Hillbilly Highway

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1. My grandaddy was a miner, 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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Grandmama cried when she waved goodbye,

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you never heard such a lonesome sound,

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pretty soon the dirt road turned into blacktop, Detroit City bound.

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Down that hillbilly highway, on that hillbilly highway,

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that old hillbilly highway goes on and on.

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2. Now he worked and saved his money so that one day he might send

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my daddy off to college to use his brains and not his hands.

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Grandmama cried when she waved goodbye,

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never heard such a lonesome sound,

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but daddy had himself a good job in Houston, one more rollin' down ...

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That old hillbilly highway, that old hillbilly highway.

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that old hillbilly highway goes on and on.

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3. Now grand daddy rolled over in his grave 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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My mama cried when I said goodbye,

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I never heard such a lonesome sound,

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now I'm standin' on this highway and if you're going my way,

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you know where I'm bound.

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Down that hillbilly highway, on that hillbilly highway,

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that old hillbilly highway goes on and on.

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On that hillbilly highway, on that hillbilly highway,

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that old hillbilly highway goes on and on.

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+ Goes on and on. - D - A - D - A ...

(Ricky Skaggs)