Have to add me to the list of skeptics/careless researchers. It raised no remembrance in my mind either, so much so that I didn't even bother to look ~~ worse yet.

Stewie, I hear wood, just as you do, but it doesn't seem to make sense. But then, how much of that does make sense? For it to make any sense at all, it has to mean wood in the sense of woods, forest, etc.

It's really quite minor, but it sounds to me like you cleaned up his grammar a bit, as I hear just like old wreck of 97, goin' down grade 90 miles an hour. ~~ minus two thes and an at. And of course, he is saying you cain't hep it. That's a pronunciation that you will still hear here in the South ~~ maybe not as much as years ago, but still common enough usage by people of all ages.