Cledus Maggard - The White Knight 

I bought an old camper and this cassette was in the tape player. I drove my wife crazy with this shit😂

I found this cassette in my grandpa's truck, when I was a child. Me and him would listen to this tape every time we drove somewhere. Camping, hunting, or just goin out shooting on a weekend. Now I'm a grown man and my grandpa can barely walk,. Such great meaningful memories. I'm crying just listening to this.

Brings back memories from 1976

A friend shared this with me back in 1976. I listened to it a lot and still know the lyrics!! You just can't explain those days. C.W. McCall with Convoy and the whole CB radio craze. It was a lot of fun as a 13 year old kid, that's for sure!! Sonny Pruitt, BJ & the Bear. Sheriff Lobo on TV. Smokey and the Bandit (of course). This song brings back a lot of good memories!!

This song never stops being hysterical!

Haven't heard this song in 45-50 years. Better than I remember! Love it!

Well I jammed my stick, I lost 20 quick you could hear them gears a tearin’ I love this because my Dad was an OTR trucker for about 25 years and I grew up with all these songs

CB Radio = internet of the 70's and 80's

A masterpiece in it's own right. That 'Muttley' laugh...

I remember this song when it first came out. My dad would laugh and laugh when he heard it.

I was a professional trucker for forty years and CB use was like this and smokey and the bear godbless jerry reed.Hale to the olden days

Found a cassette tape about 12 years ago with a ton of Truckin songs and The "White Knight" is one of my favorite songs. Used to get drunk and bumpin these classics Me being a 36 y/o and a skateboarder & all my friends always ask my "what the hell am I listening too" I say, "some of the greatest music ever made" they just laugh. The classic Truckin music. No one makes music like they did back then it's to bad because 80% of today's music is crap!

One way that made this song even funnier back in the record player days was to play it at 78 speed!

I love that laugh of the White Knight! Sure miss those trucking days and the great trucker's music too.

Back in the good ol days . . Yea, now a days, "Good Buddy" is fighting words

..."FORTY MILES OVER THE SPEED LIMIT...you boys gonna be here a spell..."

I laughed my rear off the first time I herd this back in1976, still laughing today!!! love it!! thanks for posting it!!!

Man! What a blast from the past. It doesn't get any better than this.

Loved listening to this beautiful song on the old WAXU radio station out of Georgetown, KY. Picked it up in Midway, KY. Those were the days!

I love these trucker songs! We use to listen to them all the time when I was growing up! (60's and on up) Back in the days when a song told a story! It was like a musical book! Love them all!

I had the record when I was a little fella...loved the truck driving songs. Love the old cabovers!🥰

This is a cool song from the CB era of the 1970's !

Wow, blast from the past, i have this on 45..everytime i hear it i smile..memories!

"Whoa there now good buddy, that there's fightin' talk! I'll get right up there and blow your doors off!"

I haven't heard this song in years. Thanks for posting.

I memorized the lyrics and remember them 40 years later. Every once in a while I suddenly say them in front of a few friends. They think I’m crazy…lol😂

LOL I used to wear out this song, and many other trucker songs, on an 8-Track I owned that had a ton of these on it. 8D The younger kids might have to Google 8-Track, LOL

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I'm 24 and I keep my ears on. Got a Cobra 29 with all the bells and whistles.

This tune has some of the cleverest lyrics and rhymes I've ever heard. Great stroy, great performance by Cledus Maggard.

Got my start in a GMC cab-over. Then a freightliner. I love pumping diesel when it's 5 degrees and a twenty mile an hour wind... Oh those were the day's...

I was married to a trucker.. the songs here are so real and right. TY for the uploads.. awesome music,

these songs kept me going during my 25 years over the road...now I have nearly all driving songs.

Great country classic from the winter of 1976....R.I.P. Mr. Maggard

back when trucking was a whole more funner

man I miss truck driving.!

Where do I begin? This song is like a country music acid trip between the key and temp changes and these insane lyrics. I love how he calls out the best things in the world is 1. Beaver (vagina) 2. Hot biscuits 3. Merle Haggard. In a 70s country music song! I have to wonder if Cleddus was a truck driver IRL. Wonderful details, like going so fast he was throwing the gravel out of his tires. Like a lot of people I heard this on my dad's trucker song cassette tape back in the 70s. Memories 😏

That song was on one of my favorite 8 track tapes!

One day in 1976 they played this song back to back all day long on the radio. I was working with my buddy's and we learned every word. Here it is 2012 and I still remember it. Great funny song! Never thought it would be on youtube. Way to go! Keep on truckin. Thanks for the trip back in the day!

God bless anyone who listened to it and God bless the guys who made it !!!! Oh Lord I miss those days!!!

OMG, I had this album, been looking for this song since the internet. Awesome, it brings back some great memories.

