(Kinky Friedman)
She was only a in a highway caf Poured coffee from dusk dawn But she was heart broken hours a day For she longed for her trucker gone. "I'll make you the corned on rye" sing with a gleam in her eye. The were burning, The big wheels turning, Her sweetheart come bye and bye.
When he'd park his great off Route 64 blush with a sweet little sigh, For at half past eleven walk in the door And he'd her corned beef on rye.
"I'll make you the beef on rye" She'd sing with a in her eye. The was blarin'; His soft were starin', The corned beef would bye and bye.
All the drivers that night, so they say, She'd said her farewells to all, But when the on the clock reached a quarter past twelve Her suitcase still in the hall.
And the hours passed by even as the trucks by out on the highway And two grim Highway Patrolmen came into the place, Shook the rain from their hats and as the poor Brought them coffee, she overheard the words that they said.
"Oh Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out like your damned up by the predicament tonight ?"
"Well, d'you know, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch than owl shit!"
"Now gimme a little joe here, honey."
"Hey man, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog waitin' on the line somewhere, do you ?"
"Oh, oh, oh, hell, Curly, don't you know that them truckers got to take up a little filly at every, every caf from here to Las Cruces!
"Eh, eh. Yeah, they! Ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah .."
"Ah ah ah ah ah, he he he he he ..."
Now is a small truck-stop on Route 64 If you happen to be by, But there's a who never stops in anymore And a who wished she knew why.
"I'll you the corned beef on rye" She with a tear in her eye. And as her dark eyes are There's someone listening In highway caf in the sky.
"I'll make you the beef on rye" She sings with a in her eye. And as her dark eyes are There's who's listening In that caf in the sky.
"I'll make you the corned on rye" She sings a tear in her eye. And as her dark eyes are someone who's listening In highway caf in the sky.
"I'll make you the beef on rye" ...