Chords for Jim Croce - Speedball Tucker | Have You Heard: Jim Croce Live
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91.95 bpm
Chords used:
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G
B
Em
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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I haven't been doing so much music as I have been a lot of other things.
I've been driving a tractor trailer and a gravel truck,
spending a lot of time sitting behind the wheel, like that,
like the lady in the roller derby song.
But I spend a lot of time in truck stops,
drinking a lot of coffee and just watching what goes down.
[E]
And it's funny because most of the runs I would make
wouldn't be, you know, more than a day, so I was always back home.
But some of these truck stops you see guys pulling
and they've been driving non-stop for maybe two or three days.
Now that's really something to see, you see them walking in [Ab] like
with [E] that kind of expression on their face, you know they've been up too long.
They have a term that they call these things,
they get into it called West Coast Turnarounds,
which are like [G] directional aids, I [E] suppose.
You take one in New York and you drive out to California
and turn around and [B] drive right back all the time.
They cut off a broomstick about that long
and [E] wedge it down on the throttle pedal and in against the seat,
[Fm] so you have an extra foot [E] to move around and dance with
[B] or do whatever you want.
[E] It's a lot of fun.
I think the truck drivers are really a good bunch of people.
I know all the guys that I hang around with back home are truck drivers
[B] and guys I've worked with over the past few years.
[E] It's
there's a story about truckers.
One of them had gotten a million miles in a cab truck.
Now that's really a lot of driving.
And a radio station was interviewing him.
And they said, you know, a thousand [Eb] hours, you know, every couple [E] weeks.
People are [N] logging time on a highway in these trucks.
It's really amazing.
And you have like a million miles in, that's about 15 or 20 years worth of driving.
[Fm] He says, yeah.
He says, I've seen just about everything happen too.
He said, I've had bad weather.
He says, I've slipped and slid off the highway.
I've [E] jackknifed, blown out back tires and front tires, [N] lost my brakes.
The radio station guy said, you know, he said, let me just set up a situation
so the people out there will know [Bm] what kind of nerves and quick reflexes you guys all have.
He said, sure.
He said, suppose you're driving from Los [E] Angeles into New York City
and you come over top peak of the Rockies.
And it's about 2.30,. 3 o'clock in the morning. You see the sign that says three mile downhill run. No runaway truck lane. Truckers use low, [B] low gear. And like you kick it [F] down into low, low gear, your partner's sleeping next to you. [Gb] And just as you hit the crest and you go down about a half a mile, you find out that you [E] don't have any brakes. The trucker goes, mm-hmm. [B] He says, well. [Bm] And you look down around the first curve and you see a little Volkswagen up on a jack. Getting the back tire changed. The trucker looked up and he said, mm-hmm. And then he says, coming up the other lane, you see a fuel oil truck in low, low gear. What do you think you'd do? The trucker sat there and looked for a little while and said, [Ab] mm. He said, I think I'd wake my partner up. Wow, [Bb] with all these things happening, you'd [B] wake your partner up, right? He says, yeah. [F] He says, why would you do that? He says, well, he hasn't been driving long, and I know he ain't never [Em] seen a wreck like this before. And that's the story of [Gb] Speedball Tucker. One, two, one, two, three, four. [G] I drive a broke-down rig, made by tires, 40-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 to keep her opened up and held right down. [E] Nonstop back to Dallas, [G] poppin' them West Coast turnarounds. And they call me Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. [D] [G] You know the rain may blow, the [Em] snow may snow, and the turnt bikes, [G] they may freeze. But they don't buy those Speedball, he going any dang way, please. He got his broomstick on the throttle to keep his throttle full of dancing round. With a cup full of cold black [E] coffee and a pocket full [Em] of West Coast turnarounds. And they call him [Gbm] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, [G] terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. [F] [G] One day I looked into my rearview mirror, [Em] and coming up [G] from behind, there was a Georgia State policeman in a hundred dollar fine. Well, he looked me in the eyes, he was writing me up, [C] he said, [G] Driver, you've been flying, because 95 is the route you were on, it was not the speed limit sign. [Em] And they call me [Bm] Speedball, [E] Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other [G] truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in [A] a wreck like that. You hear they call me [G] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the [C] boy is mad [Em] to be driving in a wreck like that. [F] [G]
I've been driving a tractor trailer and a gravel truck,
spending a lot of time sitting behind the wheel, like that,
like the lady in the roller derby song.
