![]() Get out of the door and light out and look all around I guess they can’t revoke your soul for tryin’ Get tired of travelin’ and you want to settle down You’re sick of hangin’ around and you’d like to travel I’d like to get some sleep before I travelīut if you got a warrant, I guess you’re gonna come inīusted, down on Bourbon Street, set up, like a bowlin’ pin Got a tip they’re gonna kick the door in again Sittin’ and starin’ out of the hotel window Takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep truckin’ on She lost her sparkle, you know she isn’t the sameĪll a friend can say is ain’t it a shame? What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it’s been Sometimes your cards ain’t worth a dime, if you don’t lay’em down Once told me you’ve got to play your hand Out of the door and down on the streets all alone One of these days they know they better get goin’ Most of the time they’re sittin’ and cryin’ at home Most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love New York’s got the ways and means and just won’t let you be Your typical city involved in a typical daydreamĭallas, got a soft machine Houston, too close to New Orleans Grateful Dead – Truckin’ – 12/31/77 – WinterlandĪrrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main StreetĬhicago, New York, Detroit and it’s all on the same street “The last chorus defines the band itself.” Grateful Dead Concert Poster by R Crumb- FebruFillmore East New York With a nod to the muse, the anthem ‘Truckin’ was born… Again… Garcia, Weir, Lesh, and Hunter all gathered, would put pen to paper on all their traveling emotions and experiences into flowing poetry. In 1970 the Grateful Dead would bring the visual muse back to the audial world… “We took our experiences on the road and made it poetry” A cartoon strip which I believe originated in the Los Angeles Free Press and was printed locally about a year or so ago showed a grotesque person “trucking.”ġ970 issue of The Student Life showing the ‘Truckin’ walk The movement was popularized by the underground press. Kids say trucking around in school halls and outside makes you forget about frustrating classes. “keep on trucking, truck your troubles away.” The expression originates in a blues song played by Duke Ellington in the 1930s. The walk says: “regardless how much we may be put down, we’ll keep on trucking.” The walk, which emphasizes a long forward step with the body tilted backward and the arms flapping in a Jackie Gleason and-away-we-go style, represent something similar to the Negro spirituals’ “we shall overcome.” “Trucking,” the expression for an exaggerated let-it-all-hang-out style of walking, is catching on. The single page comic would become a hippie icon, gaining a sloth walking cult following of arm dangling layed back youth… The song “Truckin’ My Blues Away” would forever be inked into history as the audial muse to a generation.īlind Boy Fuller “Truckin’ My Blues Away” While listening to a Blind Boy Fuller album he doodle a masterpiece. In 1968 Robert Crumb penned the second issue of Zap Comix, issue #1. Crumb – Zap Comix #1 1968 Just Keep Truckin’ On It was the only way out of being “America’s Best Loved Hippy Cartoonist.” That’s when I started to let out all of my perverse sex fantasies. I was thrown off track! I didn’t want to turn into a greeting card artist for the counter-culture! I didn’t want to do ‘shtick’-the thing Lenny Bruce warned against. You’re a walkin’ boy! You’re movin’ on down the line! It’s proletarian. ![]() On the radio in the seventies who would yell out every ten minutes: “And don’t forget to KEEP ON TR-R-RUCKIN’!” Boy, was that obnoxious! Big feet equals collective optimism. ![]() This stupid little cartoon caught on hugely. Keep on Truckin’… Is the curse of my life. Was I now a “spokesman” for the hippies or what? I had no idea how to handle my new position in society! … Take Keep on Truckin’… For example. “I became acutely self-conscious about what I was doing.
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