My dad wasn't a trucker but we lived in the lumber shipping capitol of the world. CW and Ol Red.... knew ever word to thise trucking songs. Sometimes they pop in my head and I just have to sing them.
Hello from Oklahoma! I guess You could say this song had a pretty big infuence on me. I had a cutlass supreme when this song came out. After listening to C.W. music for awhile on my eight track, I traded my cutlass in for a 1975 CJ5. Boy was that a fun rig! Had a winch up front big lift big tires. I'm on my 10 th jeep now. It'll probably be my last one. I'm an old man now, but can still wheel! God Bless!
My brother Bob loved this song back in the 70's.He moved on to CCR in the late 70's. Sadly he fell from a cliff while we were fishing back in 79. He died from the fall. He was 34 day's from his 16th birthday. He died doing what we all loved doing. Fishing! I turned 15, 40 day's after he died.
Tom Mayer Hi Tom my name is Roger . I was thumbing through listening to a few old cw McCall songs and had to listen to this one . I was reading through a few of the comments and read yours . I'm sorry for your lose . I'm sure you went through hell growing up with out him . I'm sure it ripped your whole family up too . I know all to well how it is to loose a loved one from accidents . Its makes it much harder to deal with then a long Illness . And I know how that is too been through it both ways . It Sucks. But just remember that our Loved ones are with us for life in our hearts . Thanks Roger Wagenius the Farmer from Grantsburg Wisconsin . ✌✌🙋
Sorry for your loss. We spend our lives burying those we love until we are buried by those who love us. Or by strangers. I hope you've had a good life for both of you.
I was ten when this song was new. I'm 57 now, and it's still funny as ever. _And,_ my brother actually _had_ a CJ5... And we actually ran from cops in it!
I'm a CJ5 man myself, and a huge fan of C.W. when ever I go wheeln' with my friends in thier early broncos I jam this tune from the other side of mud wholes and hill climbs they cant get to, which isn't very often.LOL
Listened to this when I was a kid, I think I even still have the vinyl LP stored away somewhere. Damn, I'm getting old! Great song though, all of Mr. Fries' work was outstanding.
That banjo is wonderful. So very cool. These are very short, intense, dramatic and funny tales that suggest movies, or at the very least, televisions episodes. Too bad music videos aren't a thing anymore...
Great job! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I have the album, yes, that's correct, VINYL, with this song on it! Wore out a cassette of the same album in friends CJ-7! Good times! Keep up the great work and thanks again for the fun :)
FYI... It's "CJ5 with four wheel drive..." (Not "A four wheel drive.") This brings back so many memories, I memorized every word of every song of his when I was a kid, my dad out driving trucks and me out playing with our dodge power wagon 4x4 (too young for a licence. lol). All these idiots always bitching about "CJ7 vs. CJ5" etc. ... It's just a video. A clever one. Get over yourselves and just enjoy something for a change. Sheesh.
@@kinkajou777 Me too... I remember how excited I was, as a kid, when I got a new, C.W. McCall album for Christmas. I played that thing 'till my ears bled.. lol
@@kinkajou777 It wasn't my only one... To this day, when a song comes on, i still know it as well as I did 45 years ago. It gave me a connection to my father, who was always on the road and a taste for something new. I listened to my parents records and mine, from Les Brown to Steppen Wolf. lol
Cool video. I will start rebuilding my 57 CJ 5 this summer, right after I get my 1952 M38A1 running. Those old four bangers were not built for speed. CJ 5 engines were the Willys Hurricane F head 4 cyl, Buick 225 Dauntless, 192 Perkins diesel in Britain, AMC's 232,258 and 304. In the 80s it came with GMs Iron Duke. You are either a Jeep fan despite their wort's or not.
funny thing is in my mind all these years that white cj in the pictures used exactly what i seen in my head as i imagined this. Phonex decal and all on the hood with big old school j.c running lamps across the roll over bar and deer kicker.
I was driving my first-year well-preserved wrangler (as old as I am) the other day and didn’t hesitate to drop a gear and throw it through some potholes and pits to get around standstill traffic. Real jeep people are still out there, if rare.
After his song, convoy AMC asked him to make a song about jeeps. They gave him 2 CJ 7’s and he went into the Rocky’s. He came back with this song. Lol. AMC really didn’t think it went with their corporate image.
