Key: Ab major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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but he finally saw the light
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He didn't have much, just a beat-up truck
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and a dream about a better life
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you never heard such a lonesome sound
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Pretty soon the dirt road turned into blacktop,
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Detroit City bound
Chorus 1
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Down that hillbilly highway
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On that hillbilly highway
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That old hillbilly highway
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Goes on and on
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Verse 2
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Now he worked and saved his money so that
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one day he might send
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My old man off to college, to use his brains
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and not his hands
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you never heard such a lonesome sound
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But daddy had himself a good job in Houston,
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one more rollin' down
Chorus 2
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That old hillbilly highway
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That old hillbilly highway
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That old hillbilly highway
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Goes on and on
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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the day that I quit school
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I just sat around the house playin' my guitar,
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Daddy said I was a fool
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you never heard such a lonesome sound
and if you're going my way
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You know where I'm bound
Chorus 3
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Bound that hillbilly highway
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On that hillbilly highway
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That old hillbilly highway
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Goes on and on
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Hmm, yeah that's the road I'm
Interlude 2
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(on)
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Outro 1
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Hillbilly high- way
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[Repeat ande fade]
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