Convoy song: Encyclopedia II - Convoy song - The song

Convoy song - The song

The "song" consists of three different types of interspersed dialog: A simulated CB conversation, the narration of the story and the chorus. It is the story about a fictitious minor trucker rebellion that drives from the west coast to the east coast of the United States without stopping. What they are protesting isn't stated in the song.

The "conversation" is between two truckers, using their handles "Rubber Duck" and "Pig Pen", but we only hear the Rubber Duck side of the conversation. Rubber Duck (presumably the Kenworth with a load of logs) is at the "front door" (the leader) of three eighteen-wheelers (truck and semi-trailer) when he realizes that they have a convoy. Pig Pen is in a "Jimmy" (GMC truck) hauling hogs. During the song, Rubber Duck keeps complaining about the smell of the hogs so he keeps asking Pig Pen to "back off" (fall further behind). Pig Pen has fallen so far back that by the end of the song when Rubber Duck is in New Jersey, Pig Pen is still in Omaha.

The narration portion of the song begins on I-10 just outside of Los Angeles, California, Rubber Duck. By the time they get to Tulsa, Oklahoma, there are eighty-five trucks in the convoy and the "bears" (cops) have set up a road block. By the time they get to Chicago, Illinois, the convoy has been joined by a "suicide jockey" (truck hauling explosives) and "eleven long-haired friends of Jesus in a chartreuse microbus". At Chicago, the police have called out the Illinois National Guard. The convoy crashes another road block when crossing a bridge into New Jersey.

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