Jim Croce - Rapid Roy (The stock car boy)

Jim Croce - Rapid Roy (The stock car boy)

Oh rapid roy that stock car boy
He too much too believe
You know he always got an extra pack of cigarettes
Rolled up in his t-shirt sleeve
He got a tattoo on his arm that say "baby"
He got another one that just say "hey"
But every Sunday afternoon he is a dirt track demon
In a '57 Chevrolet

Oh rapid roy that stock car boy
He's the best driver in the land
He say that he learned to race a stock car
By runnin' shine outta alabam'
Oh the demolition derby
And the figure eight
Is easy money in the bank
Compared to runnin' from the man
In oklahoma city
With a 500 gallon tank

Oh rapid roy that stock car boy
He too much too believe
You know he always got an extra pack of cigarettes
Rolled up in his t-shirt sleeve
He got a tattoo on his arm that say "baby"
He got another one that just say "hey"
And Sunday afternoon he is a dirt track demon
In a '57 Chevrolet

Yeah roy so cool
That racin' fool he don't know what fear's about
He do a hundred thirty mile an hour
Smilin' at the camera
With a toothpick in his mouth
He got a girl back home
Name of dixie dawn
But he got honeys all along the way
And you oughta hear 'em screamin'
For that dirt track demon
In a '57 Chevrolet

Oh rapid roy that stock car boy
He too much too believe
You know he always got an extra pack of cigarettes
Rolled up in his t-shirt sleeve
He got a tattoo on his arm that say "baby"
He got another one that just say "hey"
But every Sunday afternoon he is a dirt track demon
In a '57 Chevrolet

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• Leroy
• Brown

[KaptKan1]

Jim was a genuine American folk artist -- he sang songs about the folks, from Leroy Brown to the Roller Derby Queen -- and he may well have been the last one. Nobody since has dispensed folk wisdom like "you don't mess around with Jim" and "Leroy learned a lesson bout messin with the wife of a jealous man" and we aren't likely to hear such bullseye poetry again.

[Lyvanda]

Doing 130 mile an hour smiling at the camera with a toothpick in his mouth~ Classic! :D

[RayneAngelus]

This bloody thing plays at work a lot, but compressed so it's hard to understand, been driving me nuts. Picked my dad's brain and he was able to ID the song, now I can actually follow it when it plays at work.

[McKrustyBusiness]

@mtcamp62 You guys are lucky i am jealous beyond belief . i wish i grew up back in the day.. this generation today is driving me insane. Im 18, I swear i was meant to grow up then...

[HowellHomeTeam]

Don't lie on tags. That's just dumb

[LaGuardiaSuiza]

THANK-YOU for posting this song. I have been trying to find the "long version," with the guitar bridge, on youtube.

[mtcamp62]

@donwlsn86 Hey neighbor, What a trip! I grew up right next door to San Marino school and San Marino park on a culdesac San Rolando way on the S/E corner of Valley View and Crescent. I was 12 in 74'. You said you spent the summer there so I assume you didn't reside there. I'd be interested If I knew your friends. Sounds like we had the same damn parties. Remember the street they lived on? It was a bitchen' place to grow up back then. How cool!

[donwlsn86]

@mtcamp62 Wow, I thought i was the only one! I spent the summer of '74 in Buena Park, I was almost 12. My oldest brother's best friends mom's house came complete with a pool, rec room w/ pool table, dart board, and of course a full bar. Red split window '63 'vette in the driveway. His friends were Vets, hippies, or both. I believe we were a few blocks south east of the 91 and Valley View. Great summer in O. C.!!

[luvtotruck]

Hey game thanks for postin Jimbo's hillarious truck driving song Speedball Tucker I forgot about the pills and California turnarounds. Song is a hoot.

[julianwellls]

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