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Songs About the Working Man, 1963
Written by Earl Green and Carl Montgomery
I know this song through the Burrito Brothers version. It's an original pill-poppin', scale-dodging, probably unsafe trucker's road anthem! Funny lyrics, but with a universally relatable theme of wanting to get home after a hard day's work no matter what the obstacles. The song really evokes the boredom, thrills, and careless corner-cutting that make up the long haul trucker's life. Dudley's slurred bass sounds like a poor man's Johnny Cash impression off and on through the track, but it's that very tone of woozy masculinity that sells the song.