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Thread #169891 Message #4107843
Posted By: Joe Offer
27-May-21 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: US Highways (fed and state) and songs about them
Subject: ADD: Gulf Coast Highway (Griffith/Hooker)
The Gulf Coast Highway is US 90. It runs from Texas to Jacksonville, Florida. I had a wonderful drive on 90 from New Orleans to Pensacola, within sight of the Gulf of Mexico for much of the way.
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 wing 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 says, she'll catch some blackbird's wing Then she will fly away to Heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring
Highway 90, The jobs are gone We tend our garden, We set the sun This is the only place on earth blue bonnets grow Once a year they come and go At this old house here by the road And when we die we say, we'll catch some blackbird's wing Then we will fly away to Heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring
And when we die we say, we'll catch some blackbird's wing We will fly away together come some sweet blue bonnet spring