(C.W. McCall, Fries, Chip Davis)
YEE-HAW! Merciful sakes alive! You wanna be one a' them CBers, you learn how to ratchetjaw! Pay attention now; I'm only gonna explain it to ya once.
You gotta go runnin' amuck in a pick-'em-up With one a' those sidebands? Get and two on the door Get a power mike in yer Prepare to when ya key the mike 'Cause ya know who's a-listenin' Some clown on a 10-36 This what you give 'im:
"Four, good buddy, I me a study An' I figger it's the a' the moon, son It's half-past spring an' a quarter ta An' the big hand's on noon, son Now if the fish don't and the almanac's right And the groundhog his shadow A 10-36 tick-tock-tick." And that's what I ratchetjaw!
git ya a base, out there at yer place With a forty-foot on the chimney a thousand watts in yer flowerpots And a line in the biffy If ya feel a when ya throw the switch Ya gonna dim all the in Wichita Gonna send out a ta make the government rave And this here's whatcha 'em all:
"Yeah, four, good buddy, yer in cruddy But yer walkin' right my wall, boy Yer cool, you makin' me drool You were definitely my ball, boy You hittin' me round about fifteen You cut me up like a But what the heck, just a radio check." And that there's how to
[CB conversations. They're overlaid, as if you're listening to a line.]
[Woman's Breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker. We lookin' for that one Buffalo Roy out there. Buffalo Roy, what's your twenty? Where are you anyway, Buffalo Roy? Are you out there? Come on in there, Buffalo Roy. 10-4.
[Man's voice] Lissen, you. Shut up on all them breakers. One breaker's enough. missing]...channel all the time. Can't hear a damn thing anybody's sayin'.
[C.W.] Buffalo That's a dumb handle.
Wanna some pain? Just turn up yer gain Get a fearful earful a' Ta a belch, just hit yer squelch You can cut out all the You wanna have fun, you Just get on the press-ta-talk You amuse 'em an' really confuse 'em With a little ol' thing ratchetjaw
Yeah, let them think yer a trucker Say stuff can't understand, son Just up-an'-down while yer toolin' around Gonna sound a truck-drivin' man, son tell yer beaver that you gonna leave 'er You catch her on the If she comes back with a smart-off Say "X-Y-L, show-an'-tell. We definitely got us to go now. Keep yer pants on honey, hang the money Yer X-Y-M's gotta now Eighty-eight, thirds, and my bird An' all numbers upon ya all If don't kill, then CB will." And what I call ratchetjaw
CB conversations.]
Breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, [repeated almost ad infinitum, by bouts of laughter]
[Man's voice. deep, slowly rising to Shirley and Squirrely squeakiness.] Yeah, 10-4, we got ya, breaker. Come back on that? Say, what kind a'... s'not? some kind a' cotton-pickin'... you puttin' me on, aren't cha? Yeah, you puttin' me on, aren't cha? [Laughter] 10-4. 10-4.