Medley: Born To Be Wild/ Teen Angel/ Tell Laura I Love Her/ Strange Things Happen - Steve Goodman

You gotta motorcycle helmet out there?

You really do?

Can I borrow it for a

second?

It’s real easy to hear with this thing on.

Another hole in the bottom

of the sea.

Now the only thing to play with this thing is a song,

we gotta play a vehicular song.

Now, Lincoln Park Pirates is about tow trucks,

this is a motorcycle helmet, you gotta do this song:

Get your motor runnin'

Head out on the highway

Lookin' for adventure

Or what ever comes our way

Yeah, gotta go make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

And explore into space

Thunderbolt and lightning

Heavy metal thunder

Feelin' what we’re feelin'

That feeling that we’re under

Yeah, gotta go make it happen

The world in a love embrace

Fire all of your (gibberish)

Explode into space

Like a true nature’s child

We were born, born to be wild

Born so wild, never wanna ever die

Born to be wild

Gotta be another motorcycle song somewhere in here

Ah yeah!

That Friday night the car was stalled

On the railroad track

I pulled you out and we were safe

But you went running back

Teen angel

Can you hear me?

Teen angel

Can you see me?

Are you somewhere up above?

Am I still your one true love?

I’ll never know just what it was

That took your life that night

They say they found my high school ring

Clutched in your fingers tight

There’s one that’s better than this, here it is

Laura and Johnny were lovers

He wanted to give her everything

Candy, flowers

But most of all, a wedding ring

He saw a sign for a stock car race

Thousand dollar prize it read

He couldn’t get Laura on the phone

So to her mother, Johnny said:

Tell Laura I love her

Tell Laura I need her

Tell Laura I may be late

I’ve got something to do that cannot wait

He drove his car to the fairgrounds

He was the youngest driver there

The gun went off for the start of the race

Around they drove at a deadly pace

No one knows what happened that day

How his car overturned in flames

But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck

With his dying breath they heard him say

Tell Laura I love her

Tell Laura I need her

Tell Laura not to cry

My love for her will never die

Now in the chapel where Laura prayed

For Johnny who passed away

It was just where Laura lived and died

Alone in the chapel she could hear him cry:

Laura, you bitch

Tell Laura I love her

Tell Laura I need her

Tell Laura not to cry

Now, folks, while we’re on the subject of dead girl songs, I only know one

other dead girl song and I know I’ll never have the chance to sing it again,

so I’ll beg your indulgence, here it is:

Last night at the dance I met Laurie

So lovely and warm, an angel of a girl

Last night, I fell in love with Laurie

Strange things happen in this world

As I walked her home, she said it was her birthday

I pulled her close and said «Will I see you any more?»

And suddenly, she asked for my sweater

And said that she was very, very cold

I kissed her good night at her door and started home

Then thought about my sweater and went right back instead

I knocked at the door and a man appeared

I told him why I’d come and then he said:

«Your wrong son, you weren’t with my daughter

How could you be so cruel to come to me this way

My Laurie left this world on her birthday

She died a year ago today.»

Undaunted, our hero plunges on

A strange force drew me to the graveyard

Then I looked and saw my sweater

Lying there upon her grave

And now the understatement of the year:

Strange things happen in this world