I drive a big freightliner an' I make the last payment today.
An' I drive to all points outta New York City to LA.
Well, the little woman smiles when I pack up to leave her
I'll soon be back, but I just got the fever,
She's a believer.
I got the freightliner fever.

There's a railroad a-runnin' by a highway out in Santa Fe.
An' I passed an old freight train makin' his run the other day.
Merle Haggard said to his fireman, so pale:
He's blowin' this freight train off of the rail.
He got the fever.
He's got the freightliner fever.

Well, Pierce said "Red, what you carryin' in that cigarette
pack?"
I said: "I got my second driver an' he's gonna drive all
the way back."
It's a big black pill, so long an' round.
To a driver, it's west coast turnaround.
It's for the fever.
That ol' freightliner fever.

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Well, I passed Dave Dudley up in Pittsburgh, Pensylvania
An' I passed Del Reeves down in Shreeveport, Louisianna.
Dick Curtis got hung on a hill up in Maine,
I pulled him on over with my forty-foot chain.
He got the fever, Fever
He's got the freightliner fever.

I been passin' everything from a Jimmy to a Greyhound bus.
I'm gonna spend a few days out on the west coast at the end of my run.
Ya know giddy-up go an' a little bit of luck,
I'm gonna pass Red Simpson in his runaway truck,
He's got the fever, Fever
He's got the freightliner fever.

Well, Pierce said "Red, what you carryin' in that cigarette
pack?"
I said: "I got my second driver an' he's gonna drive all
the way back."
It's a big black pill, so long an' round.
To a driver, it's a west coast turnaround.
It's for the fever. Fever
That ol' freightliner fever.

Yeah, out on this road you pass a lot of them old contry boys,
I seen Carl Smith an' Charley Pride.
Ernest Tubbs, Bill Monroe.
Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings.
See Dave Dudley, George Jones.
Porter Wagoner, Bill Anderson.
Faron Young, Stonewall Jackson.
Roy Accuff...