Gulf Coast Highway chords by Nanci Griffith

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Gulf coast highway, he worked the rails
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He worked the rice fields with their cool, dark wells
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He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico
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The only thing we've ever owned is this old house here by the road
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And when he dies he says he'll catch some blackbird's wing
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And he will fly away to heaven, come some sweet Blue Bonnet spring.

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She walked through springtime when I was home
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Our days were sweet, our nights were warm
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The seasons changed, the jobs would come, the flowers fade
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And this house felt so alone, when the work took me away
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And when she dies he says she'll catch some blackbird's wing
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And she will fly away to heaven, come some sweet Blue Bonnet spring.

C
Higway 90, the jobs are gone now
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We tend our garden and we set the sun
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This is the only place on earth Blue Bonnets grow
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And once a year they come and go at this old house here by the road
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And when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing
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And we will fly away to heaven, come some sweet Blue Bonnet spring.

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And when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing
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