Jerry Lee Lewis duets with Mack Vickery on Mack's Rockin' My Life Away with James Burton and Bob Moore - Merle Kilgore sings Mack Vickery's When You Get on the Whiskey (Let Somebody Else Drive)

Kenny Lovelace, Me, and James Burton, backstage at HOB NOLA - Mack said it was about playing touch football with elvis

Mack was mine and the Killer's favorite songwriter (Rockin' My Life Away, nuff said?), and i had the opportunity to spend a while with him at Jerry Lee's birthday party at the ranch in Nesbit, 1990, while recording Linda Gail Lewis. 

Tuwin Diane

Thank you for posting this. My husband would have been 78 years old today. He and Mack were best friends and he worked for years as Jerry's road manager.

weirdopedia

not Cecil Harrelson? was it JW? i  produced a Linda Gail record where I met him at one of Jerry Lee's birthday parties in Nesbit.  i miss him too.

Atti Malambri 001 6 months ago

Mack wrote this..but he can't follow the killer!!!

Cyrano de Bergerac 1 year ago

Admirez les rois du vrai rock n'roll !

Merle Kilgore sings his and Mack Vickery's When You Get on the Whiskey (Let Somebody Else Drive) with The Bama Band, Hee Haw, 1985

Maybe you've heard John Anderson's version? 

It says in this book excerpt that President Reagan gave him a signed letter of appreciation for this song, because of Nancy's 'Just Say No' drug movement.  (it didn't work though, because when i met him, i think he could hear the grass grow.)

Lyrics

I heard it on the radio and six o' clock news
Said, "You'd better not drive when you get on the booze"
The sheriff was on TV an a shakin' his hand
Said, 'We're really crackin' down you better understand'

When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Let somebody else drive

Started drinkin' on Friday and by Saturday night
They had be blowin' through a tube charged with DUI
Cuffed and booked and thrown in a cell
I was tryin' to sober up and tell him myself

When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Just let somebody else drive

Forty eight hours is a long is a long time to kill
In a room full of drunks surrounded with steel
Hell's all the serve in a Metro Bar
So don't be drinkin' when your drivin' your car

When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Let somebody else drive

When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
Let somebody else drive

When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)
When you get on to whiskey
(When you get on to whiskey)

Songwriters: Mack Vickery / Merle Kilgore

Let Somebody Else Drive lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

(1957) Sun ''Drive In'' Mack Vickery

i'm starting to feel like a funny @tylermahancoe