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Shaky Town Lyrics
I've witnessed those one night stands
Must have played in a thousand bands
But I'm just here tonight, tomorrow I'll be gone
Seen folks show their blacker sides
Seen them die just for foolish pride
And those drivers always ask to hear that same old song
That's a big ten-four
From your back door
Just put that hammer down
This young man feels
Those eighteen wheels
That keep turning 'round to take me down to Shaky Town
I've heard all those hard luck tales
From all of you U.S. males
I've heard you tell those lies about the love you've know
And I've followed those highway signs
And I've run down those thin white lines
Like those drivers this old road is all I call my own
That's a big ten-four
From your back door
Just put that hammer down
This young man feels
Those eighteen wheels
That keep turning 'round to take me down to Shaky Town
Must have played in a thousand bands
But I'm just here tonight, tomorrow I'll be gone
Seen folks show their blacker sides
Seen them die just for foolish pride
And those drivers always ask to hear that same old song
From your back door
Just put that hammer down
This young man feels
Those eighteen wheels
That keep turning 'round to take me down to Shaky Town
From all of you U.S. males
I've heard you tell those lies about the love you've know
And I've followed those highway signs
And I've run down those thin white lines
Like those drivers this old road is all I call my own
From your back door
Just put that hammer down
This young man feels
Those eighteen wheels
That keep turning 'round to take me down to Shaky Town
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All the way down to Shaky Town...the end is so great.
Shaky Town: San Francisco 10-4: I hear you over radio loud and clear back door: person behind you watching for police from behind put the hammer down: hit the gas, go faster than the limit eighteen wheels: a big rig has 18 wheels
Although Jackson Browne is famous as a liberal pop-folk singer, he played countless country music bars, and he's comparing himself in his period of nomadic touring to the truckers he sang to. Musicians often have to depend on touring to survive, and some broke musicians had to hitch rides with truckers.
@MarionDelgado Good theory; but ShakyTown was not written by Jackson Browne. The author is Danny Kortchmar.
@MarionDelgado Good theory; but ShakyTown was not written by Jackson Browne. The author is Danny Kortchmar.
@MarionDelgado Kortchmar sings harmony; they were a band on tour making "Running on Empty"; so it's not far from being written by Browne himself.
@MarionDelgado Kortchmar sings harmony; they were a band on tour making "Running on Empty"; so it's not far from being written by Browne himself.