Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Highway 61, artist - Fred McDowell.
Date of issue: 27.06.1990
Song language: English
Highway 61 |
61 Highway Blues 5:18 Trk 4 |
Fred McDowell |
Mississippi Fred McDowell — vocal and guitar |
Recorded Feb. 13, 1965, Como Mississippi |
(guitar) |
Lord, that 61 Highway |
It’s the longest road I know-whoa |
Lord, that 61 Highway |
It the longest road I know-oh |
She run from New York City |
Down the Gulf of Mexico |
Lord, it’s some folks said them |
Greyhound buses don’t run |
Lord, it’s some folks said them |
Greyhound buses don’t run |
Just go to West Memphis, baby |
Look down Highway 61 |
I said, please |
Please see somebody for me I said ple-eee-ase |
Please see somebody for me If you see my baby |
Tell her she’s alright with me |
(guitar) |
I’m gonna buy me a pony |
Can pace, fox-trot and run |
I’m gonna buy me a pony |
Can pace, fox-trot and run |
Lord, when you see me, pretty mama |
I be on Highway 61 |
I started school one Monday mo’ning |
Lord, I throwed my books away |
I started school one Monday mo’ning |
Lord, I throwed my books away |
I wrote a note to my teacher, Lord |
I gonna try 61, today |
(guitar) |
Lord, if I hap’n a-die, baby |
'Fore you think my time have come |
Lord, if I hap’n a-die, baby, Lord |
'Fore you think my time have come |
I want you bury my body-yeah |
Out on Highway 61 |
Lord, if yo' man |
Should have you get *boogied', baby |
Lord, don’t want you to have no fun |
If your man should have you get boogied' |
Baby, don’t want you to have no fun |
Just come down to my little cabin |
Out on Highway 61. |
(guitar to end) |
Refers to mean and/or cheap boyfriend, man or husband. |
As in old blues lyrics 'My Man Is Boogan Me' |
Lucille Bogan. |
(few lines below) |
.'He won’t buy me no shoes, he won’t buy me no clothes |
And he’s got so lowdown, he wants to put me outdoors, |
You know that’s boogin' me'. |