Nebraska:
I Hate the Wake Up Sober in Nebraska
Free Hot Lunch (Jeff Corning)
As you travel through this world
Many roads you will ride
Some are long, some are steep
Many will not treat you kind.
But the longest and most boring stretch is 500 miles
From Omaha Nebraska to that Colorado line
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I hate to wake up sober in Nebraska
The miles and miles of empty range
shake my sense of time.
So pass me up a cool one, light the pipe, turn up the stereo
It's still 5 hours more to Ogallala
And 300 miles to that Colorado line
From Omaha to Lincoln
Grand Island to Lexington
It's the flattest piece of highway
man or God has ever made
No trees to block the sunrise
no hills to mar the landscape
Except for liqour stores and truck stops
every mile looks just the same
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Now if I had a beer for every time I drove I-80
I might get drunk enough to pack my bags
and leave tonight
But I'd probably wake up red-eyed
just the other side of Omaha
With a case of empty bottles (Point beer!)
and the sun about to rise
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I've got Jack Daniels on the dashboard
in case my Jesus lets me down.
