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
She'd 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 ol' hillbilly highway
Goes on and on

Now he worked and saved his money so that one day he might send
My old man off to college to use his brains and not his hands
Grandmama cried when she waved goodbye
You'd never heard such a lonesome sound
But daddy had himself a good job in Houston, one more rolling down

That ol' hillbilly highway
That ol' hillbilly highway
That ol' hillbilly highway
Goes on and on
On and on and on

Now grandaddy rolled over in his grave the day that I quit school
I just sat around the house playing my guitar, daddy said I was a fool
My mama cried when she said goodbye
You'd never heard such a lonesome sound
But now I'm standing on this highway and if
You're going my way, you know where I'm bound

Down that hillbilly highway
On that hillbilly highway
That ol' hillbilly highway
Goes on and on
On and on and on