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Otis Lee Crenshaw - Fast Cars & Airplanes lyrics
Intro: Well ladies and gentlemen you know we all miss elvis, you know we do deep inside, and all the other musicians like Hank and Janis and Jimmy and . . . for every musician who passed on up to heaven, generally due to poor physical maintenance there's another musician whose died and gone to heaven due to lawn and garden accidents. That's right. Quite a handful of them actually, like the drummer for Toto, God how we miss him. Jeff Porcaro was his name, who died just spraying weeds in his own backyard. Or Merle Watson, the great bluegrass guitarist who passed away in a similar agriculture related accident. Nobody's ever gonna write a song about these gentlemen so we thought we would. This is for all the men who fought the lawn . . . and the lawn won Song: Goodbye Jeff Porcaro, he won't be back tomorrow Better drummer the whole wide world, will never see He kept down the beat, but not those backyard weeds Took a riding mower and strapped on a barrel of DDT When a toxic cloud just carried him away, spewing from the only drum he never really learned to playyy . . . Chorus: It wasn't, fast cars and airplanes, it wasn't cocaine or drugs, It wasn't, alcohol binges it was shrubbery n' bugs Gave the world all the music, that he had inside an' then he got on his Flymo and rode up to the sky It was around 3am Merle Watson took that spin just to feel that country breeze in his hair but he plowed into a tree . . . literally! See the fatal factor, Merle was on a tractor An' if that highway to heaven's filled with men who live too fast At least Merle's on his tractor, making sure they can't get passed! Chorus: It wasn't, fast cars and airplanes, it wasn't cocaine or drugs, It wasn't, alcohol binges it was shrubbery n' bugs Gave the world all the music, that he had inside an' then he got on his tractor and rode up to the sky Well they weren't injects and needles, they were just tryin' to kill beetles when they got on their tractors and rode up, up, up to the sky Awww up to the sky, awww roasana, aww baby |
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