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Last night I was out driving
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Coming home at the end of the working day
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I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
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On a deserted stretch of a county two lane
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When I came upon a wreck on the highway

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Now there was blood and glass all over
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And there was nobody there but me
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As the rain tumbled down hard and cold
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I seen a young man lying by the side of the road
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He cried Mister, won't you help me please

An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
I watched as they drove him away
And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife
And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway

Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
I just lay there awake in the middle of the nigth
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway