Sencillo / Pista
Mama hated diesels so bad
I guess I knew it was something to do with Dad
The first I ever seen her cry
Was after one of them things went by
Mama hated diesels so bad
I remember hearing those semis gearing down
My mom and me, we lived right on the high grade into town
Well, I sure liked them white Freightliners
But there was something in Mama's eye
When she'd catch me watching the road
Lord, a little bitty piece of her died
Mama hated diesels so bad
I guess I knew it was something to do with Dad
The first I ever seen her cry
Was after one of them things went by
Mama hated diesels so bad
As the years passed and I grew older, Mama did too
Pretty soon she stopped singing and laughing
Why, she'd hardly even eat
And I began staying away from home on the weekdays
I wouldn't come home from school 'til way past dark
I was too busy having some kind of fun
Either messing around with some gal
Or hanging around the local truck stop
Talking to my buddies about all the big rigs
That were all the time rolling in
And talking about all the crazy places we'd never been
Like California
Well, one day the county sheriff come up to me
He said they found my mama wandering all by herself
In the middle of the highway crying
She was trying, of all things, Lord
To flag down one of them big old rigs with her pocket handkerchief
Well, that left me on my own
I got a job unloading rigs down at the local freight yard
Pretty soon I had a rig of my own
And I left my hometown on my very first run to Frisco
Well, that was three years ago today
And I ain't been back home in all that time since then
'Til now
Now it's me and the local preacher
Standing in the graveyard grass
Staring down at the highway
Watching those big boys pass
Well, he laid his hand upon me
And he prayed for quite some time
That I could barely understand the words he said
Behind that highway's whine
Then he handed me a faded photograph
He said he found it in my mama's hand
He said, "Son, I'm afraid that you and this picture
Was the best your mama ever had"
Well, I looked down at that picture
It was Mama and some guy
Standing in front of a semi truck
"Just Married" painted on the side
Mama hated diesels so bad
I guess I knew it was something to do with Dad
The first I ever seen her cry
Was after one of them things went by
Mama hated diesels so bad
Mama hated diesels so bad