When I was young, my parents had a C.W. McCall record. I don't recall which one it was, but it had "Wolf Creek Pass" on it. They also had the Tom T. Hall record with "I Love" ("little puppy dogs..."). In fact, it just occurred to me that I could dedicate an entire page to my parents' record collection. But that will come later. This is the C.W. McCall Page.
A few years ago I bought "The Best of C.W. McCall" on record for ten cents at a garage sale and fell in love with C.W. all over again. Since then I've derailed at least one party (not mine) by producing this classic.
I looked all over the web for the lyrics to "Convoy", C.W.'s most famous song, but found them nowhere. So as the first (and for now, only) exhibit on the C.W. page, here are those timeless words.
In June 1998 I received an email from Edward Floden, informing me that mine is not the only C.W. page around. For a site that blows mine away, visit his C.W. McCall: An American Legend page.
(yeah breaker one-nine this here's the rubber duck you got a copy on me pigpen come on? uh yeah pigpen ten-four for sure for sure by golly it's clean clear to flagtown come on? yeah it's a big ten-four there pigpen we definitely got the front door good buddy mercy sakes alive looks like we got us a convoy)
was the dark of the moon on the sixth of june and a kenworth pullin
logs
cab over pete with a reefer on and a jimmy haulin hogs
we was headin for bear on I-one-oh bout a mile outta shakytown
i says pigpen this here's the rubber duck and i'm about to put the hammer
down
cause we got a little ol convoy rockin through the night
yeah we got a little ol convoy aint she a beautiful sight
come on and join our convoy ain't nothin gonna get in our way
we gonna blow this truckin convoy cross the USA
convoy
(yeah breaker pigpen this here`s the duck and uh you wanna back off them hogs? uh ten-four bout 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 there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf and them bears is wall to wall
yeah them smokeys as 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 aint she a beautiful sight
come on and join our convoy aint nothin gonna get in our way
we gonna blow this truckin convoy cross the USA
convoy
(uh you wanna give me a ten-nine on that pigpen? uh negatory you're still too close yeah them hogs is startin to close up my sinuses mercy sakes better back off another ten)
well we rolled up interstate 44 like a rocket sled on rails
we tore up all of our swindle sheets left em settin on the scales
by the time we hit that chi-town them bears was a-gettin smart
they'd brought up some reinforcements from the illinois national guard
there's armored cars and tanks and jeeps and rigs of every size
yeah them chicken coops was fulla bears and choppers filled the skies
well we shot the line we went for broke with a thousand screamin trucks
and eleven longhaired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus
(yeah rubber duck this here's sodbuster come over yeah ten-four listen you wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey? yeah he's haulin dynamite he needs all the help he can get)
well we laid a strip for the jersey shore prepared to cross the line
i could see the bridge was lined with bears but i didnt have a doggoned dime
i says pigpen this here's the rubber duck we just aint a-gonna pay no toll
so we crashed the gate doin 98 i says let them truckers roll ten-four
cause we got a mighty convoy rockin through the night
yeah we got a mighty convoy aint she a beautiful sight
come on and join our convoy aint nothin gonna get in our way
we gonna blow this truckin convoy cross the USA
convoy
(uh 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 the glass and the bears off your tail well catch you on the flipflop this here's the rubber duck on the side we gone byebye...)
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