Well, I was born in a called Audubon Southwest Iowa, right where it oughta Twenty-three houses, saloons, And a feed in nineteen-thirty. Had a neon sign, "Squealer Feeds" And the bus came through when they the need And they stopped at a place there in called The Old Home Cafe
Now my was a music lovin' man He stood six-foot-seven, had big ol' He'd lost two fingers in a chainsaw but he still play the violin And Mom played piana, just the keys in the And Dad a storm on his three-fingered fiddle 'Cause all there was to do back there folks, except ta go downtown and watch haircuts
So I was raised on Dust tunes, you see Had a six-tube an' no TV It was so dog-goned hot I had to wet the bed in the summer to keep cool. Yeah, many's a I'd lay awake A-waitin' for a distant break Just a-settin' and a-wettin' an' a-lettin' that fry.
Well, I listened to and Tulsa and Dallas And Oklahoma City gave my ear a And I'll never forget announcers at three A.M. They'd come on an' say "Friends, there's many a who needs us "So send letters an' cards ta Jesus "That's friends, in care a' Del Rio, Texas."
But the I remember, on the edge a' town Was the place where you got the hard-core sound Yeah, a where the truckers used ta stop on their way to Dees Moins There was signs all over them Like "If the Devil don't get ya, Roosevelt will" And "The bank don't no beer, and we don't cash no checks."
Now them never talked about nothin' but haulin' And the four-letter words was appallin' They thought them home-town gals was but toys for their amusement. Rode Chevys and and big ol' stacks They's always complainin' their livers an' backs But they was fast-livin', strung-out, truck-drivin' son of a
Now the gal waitin' was really classy Had a rebuilt on a fairly new chassis And she knew how to handle them truckers; name was Davis Yeah, she'd pour 'em a coffee, she'd bat her eyes Then listen to 'em tell 'er some big fat lies Then she'd ask 'em how the wife and kids was, back there in
Now had all of her ducks in a row Weighed pounds; put on quite a show Remind ya of a couple a' Cub Scouts ta set up a Sears, Roebuck pup tent no proposition that she couldn't handle Next ta her, nothin' could a candle Not a hell of a lot upstairs, but there on down, Disneyland!
Now the truckers, on the other hand, was really remind ya of fingernails a-scratchin' on glass A-stompin' on in, leavin' tracks all over the Montgomery linoleum Yeah, they'd pound counters and kick them stools always pickin' fights with the local fools But one look at Mavis, and turn into a bunch a' tomcats
Well, I'll never them days gone by I's a kid, 'bout four foot high But I never forgot lesson an' pickin' and singin', the country way Yeah, walkin', talkin' truck stop blues Came back ta life in As "The Old Home Filler-up An' Keep On Cafe"
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