This song came up in my youtube suggestions. I don't know if it's because of the goings-on in Canada these days or if it's because I have been listening to a TON of Johnny Cash lately. Is that him? Not the main speaker, the other one. I could look it up, but I'd rather ask you.
The song tells the tale of truckers in the early 1970's joining together in convoys to allow them to drive faster...I think. There's all kinds of slang, come on. I know "pigpen" is someone hauling livestock and the bears are the Highway Patrol. This part is my favorite:
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus
My people, long-haired hippie friends of Jesus!
Ooh, it's good to see you guys, riding along the road, just going, here, there, everywhere.
Do you remember the Jesus People? I am too young to remember the movement personally, but I believe my life is a product of it. It was a move of the Holy Spirit in the dark days of our country, in some ways similar to today. A bunch of unlikely kids dropped out of dropping out and came to the Lord. Beautiful! They're still among us, some of them.
