Music
- Key: E
- Time signature: 4/4 (12/8)
- Chords used: E, A, B, Bsus4, G, D, F#, Amaj7
"Truckin'" is associated with the blues and other early 20th century forms of folk music.
"Truckin'" was considered a "catchy shuffle" by the band members. Garcia himself commented that "the early stuff we wrote that we tried to set to music was stiff because it wasn't really meant to be sung ... the result of, the better he could write ... and the better we could create music around it." The communal, shared-group-experience feel of the song is brought home by the participation of all four of the group's chief songwriters (Garcia, Weir, Lesh, and Hunter), since, in Phil Lesh's words, "we took our experiences on the road and made it poetry," lyrically and musically. He goes on to say that "the last chorus defines the band itself."
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Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
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