Hoyt Axton at Boar's Nest

Thank you my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for sharing Boss Hogg introducing Hoyt Axton performing Speed Trap at Boar's Nest on The Dukes of Hazard.

Speed Trap
Lyrics
"I'm the cop in a little bitty town
And I don't get much pay
Oh, but I caught seventeen out-of-state cars
And four of my friends today

Yeah, I let the hometwon boys go home
They paid five dollars bail
Oh, but all the drivers in the out-of-sate cars
Had to go to jail

Yeah, they hollered and they moaned, they cried and they groaned
They all swore that they'd sue
But the judge was high, and so was I
And we needed the money due

Yeah, the judge and me got a deal, you see
We split the money fair
'Cept thirty percent to the county seat
Keep the law out of our hair

And ol' Charlie's workin' out real good at down at the corner store where
The red light is. He sees them out-of-state plates two blocks away. When
They get right on top of that green light, ol' Charlie pushes that secret
Button underneath the corner drug store counter. And that yellow light only
Lasts for a tenth of a second.

Yeah, the county pays me about fourty a week
Ain't that the livin' end
If it wasn't for them tourists in them out-of-state cars
I'd have no loot to spend

But the way it stands this year so far,
I've made four hundred thou
For a high school dropout, I'm doin' fine
I'm makin' more than the president now

For a high school dropout, I'm doin' fine
I'm makin' more than the president now

So if you're drivin' down the road
And a flashin' light you see
If they're on top of a red Rolls-Royce
You can bet your boots it's me

'Cause I'm the cop in a little bitty town
And I'd sure like to see
All you drivers in them out-of-state cars
Try to get by me."

FYI Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown 1stSgt Eugene Harless CW5 John M. MSG Andrew White SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Michael Thorin SGT (Join to see) SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SP5 Robert Ruck SPC Margaret Higgins Maj Marty Hogan SSgt Brian Brakke Sgt Arthur Caesar SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL

Oldie that is new to me.

CW5 Jack Cardwell, Hoyt Axton graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, FL in 1956. I graduated from the same high school years later! We had the same teacher for junior English, and she told us more than once about the police knocking on her classroom door, asking for Hoyt, and him jumping out of a window and then running down McDuff Avenue to try and get away. He did not escape!