I spent a good part of high school riding right by the Nishnabotna river on my dirt bikes. It was fun to cruise down the levee. He said a yard wide foot deep but it’s really quite a bit bigger then that. It was also popular to get a cooler and float down the river with beer and get picked up at a bridge. Cool discovering this.
I have love CJ since 1972. Congrats to the person who put this vid together. n the pics timed to the lyrics are brilliant. Who cares if the Eagle is a 6 or 7 the vid is magic. Again I say well done !!!!
We is screamin' through the valley Where the nishnabotna flows Through the mud and crud and cornfields Where the mari-ju-wana grows 'cross the railroad tracks of persia Down the hills and up the dale Had a cj-5 with a four-wheel drive And smokey on my tail. Well, he picked me up at exit 12 On the i-six-eighty ramp I was doin' 67 per When I rumbled through his trap He commenced to whirl his flashin' lights And he made his siren wail I slipped on down to four-wheel drive With smokey on my tail Now I got racin' stripes and dual pipes And smokey's got a ford Got a mill with a four pot carb, you know But smokey's stroked and bored Well, the chase was on, but I had the edge With a rig that'll never fail Got a cj-5 with a four-wheel drive And smokey on my tail Yeah, he was. Well, I dropped on down to granny low And I made a hard right turn My big ol' fat commando tires Went slashin' through the corn Well, the tassels blew And the kernels flew And it looked like yella hail Just cookin' alive in a four-wheel drive With smokey on my tail Well, we went screamin' through the valley Where the nishnabotna flows Through the mud and crud and cornfields Where the mari-ju-wana grows 'cross the railroad tracks of persia Up the hills and down the dales My cj-5 with four-wheel drive And smokey on my tail. Look out, now. here he come. Oh, we gonna get it on now. (don't hit that fella with the banjo.) We gonna swim this here creek now, smokey. [pronounced crick, of course.] Yard wide and a foot deep. Nishnabota river, they call it. Might haveta winch out. Gonna do a wheelie on that there gopher mound now, smokey. Can you dig it, smokey? Got four on the floor and four in the air on that one, didn't we? Goodness gracious. 'bout ta bust my shocks. Well, that jeep of mine made smokey whine His rig was made of lead He was mired in fourteen feet of mud So he radioed ahead I pulled up onto the blacktop Went crashin' on through the rail Sakes alive! I had twenty-five more Smokeys on my tail! Now I had racin' stripes and dual pipes And smokey had a ford Had a mill with a four pot carb, you know But smokey's stroked and bored Well, the race was on, but I had the edge With a rig that'll never fail Got a cj-5 with a four-wheel drive Settin' out back a' the jail
This is an amazing song and I really like. A lot of his songs. The only problem is the video where the jeep shown is not a cj5 but actually a cj7, you can tell immediately just because the door is more square and not swept in the back like a cj5 is.
CJ5 or CJ7 who cares this is just a fun song. Living out in the midwest and having a rig like that no one can catch you once you go off road. I had a '89YJ loved that beast. Someday soon Ill have another CJ5-7 or YJ
We was screaming through the valley Where the Nishnabotna flows Through the mud and crud and cornfields Where the marijuana grows Crossed the railroad tracks at Persia Down the hills and up the dale Had a CJ-5 with four wheel drive And Smokey on my tail Well, he picked me up at exit 12 On the I-680 ramp I was doin' sixty seven per When I rumbled through his trap He commenced to whirl his flashing lights And he made his siren wail I slipped on down to four wheel drive With Smokey on my tail Now, I've got racing stripes And dual pipes And Smokey's got a Ford Got a mill with a four-pot carb, you know But Smokey's stroked and bored Well, the chase was on But I had the edge With a rig that'll never fail Got a CJ-5 with a four wheel drive With Smokey on my tail Yeah, he was Well, I dropped on down to granny low And I made a hard right turn My big ol' fat Commando tires Went slashin' through the corn Well, the tassels blew and the kernels flew And it looked like yellow hail Just cookin' alive in a four wheel drive With Smokey on my tail Look out now, here he come Oh, we gonna get it on now Don't hit that fella with the banjo We gon' swim this here crick now, Smokey Yard wide and a foot deep Nishnabotna River, they call it Might have to winch out Gon' do a wheelie on that there gopher mound now, Smokey Can you dig it, Smokey? Got four on the floor and four in the air on that one, didn't we? Goodness gracious 'Bout to bust my shocks Well, that Jeep of mine made Smokey whine His rig was made of lead He was mired in fourteen feet of mud So he radioed ahead I pulled up onto the blacktop Went crashin' on through the rail Sakes alive, I had twenty five more Smokeys on my tail Now I had racing stripes and dual pipes And Smokey had a Ford Had a mill with a four-pot carb, you know But Smokey's stroked and bored Well, the race was on But I had the edge With a rig that'll never fail Got a CJ-5 with a four-wheel drive Sittin' out back of the jail
"mile wide and an inch deep" Also been applied to the Platte River, I think it's originally a bull riders cry... "Mile wide & an inch deep, too thin to plow, too thick to drink, Powder River, Let'er buck!" (first time I crossed the Platte - I laughed. THIS is a river?!?!"
