Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 08, 2014

Get your motor runnin’Head out on the highwayLookin’ for adventureAnd whatever comes our wayYeah Darlin’ go make it happenTake the world in a love embraceFire all of your guns at onceAnd explode into space

I like smoke and lightningHeavy metal thunderRacin’ with the windAnd the feelin’ that I’m underYeah Darlin’ go make it happenTake the world in a love embraceFire all of your guns at onceAnd explode into space

Like a true nature’s childWe were born, born to be wildWe can climb so highI never wanna die

Born to be wildBorn to be wild

Oh, yeah, that’s right. That’s what’s it’s all about, all right. But talkin’ about it and bein’ it, that’s two different things. I mean, it’s real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don’t ever tell anybody that they’re not free, ‘cause then they’re gonna get real busy killin’ and maimin’ to prove to you that they are. Oh, yeah, they’re gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it’s gonna scare ’em.

Well, it don’t make ‘em runnin’ scared.

@Bruno Zeigerts Some music critics considered Steppenwolf one of early heavy metal bands.

Who goes seeking America on a BMW witha sidehack? Tsk.

Ah…my 1958 R69S…[sigh]

What is the deal with those side cars? Do they have a motor too?

Back then, it was shocking to say “freakin’” in a comic.(“Old Man Muffaroo’s acting like Grandpa Simpson again!”)

Get our sidecar polishedHead out on the tollwayLookin’ for our countryIn familiar kinda ol’ way

Yeah, grandpa, it’s another re-run(Read the bar over on the right)No, gramps, they won’t print ‘em all,It’s explained in plain sight.

Like a true comic stripWe were born, born to be hipGonna run so longYou’ll be tired of this song

Born to be styled,Born to be styled…

I’ve always loved “Four Strong Winds”. I actually had a Glenn Yarbrough album from the 60’s with it..And some of us are “Born to be mild”.

@artybeePlease forgive them, they are Walden (Yale) boys. College boys in the 70s rode BMWs.

@KipWLOL!

@fbjsrWell, that was rude of them.

All these years of reading “Doonesbury”, and I never was sure what “Heewack!” meant, or where it came from (nor where it’s going…….) Zonker was the first one to say it, I think. Was it some kind of Yale preppy thing?

They have more fun when BD’s not there.BD is the Frank Burns of “Doonesbury.”

How joyous the lives of the characters were back in those days, before the weight of the world was on their shoulders. Maybe that applies to us, too, rereading the strips after all these years.

I smile with a tear in my eye.

Thank heavens some things never change!

Thank you. For my encore, an instrumental:

Hmmmm hmmm hmmHmm Hmmmmm…