©1988 Wing & Wheel Music, (BMI)
Rick Hall Music, Inc. / Danny Flowers Music, (ASCAP)



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 wings
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 change, the jobs would come, the flowers fade
This old house felt so alone
When the work took me away

And when she dies she said she'd catch some blackbird's wings
And she will fly away to heaven
Come some sweet bluebonnet spring

Highway 90, the jobs are gone
We tend our garden
Te set the sun
This is the only place on earth bluebonnets grow
And once a year they come and go
At this old house here by the road

When we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wings
We will fly away to heaven
Come some sweet bluebonnet spring

Cause when we die we say we'll catch some blackbird's wings
We will fly away together
Come some sweet bluebonnet spring