(Bill Fries, Davis)
We is through the valley the Nishnabotna flows Through the mud and and cornfields Where the mari-ju-wana the railroad tracks of Persia Down the and up the dale Had a CJ-5 with a four-wheel And on my tail.
Well, he me up at exit 12 On the I-six-eighty I was 67 per I rumbled through his trap He commenced to whirl his flashin' And he made his wail I slipped on to four-wheel drive With Smokey on my
Now I got stripes and dual pipes And Smokey's got a Got a mill with a four pot carb, you But Smokey's stroked and Well, the was on, but I had the edge With a rig that'll never Got a CJ-5 with a four-wheel And on my tail
Yeah, he was.
Well, I dropped on to granny low And I a hard right turn My big ol' fat tires Went through the corn Well, the blew And the flew And it like yella hail Just cookin' in a four-wheel drive Smokey on my tail
Well, we went screamin' through the the Nishnabotna flows Through the mud and and cornfields the mari-ju-wana grows 'Cross the tracks of Persia Up the and down the dales My CJ-5 four-wheel drive And on my tail.
[Imagine a series of comic-style balloons.]
Look out, now. he come.
Oh, we get it on now.
(Don't hit fella with the banjo.)
We gonna 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 there gopher mound now, Smokey.
Can you dig it,
Got four on the floor and four in the air on one, didn't we?
Goodness gracious. ta bust my shocks.
[Back to our regularly-scheduled rhyming. Add the sound of sirens.]
Well, that of mine made Smokey whine His rig was made of He was mired in fourteen of mud So he ahead I up onto the blacktop crashin' on through the rail Sakes alive! I had twenty-five on my tail!
Now I had racin' stripes and dual And Smokey had a Had a mill with a four pot carb, you But Smokey's and bored Well, the race was on, but I had the With a rig never fail Got a CJ-5 with a drive out back a' the jail