Telephone Road

Album: El Corazon (1997)
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  • My brother Jimmy, my other brother Jack
    Went off down to Houston and they never come back
    Mama wasn't gonna let her baby go yet
    But there ain't nobody hirin' back in Lafeyette

    I'm workin' all week for the Texaco check
    Sun beatin' down on the back of my neck
    Tried to save my money but Jimmy says no
    Says he's got a little honey on Telephone Road

    [Chorus]
    Come on come on come on let's go
    This ain't Louisianna
    Your Mama won't know
    Come on come on come on let's go
    Everybody's rockin' out on Telephone Road

    Telephone Road is ten miles long
    Fifty car lots and a hundred honky-tonks
    Jukebox blastin' and the beer bottles ring
    Jimmy banging on a pinball machine

    [Chorus]

    Mama never told me about nothin' like this
    I guess Houston's 'bout a big as a city can get
    Sometimes I get lonesome for Lafeyette
    Someday I'm goin' home but I ain't ready yet

    [Chorus] Writer/s: Steve Earle
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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