Whenever Kindness Fails - Robert Earl Keen

I’m a high straight in Plainview

A side bet in Idalou

An' a fresh deck in Mobile

Yeah some call me high handed

Some call me low handed

But I’m holdin' what I am the wheel

'Cause I’m panhandlin' manhandlin'

Post holin' hugh rollin' dust bowlin' Daddy

I ain’t got no blood in my veins

I just got them four lanes

Of hard Amarillo Highway

I don’t wear no Stetson

But I’m willin' to bet son

That I’m as big a Texan as you are

There’s a girl in her bare feet

Asleep on the back seat

And the trunk’s full of Pearl beer and Lone Star

'Cause I’m panhandlin' manhandlin'

Post holin' hugh rollin' dust bowlin' Daddy

I ain’t got no blood in my veins

I just got them four lanes

Of hard Amarillo Highway

Gonna hop outta bed

Pop a pill in my head

Bust a hub for the Golden Spread

Under Blue Skies

Gonna stuff my hide

Behind some Power Glide

Get some southern fried back in my hide

'Cause I’m panhandlin' manhandlin'

Post holin' hugh rollin' dust bowlin' Daddy

I ain’t got no blood in my veins

I just got them four lanes

Of hard Amarillo Highway

As Close as I’ll ever get to heaven

Is makin' speed up old eighty-seven

Of that hard Amarillo Highway