Blues Lyrics - Jimmy Witherspoon Key To The Highway
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by
Big Bill Broonzy
Chuck Segar
recording of 1962
from
Roots (Reprise 6057 )
I've got the key to the highway
Yes I'm billed out and bound to go
I'm gonna leave here runnin'
'Cause walking's just too slow
I'm going back to the border
Where I'm better known
'Cause you haven't done nothin'
But broke up our happy home
Now give me one more kiss baby
Yes before I go
'Cause when I leave here this time baby
I 'clare I won't be back no more
So long, goodbye
Yes I have to say goodbye
'Cause I'm gonna walk, walk this old highway
Until the day I die