Jerry Reed - Legend Lyrics






You heard about the legend of Jesse James
And John Henry just to mention some names
Well there's a truck drivin' legend in the south today
A man called Bandit from Atlanta GA

Every gear jammer knows his name
They swear he’s got ice water runnin' in his veins
A foot like lead and nerves like steel
He's gonna go to glory ridin' 18 wheels
Ah honey hush

Well he left Atlanta back in '63
Haulin' him a load up to Tennessee
He hit Monteagle and it started to rain
So hard he couldn't even see the passin' lane

Well he started down the grade when he lost a gear
He reached for the brakes found he had no air
The Monteagle grade is steep and long
And everybody that seen it thought the Bandit was gone
Listen now

Well his truck jack-knifed turned completely round
He was comin' down backwards bout the speed of sound
A lot of folks seen him and they all say
He had his head out the window yellin' clear the way

Well he got to the bottom safe and sound
Everybody asked Bandit how he made it down
He said folks when the truck picked up too much speed
I just run along beside it and drug my feet

You heard the legend of Jesse James...
Every gear jammer knows his name...





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  1. M.... P....

    Bandit is driving crcles around in hall r.i.P bandit.

  2. M.... P....

    The song at the beginning it is true he is gone.

  3. A.... W....

    Bandit you coundent belivet but he just tried drive under my truck

  4. M.... G....

    Who’s listening 2020? The legends :(

  5. G.... S....

    Yes Sir. Mr. Waylon I agree with that statement !!! And Mr. Stevie Ray and Mr. ALBERT together !!! It just don't get any better !!! You don't have to be a Blues fan to sit and listen to the Music they made together!!! I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE WALKING AWAY FROM THE MUSIC THEY MADE !!!! RIP men ! !!! SRV was GREAT and he didn't get the chance to show us HOW GREAT HE COULD HAVE BEEN !!!

  6. M.... L....

    Best movie ever

  7. P.... ....

    What i would give to have that w9

  8. C.... B....

    The snowman jerey reed should be on fuckin RUSHMORE....

  9. M.... L....

    First movie I ever saw in a theater and I was three and been my fav since. Love this song, always puts me in a good mood and yes I’ve been on Moneagle in a big rig 😎

  10. W.... B....

    “Which one of you is sheriff brandtford?”
    “I am sheriff brandtford”
    “Well, for some reason or another, you sounded a lot taller on radio”

    W.... B....

    Also if bandit didnt have air for the brakes my boy hit them jakes

  11. g.... ....

    0:58. Steps on gas pedal. Next scene...... 🤦🏼‍♂️

  12. D.... P....

    That ATL is bad to the bone 😂 😍

  13. D.... P....

    You might should have come in 1965

  14. D.... P....

    Y'all forgot me 😂 😍

  15. D.... P....

    Love me some of this ole movie

  16. D.... P....

    Roll on truckers

  17. M.... R....

    Screw the Dislikes! This is a Classic because of the Awesome Trans am car!

  18. M.... J....

    I Love the fim but Bandit ans snowman See dead

  19. a.... ....

    Makes me want to drive an 18 wheeler! I just watched the whole intro and Jerry Reed doesn't want to make the run until he hears "80,000" dollars to do it. Then he's all in. Funny because in an interview Jerry was asked why he made the movie and he said, "money." Real life and fantasy collide!

  20. Z.... S....

    RIP snowman. 😪

  21. j.... a....

    I'll never forget this and convoy Roll on brothers and sisters

  22. c.... j....

    Snowman and Bandit

  23. B.... H....

    Saw this movie when I was 7. Couldn't wait to get into a big rig. Been driving a tanker for almost 30 years. Still love going through the gears. Something about sitting up high. Going through the gears I just never get tired of. This movie just brings back so many great memories.

  24. T.... H....

    I thought this was so cool as a kid, but now as a Truck Driver, that song tells me he drives like shit! LMAO

  25. G.... ....

    I fell in love with Trans Ams because of this movie! Awesome action and comedy forwards and backwards!😆

  26. J.... W....

    Best lookin w900a by far 👍🏻

  27. C.... W....

    There's a awesome video on YouTube if anyone is interested!
    It's titled Stars Aligned, five iconic trucks next to each other!

  28. m.... o....

