Ever heard a song and then got to live it. My dad was truck driver when he met my mother but her family did not like him they tried to tuff it out but they just could not make it. The last time that i seen him i was six years old. He told my mother that he had a new job that he would be gone for weeks at a time. He never came back but i all ways looked for him everytime that heard or seen a truck. I always said i will drive a truck I would pull my wagons with my pedal car and pratice backing them up, go to the truck stops (the local store). Well time went on and i started driving a truck i was always looking for the driver that went by georgia poorboy. One day i was in texas and stopped to use the phone seen a driver working on his truck i stopped and started talking to him the more that we talked the more i knew that he was my dad i held my hand out and he said your name is smith right and i then said no i am your son i was then 26 years old and had not seen him in 20 years. The tears started to flow. I had a k-100 kenworth that was a show truck he just kept looking at the truck and then me. We talked for a long time and then parted ways we stayed in touch over the years. Everyone would tell me how much that we where alike. He passed away in september of 2004 at the age of 71 was still trucking up until the last 4 months. Every time that i hear "giddy up go" i still tearup and say love you daddy.
giddy up go daddy
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by old-school, May 11, 2008.
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I like a lot of Red Solvine's songs. They all tell a story. Your living one of them and then telling us the story of your meeting gives ya that good feeling down in your gut.
My wife and I have three daughters. They used to sing "Daddy's girl" when we were doing things together. It always put a lump in my throat.
Our oldest was taught to drive in my "Little Red Truck". (F-350 crew cab, Cab and Chassis with a herrin hauler steel "Hauler bed") That girl can drive "Lil Red" almost as good as I can. She can take the 40ft flat goose-neck and back it like a pro.
Even now that she is in Collage and only comes home on the weekends, she takes "Lil Red" to do her running around instead of "Her Mustang". (Of course that means I just HAVE to drive the Mustang when she has "Lil Red"
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Middle daughter ain't no slouch either. Youngest is only 13, but tells me she wants to be like her oldest sister.
Some said I was being "Mean to them" making them LEARN how to drive in "Lil Red". But my thinking is, if they can drive it, park it and back it with a trailer when they drive anything else they will have no problems. So far I have been right.
Oh, here is a picture of "Lil Red"old-school Thanks this. -
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