come up to western iowa and take some pics there. where it's based off of I believe. Persia, Nishmabotna river, I680, etc but good job.. not too many CWs on the radio any more
Yeah, that's where a lot of his songs are based off of. Shelby County Tribune, Bee Bee Town, etc. Such a small area to make so many songs about, he must have had some connection to it.
C.W. Mccall is a fantastic, versatile, lyrisist/storyteller from Roses for Mamma or Sing Silent Night (which you need a tissue for) to Ghosttown and Aurora borealis, to the fun songs: Lewis and Clark, Crispy Critters and may more. I love this song, you dont know whether to laugh, keep your foot tapping or bop to the music .It sounds like something that came from the (Dukes of Hazzard) except they never seem to go to jail. The person who did the pictures did a great job too.
who ever rides shotgun has to climb out and lay on the hood and reach over and lock in the hubs when he comes to a stop .lol be sure and hold the hood latch or you could fall off
@orcanjus Wikipedia: "The Nishnabotna River is a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa, northwestern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska in the United States. It flows for most of its length as two parallel streams in Iowa, the East Nishnabotna River and the West Nishnabotna River. The east and west branches are each about 120 miles (190 km) long; from their confluence the Nishnabotna flows approximately another 16 miles (26 km)."
CJ-5 has an S shaped door opening. CJ-7 (pictured in video) has a rectangular door opening and a longer wheelbase. Yeah, I had to be that guy. Still, good video, made me smile. Thumbs up.
we was parked up on the top of Brushy MNT.in my friends old CJ-5 smokeing a big fat number once and we had pulled up on the top of the big cliff above I77 and old us rt52 when the cops came they was down below yelling at us to get down off that cliff before we went over the side and dropped abot 200 feet down into the highway lol my friend just drove over the end of the cliff and we went across the rocks and back into the highway and left.I think it stunned the cops so bad they never even chased us lol.it looked like we just went over the cliff and I think they was waiting to hear the crash when we hit bottom .but we usta go up and over that thing all the time if we had someone who had never done it they would start screaming when alfred drove over the end of the cliff,it did look like you was just going out into the air and it was juat wide enough for that old jeep to fit up there it had to be 1000feet up above the Interstate highway and we usta sit there and get sotned and drink beer and watch the cars go by they looked like little hot wheels from up there.now the AT goes right along our old path across there I see hikers sitting up there taking pictures all the time now and when I tell them about taking a CJ-5 across there they just star at me like i am either crazy or a liar.lol needless to say if I offer to take them over it in my 4x4 colorado they don't want me to give them a ride to town lol
I wanted a fast car ( Dad's first car was a '57 vette and traded it in ona family car when he got married, a '66 chevelle and still has it.) Parents said no. A jeep... No. I got, and still have, a '69 chevy 3/4 ton four wheel drive, 4" lift 36" tires and a 307 small block and 4 speed. I out wheeled 3 jeeps on a 4x4 run.I got sent back the " easy way" when my front driveshaft broke. They were rookies. I'm not a master by ant means.
I's thumbin' through the want ads in the Shelby County Tribune when this classified advertisement caught my eye... (hahaha now anyone that knows this song won't be able to stop until they recite it all :-)
+Ben Gordon years ago a friend of my uncle's had a 74 CJ 5 with a 258 straight 6. I tried like hell to get him to sell it to me and do it up like the description in this song but I never could talk him into selling it. lately I've been concocting another idea. finding a newer Jeep Rubicon and drop-in a 5.7 Hemi in that bastard
My father was a trucker for the first 16 years of my life. CW McCall and Red Sovine were some of our families favorite singers.
