Lemon Car

When you were just a lad of ten, your father said, in part,

"Come here and take a lesson from a lovely lemon car.

Don't put your faith in wheels, my boy, or someday you might learn,

that you can spend a lot on them and still, they might not turn."

Lemon car, very pretty, and it costs you quite a lot

but when you want it to go somewhere, the lemon car, it might not.

Lemon car, it's so expensive, it keeps on sucking you

but sometimes the lemon car can be impossible to move.

One day next to a lemon car, the beauty of its shine

got you to hear the salesman pitch and then you did the buy.

When you paid the down payment and got in the lemon car

the music of the engine hid your father's words at the start.

Lemon car, very pretty, and . . .

One day when you turned the key, the engine wouldn't run

and sitting in the driver's seat, you knew what you had done.

You couldn't get it going, it's a common tale but true.

You're sadder now but wiser as your father's words come back to you.

Lemon car, very pretty, and . . .

Dave updated these parody lyrics for his January 2023 SoundCloud release and you can hear that version by clicking here.

He posted a rough cut video of his earlier version on YouTube on 4/18/20 - click here to watch that video. Here are the lyrics from that first one:

Lemon Car

When you first saw the lemon car you liked the way it looked

and riding in the driver's seat made you feel really good,

but now that it belongs to you it might not feel so fine

to turn the key when it won't start, no matter what you try.

Lemon car, very pretty, and it cost you quite a lot

but when you want it to go somewhere, the lemon car, it might not.

Lemon car, it's so pretty it might make you want to cruise

but riding inside it, you might get some real bad news.

Sometimes when you're driving you might hear some real strange sounds

and you don't know the causes but then someday, you might find out.

Other times when trying just to get around the bend,

the steering doesn't work quite right and you don't know if it can.

Lemon car, very pretty, and . . .

One day you stopped at a red light, and when the light turned green

you put your foot down on the gas but the car could barely creep.

You could hear the engine but the wheels could hardly turn

and the only gear that seemed to work was shifting to reverse.

Lemon car, very pretty, and . . .