Johnny Cash Album: The Johnny Cash Show Track: Medley: Six Days on the Road, There Ain't No Easy Run, Sailor on a Concrete Sea
Medley: Six Days on the Road, There Ain't No Easy Run, Sailor on a Concrete Sea Lyrics
(Ride this train Ride this train with me to where the great Interstate highways cross the country A hundred years ago over that very ground long before the roads were there The lonely pony express rider carried the mail Then came the stagecoach with people and supplies moving across country Today carrying on that tradition is the modern mover of America The man behind the wheel the truck driver)
Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh rolling down that eastern sea board I got my diesel wound up and she's running like never before There's a speed zone ahead well alright I don't see a car in sight Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight
Well my rig's a little old but that don't mean she's slow There's a flame from her stack and the smoke's blowing black as coal My home town is coming in sight if you think I'm happy you're right Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight
(Sixteen forward gears diesel smoke trailing in the wind Eighteen tyres checked and singing on the pavement Five thousand 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 hauling freight down the eastern seaboard If you're a gear jammer you know there ain't no easy runs)
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 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 driving this rig You know I've drove all shapes forms fashions and kinds And here you are worried about this one little trip Why I've 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've drove for Roadway Interstate Hopewell Great Lakes Walford Mac Time Mayflower Freight Lines Specter Yellow Transit and Western and Gillete Red Ball Rider North Western Big Seattle Beaver Bell Hoover McLeans Gateway Motor Freight Transport Pikes Dixie Ohio Trans American South East Tex Mason Dixon Watkin and Transcon Wilson Associates got all that driving done And I tell you boy there ain't no easy run
Said if you 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 trouble son And I tell you boy there ain't no easy run
I've drove for Navajo Rate Goose DC North American High Line Baltimore Freight Park New Mac Curtis Eastern and then NX Garrett Hayes Federal and ETM And Neptune Herron Brinks and Sea Lab First Dudley Dorsey Bekins and Billingham Cooper Detroit Jones and American too Nightway and Central Standard and Boston Sue Yunham Buckingham got all that driving done And I tell you boys there ain't no easy run
I've drove for United Acme Tanksley and Shaw Grammar Atlas Strickland and Docks Atlantic Owens Karin and Bullman H & H Murphy Field and Mohawk Skill Skags got all the driving done And I tell you boys there ain't no easy run Ain't no easy run
(The next time you see a big semi roaring down the highway Remember the man at the wheel has a great heritage in America Like the Pony Express rider the stagecoach driver and the wagon master of old No matter what the weather no matter where the road He's the man that delivers the goods And whatever you eat tonight whatever you wear wherever you sleep Remember it's very likely that it was a trucker That brought you your food clothers and your bed)
Well my ocean is four lanes wide my waves are mountain high I sail a twenty ton schooner with the will of do or die And my cargo must go through to the port that waits for me I live on luck for I drive a truck I'm a sailor on a concrete sea So here's to the unsung hero though he don't make history From coast to coast let's drink a toast To the sailor on a concrete sea the sailor on a conrete sea (Take it easy truckers there ain't no easy run)
