I'M A TRUCK
Bob Stanton - 1971


Hello I'm a truck
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 talk
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...

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
Thainks 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 Back Owens
and play it again
I don't know why he don't get a
Merle Haggard tape