This is the theme song to The Road Runner Show. It was written by Barbara Cameron.
Summary[]
Lyrically, the song revolves around the Road Runner who enjoys running along on the roads as his idea of fun, while avoiding a persistent Coyote whose fanatical appetite makes him unable to realize the fact that the Road Runner in fact is undefeatable.
Lyrics[]
Full version/Closing credits version[]
If you're on a highway and Road Runner goes "beep, beep!"
Just step aside or you might end up in a heap,
Road Runner, Road Runner runs down the road all day,
Even the coyote can't make him change his ways.
Road Runner, the coyote's after you,
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.
Road Runner, the coyote's after you,
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.
That coyote is really a crazy clown,
When will he learn that he never can mow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.
Road Runner, the coyote's after you,
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having FUNNNNN!!!!
Short version/Opening titles version[]
If you're on a highway and Road Runner goes "beep, beep!"
Just step aside or you might end up in a heap,
Road Runner, Road Runner runs down the road all day,
Even the coyote can't make him change his ways.
Road Runner, the coyote's after you,
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.
Road Runner, the coyote's after you,
Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.
That coyote is really a crazy clown,
When will he learn that he never can mow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.
(humming to the chorus "Road Runner, the coyote's after you, Road Runner, if he catches you you're through.")
Parodies[]
This song is parodied in Histeria! as Big Fat Baby's theme song, which centers on Big Fat Baby being chased all over the desert by Father Time who unsuccessfully attempts to change the former's foul-smelling diaper in a vein very similar to Wile E. Coyote's numerous failed attempts to catch the Road Runner in the Road Runner cartoons. This song sequence parodies gags found on the original Road Runner shorts such as Rushing Roulette, Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z and Zoom and Bored.
Video[]
The Road Runner Show Intro