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
the cost of these dreams Strapped to this projectile A blink ago I was back in school Smoking by the gym door Practicing my rock-star attitude And
Don't know why they even bother Putting this highway on the map Anybody's that's ever been on it Knows exactly where they're at It's hells on both ends
Can my brother sit in? Can my brother sit in? 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'
Bobby went out for a joy ride with my best girl, left me at the party It was almost ten and the three quarter moon illuminated The rain-soaked streets
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 in my room Now I just drink whiskey and drive
no open windows Heat radiating off the tin And they named their band Lynyrd Skynyrd After the coach who kicked them out of school Seven days a week 'cause Rock
and I've seen bad times drag on I've seen white and black folks alike get treated just like sin And every year or so I see a new truck load of white
/DC With Bon Scott singing, 'Let there be rock tour' With Bon Scott singing, 'Let there be rock tour' With Bon Scott singing, 'Let there be rock'
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
great this year All eight cylinders all twelve gears Call you up when I touch down At the airport in a Louisiana town Street survivors, feeling no pain A little more rock
doing ninety The sky was blue, sun was shining All the shit, he left behind For the big world waiting there He was almost out of Leighton When that phone truck
cases Throw them out an airplane and they'll just bounce Paint our name on them road cases Stencil and white spray paint Drive-By Truckers on every
sweet soul music, that's Muscle Shoals sound And out in California, rock star from Canada writes A couple of great songs about the bad shit that went down "Southern
of your mind When it comes your time to go Ain't no good way to go about it Ain't no use in thinking 'bout it You'll just drive yourself insane There
the flame Stay out the way of the southern thing Stay out the way of the southern thing Stay out the way of the southern thing Stay out the way of the southern
earth??? Speaking of course of the Three Great Alabama Icons??? George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Z Tunately for him, the Devil is also a Southerner
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