Lyr Add: Chicken Truck (John Anderson)

Subject: chicken truck
From: \cow man
Date: 30 Jul 97 - 09:29 PM

anyone heard of a song called chicken truck?

if you have e-mail me at [e-mail]

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 12:06 AM

Do you mean Andrea Aldridge's song "Capons" (the capons keep rolling along)?

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Bill in Alabama [Bill Foster]
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 12:15 PM

Back in the '70's C.W. McCall did a trucking album, and one of the songs,called "Wolf Creek Pass," relates a story about a driver who loses his air-brakes while coming down a steep grade in an overloaded chicken truck. It's a great song.

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Alison F
Date: 31 Jul 97 - 03:01 PM

Sounds frightfully like the plot of the song "30,000 lbs. of bannanas", sung by Harry Chapin about a guy who loses his brakes comming down a mountain loaded with...you guessed it...30,000 lbs of bannanas.

Hmmm

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Gene
Date: 01 Aug 97 - 11:51 AM

ALL OF THE MONKEYS AIN'T IN THE ZOO! (Tommy Collins)

CHICKEN TRUCK - Recorded by John Anderson

Written by Ervan James Parker, Monroe Fields & John Anderson

Well, It was mornin' when I left Alabama; It must have been around in mid July

I got behind a chicken truck from Georgia; And the feathers was a-flyin' like snow out of the sky.

CHORUS/Chicken truck, chicken truck; Behind it I'm stuck

Chicken truck, chicken truck; It's just my luck, chicken truck

(Chicken truck) on Highway Sixty-Five

Well, the hens are a squawin' and the roosters are a-crowin'

He's a slowin' me down when I need to keep goin'

Chicken truck on Highway Sixty-Five.

CHICKEN IN BLACK - Recorded by Johnny Cash/Written by Gary Gentry

For two long years my head hurt bad; The doctor checked me and he shook his head

He said, "I'm sorry to tell ya; But your body's outlived your brain"

He said, "I know this doctor in New York, son; And he'll fix you right up with a brand new one"

So the head doctor met me when I stepped down off of the train.

CHORUS/I said, "Stick 'em up everybody, I'm robbin' this place; Drop all of your money in my guitar case

Don't nobody move and don't nobody reach for that door"

A lady said, "Why you're Johnny Cash"; I said, "No m'am, I'm the Manhattan Flash

And I am the best bank robber in New York."

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WALK, CHICKEN, WALK ('Cause You're Too Fat To Fly) - Recorded by Little Jimmy Dickens

Walk, Chicken, Walk; 'Cause you're too fat to fly

Walk, Chicken, Walk; I'll regret it til the day I die

She turned around, looked me right in the face

I said, "Pardon me, Ma'am, I'm due some other place"

Walk, Chicken, Walk; 'Cause you're too fat to fly.

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Bert Hansell
Date: 06 Aug 97 - 10:38 AM

Alison,

Your reference to the banana truck reminds me of an incident one time when I was driving in Iran.

Iran is notorious for having very bad road accidents. I was driving into town one day when I saw what was obviously an accident way up ahead.

As I got nearer I saw what appeared to be blood all over the road.

I prepared myself for a very gruesome sight. As I got nearer still I saw large chunks of what looked like severed limbs in the road. My stomach was really turning by this time.

When I finally got near enough it turned out to be an overturned truck of watermelons.

Bert.

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Peter Timmerman
Date: 06 Aug 97 - 11:04 AM

Isn't there a joke about bashing the side of a truck to keep the chickens in the air?

Hey, Gene, (Oh Great High Guru) did Becky ever find you? She started out in New Jersey....Yours, Peter

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Gene
Date: 06 Aug 97 - 11:39 AM

YEP! SHE shore did!...youse guys are a "GAS"! LAUGH, I tho't I'd die!! Almost as good as MASH, CHEERS or SERVED!!! or TW3....

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Bert Hansell
Date: 06 Aug 97 - 11:48 AM

I thought I was the only one old enough to remember TW3.

Subject: Lyr Add: CHICKEN TRUCK (John Anderson)
From: Gene
Date: 06 Aug 97 - 11:49 AM

CHICKEN TRUCK
Recorded by John Anderson
Written by Ervan James Parker, Monroe Fields & John Anderson

Well, it was mornin' when I left Alabama.
It must have been around in mid-July.
I got behind a chicken truck from Georgia,
And the feathers was a-flyin' like snow out of the sky.

I couldn't get up the speed enough to pass him,
And a funny smell was a-gettin' close to me,
And somethin' keeps on messin' up my windshield,
And the further I go, the harder it gets to see.

CHORUS: Chicken truck, chicken truck, behind it I'm stuck.
Chicken truck, chicken truck, it's just my luck,
Chicken truck, chicken truck, on Highway Sixty-Five.
Well, the hens are a-squawkin' and the roosters are a-crowin'.
He's a-slowin' me down when I need to keep goin',
Chicken truck on Highway Sixty-Five.

Then he slowed down and I fin'lly got around him
On a big long hill just south of Tennessee.
He had a box of Colonel Sanders on his dashboard,
And he was eatin' fried chicken and a-throwin' the bones on me.

(Repeat chorus)

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Peter Timmerman
Date: 07 Aug 97 - 11:35 AM

Yes, this descent into the lower depths may have something to do with it being August. Sorry, Yours, Peter

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: COW MAN
Date: 20 Aug 97 - 02:57 PM

THE ONE THAT GENE HAS IS THE RIGHT ONE

THANKS E-MAIL ME at [e-mail]

Subject: RE: ADD LYR: Chicken Truck
From: CowMan
Date: 20 Aug 97 - 09:25 PM

I AGGREE,

BUT WHERE DID U HEAR THIS ONE?

CowMan

Subject: RE: ADD LYR: Chicken Truck
From: Gene
Date: 20 Aug 97 - 10:10 PM

One of John's Many VIDEOS on TNN (CMT?)

Subject: RE: chicken truck
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 06 Aug 11 - 05:05 PM

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