Bobby Bare – The Jogger (Guitar)

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Recorded by Bobby Bare Written by Shel Silverstein [Verse 1]

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Well I've been a trucker now for twenty years

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From the Charleston coast to the Jersey piers

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And sharin' the road with the race car nuts and loggers

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Sunday drivers scouts on hikes Hells Angels on Harley bikes

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I never met a roader I didn't like cept them joggers

[Verse 2]

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One day I'm rollin' down 1 0 1

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I got 18 wheels and a fourteen ton

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Radio playin' a good ol' country rocker

The day was surely a trucker's dream

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The sky was sunny and the air was clean

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When up ahead on the road I seen a skinny sweatin' jogger

[Verse 3]

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Well he was dressed like they do in baby blue

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With shortie shorts and a headband too

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I yelled Sweetie I bet that you are the hit of the men's room locker

Well I'm a runnin' late with an overload

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So get your Adidas off a this road

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I'm LA bound and I don't slow down for dead raccoons or joggers

[Verse 4]

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Well without breakin' stride or losin' poise

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He says you and that rig sure make some noise

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I can't talk now I'm racin' against the clocker

But it's just nine miles to Forkers Leap

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And if you ain't afraid to race that heap

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We'll see how that ol' rig holds up against a super jogger

[Verse 5]

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Race I must be hearin' wrong

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The boy's been runnin' in the sun too long

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The only place he's a racin' to is a doctor

But before I could say hey thank ya no

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That fool yells ready get set go

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And the race is on and we're off and gone me and that maniac jogger

[Verse 6]

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Well now I could'a left him far behind

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But I played with him like a fish on a line

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And I stayed about a half a mile behind that sucker

Then I pushed her up to forty-five

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And he sees me comin' and he starts to fly

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So I pushed her to sixty and shift to high

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And finally catch that jogger  and it wasn't easy

[Verse 7]

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Now I'm doin' eighty and I turned to check

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And he's stayin' right with me neck in neck

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His hearts a thumpin' like an engine goin' bocka bocka bocka

Then he said I hope you're set

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Cause I ain't shifted into second yet

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Then he unwinds and leaves me behind eaten the dust of a jogger

[Verse 8]

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Then I see him a joggin' up into the sky

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And he yells hey thanks for the exercise

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I hope that losin' the race was not too shockin'

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Ya see my dad says heaven's no place to run

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I try to be an obedient son

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So I come down to earth to do my joggin'

[Verse 9]

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Well that's the story take it or leave it

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My trucker buddies they believe it

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So do those race car nuts and Harley hoggers

Now I'm still drivin' much the same

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Cept I don't call nobody names

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And I tip my hat each time I pass one of them good old joggers

[Outro]

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And I say hey good buddy can I get ya sumpin

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How bout a little Gatorade here

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Naw that's alright I got plenty a-time