The Jogger-Bobby Bare

[ti:The Jogger] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:The Winner] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Jogger - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:05.77]Well I've been a trucker now for twenty years [00:08.21] [00:08.75]From the Charleston coast to the Jersey piers [00:10.89] [00:11.41]And sharin' the road with the race car nuts and loggers [00:15.00] [00:17.02]Sunday drivers scouts on hikes Hells Angels on Harley bikes [00:21.83] [00:22.36]I never met a roader I didn't like cept them joggers [00:26.30] [00:29.14]One day I'm rollin' down 1-0-1 [00:31.80]I got 18 wheels and a 14-ton [00:34.25] [00:34.92]Radio playin' a good ol' country rocker [00:38.20] [00:40.43]The day was surely a trucker's dream [00:42.51] [00:43.06]The sky was sunny and the air was clean [00:45.43] [00:46.13]When up ahead on the road I seen one of them joggers [00:50.01] [00:52.44]He was dressed like they do in baby blue [00:55.24]With shortie shorts and a headband too [00:57.15]I yelled Sweetie I bet that you are the hit of the men's room locker [01:02.29] [01:04.48]Well I'm a runnin' late with an overload [01:06.57]So get your Adidas off a this road [01:09.01]I'm LA bound and I don't slow down for dead raccoons or joggers [01:13.92] [01:15.94]Well without breakin' stride or losin' poise [01:18.60]He said you and that rig sure make some noise [01:21.43]But I can't talk now cause I'm racin' against the clocker [01:24.46] [01:27.44]But it's just nine miles to Forkers Leap [01:29.24] [01:29.98]And if you ain't afraid to race that heap [01:32.24] [01:32.77]We'll see how that ol' rig holds up against a super jogger [01:37.03] [01:41.65]Race I must be hearin' wrong [01:42.91]The boy's been runnin' in the sun too long [01:45.10]The only place he's a racin' to is a doctor's [01:48.82] [01:50.43]But before I could say hey thank ya no [01:52.84]That fool yells ready get set go [01:55.70]And the race is on and we're off and gone me and that maniac jogger [02:00.22] [02:05.46]I could've left him far behind [02:07.76]But I played with him like a fish on a line [02:10.89]And I stayed about a half a mile behind that sucker [02:14.01] [02:16.02]Then I pushed her up to forty-five [02:18.58]And he sees me comin' and he starts to fly [02:21.29] [02:21.82]So I kicked her to sixty and shift to high and finally catch that jogger [02:26.17] [02:26.83]And it wasn't easy [02:27.80] [02:28.54]Now I'm doin' eighty and I turned to check [02:31.17]And he's stayin' right with me neck in neck [02:33.97]His hearts a thumpin' like an engine goin' poo poon pucker prooon [02:37.76] [02:39.68]Then he yelled out I hope you're set [02:42.08]Cause I ain't shifted into second yet [02:44.57]Then he unwinds and leaves me behind eaten the dust of a jogger [02:49.78] [02:51.36]Then I see him a joggin' up into the sky [02:54.22]And he yells hey thanks for the exercise [02:57.08]And I hope that losin' the race was not too shockin' [03:00.21] [03:02.19]Ya see my dad says heaven's no place to run [03:05.72]I try to be an obedient son [03:07.78] [03:08.34]So I got to come down to earth to do my joggin' [03:11.81] [03:13.64]Well that's the story take it or leave it [03:16.66]My trucker buddies they believe it [03:18.69] [03:19.24]So do those race car nuts and Harley hoggers [03:22.19] [03:24.43]And I'm still drivin' much the same [03:27.04]Cept I don't call nobody names [03:29.04] [03:29.93]And I tip my hat each time I pass one of them good old joggers [03:35.39] [03:36.82]Hey there's one now hey everybody hangin' in there