The song's lyrics tell of a man who rents a room in a cheap motel.
He can't sleep, because the band in the joint downstairs keeps playing with a honky tonk beat, shaking his bed.
1 spot on the "Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys" chart.
[1] The song has been included in multiple albums and compilations of Pierce's music, including The Webb Pierce Story (1964), the Bear Family box set, The Wondering Boy (1951-1958) (1990), King of the Honky-Tonk: From the Original Master Tapes (1994),[2] and 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Webb Pierce (2001).
[3] The song has also been covered by other artists, including Mel Tillis, Dude Mowrey, Conway Twitty, Faron Young, Carl Perkins, Leon McAuliffe, Leroy Van Dyke, Charlie Walker, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen, Warner Mack, BR549, and Guy Clark.