Story Behind The Song
The last Mack B-61 hauling the last load of steel out of Pit
| Song Length |
2:28 |
Genre |
Folk - General, Country - Americana |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Pleasant, Amiable |
Subject |
Regret, Other |
| Similar Artists |
Arlo Guthrie, The Charlie Daniels Band |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
PITTSBURGH STEEL OUTBOUND
Copyright Hilary F. Marckx, BMI
I Got an Eighteen Wheeler Mack with a Six-banger Diesel
Haulin' Pittsburgh Steel Out-bound
I Run a B-61 with a Thermodyne Turbo,
Haulin' Pittsburgh Steel Out-bound
It's My Last Damn Load 'Cause the Mills 'Re Closin'
And I'm San Francisco Bound
Me and My Mack Runnin' Coast to Coast
Haulin' Pittsburgh Steel Out-bound
and My 5-3 Tranny Is Whinin' and Grindin'
and My Wheels Are Slappin' Hard
down Old Route Forty 'Cross the High Great Basin
Haulin' Pittsburgh Steel Out-bound
Apollo, Black Diamond, and Carry Furnace
Won't Forge Another Pound.
Goodby Penn Iron, and Monongahela,
Haulin' Pittsburg Steel Out-bound
It's the Last Damn Load Outta Pittsburgh,
Steel's Been Run to Ground
And this Old Mack, She's the Last of Her Kind,
Haulin' Pittsburgh Steel Out-bound.