Convoy Chords by C.W. McCall

[Start]

[Verse]
N.C.                                          
Ah breaker onenine this here's the Rubber Duck
N.C.                              
You gotta copy on me Pig Pen c'mon
N.C.                                           
Ah yeah tenminus four Pig Pen fer sure fer sure
   C                                   C7   
By golly it's clean clear to Flag Town c'mon
C                 C7                         
Yeah that's a big tenminus four there Pig Pen
        C7                                      
Yeah we definitely got the front door good buddy
C                                                F
Mercy sake's alive looks like we got us a convoy ■
C                                              
■ Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
     F        Bb          
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
F       C           F        
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
      C                 
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
      F                   C     
We is headin' for bear on Ioneoh
        Bb         F     Bb  
'bout a mile outta Shaky Town
       F       C               F          
I says Pig Pen this here's the Rubber Duck
        C                           
And I'm about to put the hammer down


[Chorus]
Ab                         Eb    
'cause we got a little ol' convoy
Bb                  Eb   
Rockin' through the night
Ab                       Eb    
Yeah we got a little ol' convoy
Bb                         
Ain't she a beautiful sight
Ab                   Eb    
Come on and join our convoy
Bb                             Eb 
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way
         Ab                 Eb    
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
Bb         Gm 
'cross the USA
C              Cm7                            
Convoy And you wanna back off them hogs Convoy
C                                       
Yeah tenminus four 'bout five mile or so
                                               F
Ten roger them hogs is gettin' intense up here ■


[Verse]
C        F                C         
■ By the time we got into Tulsa Town
       Bb         F         Bb 
We had eightyfive trucks in all
             F         C         F         
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
         C                   
And them bears was walltowall
          C                                   
Yeah them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper
Bb              F           Bb 
They even had a bear in the air
       F           C           F              
I says Callin' all trucks this here's the Duck
C                           
We about to go ahuntin' bear


[Chorus]
Ab                        Eb    
'cause we got a great big convoy
Bb                  Eb   
Rockin' through the night
Ab                      Eb    
Yeah we got a great big convoy
Bb                         
Ain't she a beautiful sight
Ab                   Eb    
Come on and join our convoy
Bb                         Eb     
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way
         Ab                 Eb    
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
           Gm 
'cross the USA
C            
Convoy Convoy
     F            C                              
Yeah them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses


[Verse]
                                 C          
Mercy sake's you better back off another ten
        C                             
Well we rolled up Interstate fortyfour
Bb                        
Like a rocketsled on rails
F                                   
We tore up all of our swindle sheets
    C                             
And left 'em settin' on the scales
C                              
By the time we hit that Chitown
Bb                           
Them bears was agettin' smart
F                                    
They'd brought up some reinforcements
C                               
From the Illinois National Guard
F                                       
There's armored cars and tanks and Jeeps
Eb                    
And rigs of every size
     Bb                                 
Yeah them chicken coops was full o'bears
F                            
And choppers filled the skies
F                                          
Well we shot the line and we went for broke
Eb                              
With a thousand screamin' trucks
Bb                                    
An' eleven longhaired Friends a' Jesus
F                        C
In a chartreuse micrabus ■
                                 Cm7 
Ah Rubber Duck to Sodbuster come over
              Cm7           
Yeah tenminus four Sodbuster
                          Cm7                                   
Listen you wanna put that micrabus in behind that suicide jockey
C                                           F           C      
Yeah he's haulin' dynamite and he needs all the help he can get
F       C                           Bb   
Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
Bb                        
Prepared to cross the line
F                                     C    
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
    C                            
But I didn't have a doggoned dime
F              C                          
I says Pig Pen this here's the Rubber Duck
Bb                              
We just ain't agonna pay no toll
F                                       
So we crashed the gate doing ninetyeight
C                                      Ab  
I says Let them truckers roll tenminus four


[Chorus]
Eb Bb Eb Ab Eb Bb Gm Ab
■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■  ■ 
Eb Bb Eb Ab
■  ■  ■  ■ 
Eb     Bb Gm C    F                  
'cause ■  ■  ■ we got a mighty convoy
F                        
Rockin' through the night
     C F      C              
Yeah ■ we got a mighty convoy
            C              
Ain't she a beautiful sight
            C              
Come on and join our convoy
              F            C      
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way
              F                   
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
C             
'cross the USA
       N.C.  
Convoy Convoy
N.C.         
Convoy Convoy
N.C.  
Convoy


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