Interesting Convo...

Besides the fact that Neil Gaiman's new movie Stardust is out on a particularly auspicious day, I have had a very good day today. On this equinoctial day, the Butterfly hit eighteen in the shade and the Godfather to his everlasting regret missed the moment. He has been forgiven but will have to stump out for a Bentley by the twenty-first (birthday, not day of March) - this something that he contemplates in silence and possibly vows of poverty.

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Then again, listening to favourite group Mannheim Steamroller, I ignored the Godfather for a while when I came across a very appropriate (considering I was on MSN) track. Here it is.

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Convoy - by C W McCall

[on the CB]
Uh, breaker one-nine. This here's the Rubber Duck
You gotta 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?
...
Aw yeah, that's a big 10-4 there Pig-Pen, yeah
we definitely got 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
An' a Jimmy haulin' hogs

We's headin' fer bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile out a' Shaky-town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's th' Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

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

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's th' Duck
an' a-you wanna back off with 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 was 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' some 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 an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the U.S.A.
Convoy, convoy…

Uh, you wanna gimme a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
...
Uh, nega-tory Pig-Pen, yer 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 our swindle sheets
And 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 was armored cars and tanks and jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Them chicken coops was full o' bears
And choppers filled the skies

Well we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired Friends o' Jesus
In a chartreuse micro-bus

Uh, Rubber Duck to Sod Buster
Come on there, yeah, 10-4 Sod Buster
Listen, you wanna put that micro-bus in
behind that suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin' dynamite and he
needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
And prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was 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 got a mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the U.S.A.
Convoy, convoy…

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20? …Omaha?
Well they ought know what to do
with them hogs out there fer 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
and we'll catch you on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side…
we gone...
bye-bye…

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Heh. We ain't gonna pay no toll! Great stuff.