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There Ain't No Easy Runs Written by - Dave Dudley & Tom T. Hall From - The Johnny Cash Show Sixteen forward gears Diesel smoke trailing in the wind Eighteen tIres checked and singin' on the pavement 5000 miles to cover Three weeks away from home And it's work, mister It demands the best And whether your run is on Interstate 70 Or haulin' freight down the eastern seaboard If you're a gearjammer You know there ain't no easy runs I was sittin' in the terminal waitin' for my load When a greenhorned driver came in off the road I heard him tell that foreman 'Get my little pink slip This run is too tough and I'm gonna quit' Now the foreman that day happened to be old Joe Man he was older than time He said 'Son, how long you been drivin' this rig? You know, I drove all shapes, forms, fashions and kinds And here you are worried about this one little trip Well, I drove a million miles and then some' He looked that greenhorn right in the eye and he said 'Boy, there ain't no easy runs' I drove for Roadway, Interstate, Hopewell, Great Lakes Walford Mac, Time, Mayflower, Freightline Spectre, Yellow Transit, Western and Gillete Redball, Ryder, Northwestern, Dicks-Seattle Deaver, Bell, Hoover, Macleans Gateway, Motorfreight, Transport, Byce Dixie-Ohio, Transamerican South East-Tex, Mason-Dixon, Watkins and Transcon Wilson, Associates Got all that drivin' done And I tell you boy there ain't no easy runs He said, 'If you've got a gal in Texas They'll send you up to Maine And if you got a gal in New York They'll send you out on the Plains I know what your problem is You got woman troubles son And I tell you boy There ain't no easy run' I drove for Navajo, Brake, Goose, DC North American, Allied, Baltimore Freight and Pye New Mac, Curtis, Eastern and Dan X Garrett, Ace, Federal and E.T. Erman Neptune, Heron, Brinks and Sea Lab First Dudley, Dorsey, Beacons and Billingham Cooper Detroit, Jones and American, too Liteway and Central, Standard and Boston Sioux U-Nan, Buckingham Got all that drivin' done And I tell you boys There ain't no easy run I drove for United, Acme, Tanksley and Shaw Grammer, Atlas, Strickland and Docks Atlantic, Owens, Carron and Beaumont H and H, Murphy, Field and Mulhawk Skill, Skaggs Got all that drivin done And I tell you boy There ain't no easy run ©Unichappell Music Inc |