The Southern Thing Drive-By Truckers

Ain't about my pistol Ain't about my boots Ain't about no northern drives Ain't about my southern roots Ain't about my guitars, ain't about my big old amps "It ain't rained in weeks, but the weather sure

Three Great Alabama Icons Drive-By Truckers

And legend Has it that he was an honorary pall bearer at Ronnie's funeral such is the Duality of the Southern Thing And Bear Bryant wore a cool Lookin' red checkered hat and won football Games and there's

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.

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

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

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

Marry Me Drive-By Truckers

Well my daddy didn't pull out, but he never apologized Rock and Roll means well, but it can't help tellin' young boys lies A baby on the ways a good enough reason to get you out alive Get you out without

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

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

Zip City Drive-By Truckers

and ten toes And it's a damn good thing cause He needs all twenty to keep the closet door closed Maybe it's the twenty-sI' mile drive from Zip City to Colbert Heights Keeps my mind clean Gets me through

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

Sounds Better In The Song Drive-By Truckers

When I saw her standing there With her bright eyes 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

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

Greenville To Baton Rouge Drive-By Truckers

to Baton Rouge The shows have sure been great this year All eight cylinders all twelve gears Call you up when I touch down at the airport in a Louisiana town.

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

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.

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.

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

One of These Days Drive-By Truckers

Talking 'bout places that he'd been Back in his younger days that he was gonna go back To again one of these days Dropped out of school when he was just sixteen Fell right in to a tire plant Building the

Women Without Whiskey Drive-By Truckers

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 can get this demon out You know the

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

When The Pin Hits The Shell Drive-By Truckers

You can lie to your mama You can lie to your race But you can't lie to nobody With that cold steel in your face And the same God you were so afraid Was gonna send you to Hell Is the same one you're gonna

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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?

The Living Bubba Drive-By Truckers

I wake up tired and I wake up pissed Wonder how I ended up like this I wonder why things happen like they do But I don't wonder long 'cause I got a show to do I'm sick at my stomach from the A.Z.T.

Steve McQueen Drive-By Truckers

Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen When I was a little boy I wanted to grow up to be Steve McQueen, Steve McQueen The coolest doggone motherscratcher on the silver screen I'd drive real fast everywhere, no one

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 Day John Henry Died Drive-By Truckers

I watched the rain; it settled in. 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.

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.

Wallace Drive-By Truckers

"Throw another log on the fire, boys, George Wallace is coming to stay When he met St. Peter at the pearly gates, I'd like to think that a black man stood in the way.

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

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

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

Daddy's Cup Drive-By Truckers

crazy fools with racing in their blood He would put me on his lap when he'd drive and I'd take the wheel He'd say "What do you think about that son?

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

Puttin' People On The Moon Drive-By Truckers

I used to know And I sell a few narcotics and I sell a little blow I ain't getting rich now but I'm gettin' more than by It's really tough to make a living but a man just got to try If I died in Colbert

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

The Sands Of Iwo Jima Drive-By Truckers

George A. was at the movies in December '41 They announced it in the lobby what had just gone on He drove up from Birmingham, back to the family's farm Thought he'd get him a deferment, there's was much

Zoloft Drive-By Truckers

All my family problems disappeared over night We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine My sister's teen angst just flew out the window Mama's so happy she laughs all the time Used to have trouble

Mrs. Dubose Drive-By Truckers

Jupiter mules kickin' out all the stops Newfangled dogs danglin' stars from her eyelids She can't read between the lies anymore Lord, help her rise just one more time if you can.

Let There Be Rock Drive-By Truckers

And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet With 38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band.

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.

The Boys From Alabama Drive-By Truckers

We gonna take you up to McMary county Tennessee Back in the days when Sheriff Buford Busted around things around there Sheriff Buford Pusser Was tryin to clean up McMary county Tennessee From all them

Never Gonna Change Drive-By Truckers

Let this be a lesson to you, girl Don't come around where you know you don't belong They're riding on the avenue and probably coming after you And they all look mean and strong Mean and strong like liquor

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