This song is from the Truckers breakthrough album The Southern Rock Opera.
It was written and sang by Mike Cooley.





Intro D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)                                          GDon't (320003@1)know why they even bother putting this highway on the map
D (xx0232@1)                                    G (320003@1)           
Everybody that's ever been on it knows exactly where they're at
AHells (x02220@1)on both ends of it
GAnd (320003@1)no where's in between
                  D (xx0232@1)  GThis (320003@1)highway's mean

D (xx0232@1)                                   GSeems (320003@1)like it's always hot down here, no matter when you come
D (xx0232@1)                                         G (320003@1)          
It's the kind of heat that holds you like a mama holds her son
A (x02220@1)                          G (320003@1)Tight when he tries to walk, even tighter if he runs
AIt's (x02220@1)a mean old dusty highway
G (320003@1)                                        ABut (x02220@1)it's the only one that'll get you there
Bm G
That'll get you there

BmMean (x24432@1)old highway
G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)                BmStuck (x24432@1)to the ground in Mississippi
         G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)It's the one'll set me free
G (320003@1)           
It's the same one that I see
A (x02220@1)                                        G (320003@1)Being ripped up off the ground and wrapped around me
A (x02220@1)                                     D (xx0232@1)Don't let it fool you this highway's mean

D (xx0232@1)                            G (320003@1)   
I don't need a map to tell me where I am today
D (xx0232@1)                          GThis (320003@1)feeling that I have has always led the way
ADown (x02220@1)here, you're running from a broken heart
G (320003@1)                                     D (xx0232@1)Or to a heart that you have to break on this mean old highway