(Bob Stanton)
You`ve heard songs about truck drivers
Many times their stories told
How they pulled out of Pittsburg
For six days on the road.
`Bout the Feather River Canyon
And climbin` the old grapevine
That old roadhouse down in Texas
And the girls they`ve left behind.
You`ve heard their tales of daring
And I think that`s just fine
But if you can spare a minute
Well, I`d like to tell you mine.
There`d be no truck drivers
If it wasn`t for us trucks
No double clutching, gear jaming
Coffee drinking nuts.
They`ll drive their way to glory
And they have all the luck
There`d be no truck drivers
If it wasn`t for us trucks.
Well, there he sits in that cafe
Drinking coffee and telling lies
Prob`ly telling `em how to take
That hill ten miles back..
How telling `em how he missed a gear
And that Volkswagen full of hippies.
Passed us like I was sitting up on jacks
Or how we took that curve over on 66
Han`t-a been for me hanging on the shoulder
We`d both wound up in the ditch.
If we`re on time he takes the credit
If we`re late I get the blame
Up those hills with shutters open
My stacks are running flame.
My stack a running red light
Sucking diesel from the tanks
I take him south and bring him back
Without a word of thanks.
So now you`ve heard my story
And I guess it`s my tough luck
There`d be no truck drivers
If it wadn`t for us trucks.
There`d be no truck drivers
If it wasn`t for us trucks
No double clutching, gear jaming
Coffee drinking nuts.
Look at him sipping coffee
And flirtin` with that waitress
And where do you think he left me
That`s right, next to cattle truck (mooo.)
Why couldn`t we have put me next
To that little pink mack sittin` over there
Gosh she`s got pretty mud flaps
And talk about stracked they`re both chromed.
Well, he`ll be coming out in a minute
And he`ll get that bar
And he`ll go around
And beat on my tires.
You know for two pints of diesel
I`d have a flat on the inside dual
Ha, that fixed him
I never did like the way he drives anyhow.
Thinks he`s God`s gift to waitresses
He never gives `em a tip
Well, I know what he`s gonna do now
He`s gonna take out.
The tape cartridge of Buck Owens
And played it again
I don`t know why he don`t get
A Merle Haggard tape...
