Chris Knight - The Hammer Going Down Lyrics






The sun's goin' down on me
Thoughts of her keep haunting me
Desperation's taking hold
My hands are on the steering wheel
But my heart's back in Louisville
At the far end of a thousand miles of road

My mind's grinding like a steel gear, baby
I've got to cover some ground
She know how hard and fast I'm falling for her
If she could just hear the sound
Of the hammer goin' down

Now I ain't gonna waste my time
Talkin' on no pay phone line
Words just don't get the message through
If this rig will hold out one more day
She'll hear me forty miles away
Tearing this four lane half in two

My mind is grinding like a steel gear, baby
I've got to cover some ground
She know how hard and fast I'm falling for her
If she could just hear the sound
Of the hammer goin' down

Now she ain't just a truck stop queen
She's like God to me
A thousand miles for her love
Well, I'd go a million for one kiss
Drive those pistons with my fist
And do it all again if it ain't enough

My mind's grinding like a steel gear, baby
I've got to cover some ground
She know how hard and fast I'm falling for her
If she could just hear the sound
Of the hammer goin' down

If she could hear the sound
Of the hammer goin' down
If she could hear the sound
Of the hammer goin'
Of the hammer goin' down





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  1. B.... G....

    Hammer Going Down different version

    https://youtu.be/o_196endQQk

  2. A.... V....

    This area in West Central Kentucky has produced some damn fine musicians:  Bill Monroe, Merle Travis, The Everly Brothers, John Prine (When I was a child my family would travel down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born:  Paradise), Sam Bush and Chris Knight.  I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.

  3. T.... O....

    Damn!  Country just doesn't get any better than this.  Fantastic song, fantastic singing, fantastic band.

  4. l.... h....

    💙💗💙

  5. k.... ....

    His new record is awesome and on tour now. Excellent show!

  6. R.... ....

    This version sucks grapefruits. The Road Hammers version is much better!!!

    R.... ....

    No this one is best

  7. e.... ....

    I actually like this song and the guitar solo is exquisite!   I'm still going back to listeningto Highway Junkie, also on the Black Dog soundtrack.

  8. R.... 1....

    The best truckers music

  9. S.... o....

    As a boy, I'd lay awake on hot summer nights and listen to the trucks up on the new interstate highway. Hot tires and hot pavement, the trucks would sing. I always knew when they hit the downgrade and when the hammer went down. A sound I don't hear anymore.

    S.... o....

    Did the same and now at 71 and 5 million miles under my belt I still love to drive, and I fear the day they tell me I can;t do it any more!!!

  10. R.... P....

    Yeah boy’s wot a great start to a great weekend of trucking along to south Australia.

  11. T.... ....

    He just needs a great bass player to add to the beat. Kinda like what the bass player did for Cry Lonely performed by Cross Canadian Ragweed.

  12. N.... N....

    29 more days and I’m heading home, this North Dakota job is hell on an Alabama man. Got 2 babies and a pregnant wife waiting for me at home.

  13. B.... S....

    chris sound damn in my book

  14. K.... D....

    A singer/ songwriter genius.

  15. M.... C....

    Australian fan luv your work Chris

  16. �.... �....

    this is one of the BEST road country song forever! It is alwas into my playlist when i drive my battered car to my HOME)))

  17. A.... H....

    great song love this guy

  18. S.... b....

    Hell yea...great guitar work in this song...especially last two minutes..

  19. F.... M....

    Awesome song! Two minutes of dueling lead guitars

  20. S.... T....

    just one of the better songwriters in years

  21. M.... P....

    I love this song !!

  22. W.... D....

    Greatness.

  23. J.... M....

    when I was driving over the road I was dating a girl. this was our song

    J.... M....

    Until you drove out of sight.

  24. W.... M....

    This song is epic, I'd forgotten how great it is. Chris Knight is the best.

  25. p.... ....

    This is the best song in the world

  26. X.... ....

    "Drive those pistons with my fists"...What a fuckin awesome lyric

    X.... ....

    Best ever you can acutally feel it

  27. M.... ....

    Outlaw country gets no air play

    M.... ....

    Moabmike
    sadly it doesnt

    M.... ....

    KNBT 92.1 FM in New Braunfels, TX plays Chris Knight and this song. radionb dawt com slash knbt or just google. you can listen live online! my favorite radio station in the world. wednesday night live is amazing, be sure to tune in then from 7 to 9PM CT.

    M.... ....

    You ain't listin to the PIG!

    M.... ....

    Station on the fort berthold Indian reservation in North Dakota, would play outlaw country all the time. Go figure the Indians

    M.... ....

    You can fix that want to be a DJ on Internet Radio. send email to Mix Tape Radio International [email protected] www.mtri.co.uk

  28. M.... S....

    on of my favorite songs from black dog.

    M.... S....

    Hell yeah

    M.... S....

    "Never meet your hero's"

    M.... S....

    This song was from 'Black Dog'?  Uh oh, I got rid of the cassette.Guess I'll have to find it on CD.  I have a bad habit of buying a CDand not listening to all of it.  Like that fascinating song, 'HighwayJunkie' that I just heard several times.

  29. d.... ....

    If this song sounds familiar,break out the Road Hammers' version or watch "Black Dog"
    This sounds more like a demo tape version IMHO  but I like it better than the Road Hammer's version.

    d.... ....

    Sounds a lot better than the Road Hammers version for sure.

  30. M.... M....

    This man has either lived the struggle or is a helluva story tellar.

    M.... M....

    Matt Mackenzie agreed

    M.... M....

    Matt Mackenzie both...

    M.... M....

    He's from slaughter Kentucky enough said.

    M.... M....

    Under your nails and in your piss.

  31. D.... ....

    Great Stuff. It's like and early Steve Earl version of Radar Love. Excellent.

  32. h.... c....

    what country radio there aint none this songs great

    h.... c....

    harold connolly He wrote this with Dean Miller, Roger Miller's son!

    h.... c....

    Do any "mainstream" country artists play his songs? If they did, they'd have a guaranteed hit!

    h.... c....

    @lightcaesar roadhammers have a cover (wonder what made them choose this song lol)

  33. R.... S....

    awesome song, Chris

  34. R.... J....

    I just love all chrisu knights music and lately I just can't get enough I'd sure like to drink a beer with this guy

  35. R.... H....

    Excellent song, production and mix etc...What more can I say..