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