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[Verse]
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Last night I was out driving
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Coming home at the end of the working day
       A
I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
       D
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
            A
As the rain tumbled down hard and cold
         D
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

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[Verse]
                                                  D
An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside
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I watched as they drove him away
       A
And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife
       D
And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night
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To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway
                                 D
Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
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And I watch my baby as she sleeps
       A
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
       D
I just lay there awake in the middle of the nigth
         A         E                  A
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway

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