Lyrics Eagle - Dave Dudley

Eagle

If a load was illegal they’d call on the Eagle. That trucker’d been cheating
for years.
He lived on back highways and unpatrolled byways, with only his conscience to
hear.
He made his first run at the age 21 with a load of bootleg alcohol.
Well his time is near done cause he’s planned his last run with the biggest
payload of them all.
He’s an old gearjammer putting down his last hammer, headed straight for that
slammer or a hole in the ground.
If Smokey should miss him or an angel don’t kiss him then the devil might get
him cause he is hell bound.
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He weren’t into hijacking, with his fifth wheel abacking, to hook into some
booze was a breeze. With his hot cargo rolling, though silence is golden,
somebody had called the police.
In a bar in Juarez, a gal named Inez, was waiting for Eagle that night.
But how could she know in the dawn’s early glow, that the Eagle was on his
last flight.
He’s an old gearjammer putting down his last hammer, headed straight for the
slammer or a hole in the ground.
If Smokey should miss him or an angel don’t kiss him then the devil might get
him cause he is hell bound.
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As he drove through the night, payday was in sight, 2 hours and his trip would
be done. It was his last load over smuggler’s road and he’d soon see his
Mexican son.
Well he knew they were there, when red lights lit the air, old Eagle had
entered their trap.
Off that crooked road with his crooked load he knew there was no turning back.
Final Chorus
So this old gearjammer slammed down his last hammer, to hell with that slammer,
it’s a hole in the ground.
Lord let Smokey miss me, let angels kiss me, so the devil don’t get me,
keep me from hell bound.
End Chorus
That truck it was loaded and when she exploded, it went over that rail,
it’s a quick way to die. The hillside it’s a cooking, but Smokey can’t book em,
old Eagle is now flying high…