For years she tried to make it all work Put up with his hillbilly ways She gave it her all till the love finally died Then she left him one day Though he turned to the bottle And he turned to other women But never a comfort to find Try as he would he never could Drive her out of his mind He'd call me at night lost in his dreams Asking where he'd gone wrong He talk and he'd cry and I'd sit and listen Till he's pass out and I'd hang up the phone They say he was drunk when he went off the highway Traveling at a high rate of speed But I'm of a mind he knew what he was doing When he drove his car into the tree Though he turned to the bottle And he turned to other women But never a comfort to find Last night on the highway at a hundred and ten He drove her out of his mind