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Thread #71859 Message #1232837
Posted By: open mike
24-Jul-04 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: Songs for a wedding dinner
Subject: Lyr Add: GULF COAST HIGHWAY (Nanci Griffith)
nanci Griffith sings a song which is such a beautiful love song that it has brought tears to my eyes...Gulf Coast Highway...here it is..i love the images of flight...
Gulf coast highway He worked the rails He worked the rice fields With their cool dark wells He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've ever owned Is this old house here by the road
And when he dies he says he'll catch some blackbird's wings And he will fly away to heaven Come some sweet blue-bonnet spring
She walked through springtime, when I was home The days were sweet The nights were warm The seasons change, the jobs would come, the flowers fade This old house felt so alone When the work took me away
And when she dies she said she'd catch some blackbird's wings And she will fly away to heaven Come some sweet blue-bonnet spring
Highway 90, the jobs are gone We tend our garden Te set the sun This is the only place on earth bluebonnets grow And once a year they come and go At this old house here by the road
When we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wings We will fly away to heaven Come some sweet blue-bonnet spring
Cause when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wings We will fly away together Come some sweet blue-bonnet spring