Late For Church Drive-By Truckers

I'm late for church again Never seem to be on time I hear the bell as it peals through the holler Does it sound like a friend of mine A hundred eyes turn as I enter My face burnin' as I walk past pews

Box of Spiders Drive-By Truckers

Gran Gran keeps a box of spiders Says they're on me when I sleep Waiting in the out-house for me Underneath the seat Great-grandmothers 'bout ninety-seven She is sure when she gets to heaven Old St.

Sink Hole Drive-By Truckers

friendly smile He says the deed is done The sound you hear is my daddy spinning The sound you hear is my daddy spinning The sound you hear is my daddy spinning Over what the banker done Like to invite him for

Zip City Drive-By Truckers

slid into Don't know what his problem is Why he keeps dragging you away Don't know why I put up with this shit When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away Your Daddy is a deacon down at the Salem Church

Your Daddy Hates Me Drive-By Truckers

daughter That's something that I know you know Just sometimes don't do what I ought to Sometimes I yes when I should no I know your Daddy hates me And I drink more than a whale But my failures ain't for

Ronnie And Neil Drive-By Truckers

"Church blew up in Birmingham Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason All this hate and violence can't come to no good end A stain on the good name.

Cottonseed Drive-By Truckers

, crime and killing, yes it's true Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church

Panties In Your Purse Drive-By Truckers

t mean it By the way I rolled my eyes When you said,"It wasn?

Puttin' People On The Moon Drive-By Truckers

damned Reagan in the White House and no one there gives a damn Double Digit unemployment, TVA be shutting soon While over there in Huntsville, They puttin' people on the moon So I took to runnin' numbers for

Three Great Alabama Icons Drive-By Truckers

all practical purposes the Governor of Alabama from 1962 until 1986 Once, When a law prevented him from succeeding himself He ran his wife Lerline in his place and she won By a landslide He's most famous

Truckers Atlas modest mouse

Truckers Atlas I'm going to Colorado to unload my head I'm going to New York City and that's in New York,friends I'm going to Arizona sex on the rocks all warm and red and we bled and the writing

Nine Bullets Drive-By Truckers

My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it Nine bullets in my roommate's gun My roommate's gun got nine bullets in it Gonna find a use for every last one One for the love who chose to betray me A real fine

Plastic Flowers On The Highway Drive-By Truckers

"He was ready for the big trip, he was moving to the city; He had packed his prize possessions and gave away the rest. He was almost doing ninety, the sky was blue, sun was shining.

The Buford Stick Drive-By Truckers

Now Sheriff Buford Pusser's gotten too big for his britches With his book reviews and movie deals Down at the car lot makin' public appearances For breakin' up our homes and stills I know he likes to brag

Wife Beater Drive-By Truckers

over to hide out at my place I guess I should have killed him there and then But you begged me not to, now you say he's changed And you're gonna go back to him Don't give me that bull about how it's for

Sandwiches for the Road Drive-By Truckers

All packed to go, baloney and mayonnaise sandwiches for the road Lay them out across the dash in the August sun And if they turn green don't be afraid Nothing can hurt you but yourself Nothing can hurt

Angels And Fuselage Drive-By Truckers

Smoking by the gym door, practicing my rock-star attitude And I'm scared shitless of what's coming next. I'm scared shitless, these angels I see in the trees are waiting for me.

Shut Up And Get On The Plane Drive-By Truckers

were just too drunk to know it Guess the price of being sobers being scared out of your mind When it comes your time to go, ain't no good way to go about it Ain't no use in thinking bout it You'll just drive

Road Cases Drive-By Truckers

Got them pretty road cases throw them out an airplane and they'll just bounce Paint our name on them road cases, stencil and white spray paint ""Drive-by Truckers"" on every one or maybe just ""DBT"" Gonna

Love Like This Drive-By Truckers

your week has gone And tear into old No.7 and make love till dawn But your mama she'll be calling, if she ain't knocking on the door And it won't take me long to remember what I brought that bottle home for

Wallace Drive-By Truckers

best friend a black man from Alabama ever had, And I have to admit, compared to Fob James, George Wallace don't seem that bad And if it's true that he wasn't a racist and he just did all them things for

Days Of Graduation Drive-By Truckers

"Bobby went out for a joy ride with my best girl Left me at the party, He was my best friend and I miss him. It was almost June and the moon illuminated the rain-soaked streets like a candy wrapper.

