John Wesley Harding Our Lady Of The Highways Lyrics

Our Lady Of The Highways Lyrics

I'm here in Philadelphia

She got caught down in DC

It's a wretched night, it's raining

But she's coming up to meet me     

There's nothing I can do

By the time she gets halfway

She'll be tired of 95

The spray off those trucks sucks

I hope she gets through alive

     

Our Lady of the Highways

Keep my baby straight tonight

Guide her safely down the road

Keep her always in the light

Let the sad moon looking down on me    

Shine bright as she comes here 

'Til Our Lady of the Highways

May appear



Sometimes the weather's worst

When you have some place to be    

Like the time we drove to Boston 

In the snow from New York City

Frozen to the bone

And we saw the planes fly high above

On metal wings and prayers    

And tried to find some radio 

Hoping one day we would be there



Our Lady of the Highways

Keep my baby straight tonight

Guide her safely down the road    

Keep her always in the light

Let the sad moon looking down on me

Shine bright as she comes here 

'Til Our Lady of the Highways

May appear

     

And I guess she always gets here 

Heaven knows just how she does

And that statue of our Lady

Is crying tears of love



Now I'm in San Francisco    

A town too hard for love

She's driving from Seattle

800 miles above me

Why are we apart?

So please don't let the fog roll

   

Heavy on that Highway 5

I want her here so soon

But I want her here alive



Our Lady of the Highways

Keep my baby straight tonight    

Guide her safely down the road 

Keep her always in the light

Let the sad moon looking down on me

Shine bright as she comes here 

'Til Our Lady of the Highways    

May appear