I had me a hot rod Mercury, a nineteen and fifty one B7 With the sun visor and the fender skirts, oh I had her underslung E A Had a little chain around the license plate, suicide knob on the sterring wheel E B7 E Had a little rip in the front seat cover but that werent no big deal E Kept her shined up like a new penny, all dressed up so neat B7 She was a classic and more with a four in the floor, a ?? the front seat E A Had a straight pipe runnin through the muffler with a hideaway toggle switch E B7 And that old Mercury purred just like a kitten until I hit that switch E A Then you better pull down the windows and lock up all of your doors E B7 E Believe it or not for 20 city blocks, you could hear that mercury roar Chorus 1: E Hear that mercury roar A E Hear that mercury roar E Believe it or not, for 20 city blocks B7 E You can hear that old Mercury roar Down in Luisa, Texas, right on the courthouse square All the guys and all of the chicks, well, they hang out down there The gals would go one way around the square and the guys around the other When we would meet we would slow way down and check out one another And when I met that special girl, one I could adore Well, Id reach down, trip that old toggle switch and make that old Mercury roar Chorus 2: Make that Mercury roar Make that Mercury roar Id reach down, trip that old toggle switch And make that Mercury roar If I could just go back to the fifties and if things were to be the same You see me hangin out at the Skyview drive in with my Patricia Jane Well we listened to the music on the jukebox down at the Rexall store One more time Id like to trip that switch, and make that old Mercury roar Chorus 2 Chorus 2 Spoken: Yeah go down to the Skyview drive in Have a little of that fried chicken Do a little sparkin, I think you call it neckin nowadays Whoo, got me a suicide knob on my steering wheel Got a rose in it, wife wouldnt let me put a naked girl in it Make that Mercury roar