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  • I've never been a huge fan iof Red Sovine, but Phantom 309 is a classic.

  • if you aint haulin goods you better be haulin ass

  • Yea JRoc from TPB sent me here too! Drunk passed out phantom 309 mothaf**ka. It all makes sense now

  • Wow that's hard as f**k. I love it! Kinda reminds me of peewee Herman when he says large marge sent him and everyone looks at him

  • i get shivers listening to this

  • i work at a truck stop. One of our drivers was getting fuel and when I asked him his truck number he told me 309. I couldn't stop the little smile and he caught it. He grinned at me and said " i can't believe you caught that". Why was he so suprised? probably because I'm only 19. I love this song!

  • My uncle had this on 8 track back in the 70's.

  • My dad got this on his truckin' hits CD

  • I love this song. I am a non typical person now though. Many people dont like type of music but why. This song is Awesome.

  • Makes me miss the trucking days of my childhood. I believe ya sam

  • I love this song! My dad told me to look up this and now its my favorite song!!!

  • TELL EM'... LARGE MARGE SENT YA! AHHAHAHAHA

  • The first time I heard this song (a long time ago) it scared me a bit -- and then I heard it later on and it made me cry.

  • ghost trucker phantom 309

  • ghost trucker

  • son this old mack can put 'em all to shame

  • This song, This fucking song.

  • im crying cause i miss my dad casue he hasn't been home for a week and i just keep listening to this song

  • Good stuff from way back in the day.....

  • Me and my dad got stuck at those crossroads, the engine gave out. Phantom309 and Big Joe are real, I knew something was up; I had a cold chill when Big Joe locked it down. This is real, not fake; that truck gives off that sort of vibe.

  • ive seen the black dog its a weird sight

  • This real truckin music

  • if only the world had more big joes

  • me and my grandpa would listen to red sovine when we took road trips....i miss those trips

  • J-Roc from Trailer Park Boys sent me here. :D:D:D

  • As a trucker, this song as always played in my rig. My rig's a freightshaker.  Love this song

  • ....... omgoodness .... This the song Red musta wrote after watching " Pee Wees' Big Adventure " when Pee Wee was hitch hiking at night and Large Marge stopped her tractor and picked up Pee Wee ... Prob the scary est part of the movie ..

  • Love this song, gets kinda teared up

  • Story of my fathers life one time, so when dad passed, I named my rig 309.

  • my dad drives truck and he said that hitchikers come in all shapes sizes, colors, ages, phsycle condition and every one of em have the same thing in common....what do you think that is?

  • lol is this story really true

  • @101skaterpimp yes it is a true story

  • This song gets me every time.

  • When i got to the weigh station and told the cops who i was and what had happened, they told me that every few years somebody will come in telling the same story. Turns out there was a rtig that went off a bridge in bad weather, but no one found it for 2 or 3 days. the trucker drowned. myt description of the guy, his trig and what he said matched up to the guy who drowned. Man, I was never so happy to get to a bus station and buy a ticket for the rest of the way and never hitched again

  • @Looshmal that sounds like quite the experience!

  • @bmxstar43 Yeah. Just typing that story out gave me the creeps. I haven't told that story much, to family or friends, I thought that they'd think me crazy looney. I had never told my wife about it, neither, strangely enough (NOT the girl from Talahasse!)...when I told her, she stayed up all night with the bedside lamp on! Hehe..that ALONE was worth it!

  • loved red sovine since i was about 10 . his stories are sad =(

  • hey, can you upload 'phantom windbreaker'?

    it's a funny song by Red Sovine.

    thanks.

    :)

  • big man 210?

  • Wow Wow Wowl :-) I remember when I was a kid in the 70s and Bill Mack used to play this on his all night trucking road show on WBAP

  • @ChuChu353 Bill Mack on WBAP! He was the man.

  • im 23 and love this music where is red from ive herd red a few times on country gold

  • im 23 and love this music where is

  • my my, how this brings back my memories..my brother was a trucker..actually,two of my brothers were and two nephews

  • I met BiG JOE.up in TN, at 3am on a rainy summer night.

  • @mogges1 I was hitchhiking down I-10 in 1985, going to see my girlfriend in Talahasse, it started raining on me just outside of Mobile,This truckergave me a lift all the way to the state line. We shot the breeze, just normal stuffWe were about 5 miles from a weigh station when he pulled off to the side and let me downWhen I reached back to get my bag, he turned and smiled and said, "when u get to the station, tell them there's been an accident." I didn't know what to think so i walked on.

