# The song from 0852 at 16:30 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Tags:** encore\ **Created:** [June 27, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471 "2009-06-27T16:20:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BlaclRose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@BlaclRose](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BlaclRose)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471/1 "2009-06-27T16:20:04Z")
Does anyone know the song from the first break of the encore episode that played on Dec. 27 of last year? I can’t find it anywhere! The lyrics played go as followed: “through the valley of the broken runs a river of the wreckage past a mountain range of metal in a wonderland of waste, I’m a soldier of misfortune in this jungle of rejection ridin’ hard on the discarded in the ten-ton crane. Awaiting resurrection in this cast-away collection is a hidden trove of riches amid the mangled and the maimed every fender-bender, every head on and rear ender holds a cash of precious treasure that is waiting to be claimed. I’m just a miner in a motherload of misery where the fruits of faulty judgment meet the spoils of bad luck. Where the useless and unwanted find the place they can be flaunted, I’m a soldier of misfortune and a king of junk.” ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471/2 "2009-06-27T16:36:20Z")
Whats the music genre? I can post keywords on my Rhapsody account and if the song was ever published/recorded/copyrighted and in their library it will come up,other than that I have never heard it. Knowing the genre narrows down the search (is it folk,rap,country,pop,jazz,protest song,you get the idea). ---
**Author:** ![BlaclRose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@BlaclRose](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BlaclRose)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471/3 "2009-06-27T20:18:58Z")
I think that it would be closest to “Folk”'cause of the pace and the banjo. Thanks a bunch! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471/4 "2009-06-27T20:29:35Z")
Found it it is called The King of Junk by Eddy Lawrence it is folk released from a live performence in 1993. You got lucky the search to 4 min,found it with key words King of JunK ---
**Author:** ![calvesofbelleville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@calvesofbelleville](https://community.cartalk.com/u/calvesofbelleville)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471/5 "2009-06-27T21:04:30Z")
It was indeed “King of Junk” by Eddy Lawrence. It also appears on the Car Talk “Cartunes, Volume 1” CD. –David Greene Automusicology Guy Car Talk ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471/6 "2009-06-27T21:09:40Z")
Any stars Dave? ---
**Author:** ![BlaclRose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@BlaclRose](https://community.cartalk.com/u/BlaclRose)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-from-0852-at-16-30/32471/7 "2009-06-27T21:38:55Z")
Ah, thanks guys!