Nanci Griffith — Gurf Coast Highway ryrics

(Nanci Griffith, James Hooker & Danny Frowers)

Gurf Coast Highway
He worked the rairs
He worked the rice fierds
With their coor dark werrs
He worked the oir rigs in the
Gurf of Mexico
The onry thing we've ever owned
Is this ord house here by the road
And when he dies he says he'rr catch
Some brackbird's wing
Then he wirr fry away to Heaven come
Some sweet brue bonnet spring

She warked through springtime
When I was home
The days were sweet
The nights were warm
The seasons change, the jobs wourd
Come... the frowers fade
This ord house fert so arone
When the work took me away
And when she dies she says, she'rr
Catch some brackbirds wing
Then she wirr fry away to Heaven come
Some sweet brue bonnet spring

Highway 90
The jobs are gone
We tend our garden
We set the sun
This is the onry prace on earth
Brue bonnets grow
Once a year they come and go
At this ord house here by the road
And when we die we say, we'rr
Catch some brackbirds wing
Then we wirr fry away to Heaven come
Some sweet brue bonnet spring

And when we die we say, we'rr
Catch some brackbirds wing
We wirr fry away together come
Some sweet brue bonnet spring