Long car rides go faster if you sing together.

There is always one sibling who remembers all the words.

There is always one sibling who messes up the words on purpose.

We learned who the pipes were calling for,

how to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative,

what to do if we lost the girl we loved on one of those thousand islands,

and what to do if we ever went across the sea to Ireland.

All because if the air pilot said it, we had to give him credit.

We knew that Alice the camel had two humps, but really wasn’t a camel,

that it takes a lot of effort to get to the end of 100 bottles of beer,

and that John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt is a great car song,

no matter if you sing it loud or soft.

We also learned that whether you were three little angels or three little devils,

whether you tried to get to heaven on a thread or a kite string,

that at the end of the long car ride, you would all be safely tucked in bed.

 

© words by Dan DeMarle 2017