I am an old-timer, I travel the road I sit in me wagon and lumber me load The hotel's me jungle, the caff's me abode And I'm well known to Blondie and Mary Me liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea And the old highway code was me first abc I cut me eye-teeth on an old AEC And I'm champion at keeping them rolling I've sat in me cabin and broiled in the sun Been snowed up on Shap on the Manchester run I've crawled through a fog with me twentytwo tons Of fish that was stinking like blazes From London to Glasgow to Newcastle quay From Liverpool, Preston to Bristol City The polones on the road give the thumb sign to me For I'm champion at keeping them rolling You may tongue of your soldiers and sailors so bold But there's many and many a hero untold Who sits at the wheel in the the heat and the cold Day after day without sleeping So watch out for coppers and slow down at bends Check all your gauges and watch your big ends And zig with your lights when you pass an old friend You'll be champion at keeping them rolling I am an old-timer, I travel the road I sit in me wagon and lumber me load The hotel's me jungle, the caff's me abode And I'm well known to Blondie and Mary Me liquor is diesel oil laced with strong tea And the old highway code was me first abc I cut me eye-teeth on an old AEC And I'm champion at keeping them rolling