English lorry songs

i can only think of Convoy GB
but today at Bedworth folk festival a women sang a tune about Lorries crash boxes and 30 speed limit

it reduced me to tears :blush:

You ever heard of the Heathrow Flyers?

Bunch of drivers turned singers. I used to work with one of them and he gave me a CD they’d released. Don’t know if they are still together.

Personal favourites of mine are:

Truck Won’t Start
Truckers Dream
On My Radio
Speed Trap
Eddie is the Leader of the Truckstop
We’re on the M25

Fantastic stuff!! :laughing:

many yrs ago now i remember vaguely one on not the nine oclock news

went something like
i like trucking ,i like trucking , i like trucking and i like too truck or words too that effect :smiley:

HAIRYGORILLA:
many yrs ago now i remember vaguely one on not the nine oclock news

went something like
i like trucking ,i like trucking , i like trucking and i like too truck or words too that effect :smiley:

I Like Trucking

The video from this song caused absolute outrage when it was first broadcast, because it featured footage of Princess Anne driving a large lorry, interspersed with hedgehogs being crushed under the wheels. The BBC received piles of letters complaining about this, although I’m not sure whether the majority of the righteous indignation came from animal-rights activists complaining about anti-hedgehog violence, or old women moaning about a lack of respect for the royal family. The following apology was aired at the beginning of the following show:
“The BBC
 would like to point out that the hedgehog used was in fact a stuffed hedgehog, and we feel we’ve probably exhibit less cruelty to hedgehogs per se than whoever it is who goes around stuffing them in the first place.”

I like trucking, I like trucking,
I like trucking and I like to truck.
I like trucking, I like trucking,
If you don’t like trucking, tough luck.

On the road, you must be brave and tireless,
On the road, you can listen to the wireless,
On the road, you eat café food with pride,
You can throw it up outside.

The greatest kick in trucking comes from knocking down a biker,
Or swinging round a roundabout and picking up a hiker,
You’re chatting up that piece of skirt who’s sitting by your side,
Then pop the crucial question - a ride for a ride?

I like trucking, I like trucking,
I like trucking and I like to truck.
I like trucking, I like trucking,
If you don’t like trucking, tough luck.

Perhaps the greatest laugh of all, that makes this life worthwhile,
Is waving on the car behind, giving him a smile,
With glasses and with gratitude, he revs his little load,
And meets another trucking truck, a-trucking down the road.

On the road, you must be tough and ruthless,
And the rumours that we’re gay are truthless,
On the road, you can wear your shirtsleeves rolled,
You eat chocolate when it’s cold.

From behind, we like to sneak up on you from behind,
Never mind, if you hit 'em never mind.

We like trucking, we like trucking,
We like trucking and we like to truck.
We like trucking, we like trucking,
If you don’t like trucking, tough luck.

I Like Trucking video

youtube.com/watch?v=BmXIF5gBSsI

Chunky:
I Like Trucking video

youtube.com/watch?v=BmXIF5gBSsI

did you have to do that :laughing: now I’ve got to spend hours on youtube :wink:

I may be some time


truck drivin by weird al yankovic is quite funny off the running with scissors album


don’t know who its about though haaaa

thanks denis f and chunky thats the one ,trouble is i didnt want the song but i cannot stop singing it now :smiley: argghhhh

Has Rowan Atkinson got an HGV,sorry,LGV licence then,as he appears to actually be driving the truck?

Ken.

Quinny:
Has Rowan Atkinson got an HGV,sorry,LGV licence then,as he appears to actually be driving the truck?.

A millionaire with an estimated wealth of ÂŁ60 million, his major hobby is fast cars. His mother owned a Morris Minor, which he drove around the family farm, as well as tractors. He has written for the British magazines Car and Evo, and also holds a UK HGV licence, gained because of his fascination of trucks and to ensure employment as a young actor.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Atkinson

how could i forget the Flyers
saw a truck with there name on just last week

cheers

flying_fenman:
You ever heard of the Heathrow Flyers?

Bunch of drivers turned singers. I used to work with one of them and he gave me a CD they’d released. Don’t know if they are still together.

Personal favourites of mine are:

Truck Won’t Start
Truckers Dream
On My Radio
Speed Trap
Eddie is the Leader of the Truckstop
We’re on the M25

Fantastic stuff!! :laughing:

No there not together anymore,unfortunately i am related to 1 of them and they all gone ther seperate ways,thank god,gone but not forgotton,for all the wrong reasons,they were crap :smiley:

scaniamad:
they all gone ther seperate ways,thank god,gone but not forgotton,for all the wrong reasons,they were crap :smiley:

Thank God indeed!

Some of the lyrics were just terrible. They were not blessed with fantastic voices either!

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

What about Container Drivers by The Fall (from 1979 no less!)

the flyers website is

heathrow-flyers.co.uk/index.html

not sure if you can still get any music from them.

That one by wierd al is the one chris moyles offa radio one is always playing
think it was written about a driver from the welsh firm who pull a the rockwool trailers
did some agency work for them on nights out of cannock
he/she ( depending on its mood ) came round the back off the trl i was hooking up and scared three colours of fright out of me

Not strictly trucking but its related. ‘Watford Gap’ by Roy Harper, off his Bullinamingvase album. It was dropped from later copies of the album as One the the EMI board members was also a director of Watford Gap, and it includes the lyrics “'Watford Gap, Watford Gap, a plate of grease and a load of crap”

That wierd Al was played alot by Johnny Walker when he was on in the evenings during the week.
One song that breezed through my head just now was
2,4,6,8 Motorway by Tom Robinson Band
(A not bad song by way of a change)

Quinny:
Has Rowan Atkinson got an HGV,sorry,LGV licence then,as he appears to actually be driving the truck?

Ken.

Yes - he took his test (and passed) in an Atkinson Borderer. His family are livestock farmers who used to move their own stock

hitch:
i can only think of Convoy GB
but today at Bedworth folk festival a women sang a tune about Lorries crash boxes and 30 speed limit

it reduced me to tears :blush:

Anyone remember “Riding the Big A” from about 1977/8? Now that could make you cringe!