I was sittin' in the terminal waitin' for my load When a greenhorn driver came in off of the road I heard him tell that foreman get my little pink slip This run's too tough and I'm gonna quit
Now the foreman that day happened to be old Joe Man he was older than time He said, "Son, how long you been drivin' this rig You know I drove all shapes, forms, fashions and kinds Here you are worried about this one little trip Why I drove a million miles and then some" He looked that greenhorn right in the eye and he said Boy there ain't no easy run
"I drove for Roadway, Interstate, Hopewell, Great Lakes Overnight and Time, Mayflower and Freight Line Specter, Yellow Transit, Western, and Gillette Redball, Rider Northwestern, Big CF Beaver & Bell, Hoover and McLeans Gateway Motor Freight , Transport, Vikings Dixie, Ohio, and Trans American Some East Texas, Mason Dixon, Watkin and Transcon Wilson Associate got all that drivin' done And I'll tell you boy there ain't no easy runs"
"Now if you got a gal in Texas, they'll send you up to Maine If you got a gal in New York, they'll send you out to the plains I know what your problem is you got woman trouble, son Well like I said there ain't no easy run"
"I drove for Navajo, Brady, Goose, DC North American, Allied, Chicago Motor Freight & Pie Bee Mac & Curtis, Eastern and NX Garrett & Ace, Federal & ETM And Neptune Hereon, Brinks and Sea Lab Dudley, Dorsey Bekins and Cunningham Cooper, Mc Roary, Jones and American too Acme and Central & Standard and Boston Sue And Yunhan and Buckingham got all that drivin' done And I'll tell you, boy there ain't no easy run"
I went backward, forwards, uphill, downhill Chills spills thrills and pills And how about Atlas & Cramer Alabama, Hiway Express, Murphy Line And Long, and Harris, General Stickland, Eden & Key How about that Nashville by-pass on a Friday afternoon That'll blow yer shorts off That's sumpin else Then there's, Atlanta, Daily, McCray, Wheeling, Rockwell, Gilbert
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