An early ZZ Top track, this kicks off the album Tres Hombres. For years, radio stations played it along with the following track, “Jesus Just Left Chicago,” keeping the natural segue on the album.

This was an early casualty of automated corporate radio, as stations now rarely let one song flow into another like they do on the album.

In a 1985 interview with Spin magazine, ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill said:

“I’ve always liked that song. It’s a working man’s song. It’s been a couple of years, but I went to Austin from Houston and I decided, hell, I’ll ride the bus. I hadn’t done it in a long time. And you can meet some very unique people on a bus and in a bus station.

I like to people watch. I love bus stations and train stations. The thing about a bus is who you have to sit beside. If the guy’s got good wine, it’s OK.

I used to hang out in Old Market Square before it was gentrified, The junkies would wait at the bus stops for the connection to come by. When the 5-0 would roll up, they’d have to explain why they were still there.

I don’t have anything but logic and anecdotal evidence supporting this theory of the song, but it does make sense to me, and explains being associated with Jesus Just Left Chicago."