The Roadblock
Stan Ridgeway

News travels fast in a small desert townnSo it wasn't long at all before the word got aroundnThat a killin' mad car was headed their waynSo the sheriff and the boys were gonna stop 'im out on the highwaynnRight where it intersected Big Black RocknSo it wasn't long at allnBefore the whole town was standin' roundnHammerin' a nail and buildin' up a pride in a roadblocknJust hangin' round a roadblocknnThe mayor's wife sat in the shadenAnd talked her way through a few good liesnWhile her husband practiced his acceptance speechnFor a medal from the F.B.I.nnAnd Granny rocked back in her chair and saidnJust what did this man do?nWhile some idiot kids ate dirtynSno-cones colored red white and bluenAt the roadblocknJust hangin' round a roadblock (x3)nnThen the local paper jumped the gunnAnd printed the big headlinenTown is saved from killer carnWith roadblock at statelinennThree miles down the highway in a Chevy '69nWere a pair of crazy eyeballs jumpin' left and right in timenTo an eight-track tape playin' Foghat and Jethro TullnAnd a gasoline-soaked hand shiftin' a little plastic skullnnAnd on the arm, a blue tattoo that read I'm a son of a bitch!nA map open on the front seat leather, black as pitchnOne foot slammed on the gas, no shoe, just an argyle socknAnd that car was screamin' wild down the highway, like lightningnToward the roadblocknRight towards the roadblocknnThen all eyes turned down the highway towards a big cloud of smokenAnd Granny went into a mild state of shock and started to chokenAnd a boy up in a tree yelled out, Here it comenThen twenty men strong aimed and fired point-blank nineteen shotgunsnnWell, the next day, the sheriff just tried to stallnWhile they buried the body out behind a wallnThe newspaper said Killer still on the lam Seems the boys at the roadblock got the wrong mannnNobody really knew just who he wasnHe was drivin' a Camaro with dashboard fuzznThey all burned a car right there in Big Black RocknAnd no one ever said a word at all again1nAbout a roadblocknNot about a roadblocknWhooo! About a roadblocknNot about a roadblock, yeah....nNot about a roadblock n

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