Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

out on the highway son be careful

 your mother sure loves you

smell of liquor and gasoline

 you knew then what you were born to do

 they put Roosevelt in office

 they took the farm the family had to go

 we don’t have to do much farming

 for the corn mash, or the copper, or the oak trees

two years ago this april

 ‘bout the time when he made that first run

it was just to Carolina

 but I was thinking this awful thing I’d done

back home in Kentucky it was sundown

 when he slipped right through the door

 and he was wide eyed and sweaty

 and he said he would be ready by the mornin’

we made whiskey in the morning

 we made whiskey morning, noon, and nigt

 when you were at home it was the only sleep

 your mother got at night

 she’d just sit there by the window

 crying boy oh when you comin’ home

 at night I see her there on her knees and in her prayers

 she says oh Jesus don’t leave us here alone

sixty miles an hour after midnight

 he roared o’er that county line

there were patrol cars in the bushes

 and they were waiting for just the right time

 they turned the lights on in the curve

 and the Plymouth started swerving left to right

 and it sounded like a cannon

 as the shotguns ripped apart the night

 let his soul rest in Kentucky

 where he won’t have to be lucky anymore

 I can still here him laughing

 bout the police he outrun the night before

 the bullets in his door

out on the highway son be careful

 your mother sure loves you