{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1083347,"song":"Out On The Highway","artist":"The Everybodyfields","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11239758-out-on-the-highway-chords-by-the-everybodyfields/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1083347?type=chord","rating":4.77177,"votes":3,"content":"Intro:  C F (Repeat Several Times)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nout on the highway son be careful[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nyour mother sure loves you[/tab]\r\n\r\nsmell of liquor and gasoline\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nyou knew then what you were born to do[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthey put Roosevelt in office[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nthey took the farm the family had to go[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                         \r\nwe don’t have to do much farming[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfor the corn mash, or the copper, or the oak trees[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\ntwo years ago this april[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\n‘bout the time when he made that first run[/tab]\r\n\r\nit was just to Carolina\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nbut I was thinking this awful thing I’d done[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nback home in Kentucky it was sundown[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nwhen he slipped right through the door[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand he was wide eyed and sweaty[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand he said he would be ready by the mornin’[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nwe made whiskey in the morning[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nwe made whiskey morning, noon, and nigt[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nwhen you were at home it was the only sleep[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nyour mother got at night[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nshe’d just sit there by the window[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\ncrying boy oh when you comin’ home[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]  \r\nat night I see her there on her knees and in her prayers[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]                 \r\nshe says oh Jesus don’t leave us here alone[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nsixty miles an hour after midnight[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nhe roared o’er that county line[/tab]\r\n  \r\nthere were patrol cars in the bushes\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand they were waiting for just the right time[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Am[/ch]                        \r\nthey turned the lights on in the curve[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nand the Plymouth started swerving left to right[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                           \r\nand it sounded like a cannon[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nas the shotguns ripped apart the night[/tab]\r\n             \r\n\r\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\r\n\r\n                    \r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nlet his soul rest in Kentucky[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nwhere he won’t have to be lucky anymore[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI can still here him laughing[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nbout the police he outrun the night before[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthe bullets in his door[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nout on the highway son be careful[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nyour mother sure loves you[/tab]","plain_text":"Intro:  C F (Repeat Several Times)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nsmell of liquor and gasoline\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\n\n\n\n\n\nit was just to Carolina\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\n\n\n\n\n  \nthere were patrol cars in the bushes\n\n\n\n\n\n             \n\nC F (Repeat Several Times)\n\n                    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC F (Repeat Several Times)","chords":["C","F","Am","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}