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Thread #37569   Message #765880
Posted By: Genie
15-Aug-02 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Gulf Coast Highway (Nanci Griffith
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: Gulf Coast Highway
Here are the chords I use.  I don't know if they match the ones used by Nanci et al.

Genie

Gulf Coast Highway
 (James Hooker/Nanci Griffith/Danny Flowers)

 [tacit]        C                                   F
 Gulf Coast Highway, he worked the rails.
                         C           Am                Am7        Dm
 He worked the rice fields      with their cool dark wells.
                       C                   G               C
 He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
                 F                       C                        G                         C
 The only thing we've ever owned is this old house here by the road.

                      G                           C                               F
 And when he dies, he says, he'll catch some blackbird's wing,
                    F               C                             G               G7       C
 Then he will fly away to Heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring.

         G                      C                                F
 She walked through springtime when I was home.
                         C       Am       Am7           Dm
 The days were sweet,     the nights were warm.
                       C                               G                          C
 The seasons change, the jobs would come, the flowers fade.
                 F                  C                   G                     C
 This old house felt so alone when the work took me away.

                        G                             C                               F
 And when she dies, she says, she'll catch some blackbird's wing.
                      F               C                             G               G7       C
 Then she will fly away to Heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring.
 
               C                       F
 Highway 90, the jobs are gone.
                     C        Am     Am7     Dm
 We tend our garden,     we set the sun.
                          C           G                           C
 This is the only place on earth blue bonnets grow.
             F                            C                   G                           C
 Once a year they come and go at this old house here by the road.
 
                      G                         C                               F
 And when we die, we say, we'll catch some blackbird's wing,
                    F                 C                             G             G7         C
 Then we will fly away to Heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring.

                      G                        C                                 F
 And when we die, we say, we'll catch some blackbird's wing,
                    F               C                             G             G7         C
 Then we will fly away together, come some sweet blue bonnet spring.