The Legend-News
Convoy 2000 Countdown
At 08:00 PDT tomorrow, in a rest area on I-10 near San Berdoo, Convoy 2000 will officially begin.
We're hoping for a safe and uneventful journey, but one never knows. We do hope to avoid Dirty Lyle by traversing Arizona one day earlier than he expects. We'll be in New Mexico by the time he knows we've been in his neck of the woods.
If you can't be with us, you can follow our journey on the Convoy 2000 Information Page. Pictures and commentary, and maybe a surprise guest star, will appear on those pages.
Keep the shiny side up, and break 13 for Convoy 2000; we'll be listing. This is Silversmith, goin' 10-10.
Administrivia
Since the travel plans of your editor mean that he won't be back home until the 12th, next week's Legend-News will be a day later next week. Look for the next edition on Tuesday, 13 June 2000.
Song A’ Th’ Week
I would've written another article or two this week, but let's face it, Convoy 2000 is the only news worth reading. And there's only one song for this week. Well, maybe two, but I'll present the other one next week.
Convoy
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis)
From the album
Black Bear Road
[On the CB]
Ah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck. You gotta copy on me, Pig Pen, c'mon? Ah, yeah, 10-4, Pig Pen, fer shure, fer shure. By golly, it's clean clear to Flag Town, c'mon. 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
Cab-over
Pete
with a reefer on
And a
Jimmy
haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
[On the CB]
Ah, breaker, Pig Pen, this here's the Duck. And, you wanna back off them hogs? Yeah, 10-4, 'bout five mile or so. Ten, roger. Them hogs is gettin'
in-tense up here.
By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go a-huntin'
bear."
[Chorus]
'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 and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
[On the CB]
Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, Pig Pen? Negatory, Pig Pen; you're 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 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinoise National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.
[On the CB]
Ah, Rubber Duck to Sodbuster, come over. Yeah, 10-4, Sodbuster? Lissen, you wanna put that micra-bus right behind that suicide jockey? Yeah, he's haulin' dynamite, and he needs all the help he can get.
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 dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."
[Chorus]
'Cause we got a mighty convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a mighty convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
| Convoy! | Ah, 10-4, Pig Pen, what's your twenty? |
| Convoy! | OMAHA? Well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure. Well, mercy |
| Convoy! | sakes, good buddy, we gonna back on outta here, so keep the bugs off your glass and the bears off your... |
| Convoy! | tail. We'll catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. |
| Convoy! | We gone. 'Bye,'bye. |