The Rex Files Song at Port Townsend Kinetic Sculpture race 2000

sung approximately to the tune of "American Pie" by Don Maclean

A long long time ago,

I can still remember,

making Platypus Rex.

And how we raced Corvallis.

Then we went to Port Townsend,

And we won the

Breast of Show.

Months later sad news came.

And I've never felt the same,

Racing here in Port Townsend.

The day Bob Simmonds died,

he went to Scupture Paradise.

Goodby was left unspoken,

For my heart was broken.

I don't remember if I cried,

when I head about his widowed wife.

But something touched me deep inside,

the day Bob Simmonds died.

So bye-bye dear Canadian guy.

He raced Hugger-mugger,

til that sculpture was fried.

Every year we race our machines,

the old and young,

and the teens.

And some times parts are broken.

'For the glory' then is spoken.

And every year I hope to see him again.

I look around but he's not here.

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