(Kinky Friedman)
She was a waitress in a highway caf Poured coffee dusk until dawn But she was heart broken twenty-four a day For she for her trucker who'd gone. "I'll make you the beef on rye" She'd sing a gleam in her eye. The were burning, The big were turning, Her sweetheart come bye and bye.
When he'd park his great semi off 64 She'd with a sweet little sigh, For at half past he'd walk in the door And he'd her corned beef on rye.
"I'll make you the beef on rye" sing with a gleam in her eye. The was blarin'; His soft were starin', The corned beef would bye and bye.
All the drivers that night, so they say, She'd her farewells to them all, But when the hands on the reached a quarter past 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 Patrolmen came into the place, Shook the rain from their and as the poor girl Brought them their coffee, she overheard the words they said.
"Oh Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out your damned nose up by the predicament tonight ?"
"Well, know, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!"
"Now gimme a little joe here, honey."
"Hey man, you don't suppose he had a little ol' hog waitin' on down the line somewhere, do you ?"
"Oh, oh, oh, hell, Curly, don't you know that them truckers they got to take up a 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 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 with a tear in her eye. And as her eyes are glistening someone who's listening In that caf in the sky.
"I'll you the corned beef on rye" She with a tear in her eye. And as her eyes are glistening 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 dark are glistening There's someone who's In that caf in the sky.
"I'll make you the corned on rye" ...