84 Boxes

84 boxes on the back of a truck

84 boxes to make another buck

84 boxes with a little bit of a luck

We’ll get these 84 boxes off the back of the truck



Eighty-thousand pounds of cargo and steel,

Eighteen-hundred pounds of torque at the wheel

Come on driver back the rig into the dock,

We’ve got a lot of work to do and we’re up against the clock



Grab a latch and swing the doors open wide,

Let’s take a better look at what we’ve got inside

From the floor to the ceiling from the wall to the wall

It’s a loaded down semi and we’ve got to move it all



It’s a hundred degrees, maybe hotter inside

On the surface of the sun there ain’t a place to hide

When the bell tolls three we’ll be walking through the flames

It’s a hell of a life, just a-tryin’ to make a name



We’ve made our choices and we’ve made our peace

There’s at least a hundred places that we’d rather be

But it’s a couple bucks an hour for the hours in the day

Ran a tab with the Devil, now it’s time to pay.