Lyr/Chords Req: Gulf Coast Highway (Nanci Griffith

09 Aug 01 - 01:58 AM (#524130)
Subject: Nanci Griffith's 'Gold Coast Highway'
From: Genie

Need lyrics and chords to "Gold Coast Highway," the one that goes, " and when he dies, he says he'll take some blackbird's wing, and he will fly away to heaven, come some sweet bluebonnet sprin

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11 Aug 01 - 02:22 AM (#525531)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Nanci Griffith's 'Gold Coast
From: GUEST,genie

Thanks, Stewie. I had even forgotten that it's "Gulf Coast ...," not "Gold Coast ... ."

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15 Aug 02 - 11:28 AM (#765864)
Subject: Lyr Add: GULF COAST HIGHWAY (from Nanci Griffith)
From: Genie

GULF COAST HIGHWAY

(James Hooker/Nanci Griffith/Danny Flowers)

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,
Then 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,
Then we will fly away together, come some sweet blue bonnet spring.

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15 Aug 02 - 11:49 AM (#765880)
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: Gulf Coast Highway
From: Genie

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.

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15 Aug 02 - 06:41 PM (#766147)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Nanci Griffith's 'Gold Coast
From: X

Genie:

Would you happen to have the chords to "Lonestar State Of Mind?" Uh? Maybe? Please?

Thanks.

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15 Aug 02 - 09:08 PM (#766218)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Nanci Griffith's 'Gold Coast
From: Genie

I don't, Banjoest, but why not start at Lyr/Chords Req. thread? If no one else posts them, I'll bet Masato will! *G*

Genie

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27 Dec 12 - 02:57 PM (#3457750)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Gulf Coast Highway (Nanci Griffith
From: GUEST

..chords for the "break"? after second verse are E7 D7 G F G..

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27 Dec 12 - 08:48 PM (#3457892)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Gulf Coast Highway (Nanci Griffith
From: Genie

Do you mean an instrumental break, GUEST?

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