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"King of the Road"

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"King of the Road"

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May 13, 2023
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Today I write knowing that Sometimes a Song can turn into an earworm. Well, there are plenty of worse earworms to have than that ode to hobos, “King of the Road,” composed by one of the busiest and most versatile and clever songwriters of the second half of the 20th century. Roger Miller was a country & western singer/songwriter — sort of — with a dif…

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