It's A Rambling Flivver 1917

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 8 Sep 2009
2009

Now listen to me patiently
I'm going to deliver
a story 'bout a crazy,
goodfornothing little "flivver"
I bought it for a dollar
and an old tobacco sack
and now I wish to goodness
that I had my dollar back.
Doggoned thing is noisy as the deuce,
they made it out of rattles
ev'ry one of them is loose,
But even so it always seems to go
and when it starts to movin'
I will have you know:

It is a rambling "flivver"
a rambling "flivver"
step on her tail;
and then stay with her,
she will go, go,
when the tank is dry
do you think it wonderful?
I think it is a lie.
It is a rambling "flivver"
a rambling "flivver"
at racing she was fine
when I timed her for a block
both the hands flew off the clock
oh that rambling "flivver" of mine.

I took my girl a riding
in my dinky little "flivver"
I told her that I loved her,
then we skidded in the river,
as soon as we came up for air,
we heard a funny swish,
and then we saw the pesky "flivver"
swimming like a fish.
Half a dozen crabs began to bite
they just kept on a nibbling
'till that "flivver" was a sight,
Then with one flop
that "flivver" hit the shore,
a goin' twenty miles an hour
and maybe more:

It is a rambling "flivver"
a rambling "flivver"
step on her tail;
and then stay with her,
she will go, go,
like a ton of brick
ev'ry time she takes a hill
she acts a little sick,
She is a rambling "flivver"
a rambling "flivver"
She goes down hill just fine,
Ever since I got the bus,
all I do is fuss and cuss,
at that rambling "flivver" of mine.

Now once I had
a motherinlaw
and knew not what to give her
the devil in me seemed to say
"just let her have the "flivver"
She jumped right in
and grabbed the wheel
and thought it simply grand,
and then she took her farewell trip
into the promised land.
With one growl that "flivver" went to work
and like a little hero
not a duty did it shirk,
and like a shot it started on the run,
a spittin' and a poppin'
like a Gattling Gun.

It was a rambling "flivver"
a rambling "flivver"
Rambling fast
and the old girl with her
on the go, go,
going mighty fast,
moaning and a groaning
still a kicking to the last,
it was a rambling "flivver"
a rambling "flivver"
a rambling "crackerjack"
for it took her far away
dumped her where she had to stay,
then the goshdurned "flivver" came back.

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It's A Rambling Flivver 1917
by Byron Gay
© MCMXVII by Charles N.Daniels - San Francisco, California
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 8 September 2009 at 21.52
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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