Long Black Highway - Chris Knight

Me and Billy roofers of houses

Met at the Louisville 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

There’s a deep dark hole

Down that long black highway

There’s a lot of things you’ll 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

There’s a deep dark hole

Down that long black highway

There’s a lot of things you’ll never know

Well we pulled off on a back road

I thought to think about what we’d done

I got out, took a leak and lit a smoke

But 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

Gone 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

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

We go see Billy from time to time

You know Billy always acted a little bit crazy

But now he 's done gone plumb out of his mind

Gone 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