(Kinky Friedman)
She was only a in a highway caf Poured coffee dusk until dawn But she was broken twenty-four hours a day For she longed for her trucker gone. "I'll you the corned beef on rye" sing with a gleam in her eye. The were burning, The big wheels turning, Her would come bye and bye.
When he'd park his great off Route 64 She'd blush a sweet little sigh, For at half past he'd walk in the door And he'd order her beef on rye.
"I'll you the corned beef on rye" She'd sing with a in her eye. The was blarin'; His eyes were starin', The corned would come bye and bye.
All the drivers that night, so they say, She'd said her to them all, But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter twelve Her suitcase stood in the hall.
And the passed by even 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 poor Brought them their coffee, she the words that they said.
"Oh Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out like your damned nose up by the predicament ?"
"Well, d'you know, he jack-knifed son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!"
"Now gimme a joe over here, honey."
"Hey man, you don't suppose that he had a ol' hog waitin' on down the line somewhere, do you ?"
"Oh, oh, oh, hell, Curly, don't you know that them truckers got to take up a little filly at every, every caf from here 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 there is a small on Route 64 If you to be passin' by, But there's a trucker who stops in anymore And a waitress who she knew why.
"I'll make you the beef on rye" She sings with a in her eye. And as her dark are glistening someone who's listening In highway caf in the sky.
"I'll you the corned beef on rye" She with a tear in her eye. And as her dark eyes are someone who's listening In that caf in the sky.
"I'll make you the corned on rye" She sings a tear in her eye. And as her dark eyes are There's someone who's In that caf in the sky.
"I'll make you the corned on rye" ...