(Bill Fries, Davis)
We is through the valley the Nishnabotna flows Through the mud and crud and Where the grows 'Cross the railroad tracks of Down the and up the dale Had a CJ-5 with a drive And on my tail.
Well, he me up at exit 12 On the I-six-eighty I was 67 per When I rumbled his trap He commenced to whirl his lights And he made his wail I slipped on down to four-wheel With Smokey on my
Now I got stripes and dual pipes And got a Ford Got a mill with a four pot carb, you But Smokey's and bored Well, the chase was on, but I had the With a rig that'll never Got a CJ-5 a four-wheel drive And Smokey on my
Yeah, he was.
Well, I dropped on to granny low And I made a hard right My big ol' fat tires Went slashin' the corn Well, the tassels And the kernels And it looked yella hail Just cookin' alive in a drive With on my tail
Well, we screamin' through the valley Where the Nishnabotna Through the mud and and cornfields Where the grows the railroad tracks of Persia 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 fella with the banjo.)
We gonna swim here creek now, Smokey. [Pronounced "crick", of course.]
wide and a foot deep.
"Nishnabota River", they it.
haveta winch out.
Gonna do a wheelie on there gopher mound now, Smokey.
Can you dig it,
Got four on the and four in the air on that one, didn't we?
Goodness gracious. ta bust my shocks.
[Back to our rhyming. Add the sound of wailing sirens.]
Well, Jeep of mine made Smokey whine His rig was of lead He was mired in feet of mud So he radioed I pulled up onto the Went crashin' on through the Sakes alive! I had twenty-five on my tail!
Now I had racin' and dual pipes And Smokey had a Had 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 never fail Got a with a four-wheel drive out back a' the jail