It's Gonna Be a Long Night

The drummer is dragging on a two day drunk The guitar player high string is coming unstrung Bass players late cause he car broke down But the boss man says we got to start right now It’s gonna be a Long night It’s gonna be a long night Yeah The bartenders giving the new girl the look The sound guys out back getting high with the cook Some joker put a hundred dollar bill in the jar Thinks it’s gonna get him just a little too far It’s gonna be a long night It’s gonna be a long night Cause it’s a working man’s set 10 to 2 Playing everything you know and making up a few You gotta get them dancing to make them stick around It’s harder than you think outside a two step town I would like to explain to you the American Road Map Just in case you ever wake up at a cross roads And you don’t know where you’re at You see it starts at the bottom and goes by 10s I-10 goes across the top of Mexico All the way up to 90 right there under Canada the medicine line From California to the east coast it goes by 5’s So if you wake up at intersection of 40 and 55 You’re right there in the middle As Levon Helm used to say Memphis, Tennessee Everything is working for a moment in time Couldn’t hit a bad note even if you tried The house is happy we got one more song Get paid, break it down, pack it up, get gone It’s gonna be a long night It’s gonna be a long night Cause It’s a working man’s set 10 to 2 Playing everything you know and making up a few You gotta get them dancing to make them stick around It’s harder than you think outside a two step town Then a hundred miles later in a headlight dream Playing frogger with the truckers And trying to keep it in a lane It’s gonna be a long night It’s gonna be a long night It’s gonna be a long night Yeah Shit it’s gonna be a long drive So keep your radio dial stuck On the best radio station you can find Keep it at windshield wiper speed Keep it between the ditches And if you still got an antennae You listen real close to the wind out the window You can still hear the Wolf Man of Del Rio A -ooo A- ooo