My dad wasn't a trucker but we lived in the lumber shipping capitol of the world. CW and Ol Red.... knew ever word to thise trucking songs. Sometimes they pop in my head and I just have to sing them.
@@JaneWagmanRIP CW McCall he will be missed, see you on the other side….. bye bye
Hello from Oklahoma! I guess You could say this song had a pretty big infuence on me. I had a cutlass supreme when this song came out. After listening to C.W. music for awhile on my eight track, I traded my cutlass in for a 1975 CJ5. Boy was that a fun rig! Had a winch up front big lift big tires. I'm on my 10 th jeep now. It'll probably be my last one. I'm an old man now, but can still wheel! God Bless!
People love making collage accompaniment for C W Mccall's stories. And it's no wonder, the man knows how to describe utter chaos..
You've seen the one somebody did for "Classified," I hope. It's a delight.
@@chrisj2539 Yup. Also Black Bear Road and Crispy Critters.
Turned this song for my city slicker friend who'd never heard it. As soon as he heard 3 seconds worth he said "what the hell??" Hahaha
@@chrisj2539 I have never seen this, is there a video link to it?
My brother Bob loved this song back in the 70's.He moved on to CCR in the late 70's. Sadly he fell from a cliff while we were fishing back in 79. He died from the fall. He was 34 day's from his 16th birthday. He died doing what we all loved doing. Fishing! I turned 15, 40 day's after he died.
Sorry to hear that Tom :-( But at least you have some good memories with your brother :-)
Tom Mayer Hi Tom my name is Roger . I was thumbing through listening to a few old cw McCall songs and had to listen to this one . I was reading through a few of the comments and read yours . I'm sorry for your lose . I'm sure you went through hell growing up with out him . I'm sure it ripped your whole family up too . I know all to well how it is to loose a loved one from accidents . Its makes it much harder to deal with then a long Illness . And I know how that is too been through it both ways . It Sucks. But just remember that our Loved ones are with us for life in our hearts . Thanks Roger Wagenius the Farmer from Grantsburg Wisconsin . ✌✌🙋
My condolences.
Sorry for your loss. We spend our lives burying those we love until we are buried by those who love us. Or by strangers. I hope you've had a good life for both of you.
I was ten when this song was new. I'm 57 now, and it's still funny as ever. _And,_ my brother actually _had_ a CJ5... And we actually ran from cops in it!
R.I.P. CW. thanks for the music.
I'm a CJ5 man myself, and a huge fan of C.W.
when ever I go wheeln' with my friends in thier early broncos I jam this tune from the other side of mud wholes and hill climbs they cant get to, which isn't very often.LOL
Listened to this when I was a kid, I think I even still have the vinyl LP stored away somewhere. Damn, I'm getting old! Great song though, all of Mr. Fries' work was outstanding.
That banjo is wonderful.
So very cool.
These are very short, intense, dramatic and funny tales that suggest movies, or at the very least, televisions episodes.
Too bad music videos aren't a thing anymore...
This is gonna be played at my funeral. Come see me. It's going down!
So long McCall ,thanx for all the good songs
Great job! Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I have the album, yes, that's correct, VINYL, with this song on it! Wore out a cassette of the same album in friends CJ-7! Good times! Keep up the great work and thanks again for the fun :)
R.I.P dad. best times ever.
FYI... It's "CJ5 with four wheel drive..." (Not "A four wheel drive.")
This brings back so many memories, I memorized every word of every song of his when I was a kid, my dad out driving trucks and me out playing with our dodge power wagon 4x4 (too young for a licence. lol).
All these idiots always bitching about "CJ7 vs. CJ5" etc. ... It's just a video. A clever one. Get over yourselves and just enjoy something for a change. Sheesh.
Me too.....my dad was a trucker.....
I don’t know the difference and don’t care either. I just enjoy this video. The clippings help keep C.W. McCall’s music alive.
@@kinkajou777 Me too... I remember how excited I was, as a kid, when I got a new, C.W. McCall album for Christmas. I played that thing 'till my ears bled.. lol
@@MtnBadger , I’m glad that you received a CW McCall album for Christmas. I’m glad that it brought you so much joy.
@@kinkajou777 It wasn't my only one... To this day, when a song comes on, i still know it as well as I did 45 years ago.
