Eagle

If a load was illegal they'd call on the eagle that trucker'd been cheating for years

He lived on back highways and unpatrolled byways with only his conscience to hear

He made his first run at the age 21 with a load of bootleg alcohol well his time is near done cause he's planned his last run with the biggest payload of them all

He's an old gearjammer putting down his last hammer headed straight for that slammer or a hole in the ground

If smokey should miss him or an angel don't kiss him then the devil might get him cause he is hell bound

End chorus

He weren't into hijacking with his fifth wheel abacking to hook into some booze was a breeze with his hot cargo rolling though silence is golden somebody had called the police

In a bar in juarez a gal named inez was waiting for eagle that night but how could she know in the dawn's early glow that the eagle was on his last flight

He's an old gearjammer putting down his last hammer headed straight for the slammer or a hole in the ground

If smokey should miss him or an angel don't kiss him then the devil might get him cause he is hell bound

End chorus

As he drove through the night payday was in sight 2 hours and his trip would be done it was his last load over smuggler's road and he'd soon see his mexican son

Well he knew they were there when red lights lit the air old eagle had entered their trap

Off that crooked road with his crooked load he knew there was no turning back

Final chorus

So this old gearjammer slammed down his last hammer to hell with that slammer it's a hole in the ground

Lord let smokey miss me let angels kiss me so the devil don't get me keep me from hell bound

End chorus

That truck it was loaded and when she exploded it went over that rail it's a quick way to die the hillside it's a cooking but smokey can't book em old eagle is now flying high