Favorite Trucking Songs

[BiGG T33]

I totally forgot abbout eddie rabbit tune ...Lov that song!...i still go back to Teddy bear -->red sovine so sad ....

[RebelDarlin]

"Give Me 40 Acres and I'll Turn this Rig Around"

Dont know who sang it but my grandpa has it on an old album(thats better known as a record for you young guys)of all trucking songs from the 50's,60's and 70's

Dave Dudley did this song.

(Just a few I like to drive to...Not all trucker songs but good to drive to)

Willie Nelson: "On The Road Again"

Merle Haggard: "Big City" (Turn me loose set me free somewhere in the middle of Montana), "Workin Man Blues"

Waylon Jennings: "Lonesome On'ry & Mean", "I've Always Been Crazy", "Good Hearted Woman", "Dukes of Hazzard Theme (Good Ole Boys)"

Kathy Matea: "18 Wheels & a Dozen Roses", "455 Rocket"

Stevie Ray Vaughn: "The House is Rockin", "Pride & Joy"

Janis Joplin: "Me & Bobby McGee"

Molly Hatchett: "Flirtin With Disaster"

Doobie Brothers: "Rockin' Down the Highway"

Stray Cats: "Let's Go Faster", "Somethin's Wrong With My Radio" "Rock This Town" or "Built For Speed"

Flatt & Scruggs: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE

[whthorse]

of course you all forgot about

Concoy---C W McCall

Movin On' --- Merle Haggard

Roll On 18 Wheeler --- Alabama

Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun --- Dave Dudley

Giddy up Go ---- Red Sovine

White Line Fever--- Merle Haggard

Phantom 309--- Red Sovine

Papa loved Mama---Garth Brooks

and my all time favorite

D#mn DOT --- Elmer Fudpucker

[PackRatTDI]

Eddie Rabbits, "Drivin my life away", how appropriate, excellent song.

Check out this video, and some guy named Rune Rudberg, doin Drivin my life away....gotta relate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ3XPZ_M7PE

Not bad but Eddie's version still rules:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prfCkP1aXEo

Next year will mark the 10th anniversary of his death. :sad:

[RebelDarlin]

Anybody remember this one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsvG8Reei2g

Hello I'm a Truck

You've heard songs about truck drivers many times their stories told
How they pulled out of Pittsburgh for six days on the road
About the Feather River Canyon and climbin' the old grapevine
That old roadhouse down in Texas and the girls they've left behind
You've heard their tales of daring and I think that's just fine
But if you can spare a minute well I'd like to tell you mine

There'd be no truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks
No double clutching gear jammin' coffee drinking nuts
They'll drive their way to glory and they have all the luck
There'd be no truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks

Well there he sits in that cafe drinking coffee and telling lies
Probably telling 'em how he topped that hill ten miles back
He ought to tell 'em how he missed a gear
And that Volkswagen bus full of hippies passed us like I was sitting up on jacks
Or how we took that curve over on 66
Hadn't been for me hanging on the shoulder we'd both wound up in the ditch

If we're on time he takes the credit if we're late I get the blame
Up those hills with shutters open my stacks are running flame
My tach running red line sucking diesel from the tanks
I take him south and bring him back without a word of thanks
So now you've heard my story and I guess it's my tough luck
There'd be no truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks

There'd be no truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks
No double clutching gear jammin' coffee drinking nuts
They'll drive their way to glory and they have all the luck
There'd be no truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks

Look at him sipping coffee and flirtin' with that waitress
And where do you think he left me that's right next to cattle truck (moo)
Why couldn't we have put me next to that little pink Mack sittin' over there
Gosh, she's got pretty mud flaps, and talk about stacked, they're both chromed
Well he'll be coming out in a minute and he'll get that bar
And he'll go around and beat on my tires
You know for two pints of diesel I'd have a flat on the inside dual
Ha, that'd fix him
I never did like the way he drives anyhow
Thinks he's God's gift to waitresses he never gives 'em a tip
Well I know what he's gonna do now
He's gonna take out The tape cartridge of Buck Owens and play it again
I don't know why he don't get a Merle Haggard tape

[jayburd]

Dave Dudley's "How fast them trucks can go" :wink:

[Random_Facts]

America Moves by Truck --- Jack Kapanka

Convoy -- Paul Brant

6 days on the road -- Sawyer Brown

Roll on (18wheeler) -- Alabama

Convoy (Original Version) -- CW McCall

Roll on down the highway -- BTO

East Bound and down -- Jerry Reed

Life is a Highway -- Rascal Flatts

18 wheels and a Dozen Roses -- Kathy Mattea

Driving my life away -- Rhett Atkins

Freightliner Fever -- (not sure who sings it though)


Yes that's all on my CD I made for myself. hehe =P

[Mackman]

Nitro Express - Red Simpson

[Jumbo]

You can't possibly forget about the girl on the billboard. Or looing at the world through a winshield.

[Fiddler]

I once heard a trucking song called "Smoke and Mirrors". Can't remember who sang it.

[jonekatz1]

(1 ) Six day's on the road By Taj Mahal


(2) Looking at the world through A Windsheild By Commander Cody &
His Lost Planet Airmen

(3) Take This Job & Shove it By David Allan Coe


(4) F. Lee Bailey Blues By Sugar Ray & the Bluetones for Drivers gone
from home too long on Purpose :!:

[stormothecentury]

Truck Driving Song, by Weird Al Yankovic is a funny one.


The Road Goes On Forever by Robert Earl Keen (particularly the live version - the electric guitar and pedal steel solos are outstanding, even if they forgot to move the pots when they traded). I'm not much of a country fan, but he's one hell of a storyteller.

[wimpy]

Good Ole' Boys- Waylon Jennings.