It gave me a connection to my father, who was always on the road and a taste for something new. I listened to my parents records and mine, from Les Brown to Steppen Wolf. lol
Cool video. I will start rebuilding my 57 CJ 5 this summer, right after I get my 1952 M38A1 running. Those old four bangers were not built for speed. CJ 5 engines were the Willys Hurricane F head 4 cyl, Buick 225 Dauntless, 192 Perkins diesel in Britain, AMC's 232,258 and 304. In the 80s it came with GMs Iron Duke. You are either a Jeep fan despite their wort's or not.
Got the iron duke in my 87 S10, def not built for speed. 9 year old comment, RIP CW!
funny thing is in my mind all these years that white cj in the pictures used exactly what i seen in my head as i imagined this.
Phonex decal and all on the hood with big old school j.c running lamps across the roll over bar and deer kicker.
Which is a CJ-7 kinda like Daisy Duke’s ‘Dixie’
I remember listening to this song when I was 6 or 7. never gets old
I was driving my first-year well-preserved wrangler (as old as I am) the other day and didn’t hesitate to drop a gear and throw it through some potholes and pits to get around standstill traffic. Real jeep people are still out there, if rare.
After his song, convoy AMC asked him to make a song about jeeps. They gave him 2 CJ 7’s and he went into the Rocky’s. He came back with this song. Lol. AMC really didn’t think it went with their corporate image.
This song brings back a lot of good memories when I was a kid listening to this .
The funny thing about that is he still had more tallent than pretty much any vocalist on the top 40 today.
It's amazing how the bass in the song reminds me of Beastie Boys - Girls
Well, the railroad tracks are still there in Persia, and the Nishnabotna still (barely) flows
You got that right on the ole nish. Can't even get a kayak from Harlan to corley without dragging my kayak. She's bout dry this year
I recall years when the ole nish was damn near busting her banks and was a blast to kayak down. But not this year 2021. Maybe if we get more rain
I cant stop listening to this song, its so damn addicting!
this is the best jeep song i have ever heard. great job, and keep em comin'
Rest In Peace Dale. You will be missed
I spent a good part of high school riding right by the Nishnabotna river on my dirt bikes. It was fun to cruise down the levee. He said a yard wide foot deep but it’s really quite a bit bigger then that.
It was also popular to get a cooler and float down the river with beer and get picked up at a bridge. Cool discovering this.
I really love the vintage CJ's.
I have love CJ since 1972. Congrats to the person who put this vid together. n the pics timed to the lyrics are brilliant. Who cares if the Eagle is a 6 or 7 the vid is magic. Again I say well done !!!!
This song really makes you wanna run from the cops
Every time I get in my Jeep this song plays in my head.
Sakes alive, that CJ5 is really a CJ7,
When I die, that's all I'll drive
when I get to Heaven!
And that's a big 10-4, Rubber Duck.
For me it's the Cherokee! Jeep on Brother!
Have a Cherokee, cj7 and a 46 CJ2A.
CJ2A, CJ7, and a TJ Wrangler Rubicon here……and I live 5 hours from the Rubicon trail in California, good times.
Wish the video had more pics of actual CJ5's, but it's cool. Love this song, miss those times
Yeah, first thing I noticed was the CJ-7 with the Golden Eagle package.
and for some reason I keep thinking of Cooter AND Mater...
This song just goes to show, no matter what you are driving, you can't outrun a radio.
That's what the cop told me back in'71,. Yep , yep.
Someone doesn't know the difference between a CJ5 and a CJ7.The Golden Eagle they keep showing in video is a CJ7
CJ7 was larger and CJ5 was smaller
for some reason that bugs me..the wrong Jeep.......
Yep, I had a '77 CJ7 - not quite the Golden Eagle, but certainly easy to tell the difference.
the s shaped doors on a 5 u shaped doors on the 7
first thing. came to the comments in hopes I wasn't the only one
Love this song cant find them like this any more
Summer nights muddin jammin to some C.W. McCall in the 76 CJ5. Hell Yeah!
We is screamin' through the valley
Where the nishnabotna flows
Through the mud and crud and cornfields
Where the mari-ju-wana grows
'cross the railroad tracks of persia
Down the hills and up the dale
Had a cj-5 with a four-wheel drive
And smokey on my tail.
