Thunderbird

Posted by on February 17, 2009 · 1 Comment 

I spent the first 30 years or so of my life avoiding children like the plauge.  Judge how you want – one of the consequences of that is that I don’t know the lyrics to many children’s songs.  Since my daughter has never been a good sleeper (spare me the advice – been there, done that) we ended up buying a musical toy for her crib.   It has four or five different songs on it that play in rotation.

I have an idea how many of them start.  One of them is “Hush little baby don’t say a word – mommy’s going to buy you a mockingbird…”.

That is the sum total of my knowledge of the original song.  However, the fact remains that my daughter likes when I sing to her (I have no idea why) and goes to sleep faster.  So I just made up lyrics:

Hush little baby, don’t say a word
Daddy’s going to buy you a Thunderbird
If that Thunderbird isn’t great
We’ll drop in a 308
If that 308 isn’t fast
Daddy’s going to buy some premium gas.
If that gas doesn’t make it go far
Daddy’s going to buy you a brand new car
(and repeat!)

Hanna refers to this (currently, at age 2) as “Funderbird”.  She sings it by herself now.  I am the only person to blame if she grows up and falls in love with a gear head who has a Thunderbird.


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  1. Chris Grant says:
    February 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    That’s awesome…I had no idea you had such engine knowledge.

    I was curious, so apparently a 308 is unique to the Holden (http://holdenpaedia.oldholden.com/Holden_Model_Listings, Google) model line, although you could bore out a 302 Ford V8 to 308, I suppose. I have no idea if that’s realistic. Ford did have a 3.8L V6, apparently, in a Thunderbird from 89-92 (thank you again Google).

    She won’t end up with a gear head if she doesn’t get the engine displacement for the model of car right. Or maybe you could use “big V8″ instead of 308 and avoid all the controversy. :-)