Jennifer Mansfield Peal

Mudflap Bob
© Jennifer Mansfield 1999

Don’t leave me know, Mudflap Bob
To go off to San Antonio – you don’t even have a job
I’ll have to find a new truck stop johnnie to get over you, honey
Oh Mudflap Bob don’t leave me now

It was at a truck stop in Salado you stopped to fill your truck with gas
I could see right there and then that you were not like other men
You were looking over the highway and I was looking over your passenger side
All the way through Oklahoma you would not keep me from your side
Through Ogden and Spokane you were my loving man
Now you say this trip is over, but I’m not ready for goodbye

Oh no, don’t leave me now, Mudflap Bob …

The truest hearts are sometimes parted, and truer hearts have broke than mine
You can drop me where you please, where the boys are pumping diesel fuel
And if I ever see you again, I’ll say to you my friend,

Oh no, don’t leave me now, Mudflap Bob…