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??

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Never Gonna Change Drive-By Truckers

ankles Or rip right through your knees There ain't much traffic on the highway There ain't much traffic on the lake 'Cause the ATF and the ABI got everything they could take Didn't take it from me, they

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

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

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

There’s a purdy little girl outside the van window Bout 80 cities down, 800 to go Six crammed in, we ain’t never alone Never homesick, ain’t got no home Check my mail if you would

The Company I Keep Drive-By Truckers

My Mama told me, your life is such a wreck Your dumber than dog shit is what my Daddy said I was just thirteen when they showed me the door I keep their picture but don't look at it no more My first wife

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.

Marry Me Drive-By Truckers

without having to swallow any pride All my friends are restless, all they do is talk it down Two or eight lanes, it don't matter, it's just another town There's a fool on every corner, on every street in

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

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

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

Where The Devil Don't Stay Drive-By Truckers

My Daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back in his younger days Prohibition was the talk, but the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed Jugs and jars from shiners, these old boys

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

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

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

Goddamn Lonely Love Drive-By Truckers

there it'd be gone Along with everything a home is made up of So I'll take two what you're havin' and I'll take all of what you got To kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love Sister, listen to what your

Carl Perkins' Cadillac Drive-By Truckers

Life ain't nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs Dammit Elvis, don't you know You made your Mama so proud Before you ever made that record, before there ever was a Sun Before you ever lost

Sounds Better In The Song Drive-By Truckers

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 like it was money in

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.

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.

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

Careless Drive-By Truckers

Be careful that you don't Use up your ninth one We all were careless once We all were careless once It can be too much fun Just going round once It all can slip away One banana peel away You left this

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

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

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

Angels And Fuselage Drive-By Truckers

Strapped to this projectile, just a blink ago I was back in school. Smoking by the gym door, practicing my rock-star attitude And I'm scared shitless of what's coming next.

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

Cassie's Brother Drive-By Truckers

Can my brother sit in? (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.

Days Of Graduation Drive-By Truckers

But this night he banked that curve just a little too hard and that 442 went airborne, Hit a telephone pole and split in two, Bobby's skull was split right in two, And my girl was pinned in her seat,

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

18 Wheels Of Love Drive-By Truckers

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 world from way up in

Sink Hole Drive-By Truckers

before and his daddy's before Five generations and an unlocked door And a loaded burglar alarm Lots of pictures of my purdy family Lots of pictures of my purdy family Lots of pictures of my purdy family In

Cottonseed Drive-By Truckers

I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true Greed and fixed elections

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

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

Wife Beater Drive-By Truckers

You met him at the dance hall, you only saw his charms You said he really swept you off your feet Then one night he's drinking and jealousy enraged He knocked out two of your front teeth So you came over