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James Taylor – Traffic Jam (1977) | Track profile | Dork

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Traffic Jam

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Traffic Jam

Release date: 1st June 1977

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About This Track

"Traffic Jam" is a track by James Taylor, from the album JT, released 1st June 1977. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Traffic Jam

Damn this traffic jam

How I hate to be late

It hurts my motor to go so slow

Damn this traffic jam

Time I get home my supper will be cold

Damn this traffic jam

Well I left my job about 5 o'clock

It took fifteen minutes to go three blocks

Just in time to stand in line

With a freeway looking like a parking lot

Damn this traffic jam

How I hates to be late

It hurts my motor to go so slow

Damn this traffic jam

Time I get home my supper'll be cold

Damn this traffic jam

Now I almost had a heart attack

Looking in my rear view mirror

I saw myself the next car back

Looking in the rear view mirror

About to have a heart attack

I said damn this traffic jam

How I hate to be late

It hurts my motor to go so slow

Time I get home my supper'll be cold

Damn this traffic jam

Now when I die I don't want no coffin

I thought about it all too often

Just strap me in behind the wheel

And bury me with my automobile

Damn this traffic jam

How I hate to be late

It hurts my motor to go so slow

Damn this traffic jam

Time I get home my supper'll be cold

Damn this traffic jam

Damn

Now I used to think that I was cool

Running around on fossil fuel

Until I saw what I was doing

Was driving down the road to ruin

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Track details

From JT

1977

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Release year

1977

—Looking for Love on Broadway
—I Was Only Telling a Lie
—Honey Don't Leave L.A.
—There We Are
—Traffic Jam
—If I Keep My Heart Out of Sight
—Handy Man
—Secret O' Life
—Terra Nova
—Another Grey Morning
—Bartender's Blues
—Your Smiling Face

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Writer: James Taylor
Producer: Peter Asher