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There Ain't No Easy Runs by Johnny Cash


                    There Ain't No Easy Runs 


Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
 
[Spoken]
 
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 gear jammer, you know
there ain't no easy runs.
 
[Verse 1]
 
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I was sittin' in the terminal waitin' for my load
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When a greenhorn driver came in off of the road
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I heard him tell that foreman get my little pink slip
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This run's too tough and I'm gonna quit
 
[Verse 2]
(spoken)
 
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Now the foreman that day happened to be old Joe man he was older than time
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He said son how long you been drivin' this rig?
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You know I drove all shapes forms fashions and kinds
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Here you are worried about this one little trip
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Why I drove a million miles and then some
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He looked that greenhorn right in the eye and he said
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"Boy there ain't no easy run"
 
[Verse 3]
 
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I drove for Roadway, Interstate, Hopewell, Great Lakes
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Walford Mac, Time, Mayflower, Freight Line
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Specter, Yellow Transit, Western, and Gillete
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Redball, Rider, Northwestern,  Dicks-Seattle.
 
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Beaver, Bell, Hoover, MacLeans
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Gateway, MotorFreight, Transport, Byce
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Dixie-Ohio, Transamerican South
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East Texas, Mason Dixon, Watkin and Transcon
 
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Wilson Associate got all that drivin' done
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And I'll tell you boy there ain't no easy run
 
[Verse 4]
 
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He said: "If you've got a gal in Texas, they'll send you up to Maine.
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And If you got a gal in New York they'll send you out to the plains
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I know what your problem is, you got woman troubles son
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And I tell you boy, there ain't no easy run.
 
[Verse 5]
 
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I drove for Navajo, Brake, Goose, DC
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North American, Allied, Baltimore Freight, and Pye,
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New Mac, Curtis, Eastern and Dan X
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Garrett, Ace, Federal & E.T. Erman
 
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And Neptune Heron, Brinks and Sea Lab
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First Dudley, Dorsey Beacons and Billingham
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Cooper, Detroit, Jones & American too
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Lifeway and Central, Standard and Boston Sioux
 
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U-Nan, Buckingham got all that drivin' done
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And I'll tell you boy there ain't no easy run
 
[Verse 6]
 
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I drove for United, Acme, Tanksley and Shaw,
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Grammer, Atlas, Strickland and Docks,
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Atlantic, Owens, Carron and Beaumont,
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H and H, Murphy, Field and Mohawk,
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Skill, Skaggs. got all that drivin done,
       G                  A             D
And I tell you boy, there ain't no easy run.




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