Greenville To Baton Rouge Drive-By Truckers

"One more night, one more show, four down, eighty-four to go This ain't no time for moving slow Greenville to Baton Rouge I'll call you up when I get through The life I live is the life I choose Greenville

The Deeper In Drive-By Truckers

By the time you were born, there were four other siblings With your mama awaiting your daddy in jail And your oldest brother was away at a home And you didn't meet him 'til you were nineteen years old

Uncle Frank Drive-By Truckers

figured no one else would want Till all that backed up water had to have some place to go Uncle Frank couldn't read or write Never held down a job or needed one in his life They assured him there'd be work for

Do It Yourself Drive-By Truckers

But in the end you was the only one Sick, tired, pissed and wired You never thought about anyone else You tried in vain to find something to kill you In the end you had to do it yourself Who's to blame for

The Living Bubba Drive-By Truckers

my bank 'cause that shit ain't free But I'm here to stay, at least another week or two And I can't die now 'cause I got another show to do Don't give me no pity, don't give me no grief With till I die for

Lookout Mountain Drive-By Truckers

smell the stench of immortality You spill the blood Eternal soul Spill your blood, let it run on to me Take my hand and let go of your life Close your eyes and see what is me Raise the chalice, embrace for

Sounds Better In The Song Drive-By Truckers

them After seeing how they really are She used to dream them with me Every single crazy one Until they started hurting her too Now she's got some of her own And outgrowing me Might be the best thing for

The Sands Of Iwo Jima Drive-By Truckers

s still doing fine, especially for his years He's still living on that homestead in the house that he was born in And I sure wish I could go see him today He never drove a new car though he could easily

When The Pin Hits The Shell Drive-By Truckers

same one you're gonna answer to When the pin hits the shell Well, your sister's been blaming everybody And I don't blame her man, I guess I'd do the same If you were my brother, man, I'd probably stand by

Mrs. Dubose Drive-By Truckers

Dubose you were such a flower, you got the death, the dust, and the opium runnin' through your veins Black maid stays cause she's paid to be around Condemned and scared for all she knows You better look

Tornadoes Drive-By Truckers

she can remember's that it sounded like a train Pieces of that truckstop Litter up the highway I been told And I hear that missing trucker ended up in Kansas Maybe it was Oz The Nightmare Tour ended for

Cassie's Brother Drive-By Truckers

Just wanna keep playing As long as we possibly can (repeat chorus) For Steve

Why Henry Drinks Drive-By Truckers

the sun comes back around To tear each other down and drink another round Lost it on the way now I'm hating what we found Mendacity and grudge-fucks and pieces out of town I drink half a case of beer for

Margo and Harold Drive-By Truckers

I don't want to make small talk, innuendo, Or go for a ride in Harold's Corvette. I'm scared of the basement of Harold's Pawn Shop, I've heard tales of what goes down there.

Moved Drive-By Truckers

Figurin' out things by the Railroad Bridge and a cousin or two want to give me just a little help. Damn sure not much to do down here 'cept to cook it down and run it in your veins.

Women Without Whiskey Drive-By Truckers

"If I make it through this year, I think I'm gonna put this bottle down Maybe as time goes on I'll learn to miss it less than I do now Think I'm gonna tell her that I'm gonna go away for a while 'Til I

Hell No, I Ain't Happy Drive-By Truckers

I’ve seen just how much I can stand One night in Kansas City, we thought about killing a man Seen my number fly by on Interstate Ten Seen the mountains of Montana at Seven AM.

Tales Facing Up Drive-By Truckers

Me and my brother's old lady went out and got stinking, She solved her curiosities about me by the railroad tracks.

The Tough Sell Drive-By Truckers

them's highway miles I shifted my weight from one foot to the other It certainly wasn't the car of my dreams, but the price was right And EZ Dan assured me the mid 70's were a particularly nice period For

Dead, Drunk And Naked Drive-By Truckers

sniffed a lot of glue Mom sent me to rehab, they told me what to do We didn't have much money; the lord picked up the tab They made me write him love songs, sitting I' my room Now I just drink whiskey and drive

Bulldozers and Dirt Drive-By Truckers

bulldozers and dirt I got a pickup that's up on blocks And I'm up to my ass in debt and hock And I can't get the red stains off of my socks And I can't get you off of my mind I've lived with your mama for

One of These Days Drive-By Truckers

If I had a dime for every time I heard my old man say one of these days I wouldn't be like my old man today Talking 'bout places that he'd been Back in his younger days that he was gonna go back To again

Life In The Factory Drive-By Truckers

"Let me tell ya'll a story So far fetched I' must be true Bout a bunch of fatherless boys from Florida and a boy who was man enough for two.

The Day John Henry Died Drive-By Truckers

We disappeared for days again. Most of us were staying in, lazy like the sky. The letters flew across the wire filtered through a million liars.

Let There Be Rock Drive-By Truckers

So, the show, it was rescheduled for the ""Street Survivors Tour"". And the rest, as they say, is history.

Outfit Drive-By Truckers

foundry They call it Industrial Park Then hospital maintenance and Tech School Just to memorize Frigidaire parts But I got to missing your Mama And I got to missing you too And I went back to painting for

The President's Penis Is Missing Drive-By Truckers

(scene: the press corps have descended upon the White House, a spokesperson begins to speak:) They looked in the White House and Capitol Hill They looked everywhere for Buffalo Bill We called every scholar

The Boys From Alabama Drive-By Truckers

around there Sheriff Buford Pusser Was tryin to clean up McMary county Tennessee From all them boot leggers that was bringin' crime and corruption And illegal liquor into this little dry county And for