The Rumblers

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                                                                                                  </I></div> <div>          <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>     ( Truckmen )</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>These are the huskies who truck the freight</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>From Hudson River to Golden gate</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>These are the fellows who make the hauls</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To Key West, Trenton, Niagara Falls.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Nor rain in torrents, nor snow in mounds</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Shall stay these carriers from their rounds,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>From dawn to darkness, from dark to dawn,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With bulging cargoes they rumble on.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>They rumble, they rumble,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They rumble up and down</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>By desert, farm and town,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They rumble up the mountain, down the glen,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And when they've dumped their load</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They rumble down the road</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And loaded to the shackle-bolts again!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Basso-profundo the motor throbs</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>As these guys pilot theit ten-wheel jobs</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>9It takes a-plenty of skill and thought</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To jockey the course of a juggernaut).</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For whether it's steel for a Liberty ship</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Or bombs addressed to the Hun or Nip,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>It is their mission, it is their care</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>To rumble onward and get them there.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>They rumble, they rumble</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They rumble where they're sent</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Around the continent</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>From anywhere to everywhere and back,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And any place you travel</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In mud or sand or gravel</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Rumblers have already made a track.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>These are the Rumblers, the highway Lords</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Who scorn the Packards and snoot the Fords,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But kindly despots and quick to aid</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When your gas runs out on a mountain grade,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And then they'e off as the gear-shift clanks</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And the sound of the Diesels drowns your thanks,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And soon that, too, is a distant grumble,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For the war won't wait and they "gotta rumble."</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>They rumble, they rumble</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They rumble far and wide</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Rolling like a tide</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They rumble where a rabbit couldn't climb</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Across te country's highways</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And by the trails and byways</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>they rumble in with plenty--on on time!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in:</I><I> </I><A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Short Stories"><U><I>Short Stories </I></U></A><I>magazine</I><I> - May 25, 1944</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>