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Highway Cafe
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Tom Waits
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She was only a waitress in a highway cafe
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Poured coffee from dusk until dawn
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But she's heart-broken 24 hours a day
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For she longed for her trucker who'd gone
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"Will you make it a corned beef on rye"
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He'd sing with a gleam in her eye
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Oh, the headlights were burning
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And the big wheels were turning
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Her sweetheart would come by and by
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He'd park his great semi off Route 64
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She'd blush with a sweet little sigh
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For at half past eleven, he'd walk in the door
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And order a corned beef on rye
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"Will you make it a corned beef on rye"
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He'd sing with a gleam in her eye
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The jukebox was blarin'
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His soft eyes were starin'
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And the corned beef would come by and by
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All the drivers remember that night, so they say
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She'd said her farewells to them all
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But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter past twelve
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Her suitcase still stood in the hall
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And the hours passed by even as the trucks passed by out on the highway
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And then two grim Highway Patrolmen came into the place
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They shook the rain from their hats
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And as the poor girl brought them their coffee
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These were the words that they said
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"Hey, Curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out
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Like your damned nose up by the predicament tonight?
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"Well, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!
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"I'll have a chilli dog over here, baby.
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"Hell, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog way down the line somewhere, do you?
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"Hey now, Curly, don't you know that them damn truckers
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They got to take up a little filly at every cafe from here to Las Cruces!"
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Now there is a small truck-stop on Route 64
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If you happen to be passin' by
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There's a trucker that never stops in anymore
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There's a waitress who wished she knew why
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"Oh, make it a corned beef on rye"
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She sings with a tear in her eye
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And as her dark eyes are glistening
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There's someone who's listening
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In that highway cafe in the sky
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"Oh, we'll make you the corned beef on rye"
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She sings with a tear in her eye
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And as her dark eyes are glistening
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There's someone who's listening
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In that highway cafe in the sky
Tom Waits - "Hold On"
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