Gulf Coast Highway chords by Nanci Griffith (Ver. 2)

Tuning: Standard tuning

Difficulty: intermediate


G        C          G
Gulf coast highway, he worked the rails,
G                       C
He worked the rice fields with their cool dark wells,
       Em        D    G
He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico,
    C         G       D           G
The only thing we've ever owned is this old house here by the road

Chorus
     Em          D          G
And when he dies, he says he'll catch some blackbird's wing
      C       G         D          G
And he will fly away to heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring

G           C          G
She walked through spring time, when I was home
G                  C
Our days were sweet, the nights were warm
    Em        D       G
Seasons pass, jobs would come, flowers fade,
     C        G     D       G
This old house felt so alone when the work took me away

       Em          D            G
And when she dies, she says she'll catch some blackbird's wing,
       C       G          D        G
And she will fly away to heaven, come some sweet blue bonnet spring.

G       C     G
Highway 90, the jobs are gone,
G              C
We tend our garden, we set the sun
      Em          D      G
This is the only place on earth blue bonnets grow
    C         G          D          G
And once a year they come and go At this old house here by the road
      Em         D          G
And when we die, we say we'll catch some blackbird's wing,
    C       G            D          G
And we will fly away together come some sweet blue bonnet spring.