The Ghost on Funk Road - Transcript
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[Bob Eyres]
The first story I ever heard about it was there was some high school girls come in from a sports event...
[Woman]
And they were all talking about ghosts out on the Funk-Odessa Road out here. It’s just this next corner, straight out.
[Bob Eyres]
They didn’t want to but they felt compelled to pick up the hitchhiker.
[Man #1]
On the Funk-Odessa Road people swerve to miss him and nothing being there. They get out and not one’s there.
[Bob Ayres]
And when he got in... quoting scripture to them from the Bible. And when they got to where they was supposed to take him he had disappeared.
Hello. I’m Bob Ayers. This is a song I wrote about the ghost on the Funk Road.
There’s a ghost on the Funk Road
You might see it standing in he mist...
[Hichhicker]
It seems like a ghost the way the people have been passing him by, you know. Maybe that’s the reason why there’s nobody stopping.
He’ll get in beside you and read you the Bible
Then vanish like the willow-the-wisp.
Up ahead a truckstop, jukebox playing be-bop
And truckers sit and tell those haunted tales.
[Man #2]
You know, I’m a going down this road quite a few years and I haven’t heard nothing about it.
But down past the river, bound to make the heart shiver
The ghost hitchhiker turns some faces pale.
[Man #1]
The people that I’ve heard that’s seen it... said that he looks like just, you know, a normal person. There is no apparition about him. Doesn’t even look ghostly. But they... when they give him a ride he just kind of disappears.
Is he angel? Is he devil? And is the phantom on the level?
And would you know if he’s got good soul?
It’s hard to analyze his mystic rock and roll.
So if you’re driving after midnight
And you catch his attention in your headlights
Don’t slow down until you get to town
But keep it fifty-five and you stay alive.
There’s a ghost on the Funk Road
And who he was I’ll probably never know.
[Bob Ayres]
I’d like to know but... some things we’ll never find out.
There’s a ghost on the Funk Road.
There’s a ghost.
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