(kinky friedman)
She was only a waitress in a highway Poured coffee from dusk dawn But she's 24 hours a day For she for her trucker who'd gone
"will you make it a beef on rye" He'd sing a gleam in her eye Oh, the headlights burning And the big wheels were Her sweetheart come by and by
He'd park his semi off route 64 She'd with a sweet little sigh For at past eleven, he'd walk in the door And order a corned on rye
"will you it a corned beef on rye" He'd with a gleam in her eye The jukebox was His soft eyes starin' And the corned would come by and by
All the remember that night, so they say She'd said her to them all But when the hands on the reached a quarter past twelve Her suitcase stood in the hall
And the hours by even as the trucks passed by out on the highway And then two highway patrolmen came into the place They shook the rain their hats And as the poor girl brought their coffee These the words that they said
"hey, curly, did you see that old flattened out Like damned nose up by the predicament tonight?
"well, he that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!
"i'll a chilli dog over here, baby.
"hell, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog way down the line somewhere, do
"hey now, curly, don't you know that them truckers They got to take up a little at every cafe from here to las cruces!"
Now is a small truck-stop on route 64 If you to be passin' by There's a trucker that never stops in There's a who wished she knew why
"oh, make it a beef on rye" She with a tear in her eye And as her eyes are glistening There's someone listening In that cafe in the sky
"oh, make you the corned beef on rye" She sings with a in her eye And as her dark eyes are There's someone listening In that cafe in the sky