Lyrics to
Big Rig

This version of Big Rig was released by Jimmy Buffett in 1976.

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If I was a road dog, baby
All of my songs were true
Reckon’ I’d like my whiskey drinkin’
a whole lot more than I do
But I don’t know about the good life, baby
Not so sure it’s for me
I’d much rather be home rollin’ with you
Than watching Tom Snyder on TV

I wish I was a big rig
Rollin on home to you
I wish I was a big rig
Big rig baby, rollin’ on home to you

Now I been to lots of parties
Spent my whole life in a bar
There’s a whole lot of good lookin’ women out there
Who think I am a star
Drinkin’ and a smokin’ ain’t really where I am
If I had my own two ways I’d be rollin’ home to Alabam

I wish I was a big rig
Rollin’ on home to you
I wish I was a big rig
A big rig baby, rollin’ on home to you

Now some day I’ll be better
My ramblin’ days will be through
I won’t have anymore gigs to play
I’ll be back home there with you
But meanwhile wait a minute
What’s that thing I see
It’s a good lookin’ woman with a bottle of Scotch
And she wants to go home with me

She’s lookin’ like a big rig
Rollin’ on home to you
I wish I was big rig, a big rig baby
Rollin’ on home to you
I wish I was a big rig
Rollin’ on home to you
I wish I was a big rig
Rollin’ on home to you

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About Lyrics and Big Rig by Jimmy Buffett

The lyrics for Big Rig are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1976 song by Jimmy Buffett. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Big Rig have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Big Rig - Jimmy Buffett and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Big Rig by Jimmy Buffett in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Big Rig" means the words set to the music of Big Rig, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jimmy Buffett. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Big Rig and the lyrics to Big Rig are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jimmy Buffett who came here looking just for the lyrics to Big Rig, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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