I don’t see a lot of rhymes for ‘bike,’ but it see i as a pinnacle gift for kids from the ’50s, ’60s, and whatnot. I certainly had a bike and treasured it, except when i was showing off ‘crashing’ it for fun. But, one thing always bothered me about this request… [see punchline of the song].
Why’d I Ask for a Bike?
I heard in a song, a song that I like When Christmas Time comes, ask for a bike. I'm not very old, golly, just a tike, So I set up my parents for a sly filial psyche. [chorus] A Stingray with sissy bars and banana seat (Or) a Schwinn--purple gloss!--would be pretty neat! No Hot Wheel for me, that's so obsolete. I want independence to strut down the street! So I left the Sears catalog open to the page Where auto assembly parts were all the rage. I laid around snacking, excercising presaged, Demanding A Skateboard this punk would assuage. [chorus] I tell you what--it worked, like, of course That morning that package--as big as a horse! I took that bike out so we could explore, But fell five times in the ice and the snow! [chorus]
Yeah, i do live an a moderate climate and we rarely have white Christmases. But is a bicycle ideal cold-weather fun? It’s like asking for bathing trunks for the holidays. But i see this as kidsong (the fancy vocabulary makes that funnier), although you could default to bluegrass. [Yeah, i know i whiffed the last line of rhyme, but that dissonance–to me–makes it more dramatic. So there.]