    Tube type Bias ply tires

    m.... o....

    I Got to go to Conyers and pick up a Load of Manure

  29. C.... W....

    Hey I loved all the comments I read! You all know the movie quite well!...now that mutual bullsh*t is over, where are you, you sombitch!? Don't forget about Amazon.com and the Soundtrack!

  30. L.... B....

    Its a long way down he rock when you aint got no brakes ☺....

  31. j.... a....

    My favorite truck is a freightliner but all of them are good I love Yall

  32. K.... B....

    You all a bunch of tic turds.

  33. M.... P....

    Oh this intro brings back the memories.

  34. E.... P....

    Sally Field was such a biscuit in this movie!

  35. D.... H....

    You can't drive this piece of s##t on my highway!!!

  36. K.... S....

    The last true truckers like these are some of us old guys hauling Coal over the back roads of West Virginia and Kentucky.

  37. F.... 7....

    The real star of the movie was Fred the dog! Reynolds is a broke piece of &)#t

  38. J.... T....

    Hey BOYYY..Where's Sheriff Brandford?

  39. J.... J....

    Absolutely wonderful.

  40. H.... S....

    Goddddd my favorite movie and always will be. R.I.P. Snowman and the Bandit!!!!!!

  41. J.... F....

    best film intro ever

  42. G.... B....

    Only song I know word for word at a young age rock on bandit ✌️

  43. N.... Y....

    Yeah, not the full movie.

  44. S.... B....

    In the season 7 of the Walking Dead ( Best Friends) You will see the same trailer used in Smokey and the Bandit . You should check the episode out .

  45. M.... E....

    The Bandit will always live on!

  46. w.... ....

    You know Jerry mentions Montegle, Yeah OK give me a challenge. Montegle ain't shit. Tell me how much it is after you crossed Monarch in the snow with no chains. It's good and bad fore east coast drivers but... We are talking I 24 in Tennessee and not Hwy 50 in Colorado. I guess Montegle is bad if you don't know how to drive. Just sayin'

  47. a.... ....

    With everybody wanting to say they want live action. This was the coyote and the roadrunner

  48. o.... h....

    nice music

  49. C.... T....

    You just got to love the song

  50. M.... T....

    I’m about to go watch it right now

  51. B.... W....

    “ The God Damn Germans don’t have anything to do with it!!”

    B.... W....

    BCT W900 lolololol

  52. S.... B....

    Those were the good ol days. I remember riding shotgun with my grandpa and everybody had a CB. Good luck today. I pulled up on a breakdown one day deep in the Nevada desert. Driver asked if I had a cell signal and I said yeah. I fired up the mic on 23 and called for a draggin wagon. That longhauler didn’t have a set. I still got my grandpas cobra 29 with crystals. I use it as a base station and my more modern solid state 29 in my truck. As Cletus Maggard put it. “That Japanese toy, the truckers joy that everybody calls CB”. Keep the bugs of your glass and the bears of your ass, catch you on the flip flop.

  53. B.... M....

    God I miss you Jerry. RIP, and godfuckingspeed.

  54. D.... M....

    Bandit your reckless and live much to hard bandit you the jocker in the deal of the cards your a legend to the old men and a hero to the child bandit still ladys heart with only a smile

  55. D.... M....

    Hell i got to go

  56. D.... M....

    RIP bandit and snowman

  57. J.... H....

    I have a 40 year old cassette I dug up in my basement while cleaning and one side is all Smokey and the Bandit music while the other side is other Jerry Reed music.

  58. D.... K....

    Don't take your foot off that hammer son them bears gonna pour all over you like maple syrup

  59. A.... B....

    I love the sound of an deisel engine! I grew up around it.

  60. R.... I....

    Alot of Smoke and the Bandit was filmed in Georgia. Mt.Eagle is a challenge. I made it the Red Irish Rose

  61. T.... L....

    Im in pursuit of a black trans am.

  62. J.... B....

    Natasha clark bandit runing south bound all about perls us com face book live. Bandit natasha

  63. b.... o....

    A legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike daddy!

  64. T.... F....

    The fact that Burt Reynolds got on his knees and begged fr this role makes him more than fit for the film!

  65. W.... ....

    "You look tired, arrest yourself!"

