Album Cover Convoy

Convoy

Paul Brandt

5

"Yeah, 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 sureBy 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 sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy"

(Convoy)

It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June

In a Kenworth pullin′ logs

Cab over Pete with a reefer on

And a Jimmy haulin′ hogs

We's headed for bear on eye-one-oh

About a mile outta Shakeytown

I says "Pigpen, this here′s the Rubber Duck

And I'm about to put the hammer down"

′Cause we got a little convoy rockin' through the night

Yeah we got a little 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 across the USA

Convoy

"Now breaker, Pigpen this here′s the Duck

And you wanna back off them hogs?"

"Yeah, ten-four, about five 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 all

But they′s a roadblock up on the cloverleaf

And them bears is wall to wall

Yeah them smokeys is thick as bugs on a bumper

They even had a bear in the air

I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here′s the Duck

We about to go a-huntin' bear"

′Cause we got a great big convoy rockin' through 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

Gonna roll this truckin' convoy across the USA

Convoy

"You want to 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 sakes you better back off another ten"

Well we rolled up Interstate Forty-Four

Like a rocket sled on rails

We tore up all of our swindle sheets

And left 'em sittin′ on the scales

By the time we hit that Shi town

Them bears was a-gettin' smart

They bought up some reinforcements

From the Illinois National Guard

There's armoured cars and tanks and jeeps

And rigs of every size

Yeah them chicken coops was full of bears

And choppers filled the skies

Well we shot the line

We went for broke

With a thousand screaming trucks

And eleven longhaired friends of Jesus

In a chartreuse microbus

"Ah, Rubber Duck, this is Sodbuster. Come over?"

"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"

Oh we laid a strip for the Jersey Shore

And prepared to cross the line

I could see the bridge was lined with bears

But I didn't have a doggone dime

I says, "Pigpen this here′s Rubber Duck

We just ain't gonna pay no toll"

So we crashed the gate doin′ ninety-eight

I says, "Let them truckers roll, ten-four"

'Cause we got a mighty convoy rockin′ through 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 across 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 sakes good buddy, we gonna back on outta here

So keep the bugs 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, buh bye"