News travels fast in a small desert town

So it wasn't long at all before the word got around

That a killin' mad car was headed their way

So the sheriff and the boys were gonna stop him

Out on the highway



Right where it intersected big black rock

So it wasn't long at all

Before the whole town was out standin' 'round

Hammerin' a nail and buildin' up a pride

In a roadblock



The mayor's wife sat in the shade

And talked her way through a few good lies

While her husband practiced his acceptance speech

For a medal from the F.B.I.



And Granny rocked back in her chair and said,

"Just what did this man do?"

While some idiot kids from school

Ate the dirty sno-cones colored red, white and blue

At the roadblock



Then the local paper jumped the gun

And printed the big headline

"Town is saved from killer car with roadblock at stateline"



Three miles down the highway in a Chevy '69

Were a pair of crazy eyeballs

Jumpin' left and right in time

To an eight track tape playin' Foghat and Jethro Tull

And a gasoline soaked hand shiftin'

A little plastic skull



And on the arm a blue tattoo that read

"I'm a son of a bitch"

A map open on the front seat

Leather black as pitch

One foot slammed on the gas, no shoe

Just an argyle sock



Andthat car was screamin' wild down the highway

Like lightnin' towards the roadblock



Then all eyes turned down the highway

To a big cloud of smoke

And Granny went into a mild state of shock and started to choke

And then a boy up in a tree yelled out, "Here he comes..."

Then twenty men strong aimed and fired point blank

Nineteen shotguns...



Well the next day the sheriff just tried to stall

While they buried the body out behind a wall

The newspaper said, "Killer still on the lam

Seems the boys at the roadblock shot the wrong man



Nobody really knew just who he was

He was drivin' a Camaro with dashboard fuzz

They all burned the car right there at big black rock

And no one ever said a word at all again

About a roadblock

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