Gulf Coast Highway - Evangeline, Jimmy Buffett

Gulf Coast Highway, he worked the rails

He worked the rice fields with their cool dark wells

He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico

The only thing we’ve ever owned is this old house here by the road

And when he dies, he says, he’ll catch some blackbird’s wing

And he will fly away to Heaven, come some sweet bluebonnet spring

She walked through springtime when I was home

The days were sweet, the nights were warm

The seasons changed, the jobs would come the flowers fade

This old house felt so alone when the work took me away

And when she dies, she says, she’ll catch some blackbird’s wing

And she will fly away to Heaven, come some sweet bluebonnet spring

Highway 90, the jobs are gone

We tend our garden, we set the sun

This is the only place on earth bluebonnets grow

Once a year they come and go at this old house here by the road

And when we die, we say, we’ll catch some blackbird’s wing

And we will fly away to heaven, come some sweet bluebonnet spring

And when we die, we say, we’ll catch some blackbird’s wing

And we will fly away together, come some sweet bluebonnet spring