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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Wife Beater Lyrics
Drive-By Truckers
You met him at the dance hall
You only saw his charms
You said he really swept you off your feet
Then one night he's drinking
and jealousy enraged
He knocked out two of your front teeth
so you came over to hide out at my place
I guess I should have killed him there and then
but you begged me not to
now you say he's changed
and you're gonna go back to him
Don't give me that bull about how it's for the children
A man like that could never be a dad
What happens when he kills you?
What will they do then?
Sometimes you ought to ask yourself that
Don't go back to him he's a wife beater
You'd be better off with this potato eater
You say he's changed, don't be a fool
A man like that's no good for you
A man like that's no good for you
lyrics by Patterson Hood
music by Drive-by Truckers (Cooley, Hood, Howell, Lane, Neff)