{"id":139,"date":"2007-01-15T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/better-watch-your-heart-cause-a-trucker-only-watches-the-road\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T10:09:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:09:01","slug":"better-watch-your-heart-cause-a-trucker-only-watches-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/better-watch-your-heart-cause-a-trucker-only-watches-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Watch Your Heart (&#8216;Cause a Trucker Only Watches the Road)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written around 1977.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was so young when I first saw him,<br \/>\nIn that run-down truck stop caf\u00c3\u00a9;<br \/>\nFillin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 up mugs I was, passin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 out pie I was,<br \/>\nFussin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with my hair I was<br \/>\nWishin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 some trucker would fall in love with me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->CHORUS:<br \/>\nAnd Agnes said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a fool, honey,<br \/>\nTruckers come in then they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the road again,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nAnd Agnes said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t follow no rules, honey,<br \/>\nBetter watch your heart \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccause a trucker only watches the road.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>And he sat down one night and ordered apple pie,<br \/>\nAnd I said all I had was banana cream;<br \/>\nWatchin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 his eyes I was, clearin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 my throat I was,<br \/>\nNervous as a cat I was,<br \/>\nHopin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 this trucker would fall in love with me.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>And now he comes in every night for banana cream,<br \/>\nAnd Agnes stands around and she just smiles;<br \/>\nFillin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 his mug I am, passin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 out pie I am,<br \/>\nBein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 a fool I am,<br \/>\nHappy this trucker has fallen in love with me.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written around 1977. I was so young when I first saw him, In that run-down truck stop caf\u00c3\u00a9; Fillin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 up mugs I was, passin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 out pie I was, Fussin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 with my hair I was Wishin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 some trucker would fall in love with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}