gulf coast highway2   Nanci Griffith

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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:02:17 -0700 (PDT)



Written by Nanci Griffith, 
 
it was intended as a duet, and is most often performed as such.
This version is set up so that a male performer can perform the entire song.
 
Submitted by:
Larry Clark
 

Gulf Coast Highway

by Nanci Griffith

                           

(C) Gulf coast highway, I (F) worked the (C) rails,

                               

I worked the rice fields with their cool dark (F) wells,

                                             

I worked the (Am) oilrigs in the (G) gulf of Mexi (C) co,

                                                  

The only (F) thing I?ve ever (C) owned is this old (G) house here by the (C) road

 

Chorus

                               

And when I (Am) die, I say I'll (G) catch some blackbird's (C) wing

                                                    

And I will (F) fly away to (C) heaven, come some (G) sweet bluebonnet (C) spring

 

(C)She walked through spring time, when (F)I was (C)home

Our days were sweet, the nights were (F)warm

Seasons pass, jobs would (G)come, flowers (C) fade, 

This old(F) house felt so (C) alone when the (G) work took me a (C)way

 

And when she (Am) dies, she says she'll (G) catch some blackbird?s (C) wing,

And she will (F) fly away to (C) heaven, come some (G) sweet bluebonnet (C) spring.

 

(C)Highway 90, the (F) jobs are (C) gone,

We tend our garden, we set the (F) sun

This is the (Am) only place on (G)earth bluebonnets (C) grow

And once a (F) year they come and (C) go

At this old (G) house here by the (C) road

 

And when we (Am) die, we say we'll (G) catch some blackbird's (C) wing,

And we will (F) fly away (C) together come some (G) sweet bluebonnet (C) spring.

And when we (Am) die, we say we?ll (G) catch some blackbird?s (C) wing, 

And we will (F) fly away to (C) heaven, come some (G) sweet bluebonnet (C) spring