(Tom T. Hall) My heroes have always been highways And that's why I'm gone all the time Route 60 ran by my house as a kid And Lord how I loved the white lines. I know there's a warm place beside you And the kids ask about me sometimes But my heroes have always been highways I got a lowdown highway in mind. Well, I missed all the PTA meetin's I guess I'm not a PTA man I've got a black coffee outlook and I dream With a wheel in my hand. Though I wish there was a way I could change In anything that I do or I did But my heroes have always been highways And they have been since I was a kid.
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And I love you the way that I love you Not the way that another man would I know that I live by a roadmap but all I wanna be great And I wanna be good. I guess I'm a quart low on something That makes for a home loving kind But my heroes have always been highways I got a lowdown highway in mind. My heroes have always been highways I got a lowdown highway in mind...