{"id":158,"date":"2007-01-19T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/stuck\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T20:46:12","slug":"stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/stuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written at a booth in Deena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Diner during the summer of 1975.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just outta Jackson, headin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for Nashville,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna be a country star, too;<br \/>\nWhen the axel started breakin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the van started shakin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,<br \/>\nWe pulled off on Highway 22.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well, the gas station guy said we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to wait till mornin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause the only mechanic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone home;<br \/>\nSo we bought Vienna sausage and cold, canned beans,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause the all-night caf\u00c3\u00a9 was closed.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<\/p>\n<p><em>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck here on Interstate 40,<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a damn dry county;<br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck, guess we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be here till we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re 80,<br \/>\nGuess we just ran out of our Tennessee luck.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the mechanic came by in the hot foggy mornin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<br \/>\nScartched his head and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what to do;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a boy down the road I think can maybe help you,<br \/>\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come by tomorrow afternoon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Now lucky for us there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Deena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s little diner,<br \/>\nWith grits and lemon ice box pie,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be here for a while slappin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 flies and drinkin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 coffee,<br \/>\nAnd at night we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna try to get high.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>Well, I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind if a trucker bought us liquor,<br \/>\nWe could sit in his cab getting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 stoned;<br \/>\nBut they just pull in for gas, then pull their rigs out fast,<br \/>\nAin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a place they want to hang around.<\/p>\n<p>One night up drove a Tennessee state trooper,<br \/>\nEverybody had to hide the beer;<br \/>\nAnd they all listed to the singin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the gas pumps dingin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<br \/>\nAnd they said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all come back now, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122hear!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written at a booth in Deena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Diner during the summer of 1975. Just outta Jackson, headin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for Nashville, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna be a country star, too; When the axel started breakin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the van started shakin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, We pulled off on Highway 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}