Papa drove a truck nearly all his life
You know it drove mama crazy being a trucker's wife
The part she couldn't handle was the being alone
I guess she needed more to hold than just a telephone
Papa called mama each and every night
Just to ask her how she was and if us kids were alright
Mama would wait for that call to come in
When daddy'd hang up she was gone again.

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Mama was a looker
Lord, how she shined
Papa was a good'n
But the jealous kind
Papa loved mama
Mama loved men
Mama's in the graveyard
Papa's in the pen.

Well, it was bound to happen and one night it did
Papa came home and it was just us kids
He had a dozen roses and a bottle of wine
If he was lookin' to surprise us, he was doin' fine
I heard him cry for mama up and own the hall
Then I h heard a bottle break against the bedroom wall
That old diesel engine made an eerie sound
When papa fired it up and headed into town.

Well, the picture in the paper showed the scene real well
Papa's rig was buried in the local motel
The desk clerk said he saw it all real clear
He never hit the brakes and he was shifting gears.

*chorus*

• Against The Grain
• Ain't Going Down
• Alabama Clay
• American Honky-tonk Bar Association
• Anonymous
• Burning Bridges
• Callin' Baton Rouge
• Cold Shoulder
• Cowboy Bill
• Cowboys & Angels
• Dixie Chicken
• Every Now & Then
• Everytime That It Rains
• Face to Face
• Friends in Low Places
• I Know One
• I've Got a Good Thing Going
• If Tomorrow Never Comes
• In Lonesome Dove
• Ireland
• It's Midnight Cinderella
• Kickin' & Screamin'
• Learning to Live Again
• Much Too Young
• New Way to Fly
• Night Rider's Lament
• Nobody Gets Off in This Town
• Not Counting You
• One Night a Day
• Papa Loved Mama
• Rodeo
• Rollin'
• Same Old Story
• Shameless
• She's Every Woman
• Something With a Ring to It
• Somewhere Other Than The Night
• Standing Outside The Fire
• That Ol' Wind
• That Summer
• The Beaches of Cheyenne
• The Change
• The Cowboy Song
• The Dance
• The Fever
• The Night I Called The Old Man Out
• The Night Will Only Know
• The Old Stuff
• The Red Strokes
• The River
• The Thunder Rolls
• This Aint Tennessee
• To Make You Feel My Love
• Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House
• Unanswered Prayers
• Uptown Down-home Good Ol' Boy
• Victim of The Game
• Walking After Midnight
• We Bury The Hatchet
• We Shall Be Free
• What She's Doing Now
• Which One of Them
• Wild Horses
• Wolves