  • for those that don't know it Red was a trucker at one time

  • Creepy.yet heartwarming.

  • ahhh i love this old music Why cant they make music like this anymore?

  • i guest big joe is a ghost.

  • Haven't heard this on the radio in years!

  • Love my truckers!!

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  • @bloodofdraco no shit

  • this here is wha you call good ol music most folks done forgot about the classics unfortunately

  • my father was a truck driver and he got me in to this kind of music and my sister said to me why do you listen you shit like that and i said what sort of music do you listen to? she said umm lady ga ga and justin bieber shit like that and i laughed my head off.

  • 7 people have never seen Phantom 309

  • My son has his cdl learners and he travling now calls me when he is gone so i wont worry to much when he is on the road. I worry about wrecks you here about tractor trailers wrecking a lot but he is with some one who better be experience. so he can keep my oldest son safe.

  • im only 15 and songs like this should be played everyday

  • god bless Red Sovine........ America needs more people like him......

  • ok

    

  • some might think im full of shit but my dad and i seen Phantom 309 it is a big black Mack when he passed us it was just a glow i never seen so many lights on a truck before in my life and i have been on the road with my dad for 19 years i love it iv seen it all and Phantom 309 is out there

  • @samllblockboy cool story bro...

  • @peterlol21 true story man i seen everything a man can see all of Canada and the U,S,A

  • @samllblockboy Hey, no shit. I run heavy too. I swear I think i have seen 309 but in my case it was south Georgia? Check out Tom Waits version of the song to, I bet youll love it

  • @samllblockboy Wait Are You Serious??? I Think I have seen Phantom 309 Infact I have a video of it on my ipod!!!

  • Everytime I hear this song i get the chills!

  • O_o Is it weird if I know a fat trucker named Big Joe?

  • Did this actually happen to old Red? Or Just a made up song that's kinda cool.

  • Red is the man! This is great Heartland music.

  • the swamper owned the 401 for yaers that was my grandfater these songs bring me back to when him n i wer still drivin

  • Im 16 and love this song and this type of music

  • i Used to bunk school and go out with my dad in his volvo F88 then F10, and he used to always play this. oh how i miss them days x

  • Yes, I would keep that dime! Every so often I'd speak of it,/A gift from a trucker I'd say/ A good friend to all on the line/If ever you meet Big Joe and Phantom 309/tell 'em Red says hello/And never forgets/That night in the cold/ When a drifter down on his luck/Met with a truck/And the driver inside/Who gave him a dime/And the knowledge/Of good for all time.

  • great song based on an old folk tale

  • @mourningwoody67 LMAO - Try listening - really listening - to the song again........

  • Red Sovine can capture your heart in a moment. He captured mine back in the sixties.

    God Bless you Red.

  • i love this sng they remind me of my dad n my dad loves these ole songs

  • my dad being a trucker I have grown up listening to these wonderful songs. My kids love them too. Hopefully they carry on for many years

  • oh man i love this song, my dad had a whole cd's of trucker songs lol a mix of red sovine and amanda marshall haha i grew up listning to that cd when i hear these songs i get butter flys in my tummy =] i love my daddy =D <3 you daddy

  • The best truckin' song I've ever heard. I listen to it all the time. Great story. Phantom 309.

  • this song always gives me chills when i hear it . i grew up listening to red and still love the songs .they just dont make songs like that anymore.

  • @mourningwoody67 your an idiot.....would'nt you risk your life to save a bunch of kids you dipstick

  • @mourningwoody67 I can tell you have never pushed truck. Why don't you get up on the big road and pull out just in front of a rig doing the speed limit, and tell Jesus I said hi.

  • @mourningwoody67 also i heard nothing about a cliff in the song. what the hell are you listening to cause it aint the same thing im hearing.

  • @mourningwoody67 the kids were not walking, he said it was a bus load of kids. in other words they were in a bus. why not try listening to the song.

  • still remember the first time i heard this song

  • This country has lost its passion and respect for what made it great.

  • This happened to me once.

  • 'Classic' . . And always will be . . .

  • Reminds me of my grandpa R.I.P grandpa bough

  • You know what i miss these songs I'm 30 this year and I grew up with the best parents who rasied me with this music and I almost forgot about them but everythime I think I did someone reminds me and I just hope that my daughter respects these songs as much as I do

  • A great song from times gone by....

  • One of the Best!  One of the originals!!

