When you ride over sharps, you get flats!

(Copyright ©2011 to Chris Watson a.k.a. The Bicycling Guitarist)

  1. Red Baron describes the character and career of this famous World War One flying ace.
  2. Crazy Metal suggests that maybe everybody's crazy because of environmental toxins.
  3. Hot Young Blonde gets ready then goes out for a night of fun.
  4. Running Out of Time continues the story of the Hot Young Blonde song.
  5. Al Gore Rhythm is an obvious pun on a politician's name.
  6. Prayer asks who I'm seeing when I look into my eyes.
  7. Death Watching one's parents die raises questions about one's own mortality.
  8. What Can I Say? The limitations of language for communicating meaning.
  9. Early Morning Hours describes feelings of longing and loneliness in the middle of the night.
  10. Legalize lists some of the possibly good things about marijuana.
  11. Evolution happens. Some people have trouble accepting this fact of nature.
  12. Logger Rhythm, the most recent song here, was composed along a bike trail by a river.
  13. Entropy is one of my older songs, asking questions about the very meaning of personal identity.
  14. Oh! Jennifer! is another of my older songs. The lyrics were originally a sonnet.

Download songbook in pdf format with the lyrics for those songs that have them (Al Gore Rhythm and Logger Rhythm are instrumentals, no vocals).

I rode bicycles a lot as a boy and as a teenager. When I was eighteen years old I started playing guitar. In my early twenties I somehow discovered I could combine these two activities, and The Bicycling Guitarist was born! Since the early 1980s I have ridden tens of thousands of miles “no-hands” on a vintage Schwinn ten-speed bicycle while playing guitar at the same time, writing dozens of original songs. This album has fourteen of my best songs arranged for your listening pleasure. The album title is from a spontaneous remark I made on May 13, 2008.

All of these fourteen songs now have recordings available, although not always of the best quality yet. These will be replaced by higher-quality recordings as soon as possible. Also, twelve out of fourteen songs have comments pages about them linked to from their original earlier song pages, but not from these new song pages. The earlier song and comment pages will remain at their original URLs (web addresses). I made new song pages for this album because of the new song order and the new material. I will make new comments pages for this album a.s.a.p.

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