Motorcycle Mama - Sailcat, 1972

 
 

Tell your Daddy and your Mama too
You got something better to do
Stick around the house the rest of your life
You're eighteen you can do what you like
You'll be the queen of my highway
My motorcycle mama
We'll see the world through my Harley

We'll get matching jackets and helmets too
We'll get respect from the towns we ride through
We'll sleep at the roadside in the soft green grass
And if the squares walk by we'll let them pass
You'll be the queen of my highway
My motorcycle mama
We'll see the world through my Harley

And maybe in a year or two
We'll have a little one
She'll look just like you
We'll add on a sidecar
Electric guitar
We'll be a trio
The baby makes three, oh

Tell your Daddy and your Mama too
You got something better to do
Stick around the house the rest of your life
You're eighteen you can be my wife
You'll be the queen of my highway
My motorcycle mama
We'll see the world through my Harley
We'll see the world through my Harley
We'll see the world through my Harley

If the chain don't break

 
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Being in existence for only 2 years (1971 to 1972), Sailcat was truly a one hit wonder band. They recorded their one and only album in the famous Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama. Motorcycle Mama (the album and the single) was a concept piece about a motorcycle riding drifter who decides to settle down with a young woman he meets during his travels. Easy Rider, of course, was an influence on the group's brainchild, John Wyker. The single went to #12 on the Billboard Chart in the summer of '72.

The wonderfully '70s cover art was commissioned from cartoonist Jack Davis. Besides doing comics in the '50s and '60s, Davis also dabbled in movie posters, with Kelly's Heroes being on of the most notable.

Oddly enough, the 1972 release of Motorcycle Mama wasn't it for the song. Icelandic alternative rock band The Sugarcubes , with Björk Guðmundsdóttir, re-recorded the song in 1990...how random is that?