WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Tom Waits - Highway Cafe Ukulele | Ver. 1
Tom Waits version of a Kinky Friedman song, simple, easy and fun
From 'The Book Of Moses' CD I picked up some place
Sounds good played Banjo style, or, you know,.... on a banjo
Highway Cafe * CAPO 1st FRET *
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Well 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 heartbroken twenty-four hours a day
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For she longed for a trucker who'd gone
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Will you make it a corned beef on rye, He'd sing with a gleam in his eye
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Oh the headlights were burnin', And the big wheels were turnin'
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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 rush 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, He'd sing with a gleam in her eye
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Oh the jukebox was blarin' An' her 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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Ah 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 they passed by, Even as the trucks passed by on the highway
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And two grim highway patrolmen came into the place
And they shook the rain from their hats
And as the poor girl brought 'em their coffee
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These are the words that that they said
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'Hey Curley, you see that old diesel flattened out like your
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damned nose up by the predicament tonight?'
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'Hell, He jack-knifed that son of a b**ch slicker 'n' owl sh*t'
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'I'll have a chilli dog over here baby'
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'Hell, you don't suppose he had him a little hog
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Way on down the line someplace, Do ya?'
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'Hey now Curley, Don't you know them damn truckers
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They got a little filly in every cafe from here to Los Cruces' Ha-ha-ha-ha
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Now there is a small truck-stop off 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 that wished she knew why
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Oh make it a corned beef on rye, She'd sing with a tear in her eye
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And her dark eyes are glistenin' And someone is listenin'
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In that highway cafe in the sky X 2