Key: D major
Verse 1
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You know, I don't know why,
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but most people think of
Hank
Williams when you mention
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David
Allen
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Coe's name, and maybe it's because
A
E
the ride was such a hit for me.
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But I was so disappointed when they did a
A
TV special on
Hank
E
Williams this year and
they asked
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John
E
Anderson to sing the ride instead of me,
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it broke my heart.
And I was telling
F#
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Mo about that at
King
Records.
F#
They had just released
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my latest album,
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Lonesome
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Fugitive, and he said, well, why don't we
go in the studio and cut
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a tribute album to
F#
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Hank, an d call it
The
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Ghost of
Hank
Williams
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after the song you wrote at
Hank's grave.
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A
And I said, man, that'd be great.
And
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B
Mo said, well, what's your favorite
Hank
E
Williams songs?
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I picked up the guitar,
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started playing it, and I went...
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A
E
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I'm a rolling stone, all alone and lost
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F#
A life of sin, I have paid the cost
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B
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When I pass by, all the people say
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A
E
B
Just another guy on
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the lost highway
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A
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Just a deck of cards
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an d a jug of wine
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An d a woman's lies
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makes a life like mine
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B
On the day we met, I went astray
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I started down that lost highway
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I was just a lad,
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merely twenty -two
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Neither good nor bad,
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just a kid like you
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And now I'm lost, too late to pray
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E
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Lord, I paid the cost,
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on the lost highway
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Now boys don't stop,
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you're running around
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On the road of sin,
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F#
oh you're sorrow bound
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Take my advice, you'll curse the day
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You started traveling down
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That lost highway, that lost highway
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That lost highway,
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that old lost highway
You
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