Cracker - I Ride My Bike

Artist: Cracker

Song: I Ride My Bike

Album: Tucson “EP” (1992), Kerosene Hat (1993)

Kerosene Hat is Cracker's second album, released on August 24, 1993. It reached #1 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, and #59 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The ghost track n.88 is “I Ride My Bike”, previously included on "Tucson" EP.

Many alternative-rock fans considered Camper Van Beethoven an important band, but I wasn't among them. Guitarist/vocalist David Lowerey always seemed smarmy and ridiculously happy with his own cleverness. Lowrey's new band, Cracker, has the potential to be even more annoying, since the quartet places the spotlight solely on its leader and songwriter, but its self-titled 1992 debut was a strong effort with a smart, infectious single ("Teen Angst"), and Kerosene Hat is even better. Recorded with stripped- down simplicity on an abandoned soundstage at the edge of the Mojave desert, the album concentrates on the band's undeniably catchy country-flavored garage punk. "Go For A Ride" is perfect highway music, and the single "Low" is almost as good as "Teen Angst." Unfortunately, the most inspired title and song topic-"Hi Desert Biker Meth Lab"-turns out to be wasted on a short snippet of noise and studio chatter. --Jim DeRogatis

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Intro & break:
Em-f#m-g-d
Em-f#m-g-d
Em-f#m-g-d
Em-f#m-g-d

Repeat break

Verse 1:
Em and I f#m ride my g bike d
Em and I f#m drive my g car d
Em I drive it f#m all a-g-round just to d take me back to em you f#m-g-d

Verse2:
Em and I f#m comb my g hair d
Em and I f#m wear a g dress d
Em I wear it f#m all a-g-round just to d take me back to em you

Chorus:
I ride my a bike, g take me d back to em you
I drive my acar, g take me d back to em you
Bm I ride my f#m bike, c I drive my g car, d take me to em you
Bm I ride my f#m bike, c I drive my g car, d take me to em you

Repeat break

Repeat verses 1 & 2

Chorus
Bm I ride my f#m bike, c I drive my g car, d take me to em you

Middle section:
(em(em+6 and em7 embellishments) throughout)
This is a story about a dog, a dog
When I ride my bike
And my hair is blowing straight back
I think of you wearing that brown mohair sweater
Soft mounds of breasts underneath
Or better yet one of those squigly aluminum lawn chairs
I'm putting sun tan lotion on your long legs
A-wearing a broad rim straw hat
Pair of mickey mouse sunglasses
Looking just like lolita
Looking just like lolita
White sheets hanging on the line
White sheets blowing in the wind
A satellite dish pointed straight up at the heavens

G-a-c
Em a satellite dish pointing stright up at the g heavens, isis!a (isis) c (isis)

Em isis! g isis! a (isis) c (isis)
Em (isis) g isis! a isis! c isis!

Em isis! g isis! a isis!c isis!
Em oh yeah! (isis) g arrrrrrrrrr
G#-a-a#-b-c-c#-g-c#-eb-e-eb-c-eb-e-(random sliding bar chords above 12th fret) (fades into:)
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Bm I ride my f#m bike, c I drive my g car, d to be with em you
Bm I ride my f#m bike, c I drive my g car, d to be wi' em you
Bm I ride my f#m bike, c I drive my g car, d to be wi' em you
Bm I ride my f#m bike, c I drive my g car, d to be wi' em you