Well, he picked me up at exit 12
On the i-six-eighty ramp
I was doin' 67 per
When I rumbled through his trap
He commenced to whirl his flashin' lights
And he made his siren wail
I slipped on down to four-wheel drive
With smokey on my tail
Now I got racin' stripes and dual pipes
And smokey's got a ford
Got a mill with a four pot carb, you know
But smokey's stroked and bored
Well, the chase was on, but I had the edge
With a rig that'll never fail
Got a cj-5 with a four-wheel drive
And smokey on my tail
Yeah, he was.
Well, I dropped on down to granny low
And I made a hard right turn
My big ol' fat commando tires
Went slashin' through the corn
Well, the tassels blew
And the kernels flew
And it looked like yella hail
Just cookin' alive in a four-wheel drive
With smokey on my tail
Well, we went screamin' through the valley
Where the nishnabotna flows
Through the mud and crud and cornfields
Where the mari-ju-wana grows
'cross the railroad tracks of persia
Up the hills and down the dales
My cj-5 with four-wheel drive
And smokey on my tail.
Look out, now. here he come.
Oh, we gonna get it on now.
(don't hit that fella with the banjo.)
We gonna swim this here creek now, smokey. [pronounced crick, of course.]
Yard wide and a foot deep.
Nishnabota river, they call it.
Might haveta winch out.
Gonna do a wheelie on that there gopher mound now, smokey.
Can you dig it, smokey?
Got four on the floor and four in the air on that one, didn't we?
Goodness gracious. 'bout ta bust my shocks.
Well, that jeep of mine made smokey whine
His rig was made of lead
He was mired in fourteen feet of mud
So he radioed ahead
I pulled up onto the blacktop
Went crashin' on through the rail
Sakes alive! I had twenty-five more
Smokeys on my tail!
Now I had racin' stripes and dual pipes
And smokey had a ford
Had a mill with a four pot carb, you know
But smokey's stroked and bored
Well, the race was on, but I had the edge
With a rig that'll never fail
Got a cj-5 with a four-wheel drive
Settin' out back a' the jail
You're a goddamn hero
This is an amazing song and I really like. A lot of his songs. The only problem is the video where the jeep shown is not a cj5 but actually a cj7, you can tell immediately just because the door is more square and not swept in the back like a cj5 is.
That Jeep they show is a CJ-7! Great Vid to go with a Great Song! Thanks for this, makes me feel young!
William Dale's lyrics and Chip Davis doing the music was a fun combination.
Never seen a cj5 without the 'ol "rump hump!...
motherlovinsnuffstar .
CJ5 or CJ7 who cares this is just a fun song. Living out in the midwest and having a rig like that no one can catch you once you go off road. I had a '89YJ loved that beast. Someday soon Ill have another CJ5-7 or YJ
Exactly.
One of my favorite songs as a child! That's a cj7 in the video! Fix it!!
We was screaming through the valley
Where the Nishnabotna flows
Through the mud and crud and cornfields
Where the marijuana grows
Crossed the railroad tracks at Persia
Down the hills and up the dale
Had a CJ-5 with four wheel drive
And Smokey on my tail
Well, he picked me up at exit 12
On the I-680 ramp
I was doin' sixty seven per
When I rumbled through his trap
He commenced to whirl his flashing lights
And he made his siren wail
I slipped on down to four wheel drive
With Smokey on my tail
Now, I've got racing stripes
And dual pipes
And Smokey's got a Ford
Got a mill with a four-pot carb, you know
But Smokey's stroked and bored
Well, the chase was on
But I had the edge
With a rig that'll never fail
Got a CJ-5 with a four wheel drive
With Smokey on my tail
Yeah, he was
Well, I dropped on down to granny low
And I made a hard right turn
My big ol' fat Commando tires
Went slashin' through the corn
Well, the tassels blew and the kernels flew
And it looked like yellow hail
Just cookin' alive in a four wheel drive
With Smokey on my tail
Look out now, here he come
Oh, we gonna get it on now
Don't hit that fella with the banjo
We gon' swim this here crick now, Smokey
Yard wide and a foot deep
Nishnabotna River, they call it
Might have to winch out
Gon' do a wheelie on that there gopher mound now, Smokey
Can you dig it, Smokey?
Got four on the floor and four in the air on that one, didn't we?
