Answer To Billy - Slim Dusty

It must be all of three years now since Billy hit the track

And Jenny with a broken heart has been to hell and back

They say she’ll never love again, t’was just a one night stand

For she’s still holds a candle for that no good truckin' man

Now Jenny runs a diner where she’s workin' until late

To catch a glimpse of Billy when he’s hauling interstate

But every trucks a Kenworth when she’s lookin' for a Mack

And deep down in her heart she knows that Billy won’t be back

Hey!

Instrumental

He’s out there somewhere in the night the flashes comes again

She sees him on a mountain road in driving wind and rain

With vision poor and glaring lights and blinded weary eyes

Ah she prays to God, «Don't let it be the way that Billy dies.»

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She watches all the trucks roll in, there’s Jim from Gundagai

She watches out for Billy’s truck in traffic passin' by

And with the roster for the day the staff are briefed before

«Watch out for that big ol' Mack with pinstripes on the door.»

She drives out on the slower lane on the highway out of town

And every truck she sees his face, her world is upside down

She parks beside the vacant block, they lived there in a van

And remembers how she loved and lost that no good trucking man

Hey!

Instrumental

It must be all of three years now since Billy hit the track

And Jenny with a broken heart has been to hell and back

They say she’ll never love again, t’was just a one night stand

For she’s still holds a candle for that no good truckin' man

Hey

Yes she’s still holds a candle for that no good truckin' man