My friend Ethel just finished a post that mentioned how this song, Roger Miller’s “King of the Road,” got stuck in her mom’s head recently, prompting a mother-daughter singalong while they strolled around her mother’s nursing home.

I can’t think about this song without thinking of REM, and the boozy version that was included on Dead Letter Office. This version, although much shorter and apparently a bit more sober, is pretty cool too.

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  1. I like it that Peter Buck (is that who that is?) thinks it starts “Sailors…” Pretty much my level of awareness of the lyrics. They look very young here! Oh, I see the date, finally – 1985. Very young!

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