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Artist: Stan Ridgway
Canonical path: /ridgway-stan/highway-song
Related lyric paths: 6
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Highway song
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Highway song
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Everybody knows a highway song
Sing it with me peopleÃ,Â-Ã,Â-it won't be long
Underneath the stars, the devil you say
What you can't sing now, you better throw away
Chorus:
I sing a-la-la-la-la-lalalala
And everybody knows how to sing a highway song
Like a needle in a haystack, I've been searchin' round
I got a bluesteel gun, and an old bloodhound
Slept in a hollow log, make some porcupine wine
The highwayman tells me to walk this time
Now everybody here knows a highway song
Sing it loud, now, I've been singin' so long
Sing a-la-la-la-la-lalalala
And everybody knows how to sing a highway song
Smoke that wood!
I'm screamin' down the road, my brain on fire
I'm lookin' for the scarecrow with a tractor tire
I've got myself in dust with a TV eye
And nobody knows but the media guy
Chorus repeat
Let's hit the highway
Ah-wooooo!
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Stan Ridgway performs "Highway song", and this lyric page sits inside the Stan Ridgway catalog on LyroVerse.
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