Lee Roy Parnell
On The Road
(Bob McDill)



There's a sad young wife never had a life
Her mother says she married young
And her husband's a fool never listened to
All the things she's never done
So she packs up that old Ford Fairlane
She's had about all she can bare
A suitcase, a hope, and a hard rain,
She's gonna find it all somewhere

Chorus:

On the road
Where the night is black
On the road
Where you don't look back
There's a white line in the distance
Where it's going nobody knows
If it's anywhere you'll find it
On the road

There's a teenage kid no matter what he did
Nobody ever understands
And he don't measure up and he's had enough
Can't be his daddy's little man
So he pulls out that hot rod Chevy
Puts in his favorite cassette
Well he ain't goin' to no college
The world is waitin' up ahead

Chorus

Eddie and Jill got time to kill
The kids they never come around
And a gold-plated watch was all he got
When the company shut his life down
So he takes out that old Airstream
They don't know where they're bound
Sixty-five years and still searchin'
For something that they never found

Chorus

On the road