West Texas Highway-Lyle Lovett

[ti:West Texas Highway] [ar:Lyle Lovett] [al:Step Inside This House] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.40]Now I was driving down a West Texas highway [00:07.71]I saw a hitchhiker and his thumb was pointing my way [00:12.28] [00:13.09]He didn't look suspicious [00:14.89] [00:15.77]He didn't look any too clean [00:19.39] [00:22.81]So I put on my brakes and I opened my door [00:28.46] [00:29.46]Could tell he was a bum by the muddy boot he wore [00:33.51]He said "I'm going down to Haskell [00:36.62]Got a woman back in Abilene" [00:40.50] [00:44.24]He told me "Son East Texas is where I come from [00:50.04] [00:50.76]I've been riding that Jacksonville rodeo and I got humdrum [00:56.12]I'm traveling around [00:58.18]A whole lot of Texas I've seen" [01:02.84] [01:05.49]Yes and I'm mighty glad you was pushing down my way [01:11.92] [01:12.54]Your fancy clothes and this shiny Chevrolet [01:16.71]Yes I'm going down to Haskell [01:19.78]Got a woman back in Abilene [01:24.39] [02:10.89]You know he was grinning like a possum and mighty happy rascal [02:17.62]He waved good-bye when I let him out in Haskell [02:22.37]And that's about the last of that [02:25.05]Road tramp that I've ever seen [02:29.23] [02:32.45]But you know that I'm still wishing to this very day [02:39.36]That he had my clothes and this shiny Chevrolet [02:43.41]And it was me going to Haskell [02:46.65]With a woman back in Abilene [02:51.02] [02:53.89]You know that I'm still wishing to this very day [03:00.80]That he had my clothes and this big Chevrolet [03:04.41]And it was me going to Haskell [03:08.47] [03:09.66]With a woman back in Abilene