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Long Black Highway
Chris Knight
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
You shoulda drove off in the dark
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
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Well we, pulled on a back road
I stopped, to think about what we'd done
I got out, took a leak and I lit a smoke
Now I'm wishin' I had run
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'Cause Billy, always was a mean one
And he was stoned out of his head
Well, I guess, he quit shootin'
When he thought that I was dead
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Goin' 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
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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
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Now me and that kid, we haunt that stretch of highway
And go and see Billy from time to time
You know Billy, always acted a little bit crazy
Now he's done gone plumb out of his mind
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Goin' 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
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