The Drive-By Truckersare a southern rock/ alt-countryband based in Athens, Georgia. Their music is characterised by its "three axe attack," or three guitars supported by bass and drums. The band was co-founded in 1996, by Patterson Hood(son of Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section player David Hood) and Mike Cooley. The Drive-By Truckers put out their first two albums, Gangstabilly(1998) and Pizza Deliverance(1999), followed by a live album, Alabama Ass-Whuppin(released in 2000 by Second Heaven Records, re-released in 2002 by Terminus Records). In 2001, the band released Southern Rock Opera, a double CD song cycle about the rise to stardom and demise of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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You want to grow up to paint houses like me, a trailer in my yard till you're 23
You want to be old after 42 years, keep dropping the hammer and grinding the gears
Well, I used to go out in a Mustang, a 302 Mach One in green.
Me and your Mama made you in the back and I sold it to buy her a ring.
And I learned not to say much of nothing and I figured you already know
but in case you don? or maybe forgot, I?l lay it out real nice and slow
Don? call what your wearing an outfit. Don? ever say your car is broke.
Don? worry about losing your accent, a Southern Man tells better jokes.
Have fun but stay clear of the needle. Call home on your sister? birthday.
Don? tell them you?e bigger than Jesus, don? give it away.
Six months in a St. Florian foundry, they call it Industrial Park.
Then hospital maintenance and Tech School just to memorize Frigidaire parts.
But I got to missing your Mama and I got to missing you too.
So I went back to painting for my old man and I guess that? what I?l always do
So don? try to change who you are boy, and don? try to be who you ain?.
And don? let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy-man? paint.
Don? call what your wearing an outfit. Don? ever say your car is broke.
Don? sing with a fake British accent. Don? act like your family? a joke.
Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your sister? birthday.
Don? tell them you?e bigger than Jesus, Don? give it away.
Don? give it away