- Fat Bottom Girls (bicycles)
- Skater Boi (skateboards)
- I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates (You've Got a Brand New Key) (roller skates)
- 50 Mission Cap (ice skates)
- Mountains Win Again (skis)
- Convoy (trucks)
- Tonight's the Night (vans)
- Country Grammar (SUVs)
- Oh, Streetcar (streetcars)
- Monorail! (monorails)
- Over My Head (cable cars)
- Mark on the Bus (buses)
- If I Had a Boat (yachts)
- In the Navy (larger ships)
- The Water is Wide (personal watercraft)
- Surfing Safari (surfboards)
- Erie Canal (barges)
- Stairway to Heaven (stairways)
- Super Bon Bon (elevators)
- Up the Down Escalator (escalators)
- No Sign of Life (fire escapes)
- Funiculi Funicula (funiculars)
- A Horse with No Name (horses with no names)
- Wildfire (horses with names)
- Pull Your Hat Down Tight (bulls)
- Ride my Llama (llamas, extraterrestrial spaceships)
- Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (extraterrestrial spaceships, llama status indeterminate)
- Space Oddity (terrestrial spaceships)
- Vengeance (The Pact) (sort of large featherless bird - a Roc or Dragon-like aerial beast of burden)
- Greatest American Hero Theme Song (non-winged flying)
- (Take These) Broken Wings (wings, broken)
- I Believe I Can Fly (wings, imaginary)
- Stratford-on-Guy (airplanes, in air)
- American Pie (airplanes, not in air)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (winged cars)
- Unmarked Helicopters (unmarked helicopters)
- Police Helicopters (marked helicopters)
- Parachute Woman (parachutes)
- She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain (stagecoaches)
- Wells Fargo Wagon (the Wells Fargo Wagon)
- Walking after Midnight (feet, own)
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (feet, others')
- I'm Gonna Crawl (hands and knees)
- Boogie Shoes (shoes, boogie)
- Blue Suede Shoes (shoes, blue suede)
- Roller Coaster of Love (roller coasters of love)
- Magic Carpet Ride (magic carpets)
- Taxi (marijuana-infused taxis)
- St. Elmo's Fire (wheelchairs)
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
I CAN'T GET, CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE/I'VE BEEN THERE I KNOW THE WAY: In the ALOTT5MA Board of Directors meeting at ALOTT5MA Plaza this morning (present -- Bonin; Cosmo; Elwood; Earthling; Gordon; Marcotte; Spaceman; Throckmorton; absent - Shacklebolt), the third order of business (after P&L and Year-2000 Compliance) was identifying at least one song concerning as many methods of conveyance as possible. The Subcommittee on Songs About Trains, Cars, and Motorcycles, operating with a surfeit of material, will conduct a survey and report its results in a later meeting. The Board at large compiled the following list of songs concerning other, less-popularly-balladeered, conveyances:
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