Get your Kicks on Rte 66

The Song was Composed by Bobby Troup in 1946 and performed by Nat King Cole that same year. Since then it has been used by over 50 Artists including Nancy Sinatra, Areosmith, Manhatten Transfer, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers and Buckwheat Zydeco.  

 If you ever plan to motor west, 
Travel my way, take the highway that is best. 
Get your kicks on route sixty-six. 

It winds from Chicago to LA, 
More than two thousand miles all the way. 
Get your kicks on route sixty-six. 

Now you go through Saint Looey 
Joplin, Missouri, 
And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty. 
You see Amarillo, 

Gallup, New Mexico, 
Flagstaff, Arizona. 
Don't forget Winona, 
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino. 

Won't you get hip to this timely tip: 
When you make that California trip 
Get your kicks on route sixty-six. Won't you get hip to this timely tip: 
When you make that california trip 
Get your kicks on route sixty-six. 
Get your kicks on route sixty-six. 
Get your kicks on route sixty-six.


We have Route 66 here also, it's just not the same one. 
It would be more like:

If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66.

It winds from Willimantic to Mery dan,
More than  thirty eight miles all one way,
Get your kicks on Route 66

Now you go through Columbia and Hebron,
across route 2,
Down through East Hampton
Portland and Middletown Too.
Get your kicks on route 66

Across the mighty C-T.
Middlefield to Meridan,
Route 691 is where it ends
So turn around and head back agian.

Won't you get hip to this short time trip,
When you make that Connecticut trip,
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on route 66

Not quite the same is it.                       



Mother Road...Not Quite
It's more like ...Granny's road isn't it. 

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