Monday 29 July 2013

Dak Dak.

I know the pic is not of a V-Dub, but good reader, I hope you sill forgive me a repeat of the only car poem I have ever written and even that was in response to a comment from the delightfulGabrielle Bryden. The story behind the poem is Here.
Note: This is a copy of a previous post that was inundated with spam, so I destroyed it, along with the termites and rust, but managed to keep your lovely comments!


















Tok Tok
Dakka dakka
Put-put Put-put,
Tok tok dakka dakka put!

Hear the clatter of a
Vee Dub
Vee Dub,
With the donkey in the back!

Now the engine’s in the
front-front
front-front.
Water cooled and full of grunt;

Changed forever is the
sound-sound
sound-sound,
Never more the ears astound!

Sounds like every other
car-car
car-car,
What a shame they went that far!

Tok Tok Dakka dakka
Put-put
Put-put
Tok tok dakka dakka put.
Paaah!

For more relevant poems and stories, go to Magpie Tales. You will not be disappointed!
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152 COMMENTS:

  1. Well looky here - I finally pop in after my big move and you have the dak dak poem on da blog - haha - love it! There is nothing quite like the sound of the old vdub.
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    1. Hope all is well at the Hacienda! Looking forward to photos of the new place.
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  2. This reads as music to the ears. :)
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    1. Write the music and let's record!
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  3. My youngest son, when he was small, had only two cars in his repertoire - dubba-dub cars (VWs) and dig-dig cars (V8s). These were the only two he recognised!
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    1. I forgot to say that they were named for the sounds they made.
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    1. Whoever you are, you must be too young to remember the Kombi, icon of a generation... then came sunscreen.
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  5. This is so so charming! I am sending the link to my cousin and her husband, who just bought a Bug. :)
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    1. If it a genuine Bug, and I guess it is, the poem can be chanted to the beat of its engine when idling. Bugs are almost extinct here.
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  6. Your Vee Dub poem is perfect for reading aloud to a child all tucked in for the night ... with voice inflections to match ~ ever the play write.
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    1. Thanks Woonie... all I need is a publisher! XX
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  7. Reminded me quite a bit of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - and that's pretty good company.
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    1. Yes, they both had a touch of magic, a but larger than life.
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  8. You have put put put this perfectly Stafford!
    :-)
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  9. Sounds just like my old 1968 VW bug...
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  10. Awe - I think most people would take kindly to a little V-D........
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  11. Cool in a Kombi hit the road and find peace, i love this
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  12. Love the sounds in your poem. Happy Holidays!
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  13. Stafford- what a delightful ode to the V-dub! Russell used to restore old V-Dubs and he enjoyed your poem also- Merry Christmas!
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  14. LOve the rhythm of it. You are so good at this type of thing. 10 out of 10!
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  15. Christmas is over, the new year in sight. May the best be yours'!
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4 comments:

  1. Bricky29 July 2013 at 12:59 pm

    Haha! Love the fishing story - and the poem! I last drove a beetle when I sold my '57 model (the last with the small oval rear window), but I can still hear it!
    Just finished a year long workshop project rebuilding my home made car trailer, which has beetle wheels. Could only find one hubcap - thought I must have lost one so bought another on an online auction. The I found the original pair. Now I have four, but only two wheels!

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  2. Helen29 July 2013 at 2:11 pm

    ... still have my top=down V-dub! XX

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  3. annell41 August 2013 at 10:13 pm

    Enjoyed the poem about the car, that could talk....

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  4. Anonymous5 August 2013 at 8:29 am

    very impressed you managed to keep the comments :) (had trouble commenting on this one until now)

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