The Sands Of Iwo Jima Drive-By Truckers

Just that way When I was just a kid, I spent every weekend On the farm he grew up on so I guess so did I And we'd stay up watching movies on that black and white TV We watched 'The Sands of Iwo Jima'

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

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.

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.

Three Great Alabama Icons Drive-By Truckers

"I grew up in North Alabama, back in the 1970's, When dinosaurs still roamed the earth Speaking Of course of the Three Great Alabama Icons George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant Now Ronnie Van

Life In The Factory Drive-By Truckers

Practiced twelve hours a day in the Hell House In the swamps out side of town. 100 degrees without no open windows Heat radiating off the tin.

Buttholeville Drive-By Truckers

Tired of living in Buttholeville Tired of my job and my wife Lucille Tired of my kids, Ronnie and Neil Tired of my '68 Bonneville Working down at Billy Bob's Bar and Grille The food here tastes like the

Tornadoes Drive-By Truckers

The clouds started forming, five o'clock pm The funnel clouds touched down five miles north of Russellville The siren's were blowing, clouds spat rain And as the thing came through, I swear, it sounded

One of These Days Drive-By Truckers

one of these days Dropped out of school when he was just sixteen Fell right in to a tire plant Building the very things that make the asphalt sing And put Alabama far behind you I remember him saying

Sink Hole Drive-By Truckers

I've always been a religious man I've always been a religious man But I met the banker and it felt like sin He turned my bailout down The banker man, he let into me Let into me, let into me The banker

Lookout Mountain Drive-By Truckers

Come walk with me through endless time See what has been and what the future sees Share the wisdom of the old world that has passed Step in a life that's yet to be born You spill the blood Eternal soul

Angels And Fuselage Drive-By Truckers

"Looking out the window, the trees are getting closer it seems. Thinking bout you Darling. Adding up the cost of these dreams. Strapped to this projectile, just a blink ago I was back in school.

The Tough Sell Drive-By Truckers

She's a beauty, yes sir she is, said EZ Dan Fifty five, a bad age, smelling of Brut from Fabrege' and sweat EZ Dan don't bathe a lot these days And why the hell should he anyway?

My Sweet Annette Drive-By Truckers

Child, as I look in your eyes You know my life seems like a minute There I find living proof Of all the wonder life hold in it In the past I thought I had to learn Any good that comes from this life we're

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 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

Birmingham Drive-By Truckers

"Economics shut the furnace down Bull Connor hosing children down George Wallace stared them Yankee's down In Birmingham Take a left on the interstate In the middle of this sultry state I can't wait to

Loaded Gun In The Closet Drive-By Truckers

He kept a loaded gun in the closet And another one in the dresser drawer Just in case the one in the closet Didn't make a big enough hole She has breakfast ready every morning And his lunch in a box sitting

Cottonseed Drive-By Truckers

they may be wrong I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit I had a .45 underneath my coat and another one in my

Zip City Drive-By Truckers

"Your Daddy was mad as hell He was mad at me and you As he tied that chain to the front of my car and pulled me out of that ditch that we slid into Don't know what his problem is Why he keeps dragging

Margo and Harold Drive-By Truckers

I don't like the way he looks at you, and the way she looks at me, Way they look at each other, like we're just part of some private joke.

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.

The Southern Thing Drive-By Truckers

feels damp" Ain't about excuses or alibis Ain't about no cotton fields or cotton picking lies Ain't about the races, the crying shame To the fucking rich man all poor people look the same Don't get me

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

There’s a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer She’s an overnight sensation after twenty five years Sharp fast curves, power steering unroll that twenty, buy me some beer Ain’t too

Bulldozers and Dirt Drive-By Truckers

I met your mama when I was sixteen You couldn't have been anymore than three She caught me stealing y'all's color TV She called the cops and they arrested me She was the wildest thing I'd ever seen The

Let There Be Rock Drive-By Truckers

On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Alabama, with a half-ounce of weed and a case of Sterling BI' mouth. My buddy Gene was driving, he just barely turned sixteen.

