Key: A major
Verse 1
B
F#
B
Last night I was
E
B
out driving
F#
Coming home at the end of the working day
B
I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
E
On a deserted stretch of
a county two-lane
B
When When I came upon a
F#
B
wreck on the highway
Verse 2
B
Now there was blood and glass all over
F#
And there was nobody there but me
B
As the rain tumbled down hard and cold
E
I seen a young man lying
by the side of the road
B
He cried Mister,
F#
B
won't you help me please
Interlude 1
B
G#m
B
G#m
B
Verse 3
B
An ambulance finally came
and took him to Riverside
F#
I watched as they drove him away
B
And I thought of a girlfriend
or a young wife
E
And a state trooper knocking in
the middle of the night
B
F#
To say your baby died in a wreck
B
on the highway
Verse 4
B
Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
F#
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
B
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
E
I just lay there awake in
the middle of the night
B
F#
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway
Outro 1
B
E
B
E
B
G#m
B
G#m
B
G#m
B
G#m
B
G#m
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB F# E G#m
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