Hillbilly Highway

My grandaddy was a miner

But he finally saw the light

He didn't have much

Just a beat-up truck and a dream about a better life

Grandmama cried when she waved goodbye

You never heard such a lonesome sound.

Pretty soon the dirt road turned

Into blacktop, Detroit City bound

Down that hillbilly highway

On That hillbilly highway

That old hillbilly highway

Goes on and on.

Now he worked and saved his money

So that one day he might send

My daddy off to college

To use his brains and not his hands

Grandmama cried when she waved goodbye

Never heard such a lonesome sound.

But daddy had himself a good job in Houston

One more rollin' down

Down that old hillbilly highway

That old hillbilly highway

That old hillbilly highway

Goes on and on.

Now granddaddy rolled over in his grave

The day that I quit school

I just sat around the house playin' my guitar,

Daddy said I was a fool

My mama cried when I said goodbye,

I never heard such a lonesome sound.

Now I'm standin' on this highway

And if you're going my way

You know where I'm bound

Down that old hillbilly highway

That old hillbilly highway

That old hillbilly highway

Goes on and on