Truckstop Salvation

Words and Music by Jimmy Buffett

>From the Album "Before the Beach"

G G/C (repeat)

Verse 1:

Straight-laced leather-faced

He rolled in like he owned the two bit town

Dollar bills bulging from his bell bottomed jeans

The population they gathered 'round

Nothing this exciting since a fertilizer truck blew a

Am D D/G6 D D/G6

Front tire and landed in the creek

Everybody talkin' everybody strainin'

Tryin' to get a little peek

It's just the word they'll never know

Not a country fair sideshow

A reality they'll somehow never see

He's what they tried to kill

With their Bibles and their stills

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D D/G6

But he's not weird just a man that's bein' free

Repeat Intro.

Verse 2:

Payin' for the gas he wickedly shouted thanks

And continued on his journey once again

Just about that time a siren fast approachin'' and

The pot bellied sheriff he whizzed right in

With his self inflicted grammar started shoutin'

Accusations at the long haired greasy looking ape

While a local D.J. from the fifty watt station got

The whole damn thing on tape

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Intro.

Verse 3:

The holy roller preacher told the eager congregation

That the devil has passed right through their nest

But the teenage girls with their locks in curls were

Talkin' 'bout that hair upon his chest

Now the kids got their cookie while the preacher saved some souls

And the story spread to everyone in sight

Commotion was the word and everybody heard

He was gone before the night

Repeat Chorus

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