Intro: C F (Repeat Several Times) C F out on the highway son be careful C your mother sure loves you smell of liquor and gasoline F C you knew then what you were born to do Am they put Roosevelt in office F C they took the farm the family had to go Am we don’t have to do much farming F C G for the corn mash, or the copper, or the oak trees C F (Repeat Several Times) C two years ago this april F C ‘bout the time when he made that first run it was just to Carolina F C but I was thinking this awful thing I’d done Am F back home in Kentucky it was sundown C when he slipped right through the door Am and he was wide eyed and sweaty F C G and he said he would be ready by the mornin’ C F (Repeat Several Times) C we made whiskey in the morning F C we made whiskey morning, noon, and nigt F when you were at home it was the only sleep C your mother got at night Am she’d just sit there by the window F C crying boy oh when you comin’ home Am F at night I see her there on her knees and in her prayers C G she says oh Jesus don’t leave us here alone C F (Repeat Several Times) C F sixty miles an hour after midnight C he roared o’er that county line there were patrol cars in the bushes F C and they were waiting for just the right time Am they turned the lights on in the curve F C and the Plymouth started swerving left to right Am and it sounded like a cannon F C G as the shotguns ripped apart the night C F (Repeat Several Times) Am let his soul rest in Kentucky F C where he won’t have to be lucky anymore Am I can still here him laughing F C bout the police he outrun the night before G the bullets in his door C F (Repeat Several Times) C F out on the highway son be careful C your mother sure loves you