Why Henry Drinks Drive-By Truckers

Them stories that you tell me are so hard to swallow You said, "Go to hell", but I know you'd just follow The future's closing in quicker than you think And hanging with you I know why Henry drinks Those

Demonic Possession Drive-By Truckers

(chorus) Demonic Possession His court's in session I sign my confession Demonic Possession It was raining on the day she told me them things that fella sold me Mama wasn't thee to scold me No prison or

Goddamn Lonely Love Drive-By Truckers

I got green and I got blues And everyday there's a little less difference between the two I belly up and disappear Well I ain't really drownin' 'cause I see the beach from here I could take a Greyhound

Shut Up And Get On The Plane Drive-By Truckers

Your bad dreams and intuitions Are about as much good to me right now as a brand new set of golf clubs We've been this close to death before, we were just too drunk to know it Guess the price of being

Daddy's Cup Drive-By Truckers

Before I could walk, I had a wrench in my hand I was my Mama's little angel and my Daddy's second chance He went end over end the first year he went pro Lost part of his eyesight and he couldn't race no

Uncle Frank Drive-By Truckers

They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice Now we got more electricity we can ever use They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out But they got paid so there ain't nothin

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.

When The Pin Hits The Shell Drive-By Truckers

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 you But you ain't

Guitar Man Upstairs Drive-By Truckers

"I think I'm gonna call the Police, I hear something upstairs I know good and well there ain't nothing good going on up there There's probably ten or more of them sittin' all around Smokin' that stuff

18 Wheels Of Love Drive-By Truckers

ran off with a trucker Peterbilt, Peterbilt Mama ran off with a trucker Mama ran off with a trucker Mama ran off with a trucker Peterbilt, Peterbilt He is making her give life another stab They can see the

The Likes Of You And Me Songdog

counting off the choices I didn't make, All the chances I didn't take There's a song in my head, something ancient by some one hit wonder, I find a bench in the park and feed the pigeons my stale cheeseburger

Pilgrim Hill Songdog

off the choices I didn't make All the chances I didn't take There's a song in my head, something ancient by some one hit wonder I find a bench in the park and feed the pigeons my stale cheeseburger I

Sounds Better In The Song Drive-By Truckers

and shining hair She was looking back at me Some are meant to sing Some are meant to talk And some aren't meant to say a thing When she opened up her mouth And that sweet voice came out I lost track of

The Company I Keep Drive-By Truckers

told me, you need to get a life My third wife told me to get another wife I brought a bottle and the van's parked by that tree So come on out with me, if you want to be number four Sometimes I feel like

Decoration Day Drive-By Truckers

Keeping me down, boy, won't keep you away It's Decoration Day And I knew the Hill boys would put it on away But my daddy wasn't afraid He said, "We'd fight till the last Lawson's last living day" I never

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.

Outfit Drive-By Truckers

You want to grow up to paint houses like me A trailer in my yard till you're 23 You want to be old after 42 years Keep dropping the hammer and grinding the gears Well, I used to go out in a Mustang A 302

Heathens Drive-By Truckers

Something about the wrinkle in your forehead Tells me there's a fit about to get thrown If we get the van out of the ditch before morning Ain't nobody got to know what I done And I never hear a single

Do It Yourself Drive-By Truckers

My Daddy called me on a Friday morning So sad to tell me just what you've done You tried so hard to make us all hate you But in the end you was the only one Sick, tired, pissed and wired You never thought

Where The Devil Don't Stay Drive-By Truckers

here, they ain't miners They came from the twenty-niners It didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face Back in the thirties when the dust bowl dried And the woods in Alabama didn't

Panties In Your Purse Drive-By Truckers

Saw you standing in the hallway, red plastic cup And one of them big long cigarettes You asked me if I could play you some Dylan I said,?Dylan, who??

Dead, Drunk And Naked Drive-By Truckers

When I was a young boy I 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

The Buford Stick Drive-By Truckers

how he wrestled a bear But I knew him from the funeral home Ask him for a warrant, he'll say "I keep it in my shoe" That son of a bitch has got to go That son of a bitch has got to go Now they lined up

The Night G.G. Allin Came To Town Drive-By Truckers

Then drink some more when the morning comes. Memphis was sinking into the Mississippi. We were doing our best just to ride it down. Till the night G.G. Allin came to town.