Hiway Songs chords

Gordon Lightfoot

Key: 

Simplify chords 

Capo: 3st fret

  			
 

Intro: D   A  C  G  D  (4x) 

verse 1: 
                A 
When I walk the hills so high 
 C         G                D 
Around the town where I was born 
                  A 
New York seems so far away 
       C     G                D     A  C  G  D 
Though I was there just yesterday  


verse 2: 
                 A 
I have played on my guitar 
   C     G                 D 
In coffeehouses, halls and bars 
              A 
Everyone that I call friend 
C          G              D     A  C  G  D 
Knows they will not be forgot  


verse 3: 
                      A 
Trains and planes and rented cars 
C        G                D 
Singers, saints and other stars 
               A 
I suspect them every one 
        C     G                     D 
They'll never change, it's too much fun  



A                E 
Just for now I'd like to rest 
G                 D 
In the shade of a maple tree 
A             E 
To the blue Canadian sky 
     G                    D                 E  A    E  A 
I'll say a prayer for the world out there  


verse 4: 
D               A 
When I stand on my own sod 
   C        G                   D 
It feels so good to be home, by god 
                    A 
The winter wind has turned my head 
      C      G                D     A  C  G  D 
But I always came up warm somehow  


VERSE 5: 
                   A 
Bottles, beads and cigarettes 
    C      G                  D 
And lovers that I ain't found yet 
               A 
Picking with a friend till dawn 
    C       G                D 
And singing all those hi'way songs 


INTERLUDE: A  C  G  D    A  C  G  D 


 
A                E 
Just for now I'd like to rest 
G                 D 
In the shade of a maple tree 
A             E 
To the blue Canadian sky 
     G                    D                 E  A    E  A 
I'll say a prayer for the world out there  


VERSE 6: 
D               A 
When I walk the hills so high 
 C         G                D 
Around the town where I was born 
                  A 
New York seems so far away 
       C     G                D 
Though I was there just yesterday  


VERSE 7: 
               A 
I would travel all my life 
   C     G                D 
If loneliness was not the price 
                     A 
While heading north across that line's 
    C    G        D 
The only time I'm flying 


OUTRO:     (## repeat and fade to end ##) 
         D    A  C  G  D