Songs:Carhartts (3659)
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Carhartts by Mike Campbell 1995 I was driving to Glennallen in my big 10 wheeler truck, When the new snow on the road caused me to slide off and get stuck. I was not worried for I had been a Boy Scout as a lad, And I'd brought along my Carhartts if the weather should turn bad. So I put on bunny boots and donned bib overalls and coat, I'd bought them down at Brewster's and they kept me warm as toast, The bunny boots were snowy white, the Carhartts tawny brown, And dressed as warmly as can be I started off towards town. Well I'd gone about 3 miles when it began once more to snow, And coming at me from the north a chilly wind did blow, This inclement, stormy weather made it hard for me to see, I decided just to wait it out beneath an old spruce tree. 'Twas then I saw the hunters in their cammo colored deuce. They were pointing rifles at me and were shouting, "There' a moose!" I waved my arms to warn them off, to show them it was me, Then I realized this probably looked like antlers in the tree. Well suddenly a bullet struck the branch above my head, If I'd stood there any longer I am sure that I'd be dead, Shots landed all around me as I slid down the ravine, And took off running fast as any track star you have seen. I was sprinting hard to stay ahead, to keep from getting killed, And with all of this exertion I was no longer chilled, I peeled off and tossed away my dear old Carhartt coat, And as it fell, four shots rang out and blasted it to smoke. Now I kept on running even when the hunters lost their chase, And I credit my survival near entirely to haste, But I heard them cheering loudly as I crested o'er the hill, Congratulating each other on the Carhartt coat they'd killed. Well I think back now and then about how close to death I came, And of how much brown duck canvas can resemble antlered game, So to make sure that my body never does become extinct, All the clothes I wear into the woods are now florescent pink. And somewhere in America, just where I cannot say, There is a big game hunter with a trophy from that day, I know its stuffed and mounted on his wall so he can gloat, And tell stories of his courage when he killed my Carhartt coat.
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 | Funny 416 items |
 | Fun 709 items |
 | Hunting 6 items |
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