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Happy 6th of June
By Julie | June 6, 2008
Come with me back in time, to the 70’s. Don’t worry, we won’t stay long. When I was a little girl in the 70’s my parents had an 8-track (yeah, remember those?) for CW McCall.
For years my brothers, sisters, and I played it over and over. Because of those years the song “Convoy”
In 1978 a movie was made, I think based on the song, called Convoy
Fast forward 15 to 20 years. And suddenly one of my siblings remembers “Convoy”. We looked up the lyrics, played the song, and even talked it back and forth to each other. After all those years, we could still recall most of the lyrics.
Now for at least 5 years, and maybe even longer, my brother calls, or emails all of us (I have 6 siblings) first thing in the morning on the 6th of June, Convoy day, to remind us. It’s become our own little holiday. (If this keeps up, I wonder if we’ll start taking the day off work and have a big 6th of June cookout.)
If you are not familiar with “Convoy” or CW McCall you still don’t know why it’s Happy 6th of June day. To explain, here are the first words spoken by CW McCall that don’t sound like he’s talking into a CB in the song “Convoy”:
Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June.
The email we got from my brother this morning had this picture to accent the mood:
Then he forwarded the song and the lyrics. We’re including this youtube video for you to see the man and hear his music. The lyrics are written below the video. I hope you have a wonderful 6th of June day!
Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C’monUh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it’s clean clear to Flag-Town, C’monUh, 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 convoyWas the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June (now note…. the date)
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 downCause 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 hereBy 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’ bearCause 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 tenWell 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 microbusHey 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 gitWell 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, 10-4Cause 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…
Topics: Holidays, Just for Fun, Miscellaneous |
