Key: E major
Verse 1
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She was only a waitress
in a highway café
But she was heart broken
twenty- four hours a day
For she longed for her trucker
¡°i'll make you the corned
beef on rye¡±
The headlights were burning,
Her sweetheart would
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come bye and bye.
Verse 2
semi off route 64
For at half past eleven
he'd walk in the door
And he'd order her corned
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beef on rye.
Verse 3
beef on rye¡±
The jukebox was blarin';
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Verse 4
All the drivers remember that night,
so they say,
But when the hands on the clock
reached a quarter past twelve
Verse 5
trucks passed by out on the highway
came into the place,
Shook the rain from their hats
and as the poor girl
Brought them their coffee,
Verse 6
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¡°oh curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out like your
damned nose up by the predicament tonight ? ¡±
Verse 7
Verse 8
jack- knifed that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!¡±
honey.¡±
Verse 9
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¡°hey man, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog waitin' on down the line somewhere,
do you ? ¡±
Verse 10
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¡°oh, oh, oh, hell, curly, don't you know that them truckers they got to take up a little filly at every,
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every café from here to las cruces!
Verse 11
ah, ah ah ah ah ah ..¡±
Verse 12
Verse 13
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stop on route 64
But there's a trucker who
never stops in anymore
And a waitress who wished
Verse 14
corned beef on rye¡±
And as her dark eyes are glistening
the sky.
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Verse 15
beef on rye¡±
And as her dark eyes are glistening
sky.
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Verse 16
beef on rye¡±
And as her dark eyes are glistening
In that highway café in the sky.
¡°i'll make you the corned beef on rye¡± ...
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