Goodness gracious
'Bout to bust my shocks
Well, that Jeep of mine made Smokey whine
His rig was made of lead
He was mired in fourteen feet of mud
So he radioed ahead
I pulled up onto the blacktop
Went crashin' on through the rail
Sakes alive, I had twenty five more Smokeys on my tail
Now I had racing stripes and dual pipes
And Smokey had a Ford
Had a mill with a four-pot carb, you know
But Smokey's stroked and bored
Well, the race was on
But I had the edge
With a rig that'll never fail
Got a CJ-5 with a four-wheel drive
Sittin' out back of the jail
"mile wide and an inch deep" Also been applied to the Platte River, I think it's originally a bull riders cry... "Mile wide & an inch deep, too thin to plow, too thick to drink, Powder River, Let'er buck!"
(first time I crossed the Platte - I laughed. THIS is a river?!?!"
come up to western iowa and take some pics there. where it's based off of I believe. Persia, Nishmabotna river, I680, etc
but good job.. not too many CWs on the radio any more
Yeah, that's where a lot of his songs are based off of. Shelby County Tribune, Bee Bee Town, etc. Such a small area to make so many songs about, he must have had some connection to it.
He was born and raised in Audobon.
Greg Kosmo, he grew up in Autobahn, IA, lived later in Omaha, NE, and ended up in Dolores, CO.
I didn't know he was from Iowa! I just know him from S. Colorado. I play him every time I drive through the 4 corners area.
C.W. Mccall is a fantastic, versatile, lyrisist/storyteller from Roses for Mamma or Sing Silent Night (which you need a tissue for) to Ghosttown and Aurora borealis, to the fun songs: Lewis and Clark, Crispy Critters and may more. I love this song, you dont know whether to laugh, keep your foot tapping or bop to the music .It sounds like something that came from the (Dukes of Hazzard) except they never seem to go to jail. The person who did the pictures did a great job too.
You can run, but you cannot hide. That radio will get you every time
Someone needs to remake this live action!
This song is my buddy and I's song....were the Dukes of hazard except our general lee is a cj5 with 4wd!
Nice
what a great story teller
I'd forgotten this song, thanks for reviving my memories 😊
Haha i first heard this song when i was about 13. I was like "uhh what did he say!?" lol
He must have had a big gap between the cop because he had to get out and lock the hubs in lol
who ever rides shotgun has to climb out and lay on the hood and reach over and lock in the hubs when he comes to a stop .lol be sure and hold the hood latch or you could fall off
That’s why you keep your hubs locked
My M38A1 jeep has vacuum operated hubs. No locking required
You don't leave your hubs locked in?
@Joe Casson
Thanks for showing you have no idea what you're talking about
"Marijewana?"
LMAO IKR????
I know people who actually say it like that
It's a Colorado thing. I'm not from Colorado but just trust me.
Electric lettuce.
Giggle flower
"Can you dig it, Smokey?"
Haha
I was listening to classic country and they played this.
I haven't heard it in years.
Gonna do a wheelie on that thare gofer mound!
@orcanjus Wikipedia: "The Nishnabotna River is a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa, northwestern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska in the United States. It flows for most of its length as two parallel streams in Iowa, the East Nishnabotna River and the West Nishnabotna River. The east and west branches are each about 120 miles (190 km) long; from their confluence the Nishnabotna flows approximately another 16 miles (26 km)."
2:44.that looks like a Holley 750 C.F.M. "Double Pumper"carburetor.I remember this ol' song as well as many other C.W.Mc Call songs.
☺ ☺ ☺ ☺One of the must beautiful music I ever heard! ☺ ☺
This reminds me hanging out with your old man back in the 120 miles an hour down the road not a cop inside we had to see what that Oldsmobile would do
8 minutes to bury the 120 mph speedometer. I should be dead.
I remember this song from when I was a kid like if you do too
The golden eagle is a 7 but that's fine because I built a 79 cj7 and it looked pretty much the same 👍
finally a country song about jeeps
Great song and great video. I remember my dad playing this song on a " record player"
This is probably the best UA-cam video ever!!!!
Whaddya mean by finally? This song was recorded more than 30 years ago.
Fun to play in the truck taking I-680 & I-29 around Omaha....esp onct you get across the river goin' east.
RIP….you Crispy Critter! 😢
CJ-5 has an S shaped door opening. CJ-7 (pictured in video) has a rectangular door opening and a longer wheelbase. Yeah, I had to be that guy. Still, good video, made me smile. Thumbs up.
