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Thread #169891 Message #4137815
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Feb-22 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: US Highways (fed and state) and songs about them
Subject: Lyr Add: HIGHWAY 99 (Lowel Fulson)
HIGHWAY 99 As recorded by Lowel Fulson and Trio, Down Beat 116-A (1948).
Now, there was no fare; I’m broke an’ ain’t got a dime. (2x) My time is up in California; gonna hit Highway Ninety-Nine.
When I had plenty money, friends all around my do’. When I had plenty money, nothin’ but friends all ‘round my do’. Now all my money’s gone; I ain’t got no friend no mo’.
I’m gonna hit that ol’ highway, and try to catch myself a ride. (2x) Because that’s a long old lonesome road and a man is bound to get very tired.
- - - U.S. Route 99 runs from the Canadian border in Blaine, Washington to the Mexican border in Calexico, California.