Hiway Songs chords by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot - Hi'way Songs


CAPO: 3rd Fret




[INTRO:] D  A C G D (4x)

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

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


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


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


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


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


[INTERLUDE:] A C G D  A C G D


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


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


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


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