    *_"You punks look tuckered out, too!"_*

  66. Z.... w....

    Jerry Reed a good acuter and a good singer

  67. E.... P....

    I want that Trans AM 🥰🥰🥰🥰

  68. e.... j....

    "What is the world comin' too"

  69. B.... J....

    R.I.P Bandit and the Snowman keep them 18 wheels a rollin up there for us

  70. S.... S....

    I love the old Kenworth

  71. C.... o....

    Speedy car, speedyer than that

  72. T.... T....

    Them sumbitches couldn’t close a damn umbrella

  73. P.... D....

    The 475 dislike must be them cats that drive a peterbilt

  74. F.... h....

    The ambulance arrived at the speed of sound
    Everybody asked Amber why she gunned him down
    "Well they trained me to claim ownership of all that I see
    So I assumed that the place and the man belonged to me"

    Well you heard the story of Daniel Shaver
    And the sad end to Dillon Taylor
    But there's a legend in the stories of the news I guess
    A man named Botham from a Dallas TX

    Every apartment resident knows his name
    The swear he was sober and her story is insane
    Heart of gold only spoke the truth
    He gonna go to glory in his prime and youth

    F.... h....

    Botham was murdered one year ago today, and Amber's trial hasn't yet started. This cop will never be convicted.

  75. S.... ....

    Always get a little catch in the ole heart when those stacks start blowin'. This was the only movie my pa saw with the family, it's a good memory. RIP Handyman!

  76. c.... ....

    Hey boy, wheres sheriff Branford? "I am sheriff Branford" He he he...some reason or another, you sound a little taller on radio..

    What the hell is the world coming to?

    😂😂😂😂

  77. M.... B....

    "Because he's Thirsty Dummy!"

  78. C.... E....

    eastbound and down loaded up and trucking and we going to do what they say can't be done we've got a long way to go and a short time to get there and I'm eastbound watch the bandit run keep your foot paws on the petle to clarify them bricks let it all hang out because we've got to run boys are thirsty penicap Texarkana will bring it back no matter what it takes

  79. L.... B....

    “Move over there good buddy cause the snowman is coming through”

  80. L.... B....

    Best sounding truck

  81. W.... L....

    Junior said daddy I lost my hat. Buford said I HOPE YOUR DAMN HEAD WAS IN IT!

  82. S.... ....

    Classic like Trump for President and bozobama arrested for treason along with slick willy Clinton don't hate cuz we making America great while snowflakes keep trying to create something that ain't y'all need to take a brake in the bottom of the lake take a dirt nap in a burlap napsack word to that this shit is phat on the track!

  83. M.... S....

    R.I.P. Burt Reynolds , Jerry Reed, Hal Needam , Jackie Gleason ,

  84. M.... S....

    Jerry Reed wrote those songs on the Spot ...

  85. c.... n....

    The god damn Germans got nothing to to with it

  86. e.... m....

    Traffic update bbc stylr

    e.... m....

    Ooops style. Googlenut

  87. J.... M....

    "I'm gonna barbecue your ass in molasses!!😂😂😂

  88. B.... ....

    20 years of age and smokey and the bandit is still one of my favourite films... RIP to “The Legend” Burt Reynolds.

  89. d.... 6....

    Justice: SHUT UP ONE SHIT AT A TIME

  90. c.... s....

    Miss you pop's
    Dennis Ray Smith a.k.a "old.no#7
    May the highway be long and straight
    Rest In Peace , dad

  91. A.... B....

    No one makes buford t justice look like opossums pecker
    And for all the dumb people who couldn't close an umbrella thinking im spelling it wrong the o is silent

  92. B.... T....

    I24 around monteagle is a mofo! First interstate I traveled on. Now I love that passage

  93. T.... L....

    My dad took me to see the movie in 1977 when I was 8. When the Trans Am rolled out of the trailer I said to myself, " one day I'll own one". When I was 21 I did. Wish I still had it today. :( Loved the movie.

  94. B.... W....

    2019!!!!

  95. D.... ....

    461 sumbitches got their a$$es barbecued in molasses.

  96. P.... L....

    Hey "Boy"' you sounded bigger on the radio 😂😅🙄🤪

  97. N.... V....

    i am listing in 2019

  98. V.... O....

    Listening in 2019... class is permanent. Snowman, Buford & Friends will live on in our hearts forever