Did you know? At first, the opening line of this song was, I got a set of wheels pretty baby, wont you hop inside my car? Songwriter Jim Peterik says he changed it when his friend showed him a government issued anti-drug pamphlet. It explained the perils of drug use and was illustrated with a little drawing of an undesirable type cruising along the curb looking for easy targets. The caption read, Im the friendly stranger in the black sedan, wont you hop inside my car? The lyrics that followed, about the picture and candy, came from a warning Peteriks mother used to give him about walking home from school.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:57:21 +0000