**KFNF's 50th SONG**

(to the song “billie jean” by michael jackson)



maggie peyton went to a junkyard to pick up a car

wanted to race in cup like her bro, but dad said “no”

he picked out - an old car - that looked slow

but what they didn’t know

was the car - had a past - of its own

a letter said the car’s named “herbie,” number fifty-three

and when she drove home it did wheelies, then got in a

race with smoke - oops, i mean - “trip murphy”

but then her dad got angry

and murphy took her ride

then had his guy trash it real bad (ooh!)

but you just can’t kill herbie

maggie took her car back

but this story’s not through

‘cause “the love bug” got his groove, hey-hey—

fifty-three is the car number

of herbie, the magic white volkswagen bug

who once winked at jeff gordon

and then had a good run

under hot fontana sun

at california, the peyton team was still struggling

maggie’s bro first got it in the show, then wrecked his piece

no backup - driver got - his bell rung

but then later that night

the crew came to fix herbie up right

(who would drive?) maggie, why? (woo-hoo!)

the nascar rules let them enter a “car of yesterday”

forty-year-old herbie with bass pro logos this time

started last - murphy’s first - goin’ green

she started out way too slow

then slingshot jarrett fast

and sprung a leak drivin’ over cars (li-ter-al-ly)

then trip murphy caused a big wreck

maggie turned her car up high

like smoke, herbie did climb

the catch fence, “this win is mine,” he honked—

fifty-three is the car number

of herbie, the magic white volkswagen bug

who once winked at jeff gordon

fifty-three is the car number

of herbie, the magic white volkswagen bug

who once winked at jeff gordon

and then had a good run

under hot fontana sun—

REWIND LINK: the 2006 uaw-daimlerchrysler four hundred at las vegas