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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: 8234 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. _________________ 1984 Westfailure/2.1 Digijet/5.43 Ring & Pinion/Peloquin/D-rated BFG KO2s
AI has spoken to further illiteracy, to steal, to cheat, and to replace humans
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere." — Colin Chapman |
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djkeev Samba Moderator

Joined: September 30, 2007 Posts: 32983 Location: Reading Pennsylvania
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jlrftype7 Samba Member
Joined: July 24, 2018 Posts: 4497 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: 1412 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: 8345 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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