Convoy

Convoy-artist:: c. w. mccall as sung on "country memories": mca msd2-35429-peak billboard position # 1 for 1 week in 1975-76-words and music by c. w. mccall, bill fries, and chip davislegend: <spoken on cb radio in background> (sung by background singers)<ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the rubber duck. you got a copy on me. pigpen? c'mon.><ah, yeah, ten-four, pigpen, for sure, for sure. by golly, it's clean clear to flagtown. c'mon.><yeah, that's a big ten-four there, pigpen. yeah, we definitely got the front door, good buddy. mercy's sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy>it was the dark of the moon on the sixth of juneand a kenworth pullin' logscab-over pete with a reefer onand a jimmy haulin' hogswe's headin' for bear on eye-one-oh'bout a mile outta shakeytowni says "pigpen, this here's rubber duck""and i'm about to put the hammer down"('cause we got a little ole convoy rockin' thru the night)(yeah, we got a little ole convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?) (come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)(we gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the usa)(convoy)<ah, breaker, pigpen, this here's duck 'n' you wanna back off them hogs?><ah, ten-four><about 5 mile or so><ten roger><them hogs is gettin' intense up here.>by the time we got into tulsa-town we had 85 trucks in allbut they's a roadblock up on the cloverleafand them bears 's wall-to-wallyeah, them smokeys 's thick as bugs on a bumperthey even had a bear in the airi says "callin' all trucks, this here's the duck""we about to go a-huntin' bear"('cause we got a great big convoy rockin' thru the night)(yeah, we got a great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)(come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)(we gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the usa)(convoy)<ah, you wanna give me a ten-nine on that, pigpen? negatory, pigpen, you're still too close. yeah, them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses. mercy's sake, you better back off another ten>well, we rolled up interstate forty-fourlike a rocket-sled on railswe tore up all of our swindle sheetsand left 'em settin' on the scalesby the time we hit that "chi-town"them bears was a-gettin smartthey brought up some reinforcements>from the "illinoise" national guardthere's armored cars and tanks and jeeps'n' rigs of ev'ry sizeyeah, them chicken coops was full of bearsand choppers filled the skieswell, we shot the line, we went for brokewith a thousand screamin' trucksand eleven long-haired friends of jesusin a chartreuse microbus<ah, rubber duck, this 's sodbuster. c'mon here><yeah, ten-four, sodbuster. listen, ya wanna put that microbus in behind that <suicide-jockey?><yeah, he's haulin' dynamite and he needs all the help he can get>well, we laid a strip for the jersey shoreprepared to cross the linei could see the bridge was lined with bearsbut i didn't have a doggone dimei says "pigpen, this here's the rubber duck""we just ain't a-gonna pay no toll"so we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eighti says "let them truckers roll, ten-four"('cause we got a mighty convoy rockin' thru the night)(yeah, we got a mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)(come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)(we gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the usa)(convoy)<ah, ten-four, pigpen. what's your twenty? omaha? well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there, for sure. well, mercy's sakes, good buddy, we gonna back on outta here, so keep your thumbs off your glass and the bears off your……..tail. we'll catch you on the flip-flop. this here's the rubber duck on the side. we gone. 'bye, 'bye>transcribed by robin hoodthese lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned aboveand do not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheetmusic, songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.