seeing as how Johnny Cash did both a number of train ballads as well as civil war songs i'm going to combine the two and say that this is a ballad for "The General Lee," a steam locomotive that the confederates used during the civil war...
but with the references to "Sirens blownin', red lights flashin' everywhere," "When you're riding shotgun with me and the law is at your heels," i can see how it might relate to the Dukes of Hazard car
seeing as how Johnny Cash did both a number of train ballads as well as civil war songs i'm going to combine the two and say that this is a ballad for "The General Lee," a steam locomotive that the confederates used during the civil war...
but with the references to "Sirens blownin', red lights flashin' everywhere," "When you're riding shotgun with me and the law is at your heels," i can see how it might relate to the Dukes of Hazard car