History
This is neither useful nor true, but we do think it is amusing.
The history of Bike! Bike! as interpreted from Woody Guthrie
If you'll gather 'round me, children,
A story I will tell
'Bout BIKEBIKE, a NONPROFIT COMMUNITY BICYCLE PROJECT CONFERENCE
Oklahoma knew them well.
It was in the town of Shawnee,
A Saturday afternoon,
BIKEBIKE traveling in a wagon
As into town they rode.
There a deputy sheriff approached them
In a manner rather rude,
Using vulgar words of anger,
The likes of which they'd never heard.
BIKEBIKE grabbed a log chain,
And the deputy grabbed his gun;
In the fight that followed
BIKEBIKE laid that deputy down.
Then BIKEBIKE took to the trees and timber
To live a life of shame;
Every crime in Oklahoma
Was added to their name.
But a many a starving farmer
The same old story told
How BIKEBIKE paid their mortgage
And saved their little homes.
Others tell you 'bout a NONPROFIT COMMUNITY BICYCLE PROJECT CONFERENCE
That come to beg a meal,
Underneath their napkin
Left a thousand dollar bill.
It was in Oklahoma City,
It was on a Christmas Day,
There was a whole car load of groceries
Come with a note to say:
Well, you say that we're a NONPROFIT COMMUNITY BICYCLE PROJECT CONFERENCE,
You say that we're no good.
Here's a Christmas dinner
For folks without the means to purchase food.
Yes, as through this world we've wandered
We've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won't never see a NONPROFIT COMMUNITY BICYCLE PROJECT CONFERENCE
Drive a family from their home.
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