  • can,t beat a classic song like this

  • the lonely turnpike !

  • this was one of the courtin' songs that brought my marriage together....I love to hear him tell me that story.........he just shared it with me on my birthday...love it stil...

  • Why would anybody feel the need to dislike a classic like this?

  • @SuperSaiyan877 I guess they just don't know what good music is like.

  • Great Song !

  • Magic!

  • Reds songs makes me wanna carry my grandpas legacy and start friggen riggin

  • @gittigers08 Come on out and play with us !! Just make sure you keep a back-up career in hand because it's getting worse all the time.

  • @gittigers08 hard life hard times,,,we all enjoy company of each other,i would love to say, i would do it all again,,NO ,ill go for a run anytime,,,love my grandchildren's now,,,,miss my own kids growing up...that hurts

  • i'm 3 and been listening to this for years

  • @chucksandkhakis um lol?

  • Ohh man this rules..

  • i beat you, tugboat8801. i'm 15 and i love this song. i've listened to these songs for years, and i can't get stop listning to them.

  • well hell i beat yall all on age im 14 and yet i still like this

  • @tugboat8801 the first time I hear this I was younger than you and I have listened to this thousands of times and it never gets old.

  • @tugboat8801 im 12

  • damn good story to this song

  • I have always LOVED Red Sovine ever since I was a little girl. They sure don't make good music like this anymore.

  • helluva song 39 years got tired of it ....but I still miss it .

  • Darn me! we got ourselfs 7 hippies voting against this song..

  • Red is awesome :)

  • we had a good ole boy like that up here

    we'd catch up wih him on the road and he'd drop us off at the creek and give us a huge lecture about bears

    on his way back he'd stop and give us a lift back into town his truck was in the best shape ever.

  • The Passenger door swings open and the Driver ask you need a ride ? " Hell Ya" ; going to perry ? MY Truck only had Five Forward with a Two speed ; I had never ridden in a rig that Big before ; Cherokee Strip was our destination ; Never seen him since ; I Wish i could seee him again and thank him ; tried to post this last evening the board kept eating my Messages ? A coupla years later just one mile North of that same spot ; I Just barely escaped Dying ; Later

  • They don't make em like this anymore. good music never gets old. I'am 20 and I love this type of music.

  • @MissWWE20 im 17 and i like it too even when i was 10

  • THEY JUST DONT MAKE MUSIC LIKE THIS ANY MORE trucker1055@yahoo.com

  • @MissWWE20 I too am a Truck Driver hauling all over the United States and this song gives me chills every time i hear it !

  • @MissWWE20 i have always loved this music and im only 12; turning 13 in march

  • @MissWWE20 same here 21 years old and grew up on this

  • @MissWWE20 Wow! You are so unique for listening to such old music and only being 20. Obviously 41 people are really impressed by how different you are. I envy you! I wish I listened to this music a year ago, my life would be so much more impressive and then I could say something cool like that on this video!!!

  • @MissWWE20 i like this one

  • @MissWWE20 I'm 17 & have been listening to Red for my whole life, my dad taught me & his mom taught him & so it will go on forever

  • @MissWWE20 yes i like this song. how are you would you like to be friends

  • @MissWWE20 I liked these songs when i was 15, im 19 now and still do =P

  • @MissWWE20 nobody cares how old you are

  • proud to see more and more red sovine songs on youtube

  • my dad said he got a ride from him and he said when he got drop off the tale light disappeared

  • @GodzillaRules12345 did he get a dime?

  • i hated country music, then i got a job at a restraunt that played old country, it was western themed and i heard the oldies over and over then they grew on me and i like alot of them, this is one of them. good song how he took his own life 2 save them kids, good times and memories 2 this.

  • I bet this was the inspiration for Large Marge in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure/

    This is a good song.

  • Still chokes me up a bit.

  • K does anyone know the song Damn the D.O.T u Fuckers???? and where I can find it..lol Its a trucker song...

  • @GorrillyGirl lol try Elmer Fuducker

  • i used to do an over nite truckers show on KWKH radio back in the 70's , no telling how many times i played 309 for some trucker.

  • I remember listening to this song in the night on the old vacuum tube radio. Made my hair stand on end.

  • If technology increases at the rate it has in the last ten years, there will not be a driver in the cab before long...fully automated....which might be a good idea....

  • GOD Bless the man who parked his truck, accidently shot passing by a gunman.

    somehow he had the strength in him to pull up, not hurt anyone else.

