Rule of the Road (With Apologies to Country Dick Montana)

Pack up the gear
Pack it up all nice and tightly
Let it tamp down the fear
Fear that follows you day and nightly

How could all this delicate circuitry
Survice all the way
The rumbling from Winnepeg to Thunder Bay

Everything that you take on this trip
Is gonna be broken by the time you get back
Everything that you take on this trip
Is gonna be broken by the time you get back

Now you know
You can't say I didn't tell you so
There's only one rule of the road

You've got a dream
Give you any chance, you'll take it
You've assemblеd a team
How could you not possibly make it?

Well look out, kid, causе it’s a long long list
Starting with Roger’s Pass, pregnancy
Feldman and Asscociates--

Everything that you take on this trip
Is gonna be broken by the time you get back
Everything that you take on this trip
Is gonna be broken by the time you get back

Now you know
You can’t say I didn’t tell you so
There’s only one rule of the road

I used to say
It was important to travel lightly
But even at that age
I knew it wasn’t bloody likely

But if you’re a True Believer
You’ll believe me when I say
I drove from Montreal to Sackville
And was grateful just to play
That very same day
And I forgot to get paid--

Everything that you take on this trip
Is gonna be broken by the time you get back
Everything that you take on this trip
Is gonna be broken by the time you get back

Now you know
You can’t say I didn’t tell you so
There’s only one rule of the road