Goldenrod Lyrics

Franky nearly drowned the first time

He put her into gear

Bodywork still gleaming

Through the scrapes and oil and sand

I will be back, he said

As they pulled him from the wreckage

She'll be just fine, he said

We'll rebuild the Goldenrod

Grease monkey drifters

Working with their hands

Backyard mechanics

Self-taught engineers

Visionary craftsmen

Imagined Venus with an engine

She was an epiphany

He named her Goldenrod

Franky and his rivals lived

The violence of the board tracks

Newspapers thrived upon

Their death defying acts

Most of these daredevils

Never saw the age of thirty

Franky seemed invincible

He drove the Goldenrod

Sixteen howling pistons

Venus with an engine

A crowd gathered on the beach

To watch the fastest men

Racing with the Bluebird

Cheers turn to gasps then screams

Then nothing but the crashing waves

And the death of the Goldenrod