Name: Burma Shave
Channel: D. Hansen & M. Hickman
Description: License options are available for this song. Ode to the lowly signs. Growing up in the 50's & 60's the Burma Shave sign was part of the landscape.

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Ode to the lowly signs. Growing up in the 50's & 60's the Burma Shave sign was part of the landscape.

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The Fall Guys

The Fall Guys are Texas Folk & Roll. Folk rock with a twist. The Beatles meet Sir Douglas Quintet. Roy Orbison meets John Fogerty. They are The Fall Guys. Anoth

The Fall Guys are Dennis Hansen & Michael Hickman, two High School friends that started their musical journey in the early 60’s. After years apart they have joined creative forces again to write some of the most insightful Folk & Roll you will ever hear. Their songs are stories of love and life spoken from experience and delivered with conviction and compassion. Come on along for the ride, you won't be sorry you did.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Piano

Charts

#1,424 in subgenre Peak #1

Charts

Peak #1

Author

D. Hansen & M. Hickman

Rights

2004

Uploaded

December 19, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 5.0 MB • 192 kbps • 3:39

Story behind the song

Burma Shave

Growing up in the 50's & 60's the Burma Shave sign was part of the landscape. AS kids we would wait with anticipation for the next set of 5 signs with their clever little rhymes. This song relays the nostalgia of reading those signs. All references to signs in the choruses are from actual signs. This was another of those songs that came in a flash.

Lyrics

Burma Shave
	C 2004 by D. Hansen & M. Hickman B.M.I.
Load up the Buick we’re on the road
71 out of El Campo
On a Sunday drive
Spring is here it’s Bluebonnet time
A Coke and peanuts for just a dime
I can smell that air
Little League tryouts are almost here
Countin’ the days cause summer’s near
Lookin’ for signs along the highway
Playin’ the Burma Shave game 

Henry the 8th Prince of Friskers
Lost 6 wives But kept his whiskers
He lit a match  To check gas tank
That’s why they call him Skinless Frank
Don’t Try passing on a slope
Unless you have a periscope
Many a forest used to stand
Where a lighted match got out of hand
He had the ring He had the flat
She felt his chin and that was that
Burma Shave

Memorial day means that school is out
The Bringalls are playin’ Twist & Shout
At the Twilight Roller Rink
The Legion pool is our hideaway
Splash Day is commin’ up Saturday
It’s watermelon time
Doin’ the Hand Jive and doin’ the Jerk
Beatle boots and corduroy's and collarless shirts
Garner State Park in our rearview mirror
Countin those Burma Shave signs

She put a bullet through his hat
But he’s had closer shaves than that
If Crusoe had kept his chin more tidy
He might have found a Lady Friday
The salesman taught the farmers daughter
To plant her tu-lips where she otter
A Man a Miss A car a curve
He kissed the Miss and missed the curve
The big blue tube’s just like Louise
You get a thrill from every squeeze
Burma Shave...Burma Shave