Key: C
Introduction:
C F C
Gulf coast highway, he worked the rails.
C F
He worked the rice fields with their cold dark wells.
Am G C
He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
F C G C
The only thing we've ever owned is this old house here by the road.
Am G C
And when he dies, he says, he'll catch some blackbird's wing
F C
And he will fly away to heaven
G C
Come some sweet blue bonnet spring.
She walked through springtime when I was home.