Watch Her Ride

Album: After Bathing at Baxter's (1967)
Charted: 61
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  • Written by Paul Kantner, this song was the second single released from After Bathing at Baxter's, but it only reached #61 on the Hot 100. Coupled with the instrumental "Spare Chaynge," it comprises the album's fourth suite, entitled "How Suite It Is." >>>
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    Mark - Desperate Hot Springs, CA

Comments: 2

  • George B Fiala from Red Hook, BrooklynThe only Jew in the room was a big line in college (I'm a 1974 graduate), but what really stands out to me is Casady and Kantner. Actually, the whole song is great, all the changes, plus another line "I'd rather have my country die for me" and the bass line right after that...
  • Apsa from AfricaWhat's particularly astonishing with this song, is the fact that it's not been censored, when we all know what Paul meant by singing "I would really like to watch her ride all on me".
    Given the fact that in 1966, RCA made him change a verse in his song "Run around" ("as you lay under me" became "as you stay here by me"). Same for "Let me in", that same year.
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