Amarillo Highway

(album: Cowboys And Daddys - 1975)

Well I'm a high straight in Plainview side bet in Idalou
And a fresh deck in New Deal
Yeah some call me high hand and some call me low hand
But I'm holding what I am the wheel

Yeah I'm a panhandling man handling
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And I ain't got no blood veins I just got them four lanes
Of hard Amarillo highway

Well I don't wear no Stetson but I'm willing to bet son
That I'm big a Texan as you are
There's a girl in her bare feet asleep on my back seat
And the trunk's full of Pearl and Lone Star

Cause I'm a panhandling man handling
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And I ain't got no blood veins I just got them four lanes
Of hard Amarillo highway

I gotta hop outta bed pop a pill in my head
Gonna bust a hub for the golden spread under blue skies
Gonna stuff my hide behind some power glide
And get some southern fried back in my eyes

Cause I'm a panhandling man handling
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Yeah the closest I'll ever get to heaven
Is speeding up ol' 87 of that hard-ass Amarillo highway

Yeah I'm a panhandling man handling
Post holing high rolling dust bowling daddy