'Round the World with the Rubber Duck
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Round the World with the Rubber Duck' was C.W. McCall's sequel to his earlier hit "Convoy". It apparently picks up exactly where "Convoy" left off.
Sung in a fast-spoken narrative style interspersed with a pirate-style chorus, World picks up with Pigpen and the Rubber Duck, along with over the other truckers from the original convoy. Having run out of road, and pursued by the police ("bears"), the Duck takes a cue from the "friends of Jesus" in the convoy, and the entire group simply drives out to sea.
Those who don't sink due to lack of faith in God next make radio contact with a pair of broadcasters at the BBC (one of whom is named "Fabisham", the other is not named) and roll down the Thames before "crossing the Channel like snakes on glass" and "storm[ing] the beach" at Normandy. After cruising down the Autobahn, they enter Soviet East Germany, and are given a warning by the Russians to clear out. (In a very thick Russian accent: "Comrade Duck! You have been given until daybreak in Murmansk to get your cotten-pickin' trucks out of the USS of R! YOU WILL COPY!") They cruise across the rest of the USSR before entering the Pacific Ocean. They land in Japan, cruise through Tokyo, and the song ends with them south bound across the Ocean again, headed for Australia. (No double-nickel limit, you see...)
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