Giddy Up, Go-Tex Williams/Red Simpson

[ti:Giddy Up, Go] [ar:Tex Williams;Red Simpson] [al:Teamster Power (Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Giddy Up, Go - Tex Williams/Red Simpson [00:13.92]The highways that wind and wander over mountain and valleys deserts and plains [00:20.51]I guess I've drove about all of 'em [00:24.55]Cause for the past 25 years [00:26.29]Now the cab of a truck has been my home [00:30.97]And it'd be kinda hard for me to settle down [00:34.62]And not be on the go [00:35.75] [00:37.85]Why I remember the first truck I drove [00:39.92] [00:40.56]I was so proud I could hardly wait to get home to show my wife [00:44.90]And my little boy [00:46.19] [00:46.92]And my little boy was so excited like when he saw his first snow [00:52.77]He wasn't old enough to say too many words [00:54.79]He just kept hollering goddyup go daddy giddyup go [00:59.10]So that's what I named the old truck giddyup go [01:02.51]Oh things wasn't too bad of course I's gone a lot [01:09.08]And after about six years be in an hour I got home one day [01:17.75]And found my wife and little boy gone [01:19.77] [01:20.45]I couldn't find out what happened nobody seemed to know [01:24.39]So from that day on it's been me and old giddyup go [01:32.11] [01:33.56]I've made a lot of friends at all the truck stops [01:37.09] [01:37.89]And some of 'em would kick me about my litle sign [01:41.95]Of course they knew where I got the name [01:43.93] [01:44.91]Cause I told 'em about that little boy [01:48.08]And how his first word about that old truck was giddyup go [01:50.90]Today I was barrelin' down old 66 [01:58.94]When up beside me pulled down a brand new diesel rig [02:02.36]Both stacks of blowing' black coal [02:05.88]And as she pulled around and in front of me [02:08.68]A big lump came in my throat [02:11.70]My eyes watered like I had a bad old cold [02:15.19] [02:16.38]A little sign on the back of the truck read giddyup go [02:21.28] [02:23.52]Well I pushed old giddyup go stayed right on him [02:27.50]Until the next truck stop where he'd pulled up [02:31.27]And I waited till he went in and I offered to buy him a cup [02:37.31]And we got to talking' shop and I said [02:40.71]Now did you come by the name on your truck giddyup go [02:43.69] [02:45.98]Well you know I got it from my pop [02:47.65] [02:49.08]See dad used to drive a truck that's what mom talked about a lot [02:53.40]You see I lost mom when I was just past sixteen and [02:59.60]I lost all track of pop [03:01.21]Mom said he got the name from me [03:05.65]I shook his hand and told him that I had something [03:10.59]I wanted him to see [03:12.71]So I took him out to the old truck [03:15.16]And brushed off some of the dirt so the name would show [03:19.32]And his eyes got big and bright as he read the word giddyup go [03:25.56]Oh we had a lot of things to talk about and [03:31.37]Buddy I felt like a king [03:33.42]And now we've just pulled back on old 66 and he's handled that big rig [03:40.35]Better than any gear jammer that I'd ever seen [03:44.30] [03:46.56]And now the lines on the highway have got much brighter glow [03:52.13]As we go roarin' down the road and me starin' at a little sign [03:59.89]That reads giddyup go