Jimmy Lafave

Deep South 61 Delta Highway Blues

Jimmy Lafave


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Well everybody telling me they're leaving
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Tired of this town and all the deceiving
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You know they've all got religion see visions
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Everything that they do
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Me I got the deep south 61 Delta highway blues


[Verse]

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Lost my roadmap in Memphis but I know I'm headed south
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I feel the Mississippi call me down to its mouth
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To a town called New Orleans where they call a street a La Rue
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Cajun ladies know about these deep south 61 Delta
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highway blues


[Verse]

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And it's this way baby that way anyway you feel is right
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The Bayou's on fire in the southland tonight
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I've been everywhere baby but I've never been nowhere with you
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Shake these deep south 61 Delta highway blues


[Verse]

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And I'm setting on the levee trying to stay high and dry
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Setting on the levee watch my life passing by
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Water gets much higher it will start flowing into my boots
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No way to lose these deep south 61 Delta highway blues


[Verse]

      A
Well everybody telling me they're leaving
A7
Tired of this town and all the deceiving
          D
You know they've all got religion see visions
                     A
Everything that they do
              E7            D7            A
Me I got the deep south 61 Delta highway blues