Convoy
Composer(s): Bill Fries - Chip Davis
First release: C.W. McCall - 1975
Covered by multiple other artists



Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck 
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon 

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure 
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon 

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen
Yeah, we definitely got us 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 
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs 
Cabover Pete with a reefer on 
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs 
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh 
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town 
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck 
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down 

'Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night 
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? 
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way 
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA 
Convoy... Convoy... 

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck 
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs 
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger 
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here 

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town 
We had eighty-five trucks in all 
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf 
An' them bears 'as wall to wall 
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper 
They even had a bear-in-the-air 
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck 
We about to go a huntin' bear 

'Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night 
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? 
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way 
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA 
Convoy... Convoy... 

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen? 
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close 
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses 
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten 

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four 
Like a rocket sled on rails 
We tore up all a our swindle sheets 
An' left 'em settin' on the scales 
By the time we hit that Chi-Town 
Them bears was a gittin' smart 
They'd brought up some reinforcements 
From the Illinois National Guard 
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps 
An' rigs of every size 
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears 
An' choppers filled the skies 
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke 
With a thousand screamin' trucks 
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus 
In a chartreusse microbus 

Hey Sod Buster, listen 
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey? 
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite 
He needs all the help he can git 

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore 
An' prepared to cross the line 
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears 
But I didn't have a doggone dime 
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck 
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll 
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight 
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4 

'Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night 
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? 
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way 
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA 
Convoy... Convoy... 

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20? 
Omaha?! 
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure 
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy 
We gonna back on outta here 
So keep the bugs off yer glass 
An' the bears off yer... tail 
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop 
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side 
We gone 
Bye, Bye...