The rejected suitor's name varies but is often given as Harry -- the name of the author of the original song.

    The lyrics to the answer song are:

    Harry, Harry
    Here is my answer true.
    I can't cycle, for I get black and blue.
    If you can't afford a carriage
    There won't be any marriage.
    For I'll be switched if I'll be hitched
    On a bicycle built for two.
    Another variant is:

    Michael, Michael
    Here is my answer true.
    I'm NOT crazy
    All for the love of you.
    If you cannot afford a carriage
    There won't be any marriage.
    'Cause I'll be damned
    If I'll get crammed
    On a bicycle built for two!
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Ride Forever - Paul Gross

    Ok so it's about horses, but it could be equated to bikes :wink:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • Mikelyons
    Mikelyons Posts: 154
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Silver Machine by Hawkwind :?: (tenuous) but a great song (I got a silver machine.
    It flies side ways thru' time, It's an electricline)

    Not tenuous at all, it WAS about a bike

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Mac ... and_Lyrics

    Mike
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    MTB-Idle wrote:
    Zachariah wrote:
    It was only last year when listening to the Queen song that I finally realised it isn't about Bicycles at all...

    really? What's it about then?

    +1

    Actually, I don't care, as Queen are gash.

    I'm sure there's a Kate Bush song that mentions bikes, be blowed if I can recall it though
    It's just a hill. Get over it.

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