track & field songs

[Randy Treadway]

Re: track & field songs

Here's a decent one from Dan Fogelberg (you always have to have somebody who's done you wrong to make it a classic,right?)

Well I`m a runnin` down the highway
Got the road beneath my wheels
Said I`m runnin` down the highway
Got the road beneath my wheels
Ain`t nobody in this whole wide world
Who knows the way I feel

Said my woman up and left me
Left me for some other guy
Said my woman up and left me
Left me for some other guy
You know I never understand it
Though I try and I try and I try

Well I`m a runnin` down the highway
Got the road beneath my wheels
Said I`m runnin` down the highway
Got the road beneath my wheels
Ain`t nobody in this whole wide world
Who knows the way I feel

[Powell]

Re: track & field songs

>All right M.C.- here's one for ball-and-chain
>afficianados-

Speaking of which, don't forget 'The House of the Rising Sun':
'I'm going back to New Orleans
to wear that ball and chain'

[Randy Treadway]

Re: track & field songs

How come nobody has written a song that people can group-run to-
you know, like the Army has it's various left-right ditties (see the Bill Murray movie Stripes for takeoffs like Doo Wa Ditty Ditty)...

And elite Olympic rowers always have "Row Row Row Your Boat" to fall back on....
Say, in the "Fours", what happens to oar synchonization when they begin singing Row Row Row Your Boat in rounds?
I can just see the coxwain going nuts!

[Randy Treadway]

Re: track & field songs

All right M.C.- here's one for ball-and-chain afficianados-
(since I'm on a Johnny Cash streak-

from the refrain of the Cash number "I Got Stripes"

"And them chains, them chains they're about to drag me down."

Or that 60's Aretha Franklin hit
"Chain, chain, chain (chain, chain, chain)
Chain of fools"

[Randy Treadway]

Re: track & field songs

All I could think of for the Shot Put is:
"I Shot the Sheriff, but I Couldn't Shoot the Deputy" and
Johnny Cash's "I Shot a Man in Reno Just to Watch him Die..."

Weak.

[Powell]

Re: track & field songs

Another one I forgot: 'If I Had a Hammer'

[MJD]

Re: track & field songs

>'Trying to THROW Your Arms Around the World' by
>U2

And for the runners by U2-Where the Streets Have No Name:

I want to run
I want to hide
I want to tear down the walls
That hold me inside
I want to reach out
And touch the flame
Where the streets have no name

[Randy Treadway]

Re: track & field songs

Triple Jump: the Rolling Stones "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

[Randy Treadway]

Re: track & field songs

For Linford Christie and Jon Drummond:
"I Fought the Law and the Law Won"

[Randy Treadway]

Re: track & field songs

You forgot the late Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line".

Re: track & field songs

Hey, what about me?

[Powell]

Re: track & field songs

Don't forget field events !

'Jump' by Pointer Sisters
another one called 'Jump' by Criss Cross (sp?)
'Jump Around' by Cypress Hill

and 'Trying to THROW Your Arms Around the World' by U2

[Jefferson Buffalo]

Re: track & field songs

Since Mike Roth doesn't seem to have picked up on this, I'll point out that this thread is ignoring the best events in our sport--the walks! There are all sorts of great songs with walking in their titles, starting with "You'll Never Walk Alone," "I'll Walk Alone," "Walk Right In" and lots of others.

[AS]

Re: track & field songs

An Aussie band that have toured with Belle and Sebstain also have a tune called "Little Athletics" (this is what track and field is called for 5-15 year olds in Australia).

Lyrics are here: http://www.candlerecords.com.au/candle/ ... &albumID=4

[Per Andersen]

Re: track & field songs

I am with tafnut here. That Lola sure could run. An easy, uncomplicated stride,good knee lift, maybe a bit stiff across the shoulders. That girl sure understood even pace. Her sense of pacing was absolutely stunning. Yes, the score was intersting but I was more impressed by the way she kept her form througout the entire movie. Talk about deja-vue all over again. Well, see the movie!