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(James Hooker - Nanci Griffith - Danny Flowers) |
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Gulf Coast Highway |
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He worked the rails |
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He worked the rice fields |
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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 |
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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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Then he will fly away to Heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring |
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She walked through springtime |
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When I was home |
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The days were sweet |
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The nights were warm |
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The seasons change the jobs would come the flowers fade |
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This old house felt so alone |
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When the work took me away |
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And when she dies she says; she'll catch some blackbird's wing |
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Then she will fly away to Heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring |
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Highway 90 |
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The jobs are gone |
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We tend our garden |
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We set the sun |
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This is the only place on earth blue bonnets grow |
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Once a year they come and go |
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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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Then we will fly away to heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring |
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And when we die we'll catch some blackbird's wing |
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We will fly away together come some sweet blue bonnet spring |
