This song is from the Truckers breakthrough album The Southern Rock Opera.
It was written and sang by Mike Cooley.
Intro D G D G
D G
Don't know why they even bother putting this highway on the map
D G
Everybody that's ever been on it knows exactly where they're at
A
Hells on both ends of it
G
And no where's in between
D G
This highway's mean
D G
Seems like it's always hot down here, no matter when you come
D G
It's the kind of heat that holds you like a mama holds her son
A G
Tight when he tries to walk, even tighter if he runs
A
It's a mean old dusty highway
G A
But it's the only one that'll get you there
Bm G
That'll get you there
Bm
Mean old highway
G D Bm
Stuck to the ground in Mississippi
G D
It's the one'll set me free
G
It's the same one that I see
A G
Being ripped up off the ground and wrapped around me
A D
Don't let it fool you this highway's mean
D G
I don't need a map to tell me where I am today
D G
This feeling that I have has always led the way
A
Down here, you're running from a broken heart
G D
Or to a heart that you have to break on this mean old highway
