Singers: The Unhokey Okie

Trailers for sale or rent,

Rooms to let fifty cents,

No phone, no pool, no pets.

Ain't got no cigarettes.

Ah but two hours of pushin' broom

Buys an eight-by-twelve fourbit room.

I'm a man of means,

By no means,

King of the road.

With a plunking background and a beat that makes it sound somehow like a lilting dirge, that bit of drifter's lingo is the hottest item on the current top pop charts. Out less than two months, King of the Road passed the three-quarters of a million sales mark last week, is fourth...

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