THE BALLAD OF SAL PARADISE

Hit the Road Jack
Do you remember Kerouac
Who's that Beatnik
With that gone chick
Hear the bop go
Dig the way the poets glow
And they drive into the wonder of the sad dark
American night

Speed drenched highway
Dean Moriarity
Cat plays bongos
Calls you daddy-o
Just can't sit tight
Gotta get out tonight
So we drive into the wonder of the sad dark
American night

He must have gotten harder
Before he moved to Florida
Or maybe just the flame died
That he turned up so high
Hey all you college kids
Don't do what your daddy did
Forget business management
Pick up on On the Road

Beat generation
First in the nation
Dealing with an atom bomb
Still can't get a handle on
But I dig Kerouac
The first to know where its at

And we drive into the wonder of the sad dark
American night
Drive into the beauty of the sad dark
American night
Drive into the memory of the sad dark
American night