text: She was only a waitress in a highway café
  Poured coffee from dusk until dawn
  But shes heart-broken 24 hours a day
  For she longed for her trucker whod gone
  Will you make it a corned beef on rye
  Hed 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
  Hed park his great semi off Route 64
  Shed blush with a sweet little sigh
  For at half past eleven, hed walk in the door
  And order a corned beef on rye
  Will you make it a corned beef on rye
  Hed 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
  Shed 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!
  Ill have a chilli dog over here, baby
  Hell, you dont suppose that he had a little ol hog way down the line somewhere, do you?
  Hey now, Curly, dont you know that them damn truckers
  They got to take up a little filly at every café from here to Las Cruces!
  Now there is a small truck-stop on Route 64
  If you happen to be passin by
  Theres a trucker that never stops in anymore
  Theres 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
  Theres someone whos listening
  In that highway café in the sky
  Oh, well make you the corned beef on rye
  She sings with a tear in her eye
  And as her dark eyes are glistening
  Theres someone whos listening
  In that highway café in the sky