Artist: Ricky Skaggs | Song: Hillbilly Highway

Artist/Band: Skaggs Ricky Tabs
Song: Hillbilly Highway Tab

Ricky Skaggs    Hillbilly Highway  written by Steve Earle
                                              Jimbeaux Hinson

Roy Huskey Jr    slap bass
David Hungate    bass
Gary Smith       keyboards
Sonny Garrish    steel guitar
Stuart Duncan    fiddle
Shannon Forrest  drums
Ricky Skaggs     acoustic guitar
Paul Brewster    harmony


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My grandaddy was a miner

But he finally saw the light 

He didn't have much 

Just a beat-up truck and a dream about a better life 

Grandmama cried when she waved goodbye 

You never heard such a lonesome sound 

Pretty soon the dirt road turned into blacktop, Detroit City bound 
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Down that hillbilly highway 

On Ttat hillbilly highway 
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That old   Hillbilly highway 
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Goes on and on 
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Now he worked and saved his money so that one day he might send 

My daddy off to college 

To use his brains and not his hands 

Grandmama cried when she waved goodbye 

Never heard such a lonesome sound 

But daddy had himself a good job in Houston 

One more rollin' down 
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Down that old hillbilly highway 

That old hillbilly highway 
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That old Hillbilly highway 
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Goes on and on 

SOLO

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Now grandaddy rolled over in his grave the day that I quit school 

I just sat around the house playin' my guitar, 

Daddy said I was a fool 

My mama cried when I said goodbye, 

I never heard such a lonesome sound 

Now I'm standin' on this highway and if you're going my way 

You know where I'm bound 

Down that old hillbilly highway 

That old hillbilly highway 
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That old Hillbilly highway 
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Goes on and on 


>From Ricky Skaggs "Life Is A Journey'
Atlantic Records 1997
WB Music(ASCAP)