Three Window Coupe - Jan & Dean

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Three Window Coupe Lyrics

Three window coupe, you're the toughest machine in town
Got a three window coupe that's short on looks
But she looks real good in the record books
I hold the track record in the quarter mile
With a low E.T. down the asphalt aisle

Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, shut 'em down
Three window coupe, you're the toughest in town
Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, shut 'em down, now
Three window coupe, make a trophy run
Three window coupe, you're the toughest machine in town

Now, I know my coupe's not the sharpest around
But everybody knows she's the hottest in town
My hydro pressure heads make it twelve to one
And Sunday at the drag stop there's a trophy run

Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, shut 'em down
Three window coupe, you're the toughest in town
Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, shut 'em down, now
Three window coupe, make a trophy run
Three window coupe, you're the toughest machine in town

Now, my little three window don't look like much
Till the flag goes down and I pop the clutch
Then I put my foot in it and I really go
And take off on tubes of a three window

Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, shut 'em down
Three window coupe, you're the toughest in town
Eat 'em up, eat 'em up, shut 'em down, now
Three window coupe, make a trophy run
Three window coupe, you're the toughest machine in town

Toughest machine in town
Toughest machine in town
Toughest machine in town
Toughest machine in town
Toughest machine in town

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Jan Berry and Dean Torrence began singing together after football practice at University High School in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. Primitive recording sessions followed soon after in a makeshift studio in Jan's garage. They first performed on stage as The Barons at a high school dance. Then they were known as Jan & Arnie. After Dean returned from a stint in the army reserves, the duo began to make music as Jan & Dean in 1958.

Jan Berry and Brian Wilson collaborated on roughly a dozen hits and album cuts for Jan & Dean, including the number one national hit, "Surf City" (1963). Subsequent Top-10 hits for Jan & Dean included "Honolulu Lulu," "Drag City," "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena," and "Dead Man's Curve" -- which became eerily portentous when Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in April 1966.

This accident marked the end of their commercial peak, during which they'd scored an impressive total of 26 chart hits over eight years. The group finally stopped performing after Jan Berry died in March 2004. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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