(Bill Fries, Davis)
We is through the valley Where the flows Through the mud and and cornfields Where the mari-ju-wana the railroad tracks of Persia Down the hills and up the Had a CJ-5 with a four-wheel And on my tail.
Well, he me up at exit 12 On the ramp I was 67 per When I through his trap He commenced to whirl his flashin' And he his siren wail I on down to four-wheel drive With on my tail
Now I got stripes and dual pipes And got a Ford Got a mill with a four pot carb, you But Smokey's stroked and Well, the chase was on, but I had the With a rig that'll never Got a CJ-5 with a four-wheel And on my tail
Yeah, he was.
Well, I on down to granny low And I a hard right turn My big ol' fat tires Went through the corn Well, the tassels And the kernels And it looked yella hail Just cookin' in a four-wheel drive With Smokey on my
Well, we screamin' through the valley Where the Nishnabotna Through the mud and crud and the mari-ju-wana grows 'Cross the tracks of Persia Up the hills and the dales My with four-wheel drive And on my tail.
a series of comic-style thought balloons.]
Look out, now. he come.
Oh, we get it on now.
(Don't hit that with the banjo.)
We swim this here creek now, Smokey. [Pronounced "crick", of course.]
Yard wide and a deep.
"Nishnabota River", they it.
Might haveta out.
Gonna do a wheelie on that gopher mound now, Smokey.
Can you dig it,
Got on the floor and four in the air on that one, didn't we?
gracious. 'Bout ta bust my shocks.
[Back to our rhyming. Add the sound of wailing sirens.]
Well, that Jeep of mine Smokey whine His rig was made of He was in fourteen feet of mud So he radioed I pulled up the blacktop Went on through the rail Sakes alive! I had more on my tail!
Now I had racin' stripes and dual And Smokey had a Had a mill with a four pot carb, you But stroked and bored Well, the race was on, but I had the With a rig never fail Got a CJ-5 with a four-wheel out back a' the jail