(kinky friedman)
She was a waitress in a highway cafe Poured coffee from dusk dawn But she's 24 hours a day For she for her trucker who'd gone
"will you it a corned beef on rye" He'd sing a gleam in her eye Oh, the headlights burning And the big were turning Her would come by and by
He'd park his great semi off 64 She'd blush with a sweet sigh For at half past eleven, he'd in the door And order a corned on rye
"will you make it a corned on rye" sing with a gleam in her eye The jukebox was His eyes were starin' And the corned beef would by and by
All the remember that night, so they say She'd her farewells to them all But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter twelve Her suitcase stood in the hall
And the hours by even as the trucks passed by out on the highway And then two grim highway patrolmen into the place They shook the rain their hats And as the poor brought them their coffee These the words that they said
"hey, curly, did you see old diesel flattened out Like your nose up by the predicament tonight?
"well, he jack-knifed that son of a slicker than owl shit!
"i'll have a chilli dog here, baby.
"hell, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog way down the somewhere, do you?
"hey now, curly, don't you know that damn truckers They got to take up a little at every cafe from here to las cruces!"
Now there is a small on route 64 If you to be passin' by There's a trucker that stops in anymore There's a waitress who wished she why
"oh, make it a corned on rye" She sings a tear in her eye And as her eyes are glistening There's someone listening In highway cafe in the sky
"oh, make you the corned beef on rye" She with a tear in her eye And as her dark eyes are There's someone listening In that highway in the sky