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

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.

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

Zip City Drive-By Truckers

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 of Christ And He makes good money as long as Reynolds Wrap

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

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

bad, too bad at all, pick up the phone if I ever call Hell No, I Ain’t Happy.

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

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

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

Cassie's Brother Drive-By Truckers

(X2) Well there's a hole in the band and as a favor to Cassie we'll let her brother come and jam. If he ain't no good, we'll just leave him right out of the mix.

Guitar Man Upstairs Drive-By Truckers

just like sin And every year or so I see a new truck load of white trash movin' in When I was sixteen I had a little trouble with the law He said ""Boy come here"" I said ""Boy yourself I ain't done nothing

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

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

The Boys From Alabama Drive-By Truckers

other side of that story Well, they caught you smokin' grass And the judge threw the book And I saw a little opportunism in your look You can take it from me, boy Take it from a crook We got friends on

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

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

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

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

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.

Puttin' People On The Moon Drive-By Truckers

Mary Alice had a baby and he looked just like I did We got married on a Monday and I been working ever since Every week down at the Ford Plant but now they say they're shutting down God damned Reagan in

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.

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

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

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

The Tough Sell Drive-By Truckers

He said with a slight chuckle The recent Binaca blast still lingering on his breath And besides, them's highway miles I shifted my weight from one foot to the other It certainly wasn't the car of my dreams

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

Cottonseed Drive-By Truckers

boot I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Three Great Alabama Icons Drive-By Truckers

And me, I was one a' them Pussy boys cause I hated football, so I got a Guitar but a guitar was a poor substitute for a Football with the girls I' my high school So my Band hit the road and we didn't play

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

Margo and Harold Drive-By Truckers

I don't want to go to dinner with Margo and Harold. 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.

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??

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

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

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

The Southern Thing Drive-By Truckers

wrong It just ain't right May not look strong, but I ain't afraid to fight If you want to live another day Stay out the way of the southern thing Ain't about no hatred better raise a glass It's a little

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.

Your Daddy Hates Me Drive-By Truckers

I know your Daddy hates me And I got a room in hell reserved I know he wants to kill me And it's the least that I deserve But I always loved his daughter That's something that I know you know Just sometimes

Love Like This Drive-By Truckers

Coming home with a bottle, trying not to break the seal This Friday evening traffic's about enough to break a man's will And I can't wait to see you, see how your week has gone And tear into old No.7 and

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

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

Sounds Better In The Song Drive-By Truckers

mouth And that sweet voice came out I lost track of my own name Now she's found herself and I lost mine And I'm just another guy Who can't give her anything Well the drifter, he holds on to his youth Just

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.