Diesel power,
18 wheels rollin'
As I pull it on to the interstate
I've got 13 hours to make my destination
And I don't wanna stop to
check my weight
There'll be no sleep for me tonight, no
Gotta be here to toss up
my first morning light
I am a prisoner of the highway
Driven on by my restless soul
Call me a prisoner of the highway
Prisoned by the freedom
of the road
I've run straight out of Wheatland,
West Virginia
And you were stealed from Bethlehem
And I brought tobacco out
of the Carolinas
California wines into Birmingham
Some people work just to survive, yeah
Up here in this cab,
that's where I'm most alive
I am a prisoner of the highway
Driven on by my restless soul
Call me a prisoner of the highway
Driven by the freedom
of the road
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Let it play, let it play, let play
I've got a wife living
back in Tennessee,
and she tries to understand the way I feel.
I could give my hands to
another line of work,
but my heart will always be behind the wheel.
I am a prisoner of the highway
Driven on by my restless soul
I am a prisoner of the highway
Prisoned by the freedom of the
road
Call me a prisoner of the highway
Driven on by my restless soul
I am a prisoner of the highway
Prisoned by the freedom
of the road
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Call me a prisoner of the valley
Dreaded by a beastly soul
you