Long Black Highway

Me and Billy roofers of houses

Met at the local union hall

It was like I found my long lost brother

We drank like fish and worked like dogs



Lookin’ back I knew he’d get me in trouble

But I didn’t have too many friends

Runnin up and down that Dixie highway

We thought the good times would never end



Down that long black highway

Theres a deep dark hole

Down that long black highway

Theres a lot of things you never know



We chased women and we chased whiskey

From the gulf up to ohio

Then one night we ran out of money

We robbed us an all night Texaco



Right in there I guess the friendship ended

That’s where the good times fell apart

I remember screamin at billy

You shoulda let that kid alone shoulda drove off in the dark



Down that long black highway

Theres a deep dark hole

Down that long black highway

Theres a lot of things you never know



Well we pulled on a back road

I stopped to think about what wed done

I got out, took a leak and I lit a smoke

Now im wishin I had run



Cuz billy always was a mean one

And he was stoned on out of his head

Well I guess he quit shootin

When he thought that I was dead



On down that long black highway

Theres a deep dark hole

Down that long black highway

Theres a lot of things you never know



I woke up sometime around daylight

But I didn’t live long after that

I was taken back up to the highway

By a ghost he was wearin a Texaco hat



Now me and that kid we haunt that stretch of highway

And go and see billy from time to time

Now billy always acted a little bit crazy

But now he’s done gone plumb out of his mind



On down that long black highway

Theres a deep dark hole

Down that long black highway

Theres a lot of things you never know