Album: Marc Cohn (1991)

Charted: 63

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• Watched it coming up Winslow
  Down South Park Boulevard
  Yeah it was looking good from tail to hood
  Great big fins and painted steel
  Man it looked just like the Batmobile
  With my old man behind the wheel
  
  Well you could hardly even see him
  In all of that chrome
  The man with the plan and the pocket comb
  But every night it carried him home
  And I could hear him sayin'...
  
  Don't gimme no Buick
  Son you must take my word
  If there's a God in heaven
  He's got a Silver Thunderbird
  
  You can keep your Eldorados
  And the foreign car's absurd
  Me I want to go down
  In a Silver Thunderbird
  
  He got up every morning
  While i was still asleep
  But I remember the sound of him shuffling around
  Then right before the crack of dawn
  I heard him turn the motor on
  But when I got up they were gone
  
  Down the road in the rain and snow
  The man and his machine would go
  Oh the secrets that old car would know
  Sometimes I hear him sayin'... Writer/s: MARC COHN
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Joe Guzzardo from ChicagoSilver Thunderbird is one of my favorite tunes by Marc Cohn. I think it's time for a sequel, Golden Edsel.
• Andy C from LondonMarc Cohn was born in Cleveland Ohio, South Park Boulevard and Winslow Road are streets in Shaker Heights. Cohn also mentions Shaker Lake in Perfect Love, which is located in Shaker Heights.
• Cary from Walhalla, ScWhere is Winslow and South park Bl?
• Volker from HamburgIn a song called "Listening to Levon", Marc Cohn sings "I was sitting with Mary in my dad's blue Valiant". Now wait a minute – was it a blue Valiant or a silver Thunderbird (or both)? Later in the song Cohn sings "I might have even lied about the car" and before playing "Listening to Levon" in a concert in Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA, 7/9/14 he explained "… in this case I lied and I called it a blue Valiant".
• Volker from HamburgBesides the cover version by Jo Dee Messina you can find cover versions of "Silver Thunderbird" by Charlie Barker, The Legal Tender Band and Slizzy Bob on Spotify.
  A really remarkable version is the one by The Duke's Men (from their 2011 album "What a Trip", also on Spotify), because it is performed a cappella. The Duke's Men of Yale are an all-male a cappella singing group at Yale University.

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