G
C
Maggie’s up each morning at four am
G
C
By five behind the counter at the diner
G
C
And her trucker friends out on the road will soon be stopping in
F
C
D7
G
As the lights go on at Cafe Carol-ina
C
Maggie’s been a waitress here most all her life
G
C
Thirty years of coffee cups and sore feet
G
C
The mountains around Ashville she’s never seen the other side
F
C
D7
G
And closer now to fifty than to for- ty
C
G
Maggie’s never had a love she said she’s never had enough
C
D7
G
C
Time to let a man into her life aw but Maggie has a dream
G
C
D7
G
She’s had since she was seventeen to find a husband and be a wife
C
Maggie knows the truckers most by first name
G
C
What they’ll have to say and what they’ll order
G
C
And they take her in their stories to places far away
F
C
D7
G
And then leave her with the dishes dreams and quar-ters
C
G
Maggie’s never had a love she said she’s never had enough
C
D7
G
C
Time to let a man into her life aw but Maggie has a dream
G
C
D7
G
She’s had since she was seventeen to find a husband and be a wife
Dm
And she relies upon the jukebox on the lonely afternoon
C
But when the business starts to slow down she plays the saddest tunes
F
C
F
C
And she stares off down the highway and she wonders where it goes
D7
Nobody to go home to and it’s almost time to close
F
D7
Dm
G
C
