Telephone Road - Steve Earle

My brother jimmy, my other brother jack

Went off down to houston and they never come back

Mama wasnt gonna let her baby go yet

But there aint nobody hirin back in lafeyette

Im 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 hes got a little honey on telephone road

Come on come on come on lets go This aint louisianna

Your mama wont know

Come on come on come on lets go Everybodys 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

Mama never told me about nothin like this

I guess houstons bout a big as a city can get

Sometimes I get lonesome for lafeyette

Someday Im goin home but I aint ready yet