Intro: C F (Repeat Several Times) C5 F5 out on the highway son be careful C5 your mother sure loves you smell of liquor and gasoline F5 C5 you knew then what you were born to do A5 they put Roosevelt in office F5 C5 they took the farm the family had to go A5 we don?t have to do much farming F5 C5 G5 for the corn mash, or the copper, or the oak trees C F (Repeat Several Times) C5 two years ago this april F5 C5 ?bout the time when he made that first run it was just to Carolina F5 C5 but I was thinking this awful thing I?d done A5 F5 back home in Kentucky it was sundown C5 when he slipped right through the door A5 and he was wide eyed and sweaty F5 C5 G5 and he said he would be ready by the mornin? C F (Repeat Several Times) C5 we made whiskey in the morning F5 C5 we made whiskey morning, noon, and nigt F5 when you were at home it was the only sleep C5 your mother got at night A5 she?d just sit there by the window F5 C5 crying boy oh when you comin? home A5 F5 at night I see her there on her knees and in her prayers C5 G5 she says oh Jesus don?t leave us here alone C F (Repeat Several Times) C5 F5 sixty miles an hour after midnight C5 he roared o?er that county line there were patrol cars in the bushes F5 C5 and they were waiting for just the right time A5 they turned the lights on in the curve F5 C5 and the Plymouth started swerving left to right A5 and it sounded like a cannon F5 C5 G5 as the shotguns ripped apart the night C F (Repeat Several Times) A5 let his soul rest in Kentucky F5 C5 where he won?t have to be lucky anymore A5 I can still here him laughing F5 C5 bout the police he outrun the night before G5 the bullets in his door C F (Repeat Several Times) C5 F5 out on the highway son be careful C5 your mother sure loves you