This guy is a funny poet, story-telling balladeer. Just discovered his talents in the last year.

Use to listen to these old songs when I drove a truck, I only drove for three years but i miss it all the time. Once it gets in your blood it's there to stay. Trucking just didnt work for my family anymore hats off to all you big strappers out there keep the dirty side down

"About the time I hit 92 I saw something flashing in my rear view Thought to myself that can't be true but there it was going BLUE BLUE BLUE...Uh oh...Bubble gum machine done hit the jackpot..."

I used to go to a restaurant in Lawton, ok when I drove a 5 ton Army truck just to hear this song.

This takes me back in the day KOB 77 out of Albuquerque, N.M. had an program after Midnight played Truck Driving Music and had Ads for various '76' Trucks Stops across the U.S.(This was in the'70s) And Recollection was the Show was 'Jock Radio'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saw ole Cledus down in Atlanta years back. Amazing the man does all the voices in his songs!

My dad loved this song and would often recite the words to me any time we were talking about cops and/or speeding tickets. Break 1-9 good buddy of mine you got a smoky in a plain white wrapper… Love you dad. Miss you…

Me and my dad had to move trucks cross country when this song was new ...Had a blast with it.

I performed the Cotton Picker's part in a band called Double Nickels at the Hitch 'n' Rail in the mid 70s. That club was located about halfway between St. Paul and Hudson WI on I-94 when it was still open access highway. Ed Alberg (RIP) was the club owner. The other band members are still with us and in the Twin Cities. Our band was inducted into the MidAmerica Music Hall of Fame in 2010. If Cledus Maggard ever reads this, a huge tip of the hat. That was a happier time.

had this on 8 track back in 1976 ,Have not heard this since my tape busted in 1980

* cassette?! Y'all make me laugh. I listen to this on 8-track over and over and over...!* 🫶🍀🤞👍

You can tell we is gettin old, how bout it Good Buddy's? 10-4 Over & Out..

This Song Went To Number 19 On The Billboard Hot 100 Chart In 1976.

I played drums in a band here in Kentucky, in 1999, called Mudflap-and we did a hell of a version of this- the thing was! I didn't hear this version until 2006- this is glorious- the leader of our band preferred that if we hadn't heard the original versions of our covers, that we didn't listen to them while we were making ours! what a blast

I found this song like three months ago and I play it all the time love the crap out of it!!!!!

This is the most hilarious, creative piece of work I have ever heard. This song is timeless even though the old cb has come and gone....

1975 to 1977 were the golden years for CB radio songs. The 1970’s had both the greatest and some of the worst songs every recorded, but I’d give anything to return to those days. It’s funny to think that when this song was recorded there was a producer in the recording booth saying, “Man! This is gonna be a gold record!”

Love it thought I'd heard them all I love how he singing about all real highways in Georgia 92 85 20 75 all there

I remember when that first aired! Classic. Thanks for sharing!

Love all the tunes these guys made,ha ha

got pulled over in texas by a DPS officer, he was working his 2 18hour shift and he wanted it to know I had any stay-a-wakes, I gave him 3 and never had a problem driving across I-40 in texas.

Hit #1 country, #19 pop, in Billboard. Only top 40 pop hit for Cledus. God bless!

just discovered these old songs I think there great

One of my favorite trucking Songs, listened to this all the time

I grew up on this song. Mom had a 2 LP set called "Truckin' On" filled with trucking songs. I wish I could get on CD all those songs.

thanks for bringing back those memories,i totally for about cledus..I even had this album what a time

Take a walk down memory lane, 70s cb songs. This is a great one.

Good tune! My Dad sent me this! He said it was one that they used to listen to all the time on the radio.

Was lucky enough to see him live in Richmond Virginia. I think I was about 13. 😂

This song always put a smile om my face. After CB Radio, I moved on to Ham Radio. :-)

Great song! Just thought about it last night! Thanks for the post!

My dad had this record when I was a kid. I remember playing it on the record player. My mom still has the album. Picture is the album cover I remember for sure; front and back. Several funny songs on that album. Kentucky Moonrunner was one of my faves! I was born in 1977, so it pre-dates me by a year. Good stuff!

I remember 1976.. 11 years old. Dad had a CB.. Car, and base.. i was hooked too..

Red Sovine ( I think its spelled that way )had put out a lot of trucker songs back then . My dad being a trucker I heard them all . "Giddy up Go" is the one I remember most .

You got that right. Life was so much better back then. Lots of good positive times in those days.

I love it when the cop says How bout it.

Citizens Band keeps you up there with all those Fender Benders! LOL Pure Genius! Brilliant

Miss those evenings sitting out in my dad's station wagon talking to a girl with the handle Puppy Love back in the mid seventies.

I remember hearing this song every so often out west on the am radio skip while running all night. It would play on the Dave Nemo Show.

