Drive-by Truckers - Outfit

Song from the album Decoration Day

Lyrics:

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 dont or maybe forgot, Ill lay it out real nice and slow

Dont call what your wearing an outfit. Dont ever say your car is broke.
Dont worry about losing your accent, a Southern Man tells better jokes.
Have fun but stay clear of the needle. Call home on your sisters birthday.
Dont tell them youre bigger than Jesus, dont 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 thats what Ill always do

So dont try to change who you are boy, and dont try to be who you aint.
And dont let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy-mans paint.

Dont call what your wearing an outfit. Dont ever say your car is broke.
Dont sing with a fake British accent. Dont act like your familys a joke.
Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your sisters birthday.
Dont tell them youre bigger than Jesus, Dont give it away.

Dont give it away.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Drive-by
• Truckers
• Outfit

[andyfsh]

@kishkumenhah thank god for DBT,proud to be southern without being an uneducated racist shit

[mississippibluesboy]

I'm no dumb redneck by any means, but goddamn i'm proud to be Southern.

[yvwic50]

5 people belong in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy man's paint.

[ragehawk72]

@justinfalterm so are you... aren't we all... your words do not pierce my skin... for this poet sees more than truth in words, and i know what i believe and i believe what i know

[justinfalterm]

@ragehawk72 you are a moron

[jackhillty]

more good advice

[nommiezorba]

This is an awesome song!! Better than Cat Stevens Father and son.

[ragehawk72]

@sarairosenbaum he's talking to his son... male's aren't supposed to call what they wear "outfit"s... clothes...

[sarairosenbaum]

still don't know why you can't call what you're wearing an outfit. What are you supposed to call it? Love the song anyway.

[rhinocoach]

Patterson looks like Tony Iommi and Jerry Garcia had a kid in this pic... lol

Come to think of it he plays like that sometimes as well...

[ragehawk72]

@wht02lightning That's sad and yet hopeful at the same time. It's sad you had to leave and hopeful because that means there is hope for the future.

[ragehawk72]

@crimsonmonkey I don't think it's shit if he sales his car to by a woman a ring. If you think it is then well... you can burn in the eternal hellfire.