  • damn what a beautifull song, it takes my heart

  • I am pround he is from West Virginia.Jack

  • my dad drove  truck for years he loved this song he has been gone 33 years and i still remember him listening to this song

  • my mother played this song for me and it touched my heart and i felt this is an amazing song

  • I got goose bumps from this one. It's just great! 

  • this song gives me goose bumps everytime

  • i have three uncles and a father who all drive trucks and i grew up around them

    them there truckers are good ole boys they'll stop for anyone!

    AMEN to all the truckers out there. GOD BLESS

  • Little sappy but it still a great song - almost forgot about it. I remember the story was a stunner as it unfolded when I first heard it as a kid.

  • lonelyonelooking Jesus, my King , loves you. Love Him.

  • this song always brought tears to my eyes. My papa loved and drove mack b models for years. We still have a couple his and a restored one. He was killed when he wrecked his and everytime I hear this song I think about him.

  • Among my Top 10 favorite songs of all time . . . When it's the dark and damp in the middle of winter . . I play my album all the time . . : >) Definitely captures the mood. Simply a great story . . Even though the sound is a little watery here . . I can see the record spinnin' on the turntable : >) . . Guys who write songs like this are The Real Deal . . e.g. Been There / Done That . .

  • this is the first song i sung from beginning to the end and will remember it all if someone would ask. I did'nt know this song rings through for some. next time i think of this song I will remember that truck drivers are not only kings of the road but are also humbled by the road.

  • songs fuckiing boss!

    

  • lonelyonelooking> god already forgave you now you just have to forgive yourself.

  • Now, I've heard of guardian angels and saving graces, but it is really diffrent when you hear about a guardian angel trucker who makes a run he can't finish. My ol' man used to drive a truck, and he was a teamster, right before he got laid off, he was cut off by some woman in a minivan.

  • great song

  • RED SOVINE RULES

  • mmm sorry to here that guys i had a rig drove it for about 10 yrs or so i stopped driven rigs when i was 37 but 6 months before i quit i was driven through this street and there was a mother and her daughter about 4 yrs old and she ran out infront of my rig her name was sally 6 months later i quit big rigs because of that just thought id say that sence everyone else is saying what happend to them

  • I bet you that ole mack with the airbreaks was a dm 800. This reminds me of something happened around here it was real foggy and a bus driver ran out in front of that loaded log truck that trucker swerved busted through that guard rale but if he hadnt of swerved and ran into that creek and died thst bus load of kids would all be dead.

  • howdy yall my handle is big texan and my daddy drives a truck and he all ways talks about this song and one dad i was looking for some classic trucker songs nd i found this one and i started playing it on our way back to texas and he had a great big smile on his face it feels good to see him smile he dont smile much no more it just a good thing to know people still care about trucker and the things they go thow my dads handle is phantom texas he is a car haller u see him talk to him makes him :)

  • Every truck driver knows this song, and the feeling. A special prayer goes out from me to you, in hopes we all come home to our loved 1's safe and sound!

  • Tom waits led me here.. exploring roots is always nice

  • For years and years I searched for this song, and then I found it here. I love it. It has a good lesson in it for all of us I think.

  • i love this song , but their is a version of this song with female backing vocal's . think it was red sovine who sang it , i need to find this version  it is killing me .

    if u can help send me a link etc , i must find this version

    i have looked everywhere and can't fuckin find it yet it bring's back such great memorie's of my childhood

    thnx in advance:)

  • @metalgodz69 its an extended version on only one of his hits cds.

    i cannot for the life of me rememebr which one i used to have it and ya...its a much sadder sounding version.

  • @soulshadowed1 ty soul , now i at least know where to start looking :)

  • @metalgodz69 np

  • "fuckin ray passed out drunk phantom 309 mothafucker"

    a line from Trailer Park Boys that encouraged me to look up this song

  • @tntrance Same here XD

  • This song always makes me cry. ;[

  • Pure trucking...thanks for uploading.

  • GREAT SONG

  • This song takes me back my uncle sang it when I was little. We lost him over 27 years ago. But when I hear this song a can see him singing it like I was yeasterday. So I just wanted to say thank you.

  • man how can you not love these old songs. this is just pure lyrical geniuos straight from the heart.

  • I haven't heard this song since I was about 6 years old. I never was much into country, but every little boy loves trucks and good story. Thanks for putting this up.

  • @douloskyrios7 That's it exactly.

  • It`s cool , thank`s

  • ya this songs the shit