HI'WAY SONGS
(Gordon Lightfoot)

As recorded Gordon Lightfoot 1972


When I walk the hills so high
Around the town where I was born
New York seems so far away
Though I was there just yesterday.

I have played on my guitar
In coffeehouses, halls and bars
Everyone that I call friend
Knows they will not be forgot.

Trains and planes and rented cars
Singers, saints, and other stars
I suspect them everyone
They'll never change it's too much fun.

Just for now I'd like to rest
In the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there.
 
When I stand on my own sod
It feels so good to be home, by God
The winter wind has turned my head
But I always came up warm somehow.

Bottles, beads, and cigarettes
And lovers that I ain't found yet
Picking with a friend 'til dawn
Singing all those hi'way songs.

(bridge)

Just for now I'd like to rest
In the shade of a maple tree
To the blue Canadian sky
I'll say a prayer for the world out there.

When I walk the hills so high
Around the town where I was born
New York seems so far away
Though I was there just yesterday.

I would travel all my life
If loneliness was not the price
Heading north across that line's
Is the only time I'm flyin'.



(Transcribed by David Story - March 2013)