Long Haul Truck Driver

 

I know a young truck driver 

Makes his living on long haul loads

Like a nineteenth-century cowboy 

He lives out on the road

 

His truck is his workplace

His apartment is the same

In a different place every night

Where no one knows his name

 

His life is so entwined with work

It’s a lifestyle, not a job

Work and leisure time

Are as close as corn and cob

 

And free time, when he gets it

Comes with truck attached 

Can’t park that truck just anywhere 

So, many opportunities get scratched 

 

He needs some personal time

And weekends off now and then

Spending all his time in a truck

Like being cooped up in a pen

 

He is dealing with the life

Because the money is pretty good

But he knows that this lifestyle 

Wouldn’t even sell in Hollywood

 

It’s time to change his profession

But trucking is in his blood

May he find another job

Cross your fingers, knock on wood

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