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Top 10 Car Songs

By Abbeyroad Insierto   Tue, Dec 01, 2009

You've probably heard many of these at your local car show, but here are the top 10 song titles or passages in a song related to automobiles.

Mustang Sally

by Wilson Pickett

Writer/Producer: Mark Rice

Year Published/Released: 1965  

Label: Atlantic

I bought you a brand new Mustang
A nineteen sixty-five huh!
Now you come around
Signifyin a woman
That don’t wanna let me ride

 

Little Deuce Coupe

by The Beach Boys

Writer/Producer: Brian Wilson

Year Published/Released: 1963  

Label: Capitol

 

Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill
But she'll walk a Thunderbird like (she's) it's standin' still
She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored.
She'll do a hundred and forty in the top end floored
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)

 

Drive My Car

by The Beatles

Writer/Producer: John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney, George Martin

Year Published/Released: 1965  

Label: Capitol

Baby you can drive my car
Yes I'm gonna be a star
Baby you can drive my car
And maybe I love you
Beep beep'm beep beep yeah

 

Fast Cars

by Tracy Chapman

Writer/Producer: Tracy Chapman and David Kershenbaum

Year Published/Released:  1988

Label: Elektra

 

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere

 

Cars

by Fear Factory

Writer/Producer: Gary Numan

Year Published/Released: August 1979

Label: Beggars Banquet

Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It’s the only way to live
In cars

 

Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car

by Billy Ocean

Writer/Producer: Billy Ocean, Robert John “Mutt” Lange

Year Published/Released: 1988

Label: Jive

 

Get outta my dreams
Get into my car
Get outta my dreams
Get in the back seat baby
Get into my car
Beep beep, yeah
Get outta my mind
Get into my life

 

Parents Just Don’t Understand

by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

Writer/Producer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

Year Published/Released: 1988

Label: Zomba/Jive

 

Parents just don't understand
Oh-kay, here's the situation
My parents went away on a week's vacation and
They left the keys to the brand new Porsche
Would they mind?
Umm, well, of course not
I'll just take it for a little spin
And maybe show it off to a couple of friends
I'll just cruise it around the neighborhood 

 

Little Red Corvette

by Prince

Writer/Producer : Prince

Year Published/Released: 1983

Label: Warner Brothers

Little red corvette
baby you're much too fast.
Little red corvette
you need a love that's gonna last.
Guess I should have closed my eyes
when you drove me to the place
Where your horses run free
'cause I felt a little ill

 

Car Wash

by Rose Royce

Writer/Producer: Rose Royce and Norman Whitfield

Year Published/Released: 1976

Label: Geffen Records

 

Drive

by The Cars

Writer/Producer: Rik Okasek and Robert John “Mutt” Lange

Year Published/Released: 1984

Label: Elektra

 

Who's gonna tell you when

It's too late

Who's gonna tell you things

Aren't so great

You can't go on

Thinking nothing's wrong

Who's gonna drive you home tonight

By Abbeyroad Insierto

Abbeyroad is a freelance writer and researcher.

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