The Roadblock

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 'im out on the highway



Right where it intersected big black rock

So it wasn't long at all

Before the whole town was standin' round

Hammerin' a nail and buildin' up a pride in a roadblock

Just hangin' round 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 ate dirty

Sno-cones colored red white and blue

At the roadblock

Just hangin' round a roadblock (x3)





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