“[The song is] a portrait of my dad. A lot of people think it’s about a car, but to me it’s about the man behind the car. Our parents are always a mystery, aren’t they?” - Marc Cohn

This song hurts so much to listen to. I cry every time, remembering the man with the plan and the pocket comb... Every single line is my dad. Every single line makes me smile. Every single line chokes me up... I miss my dad terribly but take comfort in knowing, he's finally driving that silver Thunderbird. Thank you Mr. Cohn.

"And I remember the sound of him shuffling around." I miss the hell out of my late dad whenever I hear this song. 💜

The Best song about a Boys Dad ever written! My Dad was a Pontiac Man.

Thank you so much for putting this video up. It was filmed at my parents’ house in Darien CT 30 years ago, just before they sold it. That’s my bed the little boy lies in, next to my desk, our garage with the fantail window over the door. The buyers of the house made this little red cape into a snooty gray and white colonial - unrecognizable now - I’m as old now as the dad in the video, and my own beloved father’s been gone five years. So much time gone - and so much time brought back. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

The first time I heard this song after my dad died, I hid in a spare room at work and cried for almost twenty minutes. He never owned a T - Bird, but I knew this song was about him.

I bought my veteran husband a 1960 silver Thunderbird four years ago (after his first ex-wife caused him to lose his '67 Mustang and '57 Customline). I vowed no b'tch would ever touch this one. This song's for him.

One of the best written and performed songs.

Sublime! Bruce Hornsby and Marc Cohn great American original storyteller pianists

I regret that I have but 1 thumbs up to give and that it took me 30 years to hear this song. Thanks Marc Cohn.

1992. Two young Brits, still in the first flush, on a fly-drive. The Beartooth Café, Cooke City, Montana (still the best Enchiladas I've ever had), and hearing this album for the first time. Sometimes life really IS just perfect.

I had the pleasure of seeing Marc sing this last night in Sacramento, backed by Shawn Colvin and Sarah Jarosz. It was magic. Lovely song. Wonderful songwriter and performer.

I grew up in Shaker Heights like Marc Cohn did, and his song captures the essence of my young life here with my Dad and his Buick Wildcat. I drove past our old House on Winslow today after Church, and cried a tear of joy thinking of Marc’s song and picturing my Dad’s Wildcat in the driveway. Many Happy Memories, Dad-may you continue to enjoy your Wildcat Rides in heaven-I am still with you in Spirit every mile of the way…..

One of the best albums ever recorded. Thank you for sharing your talents, Mr. Cohn.

Thank you for this song. I listen whenever I feel a need to have him close. It feels like a tribute to my Dad for me. We had a great relationship. I have a Thunderbird Decanter of his. He passed in 2006. You make him come alive every time for me. 🙏🏻♥️

Marc Cohn has one of the greatest voices of all time! and his piano riffs are bold like Andrew Gold💪🏾

Just heard this song for the first time on the radio on my way home from work this afternoon. "The man with a plan and a pocket comb" If I didn't know any better, I'd say dad requested this song from heaven so i could hear it. He was a car man too and was was a mechanic for 50+ years. Miss you dad.❤

'The man with the plan and the pocket comb' That was my dad....I love this song.

That was my grandfather. That car was his most prized possession. We could only ride in it on seriously special occasions, after my grandmother talked him into it

A lot of fathers, like mine were up, dressed and gone to earn the family a living before breakfast. Thanks, Dad!

This is the first time I listened this song and I don’t know why???? I cried listening it It is so beautiful and I couldn’t stop thinking of my dad Thank you for sharing

What a beautiful requiem and dedication to the man who was, and will always be, your father. I still feel the pain and the void that only you can fill. I will carry the memory of you in my heart until we meet again. I miss you so much. RIP Dad.

Bless you for this. Poignant. The Dad or the Grandfather that's gone now....Right. Time to be The Man. You'll be them to the young ones soon if you're already not....

My Dad was a Chrysler engineer. He’s been gone 20 years. But, this song brings me to tears. This was him.

This song is even better when you own a silver Thunderbird

Absolutely it's about your dad. The first time I heard it I thought it was maybe about my own dad.

One of my all time favorite songs!

I honestly have to say this is the best album I ever bought. Big statement.

The way he plays with his words...it sounds so easy; it's the smoothness that gets me...

