Hiway Songs chords by Gordon Lightfoot

Chords with lyrics

Gordon Lightfoot - Hi'way Songs


CAPO: 3rd Fret



[INTRO:] D MajorD  A augmentedA C majorC G+G D MajorD (4x)

[VERSE 1:]
        A augmentedA
When I walk the hills so high
 C majorC     G+G        D MajorD
Around the town where I was born
         A augmentedA
New York seems so far away
    C majorC   G+G        D MajorD   A augmentedA C majorC G+G D MajorD
Though I was there just yesterday

[VERSE 2:]
         A augmentedA
I have played on my guitar
  C majorC   G+G         D MajorD
In coffeehouses, halls and bars
       A augmentedA
Everyone that I call friend
C majorC     G+G       D MajorD   A augmentedA C majorC G+G D MajorD
Knows they will not be forgot


[VERSE 3:]
           A augmentedA
Trains and planes and rented cars
C majorC    G+G        D MajorD
Singers, saints and other stars
        A augmentedA
I suspect them every one
    C majorC   G+G           D MajorD
They'll never change, it's too much fun


[CHORUS:]
A augmentedA        E MajorE
Just for now I'd like to rest
G+G         D MajorD
In the shade of a maple tree
A augmentedA       E MajorE
To the blue Canadian sky
   G+G          D MajorD         E MajorE A augmentedA  E MajorE A augmentedA
I'll say a prayer for the world out there

[VERSE 4:]
D MajorD        A augmentedA
When I stand on my own sod
  C majorC    G+G          D MajorD
It feels so good to be home, by god
          A augmentedA
The winter wind has turned my head
   C majorC   G+G        D MajorD   A augmentedA C majorC G+G D MajorD
But I always came up warm somehow


[VERSE 5:]
          A augmentedA
Bottles, beads and cigarettes
  C majorC   G+G         D MajorD
And lovers that I ain't found yet
        A augmentedA
Picking with a friend till dawn
  C majorC    G+G        D MajorD
And singing all those hi'way songs


[INTERLUDE:] A augmentedA C majorC G+G D MajorD  A augmentedA C majorC G+G D MajorD


[CHORUS:]
A augmentedA        E MajorE
Just for now I'd like to rest
G+G         D MajorD
In the shade of a maple tree
A augmentedA       E MajorE
To the blue Canadian sky
   G+G          D MajorD         E MajorE A augmentedA  E MajorE A augmentedA
I'll say a prayer for the world out there


[VERSE 6:]
D MajorD        A augmentedA
When I walk the hills so high
 C majorC     G+G        D MajorD
Around the town where I was born
         A augmentedA
New York seems so far away
    C majorC   G+G        D MajorD
Though I was there just yesterday


[VERSE 7:]
        A augmentedA
I would travel all my life
  C majorC   G+G        D MajorD
If loneliness was not the price
           A augmentedA
While heading north across that line's
  C majorC  G+G    D MajorD
The only time I'm flying


[OUTRO:]   (## repeat and fade to end ##)