Bobby Bare – The Jogger chords

[Verse 1]
GWell I've been a trucker now for twenty years
         CFrom the Charleston coast to the Jersey piers
    D7                                          GAnd sharin' the road with the race car nuts and loggers
                               CSunday drivers scouts on hikes Hells Angels on Harley bikes
  D7                                         GI never met a roader I didn't like cept them joggers

[Verse 2]
GOne day I'm rollin' down 1 0 1
      CI got 18 wheels and a fourteen ton
D7                               GRadio playin' a good ol' country rocker
The day was surely a trucker's dream
    CThe sky was sunny and the air was clean
D7                                                 GWhen up ahead on the road I seen a skinny sweatin' jogger

[Verse 3]
GWell he was dressed like they do in baby blue
     CWith shortie shorts and a headband too
  D7                                                          GI yelled Sweetie I bet that you are the hit of the men's room locker
Well I'm a runnin' late with an overload
   CSo get your Adidas off a this road
    D7                                                  GI'm LA bound and I don't slow down for dead raccoons or joggers

[Verse 4]
GWell without breakin' stride or losin' poise
   CHe says you and that rig sure make some noise
D7                                      GI can't talk now I'm racin' against the clocker
But it's just nine miles to Forkers Leap
       CAnd if you ain't afraid to race that heap
      D7                                            GWe'll see how that ol' rig holds up against a super jogger

[Verse 5]
GRace I must be hearin' wrong
    CThe boy's been runnin' in the sun too long
    D7                               GThe only place he's a racin' to is a doctor
But before I could say hey thank ya no
     CThat fool yells ready get set go
    D7                                                       GAnd the race is on and we're off and gone me and that maniac jogger

[Verse 6]
GWell now I could'a left him far behind
    CBut I played with him like a fish on a line
    D7                                       GAnd I stayed about a half a mile behind that sucker
Then I pushed her up to forty-five
       CAnd he sees me comin' and he starts to fly
   D7So I pushed her to sixty and shift to high
                       GAnd finally catch that jogger  and it wasn't easy

[Verse 7]
GNow I'm doin' eighty and I turned to check
    CAnd he's stayin' right with me neck in neck
    D7                                           GHis hearts a thumpin' like an engine goin' bocka bocka bocka
Then he said I hope you're set
      CCause I ain't shifted into second yet
     D7                                                  GThen he unwinds and leaves me behind eaten the dust of a jogger

[Verse 8]
GThen I see him a joggin' up into the sky
    CAnd he yells hey thanks for the exercise
  D7                                    GI hope that losin' the race was not too shockin'
GYa see my dad says heaven's no place to run
  CI try to be an obedient son
   D7                            GSo I come down to earth to do my joggin'

[Verse 9]
GWell that's the story take it or leave it
   CMy trucker buddies they believe it
   D7                                GSo do those race car nuts and Harley hoggers
Now I'm still drivin' much the same
     CCept I don't call nobody names
    D7                                                 GAnd I tip my hat each time I pass one of them good old joggers

[Outro]
GAnd I say hey good buddy can I get ya sumpin
    CHow bout a little Gatorade here
D7                                GNaw that's alright I got plenty a-time