From http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/route66.html

ROUTE 66/OPEN HIGHWAY
Composers: music by Nelson Smock Riddle (ASCAP/BMI)
Lyric added by Stanley Styne (ASCAP)

If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way: take the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route Sixty-Six.

It winds from Chicago to LA,
More than two thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on Route Sixty-Six.

Now you go though Saint Looey,
Joplin, Missouri,
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty.
You see Amarillo,
Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Don't forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

Won't you get hip to this timely tip:
When you make that California trip,
Get your kicks on Route Sixty-Six.

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Now you go though Saint Looey
Joplin, Missouri,
And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.
You see Amarillo,
Gallup, New Mexico,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
Don't forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

Won't you get hip to this timely tip:
When you make that California trip
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.

- Bobby Troup

For lyric & chords: http://www.theguitarguy.com/route66.htm

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For the record: my sources show that Bobby Troup wrote the words and music for "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" in 1946, and it was popularized by the King Cole Trio.

In 1966, Nelson Riddle wrote the theme song from the Route 66 television series.
-Joe Offer-