Bobby Bare
"Amarillo Highway" lyrics

Amarillo Highway

Well, I'm a high straight in Plainview
Side bet in Idalou
And a fresh deck in New Deal
Yeah, some call me high hand
Some call me low hand
But I'm holding what I am
The wheel

Yeah, I'm a panhandling man
Handling post holing high rolling
Dust bowling daddy
And I ain't got no blood veins
I just
I got them four lanes
Of hard Amarillo highway

Well, I don't wear no Stetson
But I'm willing to bet, son
That I'm big a Texan as you are
Yeah, there's a girl in her bare feet
Asleep on my back seat
And the trunk's full of Pearl
And Lone Star

Cause I'm a panhandling man
Handling post holing high rolling
Dust bowling daddy
And I ain't got no blood veins
I just
I got them four lanes
Of hard Amarillo highway

I gotta hop outta bed
Pop a pill in my head
Gonna bust a hub for the golden spread
Under blue skies
Gonna stuff my hide
Behind some power glide
And get some southern fried
Back in my eyes

Cause I'm a panhandling man
Handling post holing high rolling
Dust bowling daddy
Yeah, the closest I'll ever get to heaven
Is speeding up old eight-seven
Of that hard-ass Amarillo highway

Yeah, I'm a panhandling man
Handling post holing high rolling
Dust bowling daddy