I used to live back in the woods I had a go kart that was cj5 military Jeep and it had sirens
we was parked up on the top of Brushy MNT.in my friends old CJ-5 smokeing a big fat number once and we had pulled up on the top of the big cliff above I77 and old us rt52 when the cops came they was down below yelling at us to get down off that cliff before we went over the side and dropped abot 200 feet down into the highway lol my friend just drove over the end of the cliff and we went across the rocks and back into the highway and left.I think it stunned the cops so bad they never even chased us lol.it looked like we just went over the cliff and I think they was waiting to hear the crash when we hit bottom .but we usta go up and over that thing all the time if we had someone who had never done it they would start screaming when alfred drove over the end of the cliff,it did look like you was just going out into the air and it was juat wide enough for that old jeep to fit up there it had to be 1000feet up above the Interstate highway and we usta sit there and get sotned and drink beer and watch the cars go by they looked like little hot wheels from up there.now the AT goes right along our old path across there I see hikers sitting up there taking pictures all the time now and when I tell them about taking a CJ-5 across there they just star at me like i am either crazy or a liar.lol needless to say if I offer to take them over it in my 4x4 colorado they don't want me to give them a ride to town lol
My CJ2a will do zero to sixty in three days, downhill with a tailwind.
My 2A cheats with a Buick v6 and 2 overdrives.
Talk about a classic song.
No argument. CW MCALL THE FATHER OF RAPP MUSIC
@RM1SS Hey, appreciate the 10-9 and the 411!! See howlong I been around, both ages!! Goin' back to "copy the mail!" WJ
Best bluegrass song of all time
I love this funky song
this is a cool song.. i remember asong about a truck haulin chickens going threw a tunnel with no brakes..
Sad to report that William Fries Jr. aka CW McCall died 1 April 2022 at the age of 93 after a battle with cancer.
I wanted a fast car ( Dad's first car was a '57 vette and traded it in ona family car when he got married, a '66 chevelle and still has it.) Parents said no. A jeep... No. I got, and still have, a '69 chevy 3/4 ton four wheel drive, 4" lift 36" tires and a 307 small block and 4 speed. I out wheeled 3 jeeps on a 4x4 run.I got sent back the " easy way" when my front driveshaft broke. They were rookies. I'm not a master by ant means.
I love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you like listening to this song you should try to CW McCall song called classified.
I's thumbin' through the want ads in the Shelby County Tribune when this classified advertisement caught my eye...
(hahaha now anyone that knows this song won't be able to stop until they recite it all :-)
Great video, I love the song and I think it was a perfect video for it.
I'd like to find an old CJ5 and shoehorn a 304 V8 in it then paint it blue with white racing stripes then put big ol fat commando tires on it
Justin Myslive I got a 1975 with the amc 360 and a fiberglass body with Mickey Thompson deagen 38s
+Ben Gordon damn!!!!!!!!!!!!! bet that thing's a beast!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Justin Myslive oh ya it does!! things only 1,700 pounds!! fucker flys we take it to moab utah
+Ben Gordon years ago a friend of my uncle's had a 74 CJ 5 with a 258 straight 6. I tried like hell to get him to sell it to me and do it up like the description in this song but I never could talk him into selling it. lately I've been concocting another idea. finding a newer Jeep Rubicon and drop-in a 5.7 Hemi in that bastard
Get a CJ8 and do it. You'll thank me later. =p
looks like Daisy's jeep
Awesome! That could not have been placed any better.
Hehehehehe
I guess that's Persia, Iowa, and I-680 near Omaha/Council Bluffs?
I'll put it to you this way, I have a friend that has a 1978 CJ7 and he could flip it over backward if he tried hard enough, did it twice
damn i always gotta a kick outta that song LOL
"Granny Low", I still say that!
CJ5? CJ7? Doesn't matter. They all have one thing in common.
Glad I'm not the only one to see that
I do love the CJ-7 Golden Eagles
th400 304 and AWD !!!!!!!!!!!
love all you old timers we;s a dyin breed
1:35 Keith Urban? 😆 Watch out for the fellow there with the banjo
the only bad thing is...that's a CJ-7....
I-69 is Indiana - the Nishnabottna and I-680 are in western Iowa
WW0H, he approximated.
Ryan - GREAT job on finding all those PERFECT pictures...especially 'exit 12' !! You must come over and see mine sometime :-) -M*