Operation X lyrics

Song information

Artist: Dave Dudley
Album: Truck Drivin' Son Of A Gun

Lyrics

(Well as long as there's a truck I won't forget korea and operation x)
I won't forget the year of '54 I drove a truck in that korean war
Haulin' gi's to the front and back in a truck they called duce and a half
The orders called it operation x we had to move in just an hour or less
First echelon and maintenance that was all and there were twenty men I had to haul
That south korean sky was smoky black I was third in convoy from the back
But twenty minutes out they hit the nail it was mortar they were sendin' in the mail
We'll scatter out and find a hole they said cause operation x is catchin' lead
I wheeled into a sideroad to the left drivin' to an almost certain death
I heard the steady creepin' of the shells the burnin' powder sent a deadly smell
And it happened as I pulled into a stop they hit us and I blacked out from the shock
Somehow I got back to the states alive and now I got another rig to drive
My bumper sign says operation x it's there cause I'm the only one that's left
Operation x it's there cause I'm the only one that's left
Yeah it's there cause I'm the only one that's left
Operation x it's there cause I'm the only one that's left

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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