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| Intro: A Asus2 Dsus2 (x4) |
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| US highway from | north to south |
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| It's | history breathing |
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| Get out from under | the gun |
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| And drive down Highway | 61 |
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| Hannibal's son saw the | Gold Rush |
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| Saw the | Civil War done |
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| Then settled | down some |
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| Out on Highway | 61 |
| CHORUS |
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| There's no | reason to feel | downhearted |
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| There's music in the | wheels there to be | found |
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| Goodnight Irene in the | prison walls |
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| Killed a man |
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| And lived to sing about | it all |
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| Stella-12 out on Highway | 61 |
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| The immigrant son left the | mining town |
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| Electrified | the tradi | tional |
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| And had it out on Highway | 61 |
| REPEAT CHORUS |