Monday, January 07, 2008

the 1995 daytona five hundred

(to the song “flirtin’ with disaster” by molly hatchet)

**Congratulating Sterling Marlin on his Induction into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame!**

earn-hardt sure made a run, but ster-lin’s car was fas-ter

four tires and tape both helped a lot, but could-n’t help him get past ster!

now ster-ling mar-lin - joins rich-ard pe-tty and cale yar-bo-rough

as the on-ly three guys who won this race two years in a row
ten cau-tions spelled dis-as-ter, and it came ear-ly

nem-e-chek wrecked a-lone, bad luck a-gain, rus-ty

steve kin-ser’s race was short, a shame, so was his sea-son

(a) ci-gar-ette swerved tri-ckle in-to car thir-ty-three

lap sev-en-ty-one, the race was slowed

two hours of hea-vy rain stopped the show

that race took al-most the whole day

but ster-ling mar-lin won an-y-way

(Ken Squier over instrumental:)
“And the winner of the 1995 Daytona 500 is again Sterling Marlin! What does Dale Earnhardt have to do to win this race?”

(jeff) gor-don’s run-nin’ out front, but he fin-ished a whole lap down

he got some dam-age whileonpitroad, the jack slipped off the ground

in his two hun-dred eigh-teenth start, dale jar-rett won his first pole

but for the se-ven-teenth straight year, earn-hardt left fee-lin’ aw-ful

mus-grave was a fac-tor, steve - gris-som in se-venth

mike wall-ace and jeff pur-vis were in one acc-i-dent

todd bod-ine, dave marc-is and - jer-e-my may-fie-ld

all lost their en-gines, bo-bby la-bon-te wrecked right at the end

a-yeah, lap sev-en-ty-one, the race was slowed

two hours of hea-vy rain stopped the show

that race took al-most the whole day

but ster-ling mar-lin won an-y-way

that’s two-for-two, baby!

that’s somethin’, everybody!

doooah, go ster-lin’!

(Sterling Marlin impression over instrumental, pausing between each sentence:)
Good day f’rus, the team. Oh, man, lemme tell ye. Y’know that ol’ Kodak Chevy run good out thur, real good. Led a ton uh lap, wound up winnin’ the thing ‘gain, how ‘bout that. Sweain’ las’ caution a bi’, di’n need tha’. Earn-hardt got them four fresh tahres ‘n was catchin’ us. Sure looked fast out thur. Uh, real fas’. We come down to tha’ las’ lap, he gainin’ on us, but ah know ah cain’t let ‘im by. I’s able pull away from ‘im off the backstretch, co’in off two. ‘N now, well, uh, here we’are talkin’ t’y’all gain. Good, real good, Mo’an ‘Clure, wa-wanna thank Tony Glover and the crew, Ko-dak, Del-co Remy, uh, Ma’ Tool, AC Spar’ Plug, an’ Chevy, man, go’ah say, this ol’ Mon’e Carlo run good t’day, real good. Bes’ car ah haid at Day-tona. Love com’in here, e’ry year, jus’ runnin’ these plate races, just put that foot down ‘n let’er eat, son! Whew! Man, thi’ feel good! Wann’ say hi t’e’ryone in Tenn’se, we’re bringin’ this here trophy bah home!

mus-grave was a fac-tor, steve - gris-som in se-venth

mike wall-ace and jeff pur-vis were in one acc-i-dent

todd bod-ine, dave marc-is and - jer-e-my may-fie-ld

all lost their en-gines, bo-bby la-bon-te wrecked right at the end

a-yeah, lap sev-en-ty-one, the race was slowed

two hours of hea-vy rain stopped the show

that race took al-most the whole day - buh-buh-buh yeah

but ster-ling mar-lin won an-y-way
Posted by Brock Beard :: 5:42 PM :: ---------------------------------------