But I spend a lot of time in truck stops,
drinking a lot of coffee and just watching what goes down.
[E]
And it's funny because most of the runs I would make
wouldn't be, you know, more than a day, so I was always back home.
But some of these truck stops you see guys pulling
and they've been driving non-stop for maybe two or three days.
Now that's really something to see, you see them walking in [Ab] like
with [E] that kind of expression on their face, you know they've been up too long.
They have a term that they call these things,
they get into it called West Coast Turnarounds,
which are like [G] directional aids, I [E] suppose.
You take one in New York and you drive out to California
and turn around and [B] drive right back all the time.
They cut off a broomstick about that long
and [E] wedge it down on the throttle pedal and in against the seat,
[Fm] so you have an extra foot [E] to move around and dance with
[B] or do whatever you want.
[E] It's a lot of fun.
I think the truck drivers are really a good bunch of people.
I know all the guys that I hang around with back home are truck drivers
[B] and guys I've worked with over the past few years.
[E] It's
there's a story about truckers.
One of them had gotten a million miles in a cab truck.
Now that's really a lot of driving.
And a radio station was interviewing him.
And they said, you know, a thousand [Eb] hours, you know, every couple [E] weeks.
People are [N] logging time on a highway in these trucks.
It's really amazing.
And you have like a million miles in, that's about 15 or 20 years worth of driving.
[Fm] He says, yeah.
He says, I've seen just about everything happen too.
He said, I've had bad weather.
He says, I've slipped and slid off the highway.
I've [E] jackknifed, blown out back tires and front tires, [N] lost my brakes.
The radio station guy said, you know, he said, let me just set up a situation
so the people out there will know [Bm] what kind of nerves and quick reflexes you guys all have.
He said, sure.
He said, suppose you're driving from Los [E] Angeles into New York City
and you come over top peak of the Rockies.
And it's about 2.30,. 3 o'clock in the morning. You see the sign that says three mile downhill run. No runaway truck lane. Truckers use low, [B] low gear. And like you kick it [F] down into low, low gear, your partner's sleeping next to you. [Gb] And just as you hit the crest and you go down about a half a mile, you find out that you [E] don't have any brakes. The trucker goes, mm-hmm. [B] He says, well. [Bm] And you look down around the first curve and you see a little Volkswagen up on a jack. Getting the back tire changed. The trucker looked up and he said, mm-hmm. And then he says, coming up the other lane, you see a fuel oil truck in low, low gear. What do you think you'd do? The trucker sat there and looked for a little while and said, [Ab] mm. He said, I think I'd wake my partner up. Wow, [Bb] with all these things happening, you'd [B] wake your partner up, right? He says, yeah. [F] He says, why would you do that? He says, well, he hasn't been driving long, and I know he ain't never [Em] seen a wreck like this before. And that's the story of [Gb] Speedball Tucker. One, two, one, two, three, four. [G] I drive a broke-down rig, made by tires, 40-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 to keep her opened up and held right down. [E] Nonstop back to Dallas, [G] poppin' them West Coast turnarounds. And they call me Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. [D] [G] You know the rain may blow, the [Em] snow may snow, and the turnt bikes, [G] they may freeze. But they don't buy those Speedball, he going any dang way, please. He got his broomstick on the throttle to keep his throttle full of dancing round. With a cup full of cold black [E] coffee and a pocket full [Em] of West Coast turnarounds. And they call him [Gbm] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, [G] terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. [F] [G] One day I looked into my rearview mirror, [Em] and coming up [G] from behind, there was a Georgia State policeman in a hundred dollar fine. Well, he looked me in the eyes, he was writing me up, [C] he said, [G] Driver, you've been flying, because 95 is the route you were on, it was not the speed limit sign. [Em] And they call me [Bm] Speedball, [E] Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other [G] truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in [A] a wreck like that. You hear they call me [G] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the [C] boy is mad [Em] to be driving in a wreck like that. [F] [G]
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I haven't been doing so much music as I have been a lot of other things.