Love this

DonTittle-I learned to drive a tractor-trailer @13. Dad taught me on the way across west Texas going into N.M. inanold Pete cabover w/ a quad-turbo KTA Cummins and a 15 spd. double o.d. That was in 1977 and I had to give-up driving due to health reasons in 2010. This music sure brings back memories.

Wish I woulda bought this back in '76. Some funny stuff on this whole album.

A true classic but this is the "short" version. I still have the 45 of the long version. I sing this song all the time, even when I'm out driving.

my handle is pink lightning :) headed for miami in january :) i love trucks and cb's

Aaaahhhh I love cabovers

I had this very lp as a kid and loved then and love now

I have been listening to this song for as long as it has been out. I now live in Lake City that was spoken about as it is only a 45 min drive to the Georga state line.

I finally found this! I have been searching for years! Thank you so much for uploading it!

Kentucky Moon Runner was another good one on this album. So many!!

Down 75 or 85 Or I-20 t'other way Turn your squelch to the right And in the night You'll hear some good buddy say "Breaker breaker Got a picture taker All Smokeys at forty three." It's that Japanese toy The trucker's joy That everybody calls CB Yeah, Citizen's Band, keeps you up to date On fender benders and Tijuana taxis And all them bears out there. Flip flop Now ahead of your children and ahead of your wife On the list of the ten best things in life Your CB's gotta rate right around number four 'Course beavers and hot biscuits and Merle Haggard Come one, two, three, you know Well I was loaded down, coming outta Lake City; I was checkin' out seat covers, young and pretty When all of a sudden there come a call Over my CB, ringin' wall to wall Said clove her double nickels till you hit the ridge 'Cause there's a Smokey picture taker t'other side of the bridgeOh mercy, 'ppreciate that, good buddy; What's your handle there, come on? You got any county mounties out there prowlin', come on?" And he said -- "Ten four...back door Put the peddle to the metal and...let it roar Hammer down...to Macon town... Gonna see my momma...sure Well, the bears are gone Let's...bring it on... The Georgia line's...out of sight Pulled outta Richmond town last Saturday night And my handle is...the White Knight How 'bout it?" "All right, White Knight, hammer down You got the mean machine here." I was a streakin' My needle was a peakin' A right around seventy nine That old diesel juice Was a gettin' loose And everything was fine But wall to wall I got a call Front door, big bear trapper Said, "Break one nine Good buddy of mine You got a Smokey in a plain white wrapper." Well I jammed my stick I lost twenty quick; You could hear them gears a tearin' I got passed by a beaver And a Camaro I was cruisin' alone And going so slow I could count every button on that frilly blouse she was wearin' 'Course there weren't but one "Hey there, super trooper! Yeah -- that's the crafty Smokey over there with a CB of his own Hey White Knight, let's slide one on the super trooper, come on?" "Ten four, back door Put the peddle to the metal, whatcha...waitin' for? That old flop Can't stay in sight Gonna leave you here and say no more How 'bout it?" "Whoa, now, buddy, that's fightin' talk I'd get up there and blow your doors off!" Well I hammered down like I had wings Little gravels in my wheels going ping, ping, ping 'Bout the time I hit ninety-two Saw something flashing' in my rear view Thought to myself that can't be true But there it was, old blue, blue, blueUh oh. Bubble gum machine done hit the jackpot Well I could see that bear, laughing big Hangin' in tight on the back of my rig Right there and then it came to be wall to wall Mm-hmm So in that cold dark Georgia night In the shadows of Smokey bear's blue light I 'cided to make me just one more CB call "Breaker one nine for the super trooper Hey there, Smokey old buddy, tell me if I'm right Are you my front door? Are you the White Knight? Come on?" And he said -- "Ten four, back door You're in a heap of trouble boy...that's for sure Gonna read you your rights, and treat you fair Pull over there With your...rockin' chair Want you boys to know each other real well 'Cause you gonna be sharin' the same jail cell You make twelve cotton pickers I've caught tonight From the front door of that White Knight Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!! How 'bout it? Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!! Forty miles over the speed limit! You boys gonna be here a spell Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!! Hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha-hhha!!"

I remember hearing this on the top 40!

those were the fun days !

Met my wife on the CB in 1977. She was 14 and I was 15, still together after 41 yrs. Oh and by the way, still have those 23 channel CB's we met on. Been quite a ride.

My mom worked with his niece who got him to send me an autographed copy of his album.

Any buddy here 2019 no... ok just me😖

The best never rest. I really like this song

Jay Huguely hit #19 in Billboard, 3-13-76. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

LOL this bring back memories I had a cb then. My handle was peppermint patty.

Saw that ending coming. Any invitation to open it wide & let it roar, sounded like a set-up. I never would've fallen for that.