Recorded live with Ramzi Moushabeck and Dave Waldfogel on guitars, Mr. Silverstone on vocals and keyboards, Ray Yelle on Drums, Simone Moushabeck on Bass
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I was in Nachedoches, Texas
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it was 99 degrees in the shade
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Felt like I was English
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At an Independence Day parade
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So I got into the car
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Cranked up the music and the air all the way
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And started to ride, Ride, ride, ride, ride
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I had a sneaky little feeling
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Things between us weren’t about to change
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‘cause whatever I suggested we might do
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would always strike you strange
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so I decided it’d be better
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if we ‘d get ourselves both out of range
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to ride, Ride, ride, ride, ride
CHORUS
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Riding through the night
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Where all imagination’s free to go
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Baby, maybe going nowhere
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But who for sure would really know?
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(Gonna run a--) way and join the circus
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always meant to do that anyhow
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its been a constant possibility I never could
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deny or allow
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What’s all been so great about stability,
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anyhow?
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Baby, time to ride, Ride, ride, ride, ride
[instrumental verse]
Repeat CHORUS
(But they did then who would have the heart to go and tell us so?)
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Riding on the Interstate watching night turn into day
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Riding past the places you might visit but
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never stay
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They say patience is a virtue but sometime’s
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that cost’s too hard to pay
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I’d rather ride Ride, ride, ride, ride
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I feel alive just driving on now
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And singing with the radio
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crossed the Mississipi River ‘bout an
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hour and a half ago
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maybe don’t know where we’re going
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but there’s lots more places we could go
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so let’s ride Ride, ride, ride, ride
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let’s ride, Ride, ride, ride, ride
credits
released July 14, 2011
All hail Chuck Berry, King of Rock and Roll
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