Highway 17
Rodney Crowell

I put away fifteen grand doing one-night stands mostly liquor stores and fillin' stations
Me and this peepin' Tom by the name of J.D. Swan and any number of his odd blood relations
This was armed robbery 1957 and mostly our getaways were clean
Then I'd pay off the boys and bury my bread out on Highway 17

I had five kids and a wife with one dress and a yard full of cars that wouldn't running
My two oldest boys they were on to my noise they despised what their daddy done
But I did my thing the best I could maing plans by the light of day
And then night would fall and it was time to call and I was always on my way

Now J.D. he was crazy and he was inbred he drank whiskey like it was goin' out of style
You know I should have seen it coming the writing was on the wall he was getting just a little too loose and wild
Annd he made his mistake out on Airline Drive, you know those North Houston cops are quick
They blew a hole in J.D. the size of Dallas and put a lump on my head with the brunt of a nightstick

You know 5-10 in Huntsville ain't no good times boys but I walked that line do you know what I mean
'Cause my mind was snug on that hole I dug out on Highway 17
I said my mind was snug on that hole I dug out on Highway 17

So I served my time only way I knew how thinking big and making plans
All about the way I was gonna change the world when I get my hands on that 15 grand
You know C.W. and Herschel my two oldest boys they took care of their momma and their little sisters the best way that they could
Dealing dimes and stealing hubcaps you know pretty soon they were doing good
So I walked out those prison gates a free man on the first day of November 19 and '63
I kissed my wife and I hugged my babies but they didn't seem the same to me

You know the boys looked on they were already grown it was written across their eyes and their faces
I'm the perfect sample of a bad example gone forever from their graces
But baby six long years and a lot can change many miles beyond your wildest dreams
But a six-lane wide modern interstate ride out on Highway 17
Lord they sunk my ship 'neath a concrete strip out on Highway 17
Man they broke my back they built a concrete track out on Highway 17
Well, you know it ain't funny but they buried my money out on Highway 17


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  'til I Gain Control Again   'til I Gain Control Again   Above And Beyond   Adam's Song   After All This Time   Ain't No Money   Ashes By Now   Ballad Of Possum Potez   Banks Of The Old Bandera   Beautiful Despair (For James)   Best Years Of Our Lives   Big Heart   Brand New Rag   Bring It On Home To Memphis   Candy Man   Closer to Heaven   Come On Funny Feelin'   Come Sundown   Crazy Baby   Dancin' Circles Round The Sun (epictetus Speaks)   Don't Get Me Started   Earthbound   Elvira   Even Cowgirls Get the Blues   Faith Is Mine   Famous Last Words Of A Fool In Love   Fate's Right Hand   Fever On The Bayou   Forty Winters   Frankie Please   Funky And The Farm Boy   Give My Heart a Rest   Glascow Girl   Glasgow Girl   God I'm Missing You   Grandma Loved That Old Man   Heartbroke   Her Hair Was Red   Higher Mountains   I Ain't Livin' Long Like This   I Ain't Living Long Like This   I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried   I Don't Fall In Love So Easy   I Guess We've Been Together For Too Long   I Hardly Know How To Be Myself   I Hope You Shed a Million Tears   I Just Wanted To See You So Bad   I Know Love Is All I Need   I Walk The Line   I Walk The Line (Revisited)   I Want You #35   I Wish It Would Rain   I Wouldn?t Be Me Without You   I've Done Everything I Can   I've Done Everything I Can Do   If Looks Could Kill   If You Lived Here You'd Be Home Now   Ignorance Is the Enemy   It's A Different World Now   It's Not For Me To Judge   It's Only Rock & Roll   It's Such A Small World   Jesus Talk To Mama   Jewel of the South   Just Pleasing You   Just Say Yes   Ladder Of Love   Last Waltz   Le Danse De La Joie   Leavin' Louisiana In The Broad Daylight   Let the Picture Paint Itself   Life Is Messy   Looking For You   Love to Burn   Lovin' All Night   Loving You Makes Me Strong   Many a Long and Lonesome Highway   Maybe Next Time   Moving Work Of Art   Night's Just Right   No Memories Hanging Round   Now That We're Alone   Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)   Oh King Richard   Oh What a Beautiful World   Old Pipeliner   On A Real Good Night   Once in a While   Please Remember Me   Prechin' To The Choir   Queen of Hearts   Ridin' Out The Storm   Ridin' Out The Storm   Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design   Say You Love Me   Sex and Gasoline   Shame on the Moon   She Ain't Going Nowhere   She Loves the Jerk   She's Crazy for Leavin'   She's Crazy For Leaving   Shelter from the Storm   Somebody?s Shadow   Soul Searchin'   Stars on the Water   Still Learning How to Fly   Storm of Love   Stuff That Works   Telephone Road   That Ol' Door   The Ballad Of Possum Potez   The Faith Is Mine   The Ladder of Love   The Last Waltz   The Long Journey Home   The Man in Me   The Obscenity Prayer (Give It to Me)   The Outsider   The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design   The Rock of My Soul   The Rose of Memphis   The Traveling Kind   The Weight of the World   Things I Wish I'd Said   Things That Go Bump in the Day   Thinking About Leaving   This Too Will Pass   This, Too, Will Pass   Time to Go Inward   Topsy Turvy   Truth Decay   U Don't Know How Much I Hate U   Victim Or A Fool   Voila An American Dream   Wandering Boy   We Can't Turn Back   We Can't Turn Back Now   What Kind Of Love   What Kind of Love [*]   When The Blue Hour Comes   Who Do You Trust   Why Don't We Talk About It   You Been on My Mind   You Can't Say We Didn't Try

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