{{about|the Sailcat song|the Neil Young song|Comes a Time}} {{Infobox song | name = Motorcycle Mama | type = single | artist = Sailcat | album = Motorcycle Mama | B-side = Rainbow Road | released = {{Start date|1972|4}} | recorded = | genre = Country rock | length = {{Duration|m=2|s=07}} | label = Elektra | writer = John Wyker | producer = Pete Carr | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Baby Ruth | next_year = 1972 }}
"'''Motorcycle Mama'''" is a song written by John Wyker and performed by Sailcat. It reached #12 on both the U.S. pop chart and the U.S. adult contemporary chart in 1972<ref>{{cite web|title=Sailcat, "Motorcycle Mama" Chart Positions|url=http://musicvf.com/song.php?title=Motorcycle+Mama+by+Sailcat&id=36326|accessdate=March 31, 2019}}</ref> and was featured on their 1972 album ''Motorcycle Mama''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sailcat, ''Motorcycle Mama''|website=Discogs |date=May 1972 |url=https://www.discogs.com/Sailcat-Motorcycle-Mama/release/6514104|accessdate=March 31, 2019}}</ref>
Produced by Pete Carr,<ref>{{cite web|title=Sailcat, "Motorcycle Mama" Single Release|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/ek45782|accessdate=March 31, 2019}}</ref> the song ranked #89 on ''Billboard'' magazine's Top 100 singles of 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1972.php |title=Billboard Top 100 - 1972 |accessdate=March 31, 2019 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216000410/http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1972.php |archivedate=2016-02-16 }}</ref>
==Charts== {|class="wikitable |- !scope="col"| Chart (1971) !Peak<br/>position |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=263}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| 64 |- |Canada (RPM)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4176.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - August 26, 1972}}</ref> | style="text-align:center;"| 14 |- |United States (Billboard Hot 100) | style="text-align:center;"| 12 |}
==Other versions== *The Sugarcubes, on the 1990 compilation album ''Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary''.
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