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Reaper:
Maybe sad is not the right word ??  :lol:

muddyweb:
Them damned pesky Americans with their Channel 19.

I remember when it was 1-4 for a copy ;-)

beast5680:

--- Quote from: "Reaper" ---Maybe sad is not the right word ??  :lol:
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steady =; thats one of my favorite films :lol:  any way if you google convoy it lists the lyrics :lol:

Reaper:

--- Quote ---steady  thats one of my favorite films
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oh don't get me wrong I'm as sad as the next man,  I have the film and the soundtrack and I was a big CB user in the 80s my handle was Thunderbird, and no not the drink!  :lol:

Bush Tucker Man:
The 'Convoy' lyrics stated are the words from the single.

The film is entirely different!

"Arizona, noon, on the 7th of June
When they eye-balled over the pass
Bulldog Mack with a can on the back
And a Jag-war haulin' ass

He's 10 on the floor, strokin' bore
Seat cover's startin' to gain
Now Beaver you're a truckin with the Rubber Duck
And I'm about to pull the plug on your drain"

etc. etc...... :oops:  :oops:

Now that's from memory as well :oops:  :roll:
I'll get my anoraka as well..... :wink:


I think I prefer the opening track to 'Smokey & The Bandit' (first one), and the sequence of that Kenworth W900 & beautifully painted trailer equals the cinematically superb Arizona desert in 'Convoy'

Lifted from reeds own site

The Legend
(Jerry Reed Hubbard)

FIRST RELEASED: "East bound and down" (RCA Victor, APL1-2516) in 1977.

NOTE: From the motion picture "Smokey and the Bandit".

You heard ‘bout the legend of Jesse James
and John Henry, just to mention some names.
Well, there’s a truck-drivin’ legend in the South today,
a man called Bandit from Atlanta, GA.

Every gearjammer knows his name.
They swear he got asphalt a-runnin’ in his veins,
a foot like lead and nerves like steel.
He’s gonna go to glory ridin’ eighteen wheels.

He left Atlanta back in ‘63,
haulin’ him a load up to Tennessee.
He hit Mont Eagle and it started to rain
so hard he couldn’t even see the passin’ lane.

Well, he started down the grade when he lost a gear,
he reached for them brakes, found he had no air.
The mount Eagle grade is steep and long
and everybody that seen it thought the bandit was gone.

Well, his truck Jack-knifed turned completely around,
he was comin’ down backwards ‘bout the speed of sound.
A lot of folks seen him and the all say
he had his head out the window yellin’ "Clear the way!"

Well, he got to the bottom safe and sound
Everybody asked Bandit how he made it down.
He said, "Folks, when the truck picked up too much speed,
I just run along beside it and drug my feet!"

You heard the legend of Jesse James
and John Henry just to mention some names.
Well, there’s a truck-drivin’ legend in the South today,
a man called Bandit from Atlanta, GA.

Every gearjammer knows his name.
They swear he’s got asphalt a-runnin’ in his veins,
a foot like lead and nerves like steel.
He’s goin’up to glory ridin’ eighteen wheels.


official Jerry Reed website

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