Lyle Lovett - West Texas Highway guitar chord

WEST TEXAS HIGHWAY

By: Michael Martin Murphy and Boomer Castleman

Recorded by: Lyle Lovett Album: Step Inside this House

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Now I was a`driving down

A West Texas highway

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I seen a hitchhiker

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His thumb was pointin my way

F7

He didn't look suspicious

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He didn't look any too clean

F7

So I, I put on my brakes

And I opened up the door

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I could tell he was a bum

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By the boots he wore

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He said I'm going down to Haskell

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Got a woman back in Abilene.

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He told me son East Texas

Is where I come from

Bb7

I been ridin' that Jacksonville Rodeo

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And I got humdrum

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I'm travelling around

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A whole lot of Texas I've seen

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Yes and I'm, I'm mighty glad

You was pushin' down my way

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In your fancy clothes

E7

And this shiny Chevrolet

F7 D

Said I'm going down to Haskell

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Got a woman back in Abilene.

--- Dobro / Piano leads

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You know he was grinning like a possum

And a mighty happy rascal

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He waved good-bye

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When I let him out in Haskell

F7

And that's about the last

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Of that road tramp

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That I've ever seen

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But you know that I'm still wishing

To this very day

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That he had my clothes

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And this shiny Chevrolet

F7 D

And it was me going to Haskell

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With a woman down in Abilene.

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But you know that I'm still wishing

To this very day

Bb7

That he had my clothes

E7

And this shiny Chevrolet

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And it was me going to Haskell

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With a woman down in Abilene.