I've been driving a tractor trailer and a gravel truck,
spending a lot of time sitting behind the wheel, like that,
like the lady in the roller derby song.
But I spend a lot of time in truck stops,
drinking a lot of coffee and just watching what goes down.
[E] _
And it's funny because most of the runs I would make
wouldn't be, you know, more than a day, so I was always back home.
But some of these truck stops you see guys pulling
and they've been driving non-stop for maybe two or three days.
Now that's really something to see, you see them walking in [Ab] like_
with [E] that kind of expression on their face, you know they've been up too long.
They have a term that they call these things,
they get into it called West Coast Turnarounds,
which are like _ [G] directional aids, I [E] suppose.
You take one in New York and you drive out to California
and turn around and [B] drive right back all the time.
They cut off a broomstick about that long
and [E] wedge it down on the throttle pedal and in against the seat,
[Fm] so you have an extra foot [E] to move around and dance with
[B] or do whatever you want.
[E] It's a lot of fun.
I think the truck drivers are really a good bunch of people.
I know all the guys that I hang around with back home are truck drivers
[B] and guys I've worked with over the past few years.
_ [E] It's_
there's a story about truckers.
One of them had gotten a million miles in a cab truck.
Now that's really a lot of driving.
And a radio station was interviewing him.
And they said, you know, a thousand [Eb] _ hours, you know, every couple [E] weeks.
People are [N] logging time on a highway in these trucks.
It's really amazing.
And you have like a million miles in, that's about 15 or 20 years worth of driving.
[Fm] He says, yeah.
He says, I've seen just about everything happen too.
He said, I've had bad weather.
He says, I've slipped and slid off the highway.
I've [E] jackknifed, blown out back tires and front tires, [N] lost my brakes.
The radio station guy said, you know, he said, let me just set up a situation
so the people out there will know [Bm] what kind of nerves and quick reflexes you guys all have.
He said, sure.
He said, suppose you're driving from Los [E] Angeles into New York City
and you come over top peak of the Rockies.
And it's about 2.30,. 3 o'clock in the morning. You see the sign that says three mile downhill run. No runaway truck lane. Truckers use low, [B] low gear. And like you kick it [F] down into low, low gear, your partner's sleeping next to you. [Gb] And just as you hit the crest and you go down about a half a mile, you find out that you [E] don't have any brakes. The trucker goes, mm-hmm. _ _ [B] He says, well. [Bm] And you look down around the first curve and you see a little Volkswagen up on a jack. Getting the back tire changed. The trucker looked up and he said, mm-hmm. _ And then he says, coming up the other lane, you see a fuel oil truck in low, low gear. What do you think you'd do? The trucker sat there and looked for a little while and said, [Ab] mm. He said, I think I'd wake my partner up. Wow, [Bb] with all these things happening, you'd [B] wake your partner up, right? He says, yeah. [F] He says, why would you do that? He says, well, he hasn't been driving long, and I know he ain't never [Em] seen a wreck like this before. And that's the story of [Gb] Speedball Tucker. One, two, one, two, three, four. _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ I drive a broke-down rig, made by tires, 40-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 to keep her opened up and held right down. _ [E] Nonstop back to Dallas, [G] poppin' them West Coast turnarounds. And they call me Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] You know the rain may blow, the [Em] snow may snow, and the turnt bikes, [G] they may freeze. But they don't buy those Speedball, he going any dang way, please. He got his broomstick on the throttle to keep his throttle full of dancing round. With a cup full of cold black [E] coffee and a pocket full [Em] of West Coast turnarounds. And they call him [Gbm] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, [G] terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ One day I looked into my rearview mirror, [Em] and coming up [G] from behind, there was a Georgia State policeman in a hundred dollar fine. Well, he looked me in the eyes, he was writing me up, [C] he said, [G] Driver, you've been flying, because 95 is the route you were on, it was not the speed limit sign. [Em] And they call me [Bm] Speedball, [E] Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other [G] truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in [A] a wreck like that. You hear they call me [G] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the [C] boy is mad [Em] to be driving in a wreck like that. _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I've been driving a tractor trailer and a gravel truck,
spending a lot of time sitting behind the wheel, like that,
like the lady in the roller derby song.
