when i was just a little bitty kid i remembered one time mama said daddy sends you all his love from frisco bay i didn t understand till i was grown why my daddy didn t spend a little time at home instead of runnin around the country that way now i m looking at the world through a windshield and see everything in a little bit different light i got a sweet little thing i m wantin to see in nashville and i m down around dallas and a rollin on fast tonight long strips of rubber that you see were burned off of this rig by the likes of me and they ll ride along the highways in this land i m gonna sign my name in this diesel smoke and let the ones that come behind me choke now i m looking at the world through a windshield watchin it a flyin by me at the right i got a sweet little thing i m wantin to see in nashville and i m down around dallas and a rollin on fast tonight i ve pushed this rig through sleet and rain and i ve driven through the rough terrain of the rockies to the docks of old l a on down that old pacific shore sing north and headin for baltimore of somethin bout two thousand miles away now i m looking at the world through a windshield watchin it a flyin by me at the right i got a sweet little thing i m wantin to see in nashville and i m down around dallas and a rollin on fast tonight