neil young
After early eightees album flops like "Trans", Neil calmed down his roots fans a bit with "Old Ways" and country songs like this one, a duet with Waylon Jennings. Also Willie Nelson contributed on this underestimated album, together with a surprising lot of both musicians and technicians ... for such a rather simple production.
"Old Ways" was released on 12th of August 1985, on Geffen Records. Young himself from a 1986 interview with Bill Flanagan: «I wrote that one on a little word processor in the back of my bus while I was rolling. I wrote it with a couple of beers and a little smoke. The bus was rolling down the road and I typed it out and I knew the melody in my head already. That's my favorite one on the Old Ways album.»
out on the trans-Canada highway there was a girl hitchhiking with her dog
fireflies buzzing round her head like candles in the fog
he was three miles down the road trying to stay up but he knew that he couldn't
she was looking for a ride through the night • but out there : who wouldn't?
he was tired of writing letters to himself and living in the dark
she was open to suggestions and some say she had a broken heart
he had everything he wanted till it all turned out to be a job
one fallen asleep trucker and a girl hitchhiking with her dog
out on the trans-Canada highway the sun came climbing up the cab
by the time it hit the window they were waking up from what little sleep they had
when that heat hit the blankets they were looking for love at second sight
just staring in each others' eyes • finding it in the morning light
they were bound for glory • bound for living on the edge
they were bound for each other like two blankets layin' on a bed
she had a new way of living • new way of looking at life
he had an '84 International and two kids he left back home with his wife
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C Cmaj Dm out on the trans-Canada highway there was a girl hitchhiking with her dog G7 G7/9 C fireflies buzzing round her head like candles in the fog C Cmaj Dm he was three miles down the road trying to stay up but he knew that he couldn't G7 G7/9 C she was looking for a ride through the night but out there : who wouldn't?
