Truckstop Salvation Lyrics

The song Truckstop Salvation is performed by Jimmy Buffett in the album named Before the Beach in the year 1993 .



By: jimmy buffett
1970
Straight-laced leather-faced he rolled
In like he owned the two-bit town
Dollar bills bulging from his bell-bottomed jeans
The population they gathered 'round
Nothing this exciting since a fertilizer truck
Blew a front tire and landed in the creek
Everybody talkin' everybody strainin'
Tryin' to get a little peek

Chorus:
It's just the world they'll never know
Not a country fair side show
Reality they'll somehow never see
He's what they've tried to kill
With their bibles and their stills
But he's not weird just a man that's bein' free

Payin' for the gas he wickedly shouted thanks
And continued on his journey all once again
Just about the time a siren fast-approached and
The pot bellied sheriff he whizzed right in
With his self inflicted grammar started shoutin'
Accusations at the long haired greasy looking ape
While a local d.j. from the fifty watt station got
The whole damn thing on tape

Chorus:
It's just the world they'll never know
Not a country fair side show
Reality they'll somehow never see
He's what they've tried to kill
With their bibles and their stills
But he's not weird just a man that's bein' free

The holy roller preacher told the eager congregation
That the devil had pa*sed right through their nest
But the teenage girls with their locks in curls were
A talkin' 'bout that hair upon his chest
Now the kids got their cookies while the preacher
Saved some souls and the story spread to everyone in sight
Commotion was the word and everybody heard
He was gone before the night

Chorus:
It's just the world they'll never know
Not a country fair side show
Reality they'll somehow never see
He's what they've tried to kill
With their bibles and their stills
But he's not weird just a man that's bein' free



Jimmy Buffett - Before the Beach

May 1993

  1. Ellis Dee
  2. The Missionary
  3. A Mile High In Denver
  4. The Captain And The Kid
  5. Captain America
  6. Turnabout
  7. There's Nothin' Soft About Hard Times
  8. I Can't Be Your Hero Today
  9. Truckstop Salvation
  10. Ace
  11. Rockefeller Square
  12. Bend A Little
  13. In The Shelter
  14. Death Valley Lives
  15. Livingston's Gone To Texas
  16. England
  17. Travelin' Clean
  18. The Hang-Out Gang
  19. God Don't Own A Car
  20. High Cumberland Jubilee/Comin' Down Slow
  21. Cumberland High Dilemma

Truckstop Salvation