U.S. Highway 72 is approximately 337 miles long and runs from Chattanooga in southeast Tennessee through northern Alabama and northern Mississippi to Memphis in southwest Tennessee. According to the Drive-By Truckers, my pick when it comes to choosing the finest rock band of the past decade, it´s a mean ole dusty highway. But it´s also the only one that´ll get you there.
"Don't know why they even bother putting this highway on the map,
Anybody that's ever been on it knows exactly where they're at,
Hell´s on both ends of it, and nowhere´s in between,
This highway´s mean..."
"Don't know why they even bother putting this highway on the map,
Anybody that's ever been on it knows exactly where they're at,
Hell´s on both ends of it, and nowhere´s in between,
This highway´s mean..."