First Load

Paul McIntosh 2007

fourteen years old about the same as that old truck 

Ten tons of barley on lots more today with any luck

Found some gears I and took a breath pulled my cap down on my face 

roared into that sunriset road proudly pulled into my place 

what a dream to drive that chevy I felt like I was on the lamb 

sat up tall to fool the cops as if they don't know who I am 

I rode it all the way to town, feelin like a king  

I made it man and I got in line what a thrill to drive that thing 

right down the road runnin all alone

old man sent me out said take this grain and get it sold 

I'm pullin my first load  

Great Big men home brew smiles stare with hope into the sky  

neighbors visit over hoods last nights dust burns their eyes  

hey squirt have a shot of this, put some hair on that skinny chest 

watcha haulin besides that grin, ya the first one always feels the best  

CHORUS

I've hauled many thousand tons in twenty years or more

And I guess we shared some beauties as we lined up to that door

but there never was a sun that rose above that harvest road

like the sun that lit the morning of the day of my first load 

CHORUS