Drive-By Truckers – 72 This Highways Mean (Guitar)

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This song is from the Truckers breakthrough album The Southern Rock Opera. It was written and sang by Mike Cooley. Intro D G D G
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Don't know why they even bother putting this highway on the map

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Everybody that's ever been on it knows exactly where they're at

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Hells on both ends of it

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And no where's in between

                  D    G
This highway's mean

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Seems like it's always hot down here, no matter when you come

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It's the kind of heat that holds you like a mama holds her son

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Tight when he tries to walk, even tighter if he runs

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It's a mean old dusty highway

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But it's the only one that'll get you there

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That'll get you there

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Mean old highway

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Stuck to the ground in Mississippi

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It's the one'll set me free

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It's the same one that I see

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Being ripped up off the ground and wrapped around me

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Don't let it fool you this highway's mean

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I don't need a map to tell me where I am today

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This feeling that I have has always led the way

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Down here, you're running from a broken heart

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Or to a heart that you have to break on this mean old highway