"The Great Filling Station Hold Up" is a song written and performed by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett.
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".
[2] Buffett got the idea to write the song after finding amusement in a newspaper article about recovered property from a holdup.
[3] Soon after the release of the single, with "Why Don't We Get Drunk" as its B-side, it was reported that it had sold over 50,000 copies just to jukebox operators, according to B.J.
[4] "Why Don't We Get Drunk" was identified by Billboard as a "jukebox favorite" more than three years after its original release.