Highway Cafe-Kinky Friedman

[ti:Highway Cafe] [ar:Kinky Friedman] [al:Sold American-30Th Anniversary] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Highway Cafe - Kinky Friedman [00:04.09]She was only a waitress in a highway cafe [00:08.22]Poured coffee from dusk until dawn [00:11.01] [00:11.89]But shes heart broken 24 hours a day [00:15.37] [00:15.98]For she longed for her trucker who'd gone [00:18.76] [00:20.20]Will you make it a corned beef on rye [00:22.97] [00:23.73]Hed sing with a gleam in her eye [00:26.81] [00:28.07]Oh the headlights were burning [00:29.49] [00:32.06]And the big wheels were turning [00:33.77] [00:36.14]Her sweetheart would come by and by [00:38.46] [00:39.81]He'd park his great semi off route 64 [00:43.74]She'd blush with a sweet little sigh [00:46.51] [00:47.70]For at half past eleven he'd walk in the door [00:51.04] [00:51.56]And order a corned beef on rye [00:54.58] [00:55.70]Will you make it a corned beef on rye [00:58.65] [00:59.48]He'd sing with a gleam in her eye [01:02.68] [01:03.81]The jukebox was blarin' [01:05.24] [01:07.89]His soft eyes were starin' [01:09.48] [01:11.90]And the corned beef would come by and by [01:14.26] [01:15.70]All the drivers remember that night so they say [01:19.51]She'd said her farewells to them all [01:22.62] [01:23.41]But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter past twelve [01:27.55]Her suitcase still stood in the hall [01:30.35] [01:31.43]And the hours passed by even as the trucks passed by out on the highway [01:35.83] [01:36.60]And then two grim highway patrolmen came into the place [01:40.62]They shook the rain from their hats [01:42.25] [01:42.80]And as the poor girl brought them their coffee [01:44.98]These were the words that they said [01:47.00] [01:47.51]Hey curly did you see that old diesel flattened out [01:49.95]Like your d**ned nose up by the predicament tonight [01:52.13] [01:52.68]Well he jack knifed that son of a b**ch slicker than owl sh*t [01:56.10]Will have a chilli dog over here baby [01:57.71] [01:58.61]Hell you don't suppose that he had a little ol hog way [02:02.56]Down the line somewhere do you [02:03.97] [02:04.52]Hey now curly don't you know that them d**n truckers [02:06.87]They got to take up a little filly at every cafe from here [02:09.49]To las cruces [02:10.58] [02:18.83]Now there is a small truck stop on route 64 [02:22.17] [02:22.70]If you happen to be passin' by [02:25.42] [02:26.51]There's a trucker that never stops in anymore [02:30.19] [02:30.72]There's a waitress who wished she knew why [02:33.55] [02:34.58]Oh make it a corned beef on rye [02:37.58] [02:38.49]She sings with a tear in her eye [02:41.50] [02:42.52]And as her dark eyes are glistening [02:44.46] [02:46.63]There's someone who's listening [02:48.57] [02:50.55]In that highway cafe in the sky [02:53.32] [02:54.57]Oh well make you the corned beef on rye [02:57.52] [02:58.42]She sings with a tear in her eye [03:01.53] [03:02.48]And as her dark eyes are glistening [03:04.40] [03:06.53]There's someone who's listening [03:08.50] [03:10.53]In that highway cafe in the sky [03:13.13] [03:14.39]Oh make it a corned beef on rye [03:17.75] [03:18.40]She sings with a tear in her eye [03:21.49] [03:22.33]And as her dark eyes are glistening [03:24.14] [03:26.49]There's someone who's listening