Chris Knight – Long Black Highway (Guitar)

Capo 2
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Chords

[Intro] G [Verse 1]
       G     C                 G
Me and Billy   were roofers of houses

G                                   D
  We met at the Louisville union hall

       G        C                   G
It was like I'd found my long lost brother

G                                    D
  We drank like fish and worked like dogs

        G      C                   G
Looking back I knew he'd get me in trouble

G                                 D
  But I didn't have too many friends

        G      C               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

Am                 D                       C
  There's a lot of things you'll never know
[Interlude] G C G [Verse 2]
          G     C               G
We chased women   and we chased whiskey

         G               D
From the Gulf   up to Ohio

         G     C             G
Then one night we ran out of money

       G                          D
And we robbed us an all night Texaco

         G       C                    G
Right in there I guess the friendship ended

G                                   D
  That's where the good times fell apart

    G      C              G
I remember   screaming at Billy

              G
You should've let that kid alone,

              D
you should've drove off in the dark
[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

Am                 D                       C
  There's a lot of things you'll never know
[Interlude] G C G C G [Verse 3]
     G  C               G
Well we pulled off on a back road

  G                                D
I thought to think about what we'd done

      G   C                 G
I got out   took a leak and lit a smoke

G                           D
  but now I'm wishing I had run

       G     C            G
'Cause Billy always was a mean one

G                              D
  And he was stoned out of his head

       G     C              G
Well I guess   that he quit shooting

G                            D
  When he thought that I was dead
[Chorus]
                Em   C       G
Going down that long   black highway

Em          C         D
  There's a deep dark hole

          Em   C       G
Down that long   black highway

Am                 D                       C
  There's a lot of things you'll never know
[Interlude] G C G G C G [Verse 4]
       G  C                 G
I woke up   sometime around daylight

G                              D
  But I didn't live long after that

       G    C                G
I was taken   back up to the highway

     G                              D
By a ghost, he was wearing a Texaco hat

                G      C                     G
Now me and that kid we haunt that stretch of highway

G                              D
  We go see Billy from time to time

         G            C                  G
You know Billy always acted a little bit crazy

             G                          D
But now he's done gone plumb out of his mind
[Chorus]
                Em   C       G
Going down that long   black highway

Em          G    C    D
  There's a deep dark hole

          Em   C       G
Down that long   black highway

Am                 D                       C
  There's a lot of things you'll never know
[Outro] G C G G C G C G C G