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Cowboy Junkies' cover version
New Jersey Turnpike riding on a wet night
'Neath the refinery's glow, down where the great black river flow
License, registration, I ain't got none
But I got a clear conscience 'bout the things that I done
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
Please don't stop me, please don't stop me
Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife
The only thing that I got's been bothering me my whole life
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
Please don't stop me, please don't stop me
In the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy
Radio relay towers lead me to my baby
Radio's jammed up with talk show stations
It's just talk, talk, talk, talk, till you lose your patience
Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
Please don't stop me, please don't you stop me
Hey, somebody out there, listen to my last prayer
Hi ho silver-o deliver me from nowhere
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Cowboy Junkies is a Canadian country music and alternative rock band, formed by three siblings from the Timmins entertainment family: Margo Timmins on vocals, Michael Timmins on guitars, Peter Timmins on drums, and Alan Anton on bass.
Margo Timmins told Backstreets magazine that "all of us are huge Springsteen fans. I've always loved that song [Thunder Road]; It's one of the most beautiful songs ever written." She adds that to her, "'Thunder Road' is a real woman's song. It speaks of aging and losing certain dreams that you might have as a young woman that I don't think young men have. It's just a song I always wanted to sing from my perspective, a woman's perspective." Timmins said the group actually tried to record it several years ago but wasn't satisfied with the results. "I don't think I had the skill to do what I wanted to do with it," she says. "I knew how I wanted to do it but just didn't have the talent yet. So we waited and brought it back. I'm very happy with this take on it; it has a nice balance between the sadness and the beauty I think is part of that song."
In addition to THUNDER ROAD, the group had also released covers of Springsteen's BROTHERS UNDER THE BRIDGE, MY FATHER'S HOUSE, STATE TROOPER, and YOU'RE MISSING, and the five songs have been part of the group's live repertoire.
Thanks Lars (L.B. at Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of STATE TROOPER on this website:
STATE TROOPER [Album version]