Way you look at me like that Something's got to give pretty soon Throw it on a camel's back Something's got to give pretty soon Living hard to chase the dream ...

Way you look at me like that, something抯 got to give pretty soon Throw it on a camel抯 back, something抯 got to give pretty soon Living hard to chase the dream, w...

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 sta They can see the ...

Don't know why they even bother putting this highway on the map Everybody that's ever been on it knows exactly where they're at Hells on both ends of it And no ...

When I crawled out of bed this morning I could tell something wasn't right There were cigarettes in the ashtrays They weren't your menthol lights There were bee...

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 ...

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 mi...

(Hood/Drive-by Truckers) Gran Gran keeps a box of spiders She says they're on me when I sleep Waiting in the out-house for me underneath the seat My great-grand...

I met your mama when I was sixteen You couldn't have been anymore than three She caught me stealing yall's color TV She called the cops and they arrested me She...

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 ...

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 ...

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 h...

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 killi...

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 killi...

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 pa...

Let the night air cool you off Tilt your head back and try to cough Don't say nothing 'bout the things you never saw Let the night air cool you off I ain't liv...

She's got me tied in a knot That's what I thought she'd do Don't ask me what's on my mind I'm fine I'll push on through Not much to see on this angry street, so...

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...

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 ta They made me w...

(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 ...

(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 m...

I can't blame you but it's a shame You can't cover your ass sometimes It's that kind of town and you're so far down you can't get up I can't tell you what to se...

Moon beams we can dream on, at the setting of the sun And the stars we can wish upon, when the working man is done Sunsets we could cry over, have our trouble's...

Flowers flying cross the room Vases smashed against the floor Said "I'd rather be alone Take your chocolates and go home" Be my valentine Be my valentine Be my...

I got green and I got blues and everyday there's a little less difference between the two So I belly-up and disappear Well I ain't really drowning 'cause I see ...

These cities blur before me, a swirl of colors leaned against the sky Gone so far away and I never really told you good bye I know it's kind of lame but sometim...

I went stumbling through the fog trying to find a reason for the things I told her She woke up sunny side down and I was still thinking I was too proud to flip ...

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...

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 the...

There抯 a lot of bad wood underneath the veneer She抯 an overnight sensation after twenty five years Sharp fast curves, power steering Unroll that twenty, buy me ...

Late for church again Never seem to be on time Hear the bells as they peal through the holler Doesn't sound like a friend of mine A hundred eyes turn as I enter...

Dropped acid, Blue Oyster Cult concert, fourteen years old, And I thought them lasers were a spider chasing me On my way home, got pulled over in Rogersville Al...

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

If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain No more for my soul to keep I wonder who will drive my car I wonder if my Mom will weep If I throw myself off Lookout Mo...

(Cooley / Cooley, Hicks, Hood, Malone, Neff) Coming home with a bottle, trying not to break the seal This Friday evening traffic's about enough to break a man'...

(Hood / Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff, Sell) 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 ...

I live down in Alabama where the river so muddy got to watch where you step Figurin' out things by the Railroad Bridge and a cousin or two want to give me just ...

(Malone/ Cooley, Hicks, Hood, Malone) Jupiter mules kickin' out all the stops Newfangled dogs danglin' stars from her eyelids She can't read between the lies a...

Me and my Annette, we was as fond as we could be We was set to marry in October 33 I set my sights on courtinher, as fine as she could be I never even noticed ...

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...

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 young...

Saw you standing in the hallway, red plastic cup, and one of those big long cigarettes You asked me if I could play you some Dylan I said "Dylan who?"? you told...

Johnny sniffing glue, he was 12 years old Fell to the Earth on Easter night Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug On 26 reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leuk...

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 blu...

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 ...

Got them pretty road cases Protect our asses, protect our faces, protect our guitars, protect our amps Got them pretty road cases throw them out an airplane and...

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 ...

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 c...

Well your wishes and your feelings 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 ...

If I could have one wish right now I'd be about as half as tough as I pretend I am I wouldn't care empty this old house feels I'd take her things and take ‘em f...

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 scre...

(Hood / Cooley, Hood, Lane, Malone, Neff) Me and my brother's old lady went out and got stinking, she solved her curiosities about me by the railroad tracks Sh...

Well, they caught you smoking grass and the judge threw the book I can see a little opportunism in your look You can take it from me, boy You can take it from a...

Now Sheriff Buford Pusser's gotten too big for his britches With his book reviews and movie deals Down at the car lot making public appearances For breaking up ...

My Mama told me, your life is such a wreck Your dumber than dogshit is what my Daddy said I was just thirteen when they showed me the door I keep their picture ...

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 ...

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 cuz I got a show to do I'm ...

We were bored, there was nothing going on Might as well stay at home and drink until we pass out again Then drink some more when the morning comes Memphis was s...

We were bored, there was nothing going on Might as well stay at home and drink until we pass out again Then drink some more when the morning comes Memphis was s...

(NEWS FLASH!!!) (scene: the press corps have descended upon the White House, a spokesperson Begins to speak:) They looked in the White House and Capitol Hill...

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...

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 ...

The 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 ...

"She's a beaute, yes sir she is"? said EZ DAN, fifty five, a bad age, smelling of Brute from Fabrege' and sweat EZ DAN don't bathe a lot these days (and why the...

Stacy was a troubled teen ever since she was twelve She felt the world close in on her and thought she needed help Listening to the radio on a Sunday night She ...

The clouds started forming 5:00 PM The funnel clouds touched down five miles north of Russellville Siren's were blowing, clouds spat rain and as the thing went ...

They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice Now we got more electricity than we canever use They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there move...

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 ...

You 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 ...

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 Ju...

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 hang...

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 ou...

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 t...

You've become such a mess You and your crystal meth You lost your family - wrecked your truck. I used to love you - now you suck We were friends, among the bes...

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 wh...

All my family problems disappeared overnight We're all taking Zoloft and everything is fine My sister's teen angst just flew out the window Mama's so happy she ...