Amarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey)
by Terry Allen
From the album: Lubbock (On Everything)
Duration: 4:00
Lyrics for Amarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey)
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 'Cause I'm panhandling, manhandling, post holing High rolling, Dust Bowling daddy And I ain't got no blood veins, I just got them four lanes Of hard Amarillo highway Yeah, 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 'sleep on the back seat And that trunk's full of Pearl and Lone Star 'Cause I'm panhandling, manhandling, post holing High rolling, Dust Bowling daddy And I ain't got no blood veins, I just got them four lanes Of hard Amarillo highway So gonna hop outta bed, pop a pill in my head Yeah, bust the hub for the Golden Spread under blue skies Gonna stuff my hide behind some Powerglide And get some southern fried back in my eyes 'Cause I'm panhandling, manhandling, post holing High rolling, Dust Bowling daddy And close I'll ever get to Heaven is making speed up old 87 Of that hard ass Amarillo highway