(Kinky Friedman)
She was a waitress in a highway caf Poured coffee dusk until dawn But she was broken twenty-four hours a day For she longed for her who'd gone. "I'll make you the beef on rye" She'd sing a gleam in her eye. The headlights burning, The big wheels turning, Her would come bye and bye.
When he'd park his semi off Route 64 She'd with a sweet little sigh, For at half past eleven he'd in the door And he'd order her corned on rye.
"I'll make you the corned on rye" She'd sing with a in her eye. The was blarin'; His soft were starin', The corned would come bye and bye.
All the drivers remember that night, so say, said her farewells to them all, But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter twelve Her suitcase still in the hall.
And the hours passed by as the trucks passed by out on the highway And then two grim Highway came into the place, Shook the rain from their hats and as the girl Brought them their coffee, she overheard the words that said.
"Oh Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out like your damned up by the predicament tonight ?"
"Well, d'you know, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch slicker owl shit!"
"Now a little joe over here, honey."
"Hey man, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog waitin' on the line somewhere, do you ?"
"Oh, oh, oh, hell, Curly, don't you know that them truckers they got to take up a little filly at every, every caf from to Las Cruces!
"Eh, eh. Yeah, they! Ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah .."
"Ah ah ah ah ah, he he he he he ..."
Now is a small truck-stop on Route 64 If you happen to be by, But there's a who never stops in anymore And a waitress who she knew why.
"I'll make you the corned on rye" She sings a tear in her eye. And as her eyes are glistening someone who's listening In that caf in the sky.
"I'll make you the corned on rye" She with a tear in her eye. And as her dark eyes are There's who's listening In highway caf in the sky.
"I'll you the corned beef on rye" She sings with a in her eye. And as her eyes are glistening There's someone who's In highway caf in the sky.
"I'll you the corned beef on rye" ...