But I spend a lot of time in truck stops,
drinking a lot of coffee and just watching what goes down.
[E] _
And it's funny because most of the runs I would make
wouldn't be, you know, more than a day, so I was always back home.
But some of these truck stops you see guys pulling
and they've been driving non-stop for maybe two or three days.
Now that's really something to see, you see them walking in [Ab] like_
with [E] that kind of expression on their face, you know they've been up too long.
They have a term that they call these things,
they get into it called West Coast Turnarounds,
which are like _ [G] directional aids, I [E] suppose.
You take one in New York and you drive out to California
and turn around and [B] drive right back all the time.
They cut off a broomstick about that long
and [E] wedge it down on the throttle pedal and in against the seat,
[Fm] so you have an extra foot [E] to move around and dance with
[B] or do whatever you want.
[E] It's a lot of fun.
I think the truck drivers are really a good bunch of people.
I know all the guys that I hang around with back home are truck drivers
[B] and guys I've worked with over the past few years.
_ [E] It's_
there's a story about truckers.
One of them had gotten a million miles in a cab truck.
Now that's really a lot of driving.
And a radio station was interviewing him.
And they said, you know, a thousand [Eb] _ hours, you know, every couple [E] weeks.
People are [N] logging time on a highway in these trucks.
It's really amazing.
And you have like a million miles in, that's about 15 or 20 years worth of driving.
[Fm] He says, yeah.
He says, I've seen just about everything happen too.
He said, I've had bad weather.
He says, I've slipped and slid off the highway.
I've [E] jackknifed, blown out back tires and front tires, [N] lost my brakes.
The radio station guy said, you know, he said, let me just set up a situation
so the people out there will know [Bm] what kind of nerves and quick reflexes you guys all have.
He said, sure.
He said, suppose you're driving from Los [E] Angeles into New York City
and you come over top peak of the Rockies.
And it's about 2.30,. 3 o'clock in the morning. You see the sign that says three mile downhill run. No runaway truck lane. Truckers use low, [B] low gear. And like you kick it [F] down into low, low gear, your partner's sleeping next to you. [Gb] And just as you hit the crest and you go down about a half a mile, you find out that you [E] don't have any brakes. The trucker goes, mm-hmm. _ _ [B] He says, well. [Bm] And you look down around the first curve and you see a little Volkswagen up on a jack. Getting the back tire changed. The trucker looked up and he said, mm-hmm. _ And then he says, coming up the other lane, you see a fuel oil truck in low, low gear. What do you think you'd do? The trucker sat there and looked for a little while and said, [Ab] mm. He said, I think I'd wake my partner up. Wow, [Bb] with all these things happening, you'd [B] wake your partner up, right? He says, yeah. [F] He says, why would you do that? He says, well, he hasn't been driving long, and I know he ain't never [Em] seen a wreck like this before. And that's the story of [Gb] Speedball Tucker. One, two, one, two, three, four. _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ I drive a broke-down rig, made by tires, 40-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 to keep her opened up and held right down. _ [E] Nonstop back to Dallas, [G] poppin' them West Coast turnarounds. And they call me Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] You know the rain may blow, the [Em] snow may snow, and the turnt bikes, [G] they may freeze. But they don't buy those Speedball, he going any dang way, please. He got his broomstick on the throttle to keep his throttle full of dancing round. With a cup full of cold black [E] coffee and a pocket full [Em] of West Coast turnarounds. And they call him [Gbm] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, [G] terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in a wreck like that. _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ One day I looked into my rearview mirror, [Em] and coming up [G] from behind, there was a Georgia State policeman in a hundred dollar fine. Well, he looked me in the eyes, he was writing me up, [C] he said, [G] Driver, you've been flying, because 95 is the route you were on, it was not the speed limit sign. [Em] And they call me [Bm] Speedball, [E] Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other [G] truckers will tell you that the boy is mad to be driving in [A] a wreck like that. You hear they call me [G] Speedball, Speedball Tucker, terror of the highway. And all them other truckers will tell you that the [C] boy is mad [Em] to be driving in a wreck like that. _ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _