Cash Johnny There Ain T No Easy Runs lyrics

Written by Dave Dudley and Tom T. Hall.
( Unichappell Music Inc.)
From `The Johnny Cash Show`, 1970, CBS.

Sixteen forward gears, diesel smoke trailing in the wind; eighteen tyres checked and singin` on the pavement; 5000 miles to cover, three weeks away from home, and it`s work, mister, it demands the best. And whether your run is on Interstate 70 or haulin` freight down the eastern seaboard, if you`re a gearjammer, you know there ain`t no easy runs.

I was sittin in the terminal waitin for my load,
When a green-horned driver came in off the road.
I heard him tell that foreman: `Get my little pink slip,
`This run is too tough and I`m gonna quit.`

Now the foreman that day happened to be old Joe;
Man he was older than time.
He said: `Son, how long you been drivin` this rig?
`You know, I drove all shapes, forms, fashions and kinds,
`And here you are worried about this one little trip.
`Well I drove a million miles and then some.`
He looked that greenhorn right in the eye and he said: `Boy:
`There ain`t no easy runs.`

`I drove for Roadway, Interstate, Hopewell, Great Lakes,
`Walford Mac, Time, Mayflower, Freightline,
`Spectre, Yellow Transit, Western and Gillete,
`Redball, Ryder, Northwestern, Dicks-Seattle.

`Deaver, Bell, Hoover, Macleans,
`Gateway, Motorfreight, Transport, Byce,
`Dixie-Ohio, Transamerican South,
`East-Tex, Mason-Dixon, Watkins and Transcon.

`Wilson, Associates, got all that drivin` done,
`And I tell you boy there ain`t no easy runs.`

He said: `If you`ve got a gal in Texas, they`ll send you up to Maine.
`And if you got a gal in New York, they`ll send you out on the Plains.
`I know what your problem is, you got woman troubles son.
`And I tell you boy, there ain`t no easy run.`

`I drove for Navajo, Brake, Goose, DC,
`North American, Allied, Baltimore Freight, and Pye,
`New Mac, Curtis, Eastern and Dan X,
`Garrett, Ace, Federal and E.T. Erman.

`Neptune, Heron, Brinks and Sea Lab,
`First Dudley, Dorsey, Beacons and Billingham,
`Cooper Detroit, Jones and American too,
`Liteway and Central, Standard and Boston Sioux.

`U-Nan, Buckingham, got all that drivin` done,
`And I tell you boys there ain`t no easy run.

`I drove for United, Acme, Tanksley and Shaw,
`Grammer, Atlas, Strickland and Docks,
`Atlantic, Owens, Carron and Beaumont,
`H and H, Murphy, Field and Mulhawk.

`Skill, Skaggs. got all that drivin done,
`And I tell you boy, there ain`t no easy run.`
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