Long Black Highway Lyrics

By Chris Knight
CD The Jealous Kind
Me and Billy were roofers of houses
We met at the Louisville union hall
It was like I'd found my long lost brother
We drank like fish and worked like dogs
Looking back I knew he'd get me in trouble
But I didn't have too many friends
Running up and down that Dixie highway
We thought the good times would never end
Down that long black highway
There's a deep dark hole
Down that long black highway
There's a lot of things you'll never know
We chased women and we chased whiskey
Then one night we ran out of money
And 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 screaming at Billy
You should've let that kid alone, you should've drove off in the dark
Well we pulled off on a back road
I thought to think about what we'd done
I got out and took a leak and lit a smoke
but now I'm wishing I had run
'Cause Billy always was a mean one
And he was stoned out of his head
I guess that he quit shooting
When he thought that i was dead
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 wearing a Texaco hat
Now me and that kid we haunt that stretch of highway
We go see Billy from time to time
You know Billy always acted a little bit crazy
But now he's done gone plumb out of his mind