Maggie's Dream - Trisha Yearwood

Maggie’s up each mornin' at 4 A. M

By five behind the counter at the diner

Her trucker friends out on the road will soon be stoppin' in

As the lights go on at Cafe Carolina

Maggie’s been a waitress here most all her life

Thirty years of coffee cups and sore feet

The mountains around Asheville she’s never seen the other side

And closer now to fifty than to forty

Maggie’s never had love

She says she’s never had enough time

To let a man into her life

Oh but Maggie has a dream

She’s had since she was 17

To find a husband

And be a wife

Maggie knows the truckers most by first name

What they’ll have to say and what they’ll order

And they take her in their stories to places far away

And then leave her with the dishes, dreams and quarters

Maggie’s never had love

She says she’s never had enough time

To let a man into her life

Oh but Maggie has a dream

She’s had since she was 17

To find a husband

And be a wife

And she relies upon the jukebox

On the lonely afternoons

When the business starts to slow down

She plays the saddest tunes

She stares off down the highway

She wonders where it goes

With nobody to go home to

And it’s almost time to close

And the lights go down at Cafe Carolina