May 08, 2005

A list of "Road" Songs Songs about musicians being "on the road" don't qualify unless they actually mention roads. Songs about cars, rather than roads, also don't quality. A song can qualify if it mentions a highway even if the rest of the song is about something else.

So, did they miss any good ones? And what are the best songs about being "on the road" that didn't qualify?

posted by Balthazar 19 years ago
  • Robert Johnson's 'Hellhound On My Trail' includes what is, for my money, the best-ever blues verse incorporating the word 'highway': You can bury my body Down by the highwayside (babe, I don't care WHERE you bury my body when I'M dead and gone) Yes, you can bury my body Down by the highwayside So my old evil spirit Can catch a greyhound bus and ride.
  • Postal Service - Such Great Heights
  • Fantastic link.
  • So it's a lyric search for the words "road", "highway" etc. I want a definitive lyric search for the words "and" and "or"... and "baby" ;-)
  • Nick Drake's "Road" would count, no? Looks like Gillian Welch's "I Dream A Highway" would qualify as well. Good link.
  • AC/DC "Highway to Hell" Talking Heads "Road to Nowhere"
  • Ooops, read link first dumbass grover 96...(thought it was a CG) I am drunk
  • LL Cool J "Going Back to Cali" I'm going back to Cali, shakin 'em, bakin 'em Takin 'em to spots they never before hung ?? the place, on Sunset it's a trip Sunset
  • A song can qualify if it mentions a highway even if the rest of the song is about something else. Missed Jethro Tull: Farm on the Freeway.
  • Missed Frank Zappa's "San Berdino"... "Bestest way that they can feel-o, out on the highway, rollin' a wheel-o"
  • A couple of favorites that don't appear: they have a Billy Bragg song, but they neglected to mention his Route 66 cover called A13, Trunk Road to the Sea. Also, on their Austin Lounge Lizards list, they missed Golden Triangle, which is about a trucker and mentions I-10 (although they did get Rocky Byways and a couple of others). </nitpick>
  • They also missed Kermit the Frog and Fozzy Bear's classic Moving Right Along Movin' right along Foot-loose and fancy free. Gettin' there is half the fun; come share it with me. Movin' right along! Doog-a-doog-a-doog-a-doo We'll learn to share the load. We don't need a map to keep this show on the road.
  • So many roads I tell you... New York to San Francisco All I want is one to take me home From the high road to the low So many roads I know So many roads, so many roads. From the land of the midnight sun where ice blue roses grow 'long those roads of gold and silver snow Howlin' wide or moanin low So many roads I know So many roads to ease my soul.
  • The missed my favorite road song, Garth Brooks' "Much Too Young to Feel This Damn Old." This old highway's gettin' longer, Seems there ain't no end in sight.... And the white line's getting longer, and the saddle's getting cold. And I'm much too young to feel this damn old. I feel like that.
  • Ian & Sylvia "Lonely Girls"
  • I just sent them an email suggesting Loudon Wainwright III's "Road Ode" from his album "Career Moves".
  • Well, hit the road, Jack, and doncha come back no more...
  • But where are the train songs? I want train songs.
  • I'm goin' down the road feelin' bad [repeat twice] and I ain't a gonna be treated thisaway...
  • I hear that train a'comin'...
  • ...Ach/1 Far too many of these damn songs! Now they're stuck in my head... Road Hog! Follow the Yellow Brick Road Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes... You're on your own, you're in the street, good morning, good morning, good morning! Why don't we do it in the road? [repeat three times] No one will be watching us Why don't we do it in the road? Happy trails to you until we meet again, Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then... There's a long long trail a-winding... O you take the high road, and I'll take the low road... Gah!
  • Without permission: Not the same with out the kick*ass rhythm guitar, but I give bees, The Doobies' Long Train Runnin': Down around the corner A half a mile from here You can see them long trains run And you watch them disappear Without love Where would you be now Without love You know I saw miss lucy Down along the tracks She lost her home and her family And she won’t be comin’ back Without love Where would you be right now Without love Well the illinois central And the southern central freight Gotta keep on pushin’ mama ’cause you know they’re runnin’ late Without love Where would you be now - now, now, now Without love Well the pistons keep on churnin’ And the wheels go ’round and ’round And the steel rails are cold and hard For the miles that they go down Without love Where would you be right now Without love Where would you be now
  • Great link, thanks! But "For What It's Worth" is so not a road song! Unless mentioning "a thousand people in the street" makes it qualify... but I don't buy it how about "Tweeter and the Monkey Man"?
  • What about the theme song from 'The Littlest Hobo'. It's a real tear-jerker.
  • Where's Kraftwerk's Autobahn ?
  • Germany?