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wilky

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"It was a darkened moon on the 6th of june with a kenworth haulin logs, Cap over Pete with a refro on and a Jimmy haulin hogs........."

scuba dou

scuba dou

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Convoy dealt with the struggles US truckers were facing with restrictive speed limits, tolls, bureaucracy and fuel costs during the 70's. Must be more than 20 years ago we all watched this!!!

Lyrics for: Convoy

"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 sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy."

It 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's headin' for bear on Eye-one-oh

'Bout a mile outta Shakeytown

I says, "Pigpen, this here's Rubber Duck

And I'm about to put the hammer down"

[Chorus]

'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 '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 all

But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf

And them bears 's 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, 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 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 settin' on the scales

By the time we hit that Chi-town

Them bears was a-gettin' smart

They 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 full of bears

And choppers filled the skies

Well, we shot the line, we went for broke

With a thousand screamin' trucks

And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus

In a chartreuse microbus

"Ah, Rubber Duck, this is 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 Shore

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 the Rubber Duck

We just ain't a-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' 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 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, 'bye, 'bye."

Some of the CB terms used and their meanings:

Got a Copy - do you hear me?

Jimmy - a GMC truck. GMC no longer builds class 8 trucks.

Headin' for bear - coming up on a police blockade. "Bear" is the CB slang term for "police."

Shakeytown - Los Angeles, California

Put the hammer down - speed up

Tulsa-town - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Smokies - highway state patrol officers

Bear in the air - police helicopter

Ten-nine (10-9) - repeat message

Swindle Sheets - truckers' logs. Truckers have to keep logs of what they were hauling. These "swindle sheets" must be presented to Department Of Transportation officers on request.

Chi-town - Chicago, Illinois

Chicken Coop - weigh station

Longhaired friends of Jesus - hippies

Microbus - Volkswagen Microbus. Very popular vehicle among the hippies during the 1960s and 1970s.

"Keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your... tail" - The real phrase is "keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your a**". A typical CB sign-off that means to drive carefully and watch out for speedtraps.

"What's your twenty?" - "Where are you?"

"Catch you on the flip-flop" - "I'll talk to you on my return trip (on the way back home)."

Great movie & we watched it on DK TV only a few weeks ago....

jac

jac

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Cool film back in the day B);):D

Grant, a well fitting song to play on departing from Lanark. should get everyone geared up for it.

scouk

scouk

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off topic here but...thats me in the green classic 2 cars ahead in the first picture B)

Cool!

that was only a few months ago and I can't believe how much more agressive my car looks at the front now.. Silver grills now sprayed black, added front splitter and STi lights..

Would be nice if we could somehow broadcast songs to all the cars in the convoy so they are all playing the same tune at the same time!

the squiggle

the squiggle

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Cool!

that was only a few months ago and I can't believe how much more agressive my car looks at the front now.. Silver grills now sprayed black, added front splitter and STi lights..

Would be nice if we could somehow broadcast songs to all the cars in the convoy so they are all playing the same tune at the same time!

A low powered FM transmitter would do the job. Highly illegal without the proper license but it would do the job purrfectly

Woohahahahahahahahahahaha

Nudge nudge say no more say no more

Disclaimer, obviously kidding in case the DTI are reading this

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