This proves right here that Marc Cohn was a LOT more than just Walking In Memphis!!!!

You can hear his peace. He finally found that dynamic that really says dad I love you.

I just saw a random video of a guy talking about how the car and driving was the last refuge for the father to find alone-time and to get some space (from the responsibilities of being a father and husband and breadwinner), which added a lot of nuance to this song for me. A kid is missing his dad, but the dad is missing himself.

Long overdue for the Hall of Fame!

I love this song, my dad can’t drive anymore due to sight problems but we have had days out in that car that no one can take away

Love the artfulness of the video and the glimpses of the connection between man and machine and father and son. It's been years since I listened to this song and was freshly taken aback by Cohn's Hornsbyesque piano playing. I relished every second of it.

Great song. Thx for singing it. Makes me feel like your dad. I’m now an old man. Pocket comb. Not my style but I get it.

1991! Never heard this song before. Outstanding piano playing!

How can men write such beautiful music 🤗😊❤

What a great song, I have a silver 1960 Thunderbird, what a great car and I'd love to know the secrets that old car knows.

I'll be 71 next month. Thanks for the memories of my father and his '53 Plymouth 4dht. Was nothing fancy, teachers didn't make much money in the early 60's. The cars name was Hepzibah, out of the bible. The ol' man said he name it that cause it was a blessing if it ran. Thanks again Mr Cohn. You are a blessing too. And thanks for Walking in Memphis..... can not get that song out of my head. Use to play The Snake, by Al Green on my Carnival ride I ran in 1967. Often wondered what ever happened to Mr Green...

This gives me ALL. THE. FEELS.

This song makes me cry my eyes out😊

Just wonderful, he paints a picture with such passion. That you wipe your brow, !!! 👍

Great song. Parents, normally ( not all, i get that) have plans for their kids. That's what i hear as not american. Ty for this one :)

ya nailed it marc ,,this is just is a big bump in my chest ,and it kills me every time mate

Respect

They don't make music like this no more

never gets old

Gives me chills 😎 Beautiful song 🎵 ❤️

Down the road I’d see my mom go, what a sharp Lincoln a Mark 5 too boot. Everyday we would go, after school she came to pick me up! Flying down I-10. I love Thunderbirds but my mom had a 79 Lincoln continental Mark five beautiful maroon with gray pinstripe gray interior and a lot of these things in the song remind me of her and her Lincoln. Great song

1991 i wish i could return and live through the great early 1990´s again!

This song feels so different now that my dad is in heaven

My 63 thunderbird was maroon.

Superb writer

Nostalgic reflections don’t come better ….wonderfully powerful song

He didn't have one but my dad loves this song so it still reminds me of him

So I'm here because I happened upon a Thunderbird collectors car show while I was out with the family one Sunday and this song went through my head. My wife fell in love with a '65 that was painted teal and I wanted the '63, painted candy apple red. Ps: My dad loves Ford... And Toyota

Its about being gratefull with the simple things in life.

a great song!

this song is soooooo amazing !!!!

RIP Olivia newton we love you beautiful lady ❤️

Reminds me of the past🤗

Such a good song.

My dad had a Granada and thats a car that most people consider junk but anytime I see one my first thought is of him

I am the prayer boy pray for the whole world go to heaven

this song reminds me of my great grandfather. bless his heart, some people are just built for love. and my great grandfather norman was a great man and i miss him so much. im glad i went to help take care of him in his time of need. i really do miss him.

65 was the best looking Thunderbird. Here he shows a 63 also sexy.

A beautifull song, timeless music, enjoyable when one adheres to the genre. when one is young. But, when you truly know the loss of a father, the insight, the healing this song offers, It brings out the best and you do not recall the bad....it is the old man, a cunundrum that tried his best in the best case and left you behind in the worst. I had the fortune to not experiance the worst but still this song helps to bring that father closer and encourage the healingproces of the memory of a boy, who is just a a man and tries to recogcile the perception of a man that he did not never truly knew, to the man that boy has become a man and realizes that the apple does not fall far from the tree. we were just boys once.... yet they tried. through this song we can, or I, can feel the comfort of the good memories, which is all that we have left when he or they are gone. I miss him...very much

