Lyrics to
Brother Trucker

This version of Brother Trucker was released by James Taylor in 1979.

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Breaker number nine, big buddy, put your ears on me now.
This trucker got to have a big line tonight.
Come on sucker, come back brother trucker.
I keep seeing double unless I close one eye.

And I’ve got to roll, roll, roll brother trucker, sure enough a shame about the shape I’m in.
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, I’m back on my wheels again.
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, someone to love the truck driving man.
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, I’m back on my wheels again.

I’m a driving fool, I make my own rules.
One part man and one part mule, one part fossil fuel,
I got the heart of steel, I pull eighteen wheels.
Mister nine to five in his Coup de Ville, no, never know how it feels.

To really roll, roll, roll brother trucker, holding my own just the best as I can.
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, I’m back on my wheels again.
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, outward bound from South Bend.
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, I’m back on my wheels again.

Moon over New Jersey, big state police.
Well, I’m in a hurry, could you let me go in peace?
I’m an independent, I don’t make no teamster dough.
Cause the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. still don’t own the road.
And the only man telling me where to go is the man who owns my load.

And he says roll, roll, roll brother trucker, I say where and you say when.
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, get back on your wheels again.
Turn the goddamn thing around and do it again
Roll, roll, roll brother trucker, I’m back on my wheels again.
Fat bucket, I’m back on my wheels again

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About Lyrics and Brother Trucker by James Taylor

The lyrics for Brother Trucker are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by James Taylor. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Brother Trucker 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 Brother Trucker - James Taylor 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 Brother Trucker by James Taylor 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 Brother Trucker" means the words set to the music of Brother Trucker, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 Brother Trucker and the lyrics to Brother Trucker are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Brother Trucker, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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