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Thread #125744   Message #2790991
Posted By: evansakes
18-Dec-09 - 03:36 AM
Thread Name: Great Truckin' Songs!
Subject: RE: Great Truckin' Songs!
Someone already HAS said it (three or four times!) Mercy sakes alive :-)

Also mentioned above a couple of times but in my opinion the greatest ever truckdriving song as well as the saddest (probably one of the saddest songs of any kind in fact) 'Mama Hated Diesels'. Take a bow, Mr Blackie Farrell.

"Now it's me and the local preacher
Standing in the graveyard grass
Staring down at the highway
Watching those big rigs pass
Well he laid his hand upon me
And he prayed for quite some time
But I could barely understand the words he said
Behind that highway's whine

Then he handed me a faded photograph
He said he found it in my mama's hand
He said "Son I'm afraid that you and this picture
Were the best your Mama ever had"
Well I looked down at that picture
It was Mama and some guy
Standing in front of a semi-truck
"Just Married" painted on the side"

Bill Kirchen still does it like he did with the Commander way back when....

It's filmed in a bar so you have to try to ignore the drunken eejits talking and fighting throughout Mama Hated Diesels

There's also a pretty good (and slightly surreal) truckdriving song by the late great Dave Carter (sung here with Tracy Grammer)

Little Liza Jane