WORLD'S LAST TRUCK DRIVIN' MAN
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- Song Title
- WORLD'S LAST TRUCK DRIVIN' MAN
- Writers
- Publisher
- EVIL EYE MUSIC, INC. (BMI)
- % Publisher Controls
- 100%
- Territory Controlled
- WORLD
- Themes/Keywords
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Car, Drive, Driving, Future, Hard, Heaven, Last, Police, Truck
- Lyrics
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The year is two thousand and eighty
And hardly a highway remains;
Gone are the days of the diesel
And songs about wrecks in the rain.
The Macs and MacLeans have all rusted away,
The Harvesters rot in the sand.
And in a deserted truck stop sits Tennessee Thompson
The worlds last truck drivin’ man.
He lit up the world’s last Lucky,
Got his last cup of coffee refilled;
And he stared at the sky for one final high,
Took the world’s last little white pill.
He said, “World, you are losin’ your truckers,
And you suckers do not give a damn;
You’re freighting in space
And there just ain’t no place
For a hard ridin’ truck drivin’ man.
The world’s last truck drivin’ man,
His left arm is losing its tan.
The rest all went broke or just went up in smoke,
He’s the world’s last truckin’ man.
Then he sat there and drank to old mem’ries,
And Doreen sat there dryin’ his tears.
Doreen was the world’s last truck stoppin’ waitress,
She was weary and worn with the years.
So he put his last dime in the world’s last jukebox
For the lady he’d loved for so long.
And there in that deserted truck stop they danced
To the world’s last truck drivin’ song.
Then he climbed up inside his old semi,
And Doreen, she crawled up at his side.
He shifted it down and the diesel’s sad sound
Said this is your last homeward ride.
So he whispered, “Ten-Four” to her and the Lord
As the microphone fell from his hand.
And he came to the exit marked Tennessee Thompson
The world’s last truck drivin’ man.
He was high ballin’ straight
Through them bright pearly gates
When behind in the dust of his rig
Come the wailin’ siren of old Smoky McKenzie,
The world’s last interstate pig.
Hear ‘em roar, see ‘em fly
Past the clouds through the sky
On that highway that don’t have an end.
But you know that’s heaven for Tennessee Thompson,
The world’s last truck drivin’ man (and Doreen),
The world’s last truck drivin’ man.VIEW COMPLETE FEWER LYRICS
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