Joe Frazier, Buck Owens And Roy Clark - Six Days on the Road

Joe Frazier, Buck Owens And Roy Clark plays Six Days on the Road on Hee Haw 1979.

"Six Days on the Road" written by Earl Green and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio songwriter Carl Montgomery, made famous originally by country music singer Dave Dudley. First released in 1963, the song became a major hit that year and is often hailed as the definitive celebration of the American truck driver.

In 1997, more than 30 years after Dudley's original version charted, country music band Sawyer Brown took the song into the Top 15 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Six Days on the Road lyrics

Well, I pulled out of Pittsburgh,

Rollin' down the Eastern Seaboard.

I've got my diesel wound up,

And she's running like never before.

There's a speed zone ahead, all right,

I don't see a cop in sight.

Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight.

I got ten forward gears,

And a Georgia overdrive.

I'm taking little white pills,

And my eyes are open wide.

I just passed a 'Jimmy' and a 'White':

I've been passin' everything in sight.

Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight.

Well, it seems like a month,

Since I kissed my baby good-bye.

I could have a lot of women,

But I'm not like some other guys.

I could find one to hold me tight,

But I could never believe that it's right.

Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight.

I.C.C. is checking on down the line.

I'm a little overweight and my log's three days behind.

But nothing bothers me tonight.

I can dodge all the scales all right,

Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight.

Well my rig's a little old,

But that don't mean she's slow.

There's a flame from her stack,

And the smoke's rolling black as coal.

My hometown's coming in sight,

If you think I'm happy your right.

Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight.