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Introduction:
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Well my truck's wound up and it's ready to roll
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I got a good buddy workin' for the Highway Patrol
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So if I get a ticket or two, It's gonna be alright
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But the sheriff and his boys they're at Ernesta Lane
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Unless they're out to lunch at the Dairy Queen
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They'll be itchin' to turn on those red, white, and blue
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lights
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Well just like my daddy I was born a drifter
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I got a rebel heart and eight - ball shifter
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Horns on the hood and forty channel CB
Well some things you never leave home without
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Like your Bible, log book, and your drivin' route
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And your Best Of Dale Watson on CD
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Cause I'm a diesel drivin' daddy
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Don't you get in my lane
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Puttin' the pedal to the medal
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Bringin' eighteen wheels of pain
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I've been in love
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Broke some hearts
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Settled down long enough to replace the parts
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Kicked a little asphalt
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along the way
It's a lonely life livin' on the road
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I'm a panhandlin' manhandlin'
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Post holin' high rollin' dust bowlin' daddy
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I ain't got no blood in my veins
I just got them four lanes
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Of hard Amarillo highway
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Up and down that honky tonkin' highway