What do you sing/hum to yourself while riding??

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... and a step to the ri-i-i-i-i-ight!

Now that's stuck in my head - at least it's only the song and not the image of that campfire circle.

...Put your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!

I enjoy getting songs stuck in other people's heads, for a change. I tell you, this one ran through my head a few times the day after I heard/saw the performance.

Surprisingly, it wasn't just GS people... and definitely not me.

 

[cheesewhiz]

I don't want a pickle..........(You know the rest)

 

[MANDYPANTS]

I tell you, this one ran through my head a few times the day after I heard/saw the performance.

Surprisingly, it wasn't just GS people... and definitely not me.

I was there, and yes, I did the Time Warp around an Indiana rally campfire this past weekend. I am not ashamed... I wasn't alone, and it was a great bonding experience!

It's astounding.....time is FLEETING....madness takes its toll....

As for me, the one song that I am certain to sing each and every time I take the bike out is "The Rainbow Connection" from the Muppet Movie. It takes me back to childhood. I've even been known to bust it out at the Branson Blitz...

If you catch me rolling up, and I have my visor slightly up, you'll probably hear me singing...

 

[LTLJOHN]

What ever flies into my helmet and rattles around for a while.

 

[newstar]

I'm Winning by Santana.

For some reason, that song just sticks with me and any time I'm riding and not listening for my cell phone (which means work), well then...I'm winning!

I'd like to try my iPod but I'm afraid it would be too distracting for me.

 

[Fritzc]

Song?

"Battle Hymn of the Republic"

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
ÔÇ£As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall dealÔÇØ;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;
[originally let us die to make men free]
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.


or "America the Beautiful"

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

I don't really know all the words.

 

[coon]

Harry that sucks!

For you Harry Chapin Fans you know where I come from.
My main song is " A better place to be"
About a little midnight watch man and a girl he picks up one night.

 

[sheridesabeemer]

Were on a road to nowhere

Well we know where were goin
But we dont know where weve been
And we know what were knowin
But we cant say what weve seen
And were not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out

Were on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin that ride to nowhere
Well take that ride

Im feelin okay this mornin
And you know,
Were on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

Chorus

Maybe you wonder where you are
I dont care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there...take you there

Were on a road to nowhere
Were on a road to nowhere
Were on a road to nowhere

Theres a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
And its all right, baby, its all right

And its very far away
But its growing day by day
And its all right, baby, its all right

They can tell you what to do
But theyll make a fool of you
And its all right, baby, its all right

Were on a road to nowhere

 

[sheridesabeemer]

For you Harry Chapin Fans you know where I come from.
My main song is " A better place to be"
About a little midnight watch man and a girl he picks up one night.

You signed up just to put that song in my head didn't you?

I sang about banana's one afternoon heading into Scranton, PA....

 

[tessler]

"Don't Take Me Alive" Steely Dan

Or "King of the World", or "Any Major Dude Will Tell You"

 

[HONDARIDER]

Travelin' Band by CCR...I have no idea why...seems to pop into my head on every ride.

 

[CLOWRY]

Anything from John Denver to Aerosmith, and then some...Which is why I'm not allowed to leave my AutoComm in vox mode...

sigh

 

[coon]

Harry That Sucks!

Nope, just the first time I saw something I felt like joining.
Member from 84.
1st BMW,78 R100s in 83,still have.
Last 99 R1100s, no reason to let go.
Saw Harry twice in concert in So Fla.
All my lifes a circle, sun rise till sundown...................

 

[Rapid_Roy]

Honestly, I tried the iPod and in no small way, 80GB, loaded up with 4300 songs and set on shuffle. I thought, "yeah, man, tunes and the road, how great that would be". Nerts. Maybe I'm a newbie, ok, I am a newbie at least getting back to "real" motorcycles (yes, ok, an ET4, even though in this state you can get your "M" (motorcycle) class license, is not, in some opinions, a "real" motorcycle).
Anyroad, what I've found is that music is, at least pumping through some nice in-ear phones, a distraction. Lately and until I get sick of it (and that may be a good long while) I'm going sans music, preferring the sound of the bike and the wind. I prefer in this area (west of Chicago) to be fully sensitized to what is going on around me, that means sight and sound.
Maybe I'll go back to the jams, I dunno but for me at least, the music of the road is where it's at for me.
Besides, I've found that the songs that jump into my are are definitely not tunes I would want to hum.

Anything ZZTop if I was to run anything through my brainbox that I'd like. Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings comes to mind.

That wins longest answer!(so far)
I ride like that also. Music for when I stop is fine.

 

[screwtop]

Well we know where were goin
But we dont know where weve been
And we know what were knowin
But we cant say what weve seen
And were not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out

Were on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin that ride to nowhere
Well take that ride

Im feelin okay this mornin
And you know,
Were on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

Chorus

Maybe you wonder where you are
I dont care
Here is where time is on our side
Take you there...take you there

Were on a road to nowhere
Were on a road to nowhere
Were on a road to nowhere

Theres a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
And its all right, baby, its all right

And its very far away
But its growing day by day
And its all right, baby, its all right

They can tell you what to do
But theyll make a fool of you
And its all right, baby, its all right

Were on a road to nowhere

That one brings back some memories. How 'bout:

I got some groceries,
some peanut butter
to last a couple of days..

But I, ain't got no speakers,
ain't got no headphones,
ain't got no records to play.

-Life during war time. I guess that would be now, wouldn't it?

 

[henzilla]

lately that dang Rascal Flats song from the movie Cars...Life is a highway?

most of the time the IPOD is engaged and I still can hear the important outside environmental noises...traffic! AC/DC to Willie and ZZtop or an occasional S-Nora Jones,Fergie or Glen Miller's American Patrol... very wide range...

 

[jshuck]

hummin' along??

the theme from "Rawhide"
rollin' rollin' rollin'.... tho the streams are swollen
Keep them doggies rollin' Rawhide..... Yaaah.

 

[Kbrick]

I,m surprised

That great riding song from the singing actor, Michael Parks

"Long Lonesome Highway" from '..then came Bronson'

..gonna live life my way...

 

[BUBBAZANETTI]

i remember having 50 cent's "in da club" stuck in my head for DAYS across the western part of the country on my roadtrip

i've luckily had an ipod ever since

 

[easy]

Don't sing, hum, listen to I-Pod, MP player, two-way radio or for that matter anything else.

A friend tried to talk me into getting a two way radio for a trip we took to California. That was about twenty years ago and I think he is still offended by my saying no.

That's one of the great things about motorcycling. ItÔÇÖs almost like yoga for me. I get to clear my head and think. I do some of my best thinking when I'm on a bike. I even sleep better at night.


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