Giddy Up Go
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1. The highways that wind and wander
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over
mountains, valleys, and deserts, and plains !
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Ahh,
I guess I've drove about all of them,
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'cause for the past
twenty-five years now,
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the cab
of a truck has been my home.
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And it would be kind of hard
for me to settle down
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and not
be on the go.
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Why, I remember the first
truck I drove.
I was so proud I could hardly
wait
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to
get home and show my wife and little boy.
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And my little boy was so
excited,
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like
when he saw his first snow.
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He wasn't old enough to say
too many words.
He just kept a-hollering,
"Giddyup go, Daddy, Giddyup
go !"
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So that's what I named the old
truck: Giddyup Go.
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2. Ahh, things wasn't too bad; 'Course, I was
gone an awful lot,
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and
after about six years of being in and out,
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I got home one day and found
my wife and little boy gone.
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And I couldn't find out what happened, nobody seemed to know.
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So from that day on, it's just been me and old Giddyup Go.
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Oh, I've made a lot of friends
at all the truck stops,
and some
of them would kid me about my little sign.
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'Cause they knew where I had
got the name,
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'cause I'd
told them about that little boy of mine.
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And how his first word about
the truck was "Giddy up go."
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3. Well, today I was barrelin'
down old 66,
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when
up beside me pulled down a brand new diesel rig,
both
stacks of blowin' black coal.
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And as she pulled around and
back in front of me
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a big
lump came in my throat,
and
my eyes watered like I had a bad old cold.
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A little
sign on the back of the truck that read Giddyup Go.
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Well, I pushed old Giddyup Go, stayed right on him,
until
the next truck stop where he'd pulled up.
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And I waited till he went in,
and I offered to buy him a cup.
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Well, we got to talkin' shop and I said :
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How did you come by the name
on your truck Giddyup Go ?
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Well, he said I got it from my
pop.
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Dad used to drive a truck,
that's what mom talked about a lot.
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You see, I lost mom when I was just past sixteen,
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and I
lost all track of pop.
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Mom said,
he got the name from me.
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4. Well, I shook his hand and told him that I had something
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I wanted him to see, and I
took him out to the old truck.
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And brushed off some of the
dirt, so the name would show,
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and
his eyes got big and bright as he read Giddyup Go.
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Oh, we had a lot of things to
talk about and, buddy. I felt like a king.
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And now we've just pulled back
on old 66 and he's handled that big rig
better
than any gearjammer that I'd ever seen.
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Well, now the lines on the
highway have got a much brighter glow,
as we
go roarin' down the road,
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and
me starin' at a little sign that reads Giddyup Go !
(Red Sovine)