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msinabottle Samba Member
Joined: September 20, 2005 Posts: 3492 Location: Denver Area, Colorado
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:46 am Post subject: Vanagon Folk Song: 'Round-Eyed Handsome Van' |
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Came up with the title at this year's RMW camp-out (of which more with pictures later), and as it got a few laughs, and since I haven't been doing much to earn my non-existent salary as Vanagon Poet Laureate... I perpetrate the following:
Round-Eyed Handsome Van
(With Apologies to Chuck Berry and Owners of 1986's and Later)
Sitting fifteen years in a back lot
Set for crushing like an old steel can,
Got bought by welder and machinist
Out to fix that fine old van,
Gonna rebuild and fix that round-eyed handsome van.
Looking through Google Maps one day,
Not far from where I began
On a sleepy street not so far away
Was parked a round-eyed handsome van--
It had the Hellas! Yes, a round-eyed handsome van!
Starting back in 1950,
When the Volkswagen Bus began,
The Type 2's, Bays and Splitties, each one
Was built a round-eyed handsome van,
Even the Samba was a round-eyed handsome van!
Craig's List seaching, out to find
A Volkswagen and an honest man,
Ended up quite far inclined
To buy a round-eyed handsome van,
It was a Westy! and a round-eyed handsome van!
In eighty-six they made a change,
Out to meet the current fashion's demand,
They had lots of good things but those square headlights
Didn't shine like a round-eyed handsome van,
Just trust me, Fellas, get a round-eyed handsome van!
Might be an old diesel
Air-cooled or a Doka (Oh, man!)
If it lights up the road with two big Z-beams
You got a round-eyed handsome van!
Use legal wattage in your round-eyed handsome van....
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Best! _________________ 'Winston,' '84 1.9 WBX Westy
Vanagon Poet Laureate: "I have suffered in
many ways, but never, never, never in silence." |
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E1 Samba Member
Joined: January 21, 2013 Posts: 6572 Location: Westfalia, Earth
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 6:19 am Post subject: Re: Vanagon Folk Song: 'Round-Eyed Handsome Van' |
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Hope Tanya Tucker showed up to sing it in our absence.
Nice job. _________________ ‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
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djkeev Samba Moderator
Joined: September 30, 2007 Posts: 32632 Location: Reading Pennsylvania
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jlrftype7 Samba Member
Joined: July 24, 2018 Posts: 3582 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Vanagon Folk Song: 'Round-Eyed Handsome Van' |
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Number 1 with a bullet on the Vanagon Billboard Charts...
Of course, your great song is the only song on the Vanagon Billboard charts, so there’s that.... _________________ '68 Westy- my first VW and vehicle/Bus- long gone.- sold it to a traveling Swiss couple....
'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
2017 MINI Coopers, our current DDs
‘84 Tin Top - Hilga....Auto |
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zipster48 Samba Member
Joined: January 26, 2008 Posts: 18 Location: Fort Collins CO
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Folk Song: 'Round-Eyed Handsome Van' |
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Could we set that to a little banjo/ fiddle duet Rob? |
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Tobias Duncan Samba Member
Joined: January 15, 2013 Posts: 1391 Location: Taos NM
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Folk Song: 'Round-Eyed Handsome Van' |
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Did you just assume the gender of my van? |
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dhaavers Samba Member
Joined: March 19, 2010 Posts: 7757 Location: NE MN (tinyurl.com/dhaaverslocation)
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Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Folk Song: 'Round-Eyed Handsome Van' |
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I like it (!) but please consider linking a bootleg video (if you're a REAL van man fan)...
- Dave _________________ 86 White Wolfsburg Westy Weekender
"The WonderVan"
<EDITED TO PROTECT INNOCENT PIXELS> |
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msinabottle Samba Member
Joined: September 20, 2005 Posts: 3492 Location: Denver Area, Colorado
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Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: Vanagon Folk Song: 'Round-Eyed Handsome Van' |
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I'm so happy and pleased that you all liked it. Thank you all, very much.
I'm sorry for any errors, I have always used 'handsome' for all Vanagon genders,
zipster48 wrote: |
Could we set that to a little banjo/ fiddle duet Rob? |
I'd be thrilled if you did!
Best! _________________ 'Winston,' '84 1.9 WBX Westy
Vanagon Poet Laureate: "I have suffered in
many ways, but never, never, never in silence." |
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