Flat Broke Songs: No. 4

'King of the Road'
-- Roger Miller (1965)

The bottom lines: "Two hours of pushing broom buys an eight-by-twelve, four-bit room/I'm a man of means by no means ... king of the road."

Miller's rambler hops boxcars and pays for his nightly board with a couple hours of sweeping floors -- homeless, maybe, but by choice, and with an air of romanticism.