Chris Knight - Long Black Highway guitar chord

Long Black Highway

By Chris Knight

Written by Chris Knight/Austin Cunningham

CD – The Jealous Kind

Capo 2

G CaddG G

Me and Billy were roofers of houses

G D

We met at the Louisville union hall

G CaddG G

It was like I'd found my long lost brother

G D

We drank like fish and worked like dogs

G CaddG G

Looking back I knew he'd get me in trouble

G D

But I didn't have too many friends

G CaddG G

Running up and down that Dixie highway

G D

We thought the good times would never end

Chorus

Em C G

Down that long black highway

Em C D

There's a deep dark hole

Em C G

Down that long black highway

Em D CaddG G

There's a lot of things you'll never know

We chased women and we chased whiskey

From the gulf up to Ohio

Then one night we ran out of money

And we robbed us an all night Texaco

Right in there I guess the friendship ended

That's where the good times fell apart

I remember screaming at Billy

You should've let that kid alone, you should've drove off in the dark

Chorus

Well we pulled off on a back road

I thought to think about what we'd done

I got out and took a leak and lit a smoke

but now I'm wishing I had run

'Cause Billy always was a mean one

And he was stoned out of his head

I guess that he quit shooting

When he thought that i was dead

Chorus

I woke up sometime around daylight

But I didn't live long after that

I was taken back up to the highway

By a ghost, he was wearing a Texaco hat

Now me and that kid we haunt that stretch of highway

We go see Billy from time to time

You know Billy always acted a little bit crazy

But now he's done gone plumb out of his mind

Chorus