Lyrics Dave Dudley

Dave Dudley

There Ain't No Easy Run

I was sittin' in the terminal waitin' for my load

When a greenhorn driver came in off of the road

I heard him tell that foreman get my little pink slip

This run's 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

Here you are worried about this one little trip

Why 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 run?

"I drove for Roadway, Interstate, Hopewell, Great Lakes

Overnight and Time, Mayflower and Freight Line

Specter, Yellow Transit, Western, and Gillette

Redball, Rider Northwestern, Big CF

Beaver & Bell, Hoover and McLeans

Gateway Motor Freight , Transport, Vikings

Dixie, Ohio, and Trans American Some

East Texas, Mason Dixon, Watkin and Transcon

Wilson Associate got all that drivin' done

And I'll tell you boy there ain't no easy runs"

"Now if you got a gal in Texas, they'll send you up to Maine

If you got a gal in New York, they'll send you out to the plains

I know what your problem is you got woman trouble, son

Well like I said there ain't no easy run"

"I drove for Navajo, Brady, Goose, DC

North American, Allied, Chicago Motor Freight & Pie

Bee Mac & Curtis, Eastern and NX

Garrett & Ace, Federal & ETM

And Neptune Hereon, Brinks and Sea Lab

Dudley, Dorsey Bekins and Cunningham

Cooper, Mc Roary, Jones and American too

Acme and Central & Standard and Boston Sue

And Yunhan and Buckingham got all that drivin' done

And I'll tell you, boy there ain't no easy run"

I went backward, forwards, uphill, downhill

Chills spills thrills and pills

And how about Atlas & Cramer

Alabama, Hiway Express, Murphy Line

And Long, and Harris, General Stickland, Eden & Key

How about that Nashville by-pass on a Friday afternoon

That'll blow yer shorts off

That's sumpin else

Then there's, Atlanta, Daily, McCray, Wheeling, Rockwell, Gilbert