(kinky friedman)      She was only a waitress in a highway cafe   Poured coffee from dusk until dawn   But she's heart-broken 24 hours a day   For she longed for her trucker who'd gone      "will you make it a corned beef on rye"   He'd sing with a gleam in her eye   Oh, the headlights were burning   And the big wheels were turning   Her sweetheart would come by and by      He'd park his great semi off route 64   She'd blush with a sweet little sigh   For at half past eleven, he'd walk in the door   And order a corned beef on rye      "will you make it a corned beef on rye"   He'd sing with a gleam in her eye   The jukebox was blarin'   His soft eyes were starin'   And the corned beef would come by and by      All the drivers remember that night, so they say   She'd said her farewells to them all   But when the hands on the clock reached a quarter past twelve   Her suitcase still stood in the hall      And the hours passed by even as the trucks passed by out on the highway   And then two grim highway patrolmen came into the place   They shook the rain from their hats   And as the poor girl brought them their coffee   These were the words that they said      "hey, curly, did you see that old diesel flattened out   Like your damned nose up by the predicament tonight?       "well, he jack-knifed that son of a bitch slicker than owl shit!      "i'll have a chilli dog over here, baby.      "hell, you don't suppose that he had a little ol' hog way down the line somewhere, do you?       "hey now, curly, don't you know that them damn truckers   They got to take up a little filly at every cafe from here to las cruces!"      Now there is a small truck-stop on route 64   If you happen to be passin' by   There's a trucker that never stops in anymore   There's a waitress who wished she knew why      "oh, make it a corned beef on rye"   She sings with a tear in her eye   And as her dark eyes are glistening   There's someone who's listening   In that highway cafe in the sky      "oh, we'll make you the corned beef on rye"   She sings with a tear in her eye   And as her dark eyes are glistening   There's someone who's listening   In that highway cafe in the sky