(Lyrics) Watched it comin' up Winslow, down south park boulevard Yeah it was looking good from tail to hood Great big fins and painted steel Man it looked just like the batmobile With my old man behind the wheel Well you could hardly even see him In all of that chrome The man with the plan and the pocket comb But every night it carried him home And I could hear him sayin' Don't you gimme no buick Son you must take my word If there's a God in Heaven He's got a silver thunderbird You can keep your El Dorados And the foreign car's absurd Me I wanna go down In a silver thunderbird He got up every mornin' while I was still asleep But I remember the sound of him shufflin' around Right before the crack of dawn When I heard him turn the motor on But when I got up they were gone Down the road in the rain and snow The man and his machine would go Oh the secrets that old car would know Sometimes I hear him sayin' Don't you gimme no buick Son you must take my word If there's a God in Heaven He's got a silver thunderbird You can keep your El Dorados And the foreign car's absurd Me I wanna go down In a silver thunderbird Down the road in the rain and snow The man and his machine would go Oh the secrets that old car would know I still hear him sayin' Don't you gimme no buick Son you must take my word If there's a God up in Heaven He's got a silver thunderbird You can keep your El Dorados And the foreign car's absurd Me I wanna go down In a silver thunderbird Me I wanna go down In a silver thunderbird

I used to have a silver Thunderbird, it was my favorite car. It looked great and ran even better... ”like a streamlined butterfly."

A god on earth 🌏

It hurts so good ... niice

Damn it my Thunderbird is red

“Foreign cars Absurd”. People should have taken this advice. We’d be better off

Your such a brilliant Songwriter, wish you could teach me. I write songs, I aspire to write like you one day!

What a talent!

You should tour Australia small medium venues...people are reflecting on great things and songs in these challenging times

I Love&Miss you so Pop!

Always loved Marcs Music. Just rediscovered him. Thankfully

Legendary. A song for centuries.

I love this Marc Cohn song. I always remember riding with my dad in his gold diesel Mercedes. Now he has some other luxury car; He's a well-to-do real estate man now that he's no longer head of the English Department at Klamath Union High School. I got my education in his academic book room. But we Nelsons inherited some money from Dad's grandpa a Congressman and businessman from Chicago Henry Leonard, part of the maligned 'Daley machine,' who moved to the west coast in time to avoid the political repression framed as a 'bust.'

outstanding!

I love..so sweet. Bravo and thank you ❤️❤️❤️🌹

Just found you and your songs .. right up there with the best !!

I am seeing him, tonite. I hope he sings this song!

I am that Man

This song was a family sing along on trips up to hunter mountain ,great memories

My dad drove a Maveric & Mercadies Bens.

Believe in Jesus Christ and the blood he shed for you and be saved from hell before it’s eternally too late if you haven’t

This was a cool obscure followup 2 his big breakout hit, "Walking in Memphis".

Same Dad; different car

Reinhard Mey hat sich wohl an diesen Song erinnert, als er den "51er Kapitän" schrieb.

Both versions are fantastic

A Thunderbird was always quite an underrated car,maybe it had the same driving package as the galaxie like a 390 or something like it,it was just bigger than a galaxie but they still couldve ran and drove the same!! One's just got heavier fenders and bigger mass,but it's still a great car to own,safe and they were Ford powered!! I myself like thunderbird hardtops,but that's because i'm a crash phobic so i'd immediately love anycar being hardtop not a T or convertible!! And the way people drive tiday don't help the way you feel when yiu drive!! But that silver Thunderbird's a nice ride,safe smooth and quick!! Very unique car in 1963 64 and 65!! 🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤

Marc cohn really doenst know how give this song meaning. He says this is "more about the man than the car" but honestly it feels more like hes talking more about the grandeur of the car than anything about his father. The song just feels empty and lifeless. Like he wants there to be some soul there but i just cant feel it

Wish I had that dad.

Me encanta su voz!

🌈Walking In Memphis. ❤Was The Grease On The Wheel, A Union Street Message Of A Story, 'That Time Forgot 'This Is The Chapter 🤔☝And The Glory, Of The Engine, 👈😎☝That Brings It Home. A Great Reminder, With Heartbeat ❤ That Will Live On.

Caroline Kennedy's son said, "His Chief hid".

Beautiful song, amazing voice, happy memories of a great concert back in the early 90's timeless. Joyful!