(C.W. McCall, Fries, Chip Davis)
YEE-HAW! Merciful sakes alive! You wanna be one a' them CBers, you gonna how to ratchetjaw! Pay attention now; I'm only gonna explain it to ya once.
You gotta go amuck in a pick-'em-up truck With one a' fancy sidebands? Get and two on the door Get a power mike in yer Prepare to strike ya key the mike ya never know who's a-listenin' Some insists on a 10-36 This here's what you 'im:
"Four, good buddy, I me a study An' I figger the dark a' the moon, son It's half-past spring an' a quarter ta An' the big hand's on noon, son Now if the don't bite and the almanac's right And the sees his shadow A goes tick-tock-tick." And what I call ratchetjaw!
git ya a base, out there at yer place With a pole on the chimney With a watts in yer flowerpots And a line in the biffy If ya a twitch when ya throw the switch Ya gonna dim all the in Wichita Gonna send out a ta make the government rave And this whatcha tell 'em all:
"Yeah, four, good buddy, yer comin' in But yer walkin' through my wall, boy Yer carrier's cool, you me drool You definitely battin' my ball, boy You hittin' me about fifteen pound You cut me up a bandsaw But what the heck, it's just a check." And that how to ratchetjaw
[CB conversations. They're overlaid, as if you're to a party line.]
[Woman's voice] Breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker. We for that one Buffalo Roy out there. Buffalo Roy, what's your twenty? Where are you anyway, Buffalo Roy? Are you out there? Come on in there, Buffalo Roy. 10-4.
[Man's voice] Lissen, you. Shut up on all them breakers. One breaker's enough. [words missing]...channel all the time. hear a damn thing anybody's sayin'.
[C.W.] Roy? That's a dumb handle.
feel some pain? Just turn up yer gain Get a earful a' garbage Ta suppress a belch, just hit yer You can cut out all the You wanna have fun, you Just get on the press-ta-talk You gonna amuse 'em an' confuse 'em With a ol' thing called ratchetjaw
Yeah, let them suckers think yer a Say they can't understand, son Just bounce up-an'-down yer toolin' around Gonna sound a truck-drivin' man, son Just yer beaver that you gonna leave 'er You her on the bounce-around If she comes back with a crack Say "X-Y-L, show-an'-tell. We definitely got us to go now. Keep yer pants on honey, onto the money Yer X-Y-M's blow now Eighty-eight, thirds, and feed my An' all them numbers ya all If speed kill, then CB will." And what I call ratchetjaw
CB conversations.]
Breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, breaker, almost ad infinitum, punctuated by bouts of laughter]
[Man's voice. Begins deep, slowly rising to Shirley and Squirrely squeakiness.] Yeah, 10-4, we got ya, breaker. Come back on that? Say, what kind a'... s'not? some kind a' cotton-pickin'... you puttin' me on, aren't cha? Yeah, you puttin' me on, cha? [Laughter] 10-4. 10-4.