It's Gonna Be a Long Night

The drummer is dragging on a two day drunk

The guitar player high string is coming unstrung

Bass players late cause he car broke down

But the boss man says we got to start right now

It’s gonna be a Long night

It’s gonna be a long night

Yeah The bartenders giving the new girl the look

The sound guys out back getting high with the cook

Some joker put a hundred dollar bill in the jar

Thinks it’s gonna get him just a little too far

It’s gonna be a long night

It’s gonna be a long night

Cause it’s a working man’s set 10 to 2

Playing everything you know and making up a few

You gotta get them dancing to make them stick around

It’s harder than you think outside a two step town

I would like to explain to you the American Road Map

Just in case you ever wake up at a cross roads

And you don’t know where you’re at

You see it starts at the bottom and goes by 10s

I-10 goes across the top of Mexico

All the way up to 90 right there under Canada the medicine line

From California to the east coast it goes by 5’s

So if you wake up at intersection of 40 and 55

You’re right there in the middle

As Levon Helm used to say

Memphis, Tennessee

Everything is working for a moment in time

Couldn’t hit a bad note even if you tried

The house is happy we got one more song

Get paid, break it down, pack it up, get gone

It’s gonna be a long night

It’s gonna be a long night

Cause It’s a working man’s set 10 to 2

Playing everything you know and making up a few

You gotta get them dancing to make them stick around

It’s harder than you think outside a two step town

Then a hundred miles later in a headlight dream

Playing frogger with the truckers

And trying to keep it in a lane

It’s gonna be a long night

It’s gonna be a long night

It’s gonna be a long night

Yeah Shit it’s gonna be a long drive

So keep your radio dial stuck

On the best radio station you can find

Keep it at windshield wiper speed

Keep it between the ditches

And if you still got an antennae

You listen real close to the wind out the window

You can still hear the Wolf Man of Del Rio

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