Lyle Lovett – West Texas Highway (Guitar)

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By: Michael Martin Murphy and Boomer Castleman Recorded by: Lyle Lovett Album: Step Inside this House

            F7
Now I was a`driving down

A West Texas highway

  Bb7
I seen a hitchhiker

    E7
His thumb was pointin my way

   F7
He didn't look suspicious

   D                   G7 C7
He didn't look any too clean

      F7
So I, I put on my brakes

And I opened up the door

        Bb7
I could tell he was a bum

       E7
By the boots he wore

            F7            D
He said I'm going down to Haskell

G7                  C7  F7  Bb7 F7 C7
Got a woman back in Abilene.

           F7
He told me son East Texas

Is where I come from

  Bb7
I been ridin' that Jacksonville Rodeo

    E7
And I got humdrum

    F7
I'm travelling around

  D                       G7 C7
A whole lot of Texas I've seen

        F7
Yes and I'm, I'm mighty glad

You was pushin' down my way

        Bb7
In your fancy clothes

         E7
And this shiny Chevrolet

F7                     D
Said I'm going down to Haskell

G7                  C7  F7  Bb7 C7
Got a woman back in Abilene.

--- Dobro / Piano leads

         F7
You know he was grinning like a possum

And a mighty happy rascal

   Bb7
He waved good-bye

       E7
When I let him out in Haskell

    F7
And that's about the last

        D
Of that road tramp

               G7 C7
That I've ever seen

                  F7
But you know that I'm still wishing

To this very day

     Bb7
That he had my clothes

         E7
And this shiny Chevrolet

           F7          D
And it was me going to Haskell

       G7            C7 F7 Bb7 F7
With a woman down in Abilene.

F7
But you know that I'm still wishing

To this very day

     Bb7
That he had my clothes

         E7
And this shiny Chevrolet

           F7          D
And it was me going to Haskell

       G7            C7 F7 Bb7 F7/E7-F7 (slide up)
With a woman down in Abilene.