ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Highway Café Lyrics</title><!-- saved from url=(0029)http://www.ripcat.idps.co.uk/ --> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="description" content="Tom Waits Silver Cloud Lounge - Bestowing information about Tom Waits to the musically appreciative populace"> <META NAME="keywords" content="Tom Waits, tom waits, tomwaits, TomWaits, Waits Tom, Silver Cloud Lounge, Closing Time, Heart Of Saturday Night, Small Change, Foreign Affairs, Blue Valentine, Heartattack And Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Raindogs, Franks Wild Years, Bone Machine, Black Rider, Mule Variations, Early Years, One From The Heart, Night On Earth, Beautiful Maladies, Bounced Cheques, Asylum Years, Nighthawks At The Diner, Bigtime, Holly Cole, Chuck E Weiss, Tom, Waits, "> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="notepad"> <META NAME="author" CONTENT= "paul@webmartin.co.uk"> <META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright © 2001 WebMartin Software Solutions"> </HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND="../graphics/background.jpg" BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1" VLINK="BLUE"> <LINK REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css" HREF="../style.css"> <SCRIPT><!-- defaultStatus = document.title; //--></SCRIPT> <CENTER> <TABLE CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=0 BORDER=3 WIDTH="90%" BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1"> <TR ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="GRAY"> <TH COLSPAN=2> <FONT COLOR="#DEDDD1"> <FONT SIZE="6">Highway Café - Lyrics</FONT></TH></TR> </FONT> <TR ALIGN="CENTER"> </TABLE> <hr width="90%"> <A NAME="HighwayCafe"></A> <TABLE CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=2 BORDER=3 WIDTH="90%" BGCOLOR="#DEDDD1"> <TR BGCOLOR="SILVER"><TH COLSPAN="2">Highway Café<BR>(Kinky Friedman) <TR ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH="50%"> She was only a waitress in a highway café<BR> Poured coffee from dusk until dawn<BR> But she's heart-broken 24 hours a day<BR> For she longed for her trucker who d gone<BR> "Will you make it a corned beef on rye"<BR> He d sing with a gleam in her eye<BR> Oh, the headlights were burning<BR> And the big wheels were turning<BR> Her sweetheart would come by and by<BR> <BR> He d park his great semi off Route 64<BR> She d blush with a sweet little sigh<BR> For at half past eleven, he d walk in the door<BR> And order a corned beef on rye<BR> <BR> "Will you make it a corned beef on rye"<BR> He d sing with a gleam in her eye<BR> The jukebox was blarin'<BR> His soft eyes were starin'<BR> And the corned beef would come by and by<BR> <BR> All the drivers remember that night, so they say<BR> She d said her farewells to them all<BR> But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter past twelve<BR> Her suitcase still stood in the hall<BR> <BR> And the hours passed by even as the trucks passed by out on the highway<BR> And then two grim Highway Patrolmen came into the place<BR> They shook the rain from their hats<BR> And as the poor girl brought them their coffee<BR> These were the words that they said<BR> <BR> "Hey, Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out<BR> Like your damned nose up by the predicament tonight?<BR> <BR> "Well, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!<BR> <BR> "I'll have a chilli dog over here, baby.<BR> <BR> "Hell, you don't suppose that he had a little ol hog way down the line somewhere, do you?<BR> <BR> "Hey now, Curly, don't you know that them damn truckers<BR> They got to take up a little filly at every café from here to Las Cruces!"<BR> <BR> Now there is a small truck-stop on Route 64<BR> If you happen to be passin' by<BR> There's a trucker that never stops in anymore<BR> There's a waitress who wished she knew why<BR> <BR> "Oh, make it a corned beef on rye"<BR> She sings with a tear in her eye<BR> And as her dark eyes are glistening<BR> There's someone who s listening<BR> In that highway café in the sky<BR> <BR> "Oh, we'll make you the corned beef on rye"<BR> She sings with a tear in her eye<BR> And as her dark eyes are glistening<BR> There's someone who s listening<BR> In that highway café in the sky </TD> </TR> <TR ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="LIGHTGREY"><TD COLSPAN="2"><A HREF="reviews.htm">Reviews</A></TD> </TABLE> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript" SRC="../javascript/waitsnav.js"></SCRIPT> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML>