Amarillo Highway Lyrics - Robert Earl Keen

I'm a high straight in Plainview 

A side bet in Idalou 

An' a fresh deck in Mobile 

Yeah some call me high handed 

Some call me low handed 

But I'm holdin' what I am the wheel 

[Chorus] 

'Cause I'm panhandlin' manhandlin' 

Post holin' hugh rollin' dust bowlin' Daddy 

I ain't got no blood in my veins 

I just got them four lanes 

Of hard Amarillo Highway 

I don't wear no Stetson 

But I'm willin' to bet son 

That I'm as big a Texan as you are 

There's a girl in her bare feet 

Asleep on the back seat 

And the trunk's full of Pearl beer and Lone Star 

[Chorus] 

Gonna hop outta bed 

Pop a pill in my head 

Bust a hub for the Golden Spread 

Under Blue Skies 

Gonna stuff my hide 

Behind some Power Glide 

Get some southern fried back in my hide 

[Chorus] 

As Close as I'll ever get to heaven 

Is makin' speed up old eighty-seven 

Of that hard Amarillo Highway