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