The Great Filling Station Holdup

"The Great Filling Station Holdup"
Single by Jimmy Buffett
from the album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
A-side"The Great Filling Station Holdup"
B-side"Why Don't We Get Drunk"
Released1973
Recorded1973
StudioGlaser Sound (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountry
Length3:02
LabelDunhill
D-4385 (US, 7")
Songwriter(s)Jimmy Buffett
Producer(s)Don Gant
Jimmy Buffett singles chronology
"Captain America"
(1970)
"The Great Filling Station Holdup"
(1973)
"They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"
(1973)

"The Great Filling Station Hold Up" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. It was first released on his 1973 album A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean and was his first single from that album. The single reached No. 58 on the US Country chart in 1973.

The song appears on Live at Fenway Park, a live album that opened with an acoustic set consisting of "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes", "The Great Filling Station Holdup" and "Pencil Thin Mustache".[1]