Eddie Rabbitt

Songwriter: Reed Nielsen Eddie Rabbitt

Producer: Richard Landis

Big wheels spinnin'
On the blacktop
I feel like
I never will stop

Let 'em roll
Until I drop
Rollin' all night and day

I can't get nothin'
On the radio
I listen
To the windshield wipers go

Just like the song
I used to know
I'm drivin' my life away, hey
Drivin' my life away

I'm just runnin' with the wind
Hell on wheels
Pedal to the metal
Drivin' into the black of night again

I'm just runnin' with the wind
One bad machine
Mean ol' Mack
We've seen a lot of black track
Runnin' with the wind

Pretty little girl in Amarillo
She looks like
She knows every way to go
Well, I just said, baby, El Paso

There's more than big wheels
Goin' around, you know
She said don't worry, baby
'Cause you're gonna be fine
I'll get you down the road
In plenty of time

I'm better for you
Than that white line
That you've been chasin' around
And around, and around
And around, and around

I'm just runnin' with the wind
Hell on wheels
Pedal to the metal
Drivin' into the black of night again

I'm just runnin' with the wind
One fine machine
Mean ol' Mack
We've seen a lot of black track
Runnin' with the wind

Run it down

I'm just runnin' with the wind
Hell on wheels
Pedal to the metal
Drivin' into the black of night again

I'm just runnin' with the wind
One bad machine
Mean ol' Mack
We've seen a lot of black track
Runnin' with the wind

I'm just runnin', runnin' with the wind
Runnin', runnin' with the wind

I'm just runnin', runnin'
Runnin', runnin' with the wind

Edward Thomas Rabbitt was born November 27, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York to Irish immigrant parents. He was raised in East Orange, New Jersey. On his 35th birthday, he married Janine Girardi. They had three children. One daughter, Demelza, and two sons, Timmy & Tommy. Timmy was born with biliary atresia and died in childhood after a failed liver transplant intended to save his life. In March 1997, Eddie learned that he had lung cancer. He passed away on May 7, 1998. Rabbitt received several awards over the years. The Academy of Country Music Awards Top New Male Vocalist in 1977. Music City News Country Songwriter of the Year and BMI’s Robert J. Burton Award for “Suspicions” in 1979. 1980 brought BMI’s Song of the Year for “Suspicions.” In 1996 he pulled in BMI’s Three Million-Air Award and Two Million-Air Awards for “I Love a Rainy Night” and “Kentucky Rain”, respectively. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame the year of his death, 1998. Eddie’s final #1 hit came in 1989 with “On Second Thought”.

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