Diesel Driving Daddy

Well, my truck's wound up and it's ready to roll

I got a good buddy workin' for the Highway Patrol

So if I get a ticket or two, it's gonna be all right

Both the sheriff and his boys, they're in Estilline

Unless they're out to lunch at the Dairy Queen

They'll be itchin' to turn on those red, white, and blue light

Well, just like my daddy, I was born a drifter

Got a rebel heart, an eight-ball shifter

Horns on the hood and forty channel CB

Well, some things you never leave home without

Like your Bible, log book, or your drivin' route

Or your best of Dale Watson on CD

I'm a diesel drivin' daddy, don't you get in my lane

Puttin' the pedal to the medal, bringin' eighteen wheels of pain

I've been in love, broke some hearts

Settled down long enough to replace the parts

Kicked a little asphalt along the way

There's a lonely life livin' on the road

When the only friend you've got is a radio

Even he fades in and out every now and then

But maybe someday, you'll find the right one

She'll shift the gears and let you ride shotgun

And knows how to get that big ol' rig to spin

I'm a diesel drivin' daddy, don't you get in my lane

Puttin' the pedal to the medal, bringin' eighteen wheels of pain

I've been in love, broke some hearts

Settled down long enough to replace the parts

Kicked a little asphalt along the way, oh, truck stop

I'm a panhandlin', manhandlin'

Post holin', high rollin', dust bowlin' daddy

But I ain't got no blood in my veins

I just got them four lanes of hard Amarillo highway

Yes, I'm a diesel drivin' daddy, don't you get in my lane

Puttin' the pedal to the medal, bringin' eighteen wheels of pain

I've been in love, broke some hearts

Settled down long enough to replace the parts

Kicked a little asphalt along the way

Up and down that honky tonkin' highway, ah, take her home now