Me and Billy roofers of houses  Met at the local union hall  It was like I found my long lost brother  We drank like fish and worked like dogs    Lookin’ back I knew he’d get me in trouble  But I didn’t have too many friends  Runnin up and down that Dixie highway  We thought the good times would never end    Down that long black highway  Theres a deep dark hole  Down that long black highway  Theres a lot of things you never know    We chased women and we chased whiskey  From the gulf up to ohio  Then one night we ran out of money  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 screamin at billy  You shoulda let that kid alone shoulda drove off in the dark    Down that long black highway  Theres a deep dark hole  Down that long black highway  Theres a lot of things you never know    Well we pulled on a back road  I stopped to think about what wed done  I got out, took a leak and I lit a smoke  Now im wishin I had run    Cuz billy always was a mean one  And he was stoned on out of his head  Well I guess he quit shootin  When he thought that I was dead    On down that long black highway  Theres a deep dark hole  Down that long black highway  Theres a lot of things you never know    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 wearin a Texaco hat    Now me and that kid we haunt that stretch of highway  And go and see billy from time to time  Now billy always acted a little bit crazy  But now he’s done gone plumb out of his mind    On down that long black highway  Theres a deep dark hole  Down that long black highway  Theres a lot of things you never know