Bob Seger

Released: March 1, 1974

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Punch Andrews

[Verse 1]
I still remember it was autumn and the moon was shinin'
My '60 Cadillac was rollin' through Nebraska whinin'
Doin' a hundred twenty, man the fields was bendin' over
Headin' out for the mountains knowin' we was travelin' further
All our fires were blazin'
And the spinnin' wheels were turnin' turnin'
Had my girl beside me brother brother she was burnin' burnin'

[Verse 2]
Up walked a Baptist preachin' southern funky school teacher
She had a line on something heavy but we couldn't reach her
We told her that we needed something that would get us goin'
She put out all she had and laid it on the counter showin'
All I had to do was lay my money down and pick it up
The cops came bustin' in
And then we lit out in a pickup truck and go

[Chorus]
Get out of Denver better go go
Get out of Denver better go
Get out of Denver better go go
Get out of Denver cause you look just like a commie
And you might just be a member baby
Get out of Denver baby
Get out of Denver

[Verse 3]
Well the red lights were flashin'
And the sirens were a screamin' screamin'
We had to pinch each other just to see if we were dreamin'
Made it to Loveland Pass in under less than half an hour
Lord it started drizzlin' and it turned into a thunder shower

[Verse 4]
The rain was drivin' but the Caddy kept on burnin' rubber
We kept on drivin' till we ran through some fog for cover
We couldn't see a thing, somehow we just kept on goin'
We kept on drivin' all night long and then into the mornin'
Fog had finally lifted when we looked to see where we was at
We're starrin' at a Colorado state policeman trooper captain
He said

[Chorus]
Get out of Denver better go go
Get out of Denver better go
Get out of Denver better go go
Get out of Denver cause you look just like a commie
And you might just be a member baby
Get out of Denver baby
Get out of Denver

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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