Freightliner Fever - Boxcar Willie

I drive a big freight liner, and I made my last payment today

And I drive to all points outta New York City to LA

Well, that little woman smiles when I believe her

I’ll soon be back;

I got the fever

She’s a believer

I got the freight liner fever

Now, there’s a railroad a-runnin' by a highway out in Santa Fe

And I passed an old freight train makin' his run the other day

Merle Haggard said to his fireman, so pale

We’re gonna blow the freight train off of the rails

He got the fever

He got the freight liner fever

Well, pierce that box;

what you carryin' in that cigarette pack?

I said, «I got my second driver, and he’s gonna drive her all the way back.»

It’s a big black pill, so round and round

The driver’s call it west coast turnaround

It’s for the fever

The ol' freight liner fever

Well, I passed Red Sovine in the Wiggling, West Virginia

And I passed Del Reeves in Shreveport, Louisiana

Dick Curtis got hung up on a hill in Maine

I pulled him over with my forty-foot chain

He got the fever

He got the freight liner fever

I mean, I passed everything from a Jimmy to a Greyhound bus

I’m gonna spend a few days on the coast at the end of my run

Old giddy-up go and a little bit of luck

Gonna pass Red Simpson and his runaway truck

He got the fever

He got the freight liner fever

Well, pierce that box;

what you carryin' in that cigarette pack?

I said, «I got my second driver, and he’s gonna drive her all the way back.»

It’s a big black pill, so long and so round

To a driver it’s a west coast turnaround

It’s for the fever

That ol' freight liner fever

Yeah, I pass 'em all out here on these old roads

All them ol' country boys

There’s Kenny Rogers and Charley Pride

Mel Tillis, Moe Bandy

Mickey Gilly, Boxcar Willie

Porter Wagoner, Johnny Russell

Eatin' up the freeway

Bill Anderson

Wow, there goes Dolly

Got two buses

Boy, I’d like to be her driver