Jerry Was a Race Car Driver Lyrics
Band | |
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Album | Sailing the Seas of Cheese(1991) |
Type | Album (Studio full-length) |
Genres | Alternative Metal, Funk Metal, Experimental Rock |
Labels | Interscope Records |
Ranked | #125 for 1991 , #7,533 all-time |
Album rating : 77.5 / 100
Votes : 8
Votes : 8
5. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver (3:11)
[Intro]
Fire it up, man!
[Verse 1]
Jerry was a race car driver
He drove so goddamned fast
Never did win no checkered flags
But he never did come in last
Jerry was a race car driver
He'd say "El Sob number one"
With a Bocephus sticker on his 442
He'd light 'em up just for fun
[Chorus]
Ah
Ah
[Verse 2]
Captain Pierce was a fireman
Richmond engine number three
I'll be a wealthy man when I get a dime
For all the things that man he taught to me
Captain Pierce was a strong man
Strong as any man alive
Stuck in his craw that they made him retire
At the age of sixty-five
[Chorus]
Ah
Ah
[Bridge]
Go!
Heh, heh, heh, heh
Dog will hunt!
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Ah
Ah
[Verse 3]
Jerry was a race car driver
Twenty-two years old
One too many cold beers one night
And wrapped himself around a telephone pole, go!
Fire it up, man!
[Verse 1]
Jerry was a race car driver
He drove so goddamned fast
Never did win no checkered flags
But he never did come in last
Jerry was a race car driver
He'd say "El Sob number one"
With a Bocephus sticker on his 442
He'd light 'em up just for fun
[Chorus]
Ah
Ah
[Verse 2]
Captain Pierce was a fireman
Richmond engine number three
I'll be a wealthy man when I get a dime
For all the things that man he taught to me
Captain Pierce was a strong man
Strong as any man alive
Stuck in his craw that they made him retire
At the age of sixty-five
[Chorus]
Ah
Ah
[Bridge]
Go!
Heh, heh, heh, heh
Dog will hunt!
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
Ah
Ah
[Verse 3]
Jerry was a race car driver
Twenty-two years old
One too many cold beers one night
And wrapped himself around a telephone pole, go!
Added by Krindern
Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Lyrics
1. Seas of Cheese Lyrics | 2. Here Come the Bastards Lyrics |
3. Sgt. Baker Lyrics | 4. American Life Lyrics |
▶ 5. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver Lyrics | 6. Eleven Lyrics |
7. Is It Luck? Lyrics | 8. Grandad's Little Ditty Lyrics |
9. Tommy the Cat Lyrics | 10. Sathington Waltz Lyrics |
11. Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers Lyrics | 12. Fish On (Fisherman Chronicles, Chapter II) Lyrics |
13. Los Bastardos Lyrics |
Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Album Credits
Members
- Les Claypool : Electric Bass, String Bass, Six-string Fretless Bass, Clarinet, Vocals
- Larry LaLonde : Electric Guitar, Six-string Banjo
- Tim "Herb" Alexander : Drums, Water Jug
- Jay Lane : Drums on Tracks 14 & 15
Additional musicians
- Mike Bordin : Two-skinned Foreskin Drum
- Adam Gates : Additional Fisherman
- Lance Link : Additional Fisherman
- Trouz : Whistle
- Tom Waits : Voice of Tommy the Cat
- Matt Winegar : Accordion
- Bastardos
- Adam Gates, Puffster, Herb, Ler, Les : Vocals
- MIRV Haggard, Todd Huth, Derek Greenberg, Matt Winegar, Ler : Guitars
- Butthouse, Adam Gates, Les : Bass
- Brain Mantia, Mike Bordin, Herb : Drums
Other staff
- Chris Bellman : Mastering
- Primus : Producer
- Ron Rigler : Engineering
- Tom Whalley : A&R Director
- Paul Haggard : Jacket Design, Photography
- Mark Kohr : Cheese Coordinator, Scenery
- Michael Lavine : Band Photo
- Mitch Romanowski : Ship (sculpture)
- Snap : Airbrushing
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Rank | Song | Album | Rating | Votes | |
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1 | ▶ Jerry Was a Race Car Driver | Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991) | 82.5 | 4 | |
2 | My Name Is Mud | Pork Soda (1993) | 82.5 | 4 | |
3 | DMV | Pork Soda (1993) | 82.5 | 4 | |
4 | Mr. Krinkle | Pork Soda (1993) | 82.5 | 4 | |
5 | Lacquer Head | Antipop (1999) | 83.3 | 3 | |
6 | Tommy the Cat | Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991) | 81.3 | 4 | |
7 | Nature Boy | Pork Soda (1993) | 81.3 | 4 | |
8 | To Defy the Laws of Tradition | Frizzle Fry (1990) | 81.7 | 3 | |
9 | Mr. Knowitall | Frizzle Fry (1990) | 81.7 | 3 | |
10 | Welcome to This World | Pork Soda (1993) | 80 | 4 | |
11 | John the Fisherman | Frizzle Fry (1990) | 80 | 3 | |
12 | Here Come the Bastards | Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991) | 78.8 | 4 | |
13 | American Life | Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991) | 77.5 | 4 | |
14 | Bob | Pork Soda (1993) | 77.5 | 4 | |
15 | Wounded Knee | Pork Soda (1993) | 77.5 | 4 |
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