Cold Pines and Red Dirt

I helped some friends move from Boston to San Antonio a few years back, and as I was driving their 14 wheeler fully loaded, I nearly died a few times from road conditions- black ice, nearly side swiping a fellow traveller, and so on. Around Memphis I passed a roadside cross that said 'Willie Hatcher the Third' on it, and this tune popped into my head, lyrics and all, as I drove on- about Willie and how he died there on that stretch of road, and how lucky I was to still be moving along...