NONKINSENSE
Adventures of an Analog Man in the Digital Universe, with a little help from my friends and relations.
Monday, August 22, 2005
Highway Songs:
1. Key to the Highway - Derek and the Dominos 2-Highway to Hell-AC/DC 3-Kings Highway-Tom Petty 4-Blue Highway-Graham Parker ....Highway 61 Revisted: Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but D7 A The next time you see me comin' you better run" E7 Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"A God says, "Out on Highway 61."
Highway Songs (maybe we did this before?) I'll also take Road, Route, Expressway or Freeway...below courtesy of Starriders.
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Expressway to Your Heart - Soul Survivors
Route 66 - I forget the orginal, but covered by the Rolling Stones
Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
The Long and Winding Road - Beatles
King of the Road - Roger Miller
Ventura Highway - America
Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
Eternity Road - the Moody Blues
On the Road Again
Why Don't We Do It in the Road - the Beatles
Gypsy Road - Cinderella (almost forgot this one!)
Lonesome Road -
Middle of the Road - the Pretenders
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Highway 61 Revisited
Everyday is a Winding Road - Sherly Crow
Bright Side of the Road - Van Morrison
Hit the Road Jack - Boulevard - Jackson Brown
Roadhouse Blues - Doors (does this count>)
I've Been Working on the Railroad (ha ha)
Ira,
My current fave (and title of Aztec Two-Step's Live CD [which Lori and I are in the audience for]) is Highway Sign.
2. Expressway to Your Heart - Soul Survivors
3. Highway Star - Deep Purple
4. 2-4-6-8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band
5. Country Road - Grand Funk Railroad (not to be confused with John Denver...)
Donny
It's a Planes, Trains and Automobile Life for Nonkinsense right now:
1-Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band
2-Leaving on a Jet Plane - John denver
3-Jet-Wings
4-Sky Pilot-Eric Burdon
5-Aeroplane-Red Hot Chili Peppers
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1-Mystery Train-Elvis
2-It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It takes a Train to Cry-Bob Dylan
3-City of New Orleans-Steve Goodman, Arlo Guthrie
4-One After 909-The Beatles
5-Casey Jones-Grateful Dead
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1-Brand New Cadillac-The Clash
2-Cadillac Ranch - Bruce Springsteen
3-Mercedes Benz-Janis Joplin
4-409-Beach Boys
5-Little Deuce Coupe-Beach Boys
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Jackson Browne - Running on Empty Lyrics
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on
Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on
Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don't know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that'll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me
through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too
Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind
Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
Running into the sun but I'm running behind
Audio Files
Endless Highway
by J.R.Robertson. First released on Before the Flood © 1971, 1974 Canaan Music, Inc.
G D
Take a silver dollar and put it in your pocket,
A E
Never let it slip away.
G D A
Always be a man, not a boy gone astray.
D D/C# Bm Bm/A E A
When ya get half cra-zy from the August heat
D D/C# Bm Bm/A
Or on a frozen, rotted road
E
With no one to complain to about your achin' feet.
(Chorus:)
A G D A
You're gonna walk that endless highway,
D E A
Walk that high-way till you die.
G D A
All you children goin' my way,
D E A
Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye.
When I see a detour up ahead,
Well, I leave it far behind,
Who knows what you're apt to find there.
With the cost of livin, and the price of dyin',
Well it look like t'me this time I wont be buyin'
(Chorus)
When they get a scapegoat by the throat,
it's hard labour and cold beans.
If ya get away real quick,
You'll be eatin from the poison peanut machine.
Well, I sing by night, wander by day.
I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.
(Chorus)
