New Highway chords by Dave Gunning

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Dave Gunning - New Highway


CAPO: 2nd Fret


INTRO:
C majorC  FF G+G (4x)

  C majorC       FF     G+G
My father came to Westville
  C majorC            FF G+G
And helped to build the town
   FF           C majorC
They damn near broke their backs
Dm7Dm7         G+G
Trying to break the ground
     C majorC         FF    G+G
But some dreams are not for catching
   C majorC        FF G+G
They seldom ever stay
   FF        C majorC
They run like a river of our tears
G+G        C majorC  FF G+G C majorC  FF G+G
Down the new highway

  C majorC      FF   G+G
My mother was a tailor
  C majorC         FF   G+G
She fashioned all my clothes
 FF         C majorC
I wore those burlap britches
    Dm7Dm7     G+G
Down a dozen dusty roads
    C majorC        FF     G+G
But she passed away in 'Sixty-Nine
   C majorC       FF  G+G
Thank god before the day
  FF       C majorC
She didn't have to watch our dreams go
G+G        C majorC
Down the new highway


    A minorAm      G+G    C majorC
Now the main street's dark and silent
   FF         C majorC
Not a shadow or a sound
  A minorAm    G+G     C majorC
But midnight brings the spirits out
     Dm7Dm7          G+G
From the coal mines in the ground
   C majorC          FF     G+G
In my dreams they all come back again
  C majorC         FF
The good folks of the day
G+G      FF         C majorC
They're all trying to save the life they knew from going
G+G        C majorC
Down the new highway

INTERLUDE:
C majorC  FF G+G (4x)


  C majorC       FF     G+G
My brother was a millwright
  C majorC         FF  G+G
He helped to build my home
    FF        C majorC
But the work ran out as did my wife
  Dm7Dm7       G+G
And now I'm all alone
  C majorC      FF   G+G
Without a steady income
      C majorC       FF  G+G
I couldn't ask for her to stay
   FF          C majorC
So I sent my love and my two young kids
G+G        C majorC
Down the new highway


INSTRUMENTAL:
A minorAm G+G C majorC  FF C majorC  A minorAm G+G   C majorC  Dm7Dm7 G+G
C majorC  FF G+G C majorC  FF G+G C majorC  FF G+G


  C majorC       FF     G+G
I remember Freddy Landsburg
    C majorC        FF  G+G
At the farm beside the road
   FF       C majorC
He'd wave to every passing car
  Dm7Dm7      G+G
He never was alone
    C majorC        FF     G+G
But the 4-lane left him breathless
    C majorC       FF  G+G
When it took his view away
    FF         C majorC
Now his spirit haunts the old roadside
     G+G         C majorC
Where it meets the new highway


  A minorAm     G+G    C majorC
But all things come to pass
      FF         C majorC
You see it everywhere you turn
   A minorAm       G+G   C majorC
It's just a big race to the finish line
  Dm7Dm7          G+G
I hope someday we'll learn
     C majorC         FF    G+G
But some dreams are not for catching
   C majorC       FF G+G
They seldom ever stay
   FF        C majorC
They run like a river of our tears
G+G        C majorC
Down the new highway


            FF    G+G
Some dreams are not for catching
   A minorAm     C majorC
They seldom ever stay
   FF        C majorC
They run like a river of our tears
G+G        C majorC   FF G+G C majorC
Down the new highway
FF        C majorC   FF G+G C majorC
Down the new highway
FF        C majorC   FF   C majorC
Down the new highwaaaay-yay-e-yay
FF        C majorC
Down the new highway


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