Croce - Speedball Tucker guitar tab

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From: MarkHenjum@aol.com

Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:01:05 -0400

SPEEDBALL TUCKER

Words and music by Jim Croce

I drive a broke-down rig on "may-pop" tires

Forty foot of overload

A lot of people say that I'm crazy

Because I don't know how to take it slow

I got a broomstick on the throttle

I got her opened up and head right down

Nonstop back to Dallas

Poppin' them West Coast turnarounds

CHORUS:

And they call me Speedball, Speedball Tucker

Terror of the highways, and all them other truckers

Will tell you that the boy is mad

To be drivin' in a rig like that

You know the rain may blow, the snow may snow

The turnpikes, they may freeze

But they don't bother old Speedball

He goin' any damn way he please

He got a broomstick on the throttle

To keep his throttle foot a-dancin' 'round

With a cup full of cold black coffee

And a pocketful of West Coast turnarounds

(CHORUS)

One day I looked into my rear-view mirror

And comin' up from behind

There was a Georgia state policeman

And a hundred dollar fine

Well he looked me in the eye as he was writin' me up

He said, "Driver, you've been flyin'

And ninety-five was the route you were on

It was not the speed limit sign."

(CHORUS 2X)