Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Highway 61 , by - Fred McDowell. Release date: 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'. |