Convoy

Song Convoy
Artist C.W. McCall
Album Legends of Country

Lyrics

[00:02.490] Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the rubber duck.
[00:05.490] you gotta copy on me, pig pen, come on?
[00:10.490] ah, yeah, 10-4, pig pen, fer shure, fer shure. by golly,
[00:13.490] it's clean clear to flag town, c'mon. yeah, that's Big 10-4 there,
[00:18.490] pig pen, yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. mercy sakes alive,
[00:22.490] looks like we got us a convoy...
[00:29.490] Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of june
[00:31.490] In a kenworth pullin' logs Cab-over pete with a reefer on
[00:35.490] And a jimmy haulin' hogs We is headin' for bear on i-one-oh 'bout a mile outta shaky town
[00:42.490] I says, "pig pen, this here's the rubber duck.
[00:44.490] "and i'm about to put the hammer down."
[00:47.490] 'cause we got a little convoy Rockin' through the night.
[00:51.100] Yeah, we got a little ole convoy,Ain't she a beautiful sight?
[00:55.490] Come on and join our convoy Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
[00:59.490] We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the u-s-a.
[01:04.490] Convoy!
[01:07.490] Ah, breaker, pig pen, this here's the duck. and, you wanna back off them hogs?
[01:10.490] yeah, 10-4, 'bout five mile or so. ten, roger. them hogs is gettin' in-tense up here.
[01:18.490] By the time we got into tulsa town,We had eighty-five trucks in all.
[01:21.490] But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,And them bears was wall-to-wall.
[01:26.490] Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;They even had a bear in the air!
[01:30.490] I says, "callin' all trucks, this here's the duck."we about to go a-huntin' bear."
[01:34.490] 'cause we got a great big convoy,Rockin' through the night.
[01:38.490] Yeah, we got a great big convoy,Ain't she a beautiful sight?
[01:43.490] Come on and join our convoy.Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
[01:47.490] We gonna roll this truckin' convoy,'cross the u-s-a.
[01:52.490] Convoy!
[01:54.490] Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, pig pen?
[01:56.490] negatory, pig pen; you're still too close. yeah, them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses.
[02:01.490] mercy sakes, you better back off another ten.
[02:04.490] Well, we rolled up interstate 44 Like a rocket sled on rails.
[02:09.490] We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
[02:11.290] And left 'em settin' on the scales.
[02:13.490] By the time we hit that chi-town,Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
[02:17.490] They'd brought up some reinforcements,From the illinoise national guard.
[02:22.490] There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,And rigs of ev'ry size.
[02:26.490] Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
[02:29.190] And choppers filled the skies.
[02:30.490] Well, we shot the line, we went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks
[02:35.490] An' eleven long-haired friends a' jesus,In a chartreuse micra-bus.
[02:41.090] Ah, rubber duck to sodbuster, come over. yeah, 10-4, sodbuster?
[02:43.990] lissen, you wanna put that micra-bus in behind that suicide jockey?
[02:47.490] yeah, he's haulin' dynamite, and he needs all the help he can git.
[02:51.490] Well, we laid a strip for the jersey shore,And prepared to cross the line
[02:56.490] I could see the bridge was lined with bears,But i didn't have a dog-goned dime.
[03:00.090] I says, "pig pen, this here's the rubber duck."we just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
[03:04.090] So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
[03:07.490] I says "let them truckers roll, 10-4."
[03:09.090] 'cause we got a mighty convoy Rock in' through the night.
[03:13.090] Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,Ain't she a beautiful sight?
[03:17.090] Come on and join our convoy Ain't noth in' gonna get in our way.
[03:22.090] We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
[03:24.090] 'cross the u-s-a.
[03:26.090] Convoy!
[00:28.490] ah, 10-4, pig pen, what's your twenty?
[00:30.490] omaha? well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure.
[00:35.490] well, mercy sakes, good buddy, we gonna back on outta here, so keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your...tail