This song proves that your car can get you into alot of trouble and alot of fun. It was played on Cartalk on July 5th and 6th!!!! Joe Goldmark on pedal steel - wow! Doug Logan -rhythm guitar Peter Gillette -acoustic bass Peter Booras - drums

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This song has so many influences...I always wanted to write a song for Car Talk's Click and Clack, and my daughter is always saying..."sing a song about Axel!" (her boyfriend), so with all this in my head, I was in a coffee shop and I heard a swerve, skid and screech and thought "Axel" immediately and started writing the lyrics.

To create the music, I took the music recording of "Ears Pierced Today" (which was recorded at Garth's with Peter, Peter and Doug) and chopped it up in ProTools to make the arrangement I needed G, C, D, etc... and then Garth recorded Joe Goldmark soloing on the pedal steel to "Drive" one night (Axel's mom was there to listen, too). Joe is amazing! After that, I finalized the vocals, and Doug mixed and mastered, and here we are!

[We're stuck at the junction - Petticoat Junction]
Our axle needs straightening
Our tires need rotating
We are trying to be good girls not meander and roam
but we find it hard to drive straight home

Got trouble with the steering
sometimes end up in a clearing
Now a handsome tow truck driver calls us
on the phone we were trying just to
drive straight home

Drive straight home
drive straight home
we want to come home straight to you
oh, boy, we do try to come straight home no lie
but the car is so untrue

so we keep realigning
ended up on an island
stranded with a cute policeman
we were all alone
we were trying just to drive straight home

Here's Uncle Joe...

Drive straight home
drive straight home
that's all we want to do
but then we start to veer into trouble [oh dear!]
and run into someone new [sorry!]

I'm calling a mechanic
hope he's not too romantic
cuz I tired of knocking over all these
traffic cones
we were trying just to drive straight home
home
we were trying just to drive straight home