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Subject: Highway Songs From: GUEST,GUEST, partymike@yahoo.com Date: 07 May 04 - 12:26 PM I'm going to be taking a long car trip soon and I'm looking for some suggestions for some feel good highway songs. So far I've come up with: - Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road - G Love & Special Sauce - Fresh Lila - Chuck Berry - No Particular Place to Go Any Ideas? |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Leadfingers Date: 07 May 04 - 01:09 PM Bert Jansch's Hitchikers song - 'National Seven' - a long lonesome road -all the way to StTropez |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: LindsayInWales Date: 07 May 04 - 01:09 PM How about "Stonecracker John" or "The Vagabond" ?? There is always Gracie Fields' "Sng As We Go" and Sir Harry Lauder's "Keep Right On To The End Of The Road" - I'll try and think of a few more! |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 May 04 - 01:32 PM Paul McCartneys.."Long and Winding Road" comes to mind. BUT of course they do not have to be about roads....I personally love to listen to anything by "Enya" whilst on long trips and of course..testing out to find a decent radio station. Be Blessed |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Merritt Date: 07 May 04 - 05:56 PM these are more travel-related songs with some qualifying as highway songs. and some may be too sad to "feel good," but I'll let you judge. they all work for me: ~ I Know You Rider - Trad ~ Southern Stream Line - John Fogerty ~ Key To The Highway - Broonzy ~ Willin'- Little Feat ~ The Road - Danny O'Keefe ~ Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer; 1945 ~ Your Bright Baby Blues – Jackson Browne; Sitting down by the highway Down by that highway side Everybody's going somewhere Riding just as fast as they can ride I guess they've got a lot to do Before they can rest assured Their lives are justified Pray to God for me baby She can let me slide ~ Southbound Train – Graham Nash ~ Kansas City Blues – Jim Jackson; 1928; Dave Van ROnk did a great cover back in +/- 1961 with the Red Onion Jazz Band ~ Northwest Passage – Stan Rogers ~ Four Strong Winds – written by Ian Tyson; performed by Neil Young, HArry Belafonte ~ Roving Gambler ~ Racing in the Streets – Bruce Springstein ~ Railroad Bill – think it's trad ~ Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver ~ People Get Ready – Mayfield; 1964 Have a great trip! - Merritt |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Geoff the Duck Date: 07 May 04 - 07:05 PM Chris Rea - The Road To Hell John from Hull - The Road To Hull Talking Heads - The Road To Nowhere M25 - the worlds biggest roundabout The road to Mandalay Road to Morocco - well Bing and Bob always sang some good songs... actually I seem to recall at least one past thread about road songs. Can't recall the title though. Might be worth a forum search. Quack! Geoff the Duck. |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Celtaddict Date: 07 May 04 - 07:15 PM About specifically Irish roads (both Great Big Sea I think but a friend has given me them mixed with McKrells and Saw Doctors so am not sure) N17 ("stone walls and the grass is green...") Twisting Turning Winding Roads of Galway and Mayo |
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Subject: Lyr Add: I'VE BEEN A LONG TIME LEAVIN' From: GUEST,Fred Date: 07 May 04 - 09:45 PM Roger Miller I'VE BEEN A LONG TIME LEAVIN' (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone) lyrics I've been a fool, I've been a foo-ooo-ooool Forgivin' you each time you done me wrong I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone Loved you so much, loved you so mu-u-huuuch I stayed around when I should've moved along I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone I say hi there highline, hello highway Here come a big old semi my way I stick up my thumb, hear the truck come But the truck goes by 'n' he looks like he's flyin' And he whoops the big legs on my Levi's They go woop woop woop woop woop I've been a fool, I've been a foo-oo-ooool Forgivin' you each time you done me wrong I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone I say hi there highline, hello highway Here come a big old semi my way I stick up my thumb, hear the truck come But the truck goes by and he looks like he's flyin' And he's whoopin' the big legs on my Levi's Woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop I've been a fool, I've been a foo-oo-ooool Forgivin' you each time that you've done me wrong I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone gone gone gone gone gone gone |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Mudlark Date: 07 May 04 - 10:25 PM On the Road, Again...I just caint wait to get on the road again... Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound Denver's Great to be Back Home Again (for the ride back) John Hammond's Gonna Get Me a Car, Gonna Move on Down the Road Tracy Chapman's I'll Get a Fast Car |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: beardedbruce Date: 07 May 04 - 10:26 PM The Mills of New Jersey |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: freda underhill Date: 07 May 04 - 10:53 PM best song in thje world! Never Tire of the Road Andy Irvine I was just a small town country boy When I left that country town Route 66 to the Westward And hopped an old freight down California here I come By the side door Pullman and the sunburnt thumb And they called us Okies, lowdown bums And the police on us frowned Chorus: Never tire of the road Never tire of the rolling wheel Never tire of the ways of the world Way out yonder is a-calling me And the dark road leads me onwards And the highway, that's my code And the lonesome voice that I heard said Never tire of the road California to the New York Island Me and my guitar And we played in many a hobo jungle Many a skid row bar Standing out in the wind and the rain That lonesome whistle is a sweet refrain When you are waiting for some old freight train That carries an empty car. Don't let them ever fool you Or take you by surprise That dirty smell of a politician And the man with the greed in his eyes One big union, that's our plan And the IWW"s your only man The flames of discontent we'll fan For the cause that never dies |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Midchuck Date: 07 May 04 - 10:58 PM The greatest of all IMO: Return of the Grevious Angel - Gram Parsons and some hippy chick. P. |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Cluin Date: 07 May 04 - 11:16 PM "Hiway Songs" by Gordon Lightfoot "Somewhere Ahead" by James Keelaghan "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers (it really is a highway song) "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson "Six Days on the Road" by Dave Dudley "Radar Love" by Golden Earring "Leavin' On a Jet Plane" by John Denver "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake "Lost Highway" by Hank Williams Sr. "Two of Us" by the Beatles "Gladys Ridge" by James Keelaghan "Driving Song" by Jethro Tull "Calling Baton Rouge" by New Grass Revival "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers "Home By Dawn" & "Through the Darkening Night" by Brooks Williams |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Mark Clark Date: 08 May 04 - 01:31 AM Let's see, there's…
- Mark |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: Mooh Date: 08 May 04 - 06:26 AM Further On Down The Road...I like the Roy Buchanan version. Dead Skunk Highway Star Lots of Chuck Berry car songs... Mooh. |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: GUEST,reggie miles Date: 08 May 04 - 10:45 AM 51 Highway Blues, is a classic highway blues song I sing every chance I get. It has been recorded by many, including myself. Freeway Madness and Soft Shoulders And Dangerous Curves, are both Robert "One-Man" Johnson songs that I love singing. |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: GUEST Date: 08 May 04 - 11:11 AM The road goes on forever Dave mallett Back on the road again Harvey andrews Driving in the middle lane Harvey Andrews jowett Javelin harvey Andrews |
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Subject: RE: Highway Songs From: LindsayInWales Date: 08 May 04 - 11:20 AM um what about that Lindisfarne one, it's on the Fog On The Tyne Album, I only remember a couple of lines You and me on the side of the road In the morning feeling bright .......? and the lifts are few Still thinking we'll be home tonight |
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