Champion At Keeping Them Rolling

I am an old-timer, I travel the road

I sit in me wagon and lumber me load

The hotel's me jungle, the caff's me abode

And I'm well known to Blondie and Mary

Me liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea

And the old highway code was me first abc

I cut me eye-teeth on an old AEC

And I'm champion at keeping them rolling

I've sat in me cabin and broiled in the sun

Been snowed up on Shap on the Manchester run

I've crawled through a fog with me twentytwo tons

Of fish that was stinking like blazes

From London to Glasgow to Newcastle quay

From Liverpool, Preston to Bristol City

The polones on the road give the thumb sign to me

For I'm champion at keeping them rolling

You may tongue of your soldiers and sailors so bold

But there's many and many a hero untold

Who sits at the wheel in the the heat and the cold

Day after day without sleeping

So watch out for coppers and slow down at bends

Check all your gauges and watch your big ends

And zig with your lights when you pass an old friend

You'll be champion at keeping them rolling

I am an old-timer, I travel the road

I sit in me wagon and lumber me load

The hotel's me jungle, the caff's me abode

And I'm well known to Blondie and Mary

Me liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea

And the old highway code was me first abc

I cut me eye-teeth on an old AEC

And I'm champion at keeping them rolling