| When I play
this song live, I often introduce it by saying that to be a real
songwriter, you've gotta write at least one car song. This is mine. It's
about the El Camino -- may
it rest in peace! -- which, despite combining the worst aspects of a car and a pickup truck, is one of my very favorite vehicles. They're weird lookin', I'll admit, and not to everyone's taste... but I love 'em anyway. (As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.) When I originally wrote the lyrics, I was actually picturing a red & white El Camino that I'd seen... but "black and white" seemed to sing better. - Steve H. |
1. Gonna buy me an El Camino / gonna
paint it black and white
Gonna buy me an El Camino / gonna
paint it black and white
Pick you up around sundown / Drive
that thing all night
2. Gonna fire up that engine / put
that pedal to the floor
Gonna fire up that engine / put that
pedal to the floor
Take you out on the highway / Drive
'til we can't drive no more
3. We might wind up in heaven / or
in some old motel somewhere
We might wind up in heaven / or in
some old motel somewhere
As long as I'm with you, darlin'
/ you know, I don't really care
repeat Verse 1.
| El Camino
appears
on the
Steve Haggard CD, "Mysterious Ways" Available on Wild Oats Records (OAT-714) |