Highway To Glory
Written by: Greg Essington

Beat-up back roads for a welcome
Hugs and kisses say goodbye
Tears that flow from years of memories
Soak the pictures in my mind

Began the journey of my soul there
Found the love I have today
But nothing comes without sorrow
Oh sorrow, don’t you come my way

Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never end

Headed out toward the cities
Left the simple life behind
Wanted nothing but the pleasures
Found nothing worth my time

Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never end

Watching the pastures through my window
Doing the best that I can
‘Cause I know where I’m going
I know where this road ends

Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never end

Oh, somewhere on that highway to glory
I’ll lose myself and find you once again
It’s times like these I’ll sing the songs of angels
It’s times like these I wish would never ...

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Highway to Glory

Things We Carry
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux and Greg Essington

Anne Marie, I saw you on the screen
An old motion picture girl in black and white
You danced in my heart once upon a long, long time

I was younger then, still too old to see
Always one to give an answer, never questioned anything
And so imagine my surprise when you cast those doubtful eyes
And broke the silver walled dimension
My heart, and in the tension said

Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I'm falling in the aisle, and we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? 'Cause when nothing stays the same
It's the things we carry

She lay down, spread her arms out on the ground
And told me how she’d hid the screenplay of her life
In a dressing room no one could ever find
And then I held her, and I whispered something sweet
I said I think it was a line from Shakespeare
Oh and Annie, you believed it, I said

Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I'm falling in the aisle, and we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? ‘Cause when nothing stays the same
It’s the things we carry

Oh now Annie, I believe the desolation you receive
Might be the ending of the world, if you were any other girl

She flipped the light and went off dancing in the alley
As I stumbled through the lobby in the dark
I lit a candle and I thought, the best laid plans can run amok
But I chalk my love up to luck
I was the only boy around who laughed when you rolled into town and said

Oh now, with all the changes coming down
I’m falling in the aisle, you know I’m falling, we’re growing older babe
Will you pick me up on your way? ‘Cause when nothing stays the same
It’s the things we carry

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Things We Carry

Q to Cortelyou
Written by: Greg Essington

Take the Q to Cortelyou
Maybe find what you have lost
Bring the mountains into view
But don’t count the cost

If the time has faded
And the hour is passed
Just know I need you at last

Pedal up the Hudson way
For an afternoon
I don’t know what to say
But I hope to soon

Ah well you looked gorgeous
In that summer dress
But I was clueless I guess

Take the Q to Cortelyou
Maybe find what you have lost
Bring the mountains into view
But don’t count the cost

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Q to Cortelyou

John Henry
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux

Oh Johnny, six foot four
The baby grew so tall he couldn’t grow no more
Say don’t do this, and don’t do that
Everybody tellin’ him where it’s at he said

Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Yeah he said, Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad

He was born, a hammer in hand
The baddest mother’s son in the Promised Land
Now drive that steel, drive it hard
Won’t you drive it on home to the graveyard

Oh Johnny, swing that hammer
Oh Johnny, swing it right
Oh Johnny, swing that hammer
Swing it all day, swing it all night
Until the Judgment Day

See that man against the Machine
Working like a one who won’t be beat
Gonna break my back, have a heart attack
But I will not give up I will not but

Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Momma, oh you know it hurts so bad
Lord, it hurts so bad

Oh John is swingin’ it now,
Workin’ in Heaven on the gospel plow
Well now don’t do this, I do what I want
‘Cause the good Lord treats me right he says

Oh Johnny, yeah swing that hammer
Oh he says Johnny, won’t you swing it right
Oh the good, good Lord say Johnny, swing that hammer
Swing it all day, oh swing it all night
Into the Judgment Day

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John Henry

Medicine Man
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux

Well honey, here I come, I got a wagonload
A million different words I’m putting on for show
I’m peddling my heart

It sees your careful walk hiding a gypsy stare
And I know just the thing, woman if you dare
Step right on through

And I’ll do it all for you
I’ll do it all for you
I am the Medicine Man

I traveled all the land in a depression line
I bought and sold my love one too many times
But now those days are done

‘Cause under the things I own, I am the one you need
And in your snake oil smile, the cure for my disease
I’d break my heart in two

And I would do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)

‘Cause I can see your fever rising
And I got all you need inside
You’re out on a ledge with your head in your hands
You got a bleeding heart honey, I am the Medicine Man

You (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, c’mon girl)
I’d do it all for you (c’mon girl, ohh)

I can see your fever rising
And I got all you need inside
You’re out on a ledge with your head in your hands
You got a bleeding heart honey, I am the Medicine Man

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Medicine Man

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Greytown
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux and Greg Essington

Honey, I got my name upon the wall
In the ground floor level of desperation hall
And the heat is out, and the stairs don’t climb at all
Oh, but you can take the elevator down

Down to Greytown, where it don’t ever rain
Not in Greytown, no the light it shines all day
And it burns like fire all the colors out
Say when you gonna come and get me out, my Lord
‘Cause I’ve been praying

Well I belong to a storm inside my heart
And I drown in the worry from which I will not part
Oh, but the word is out that the boarding’s about to start
Calling all, the golden train is rolling out

Out of Greytown, where it don’t ever rain
Not in Greytown, oh the light it shines all day
And it burns like fire all the colors out
Say, when you gonna come and get me out, my Lord
‘Cause I’ve been praying
Oh that train I’m taking it

And though the ground I cannot walk on
And the water’s hard as stone
I believe you, I believe you
I was sad, but I was wrong
I wanted someone, Lord, to call
But you were shouting all along

© 2015 River Road Opera Co.(SESAC)/ Goat Lady Hill (SESAC) All rights reserved. Used by permission.


Greytown

Oh Seraphim!
Written by: Zack Kibodeaux
	
Let me go I’m only a rambler
Slow me down I’m a running man
I got dark on the edge of my soul
You would not understand

You’re the ghost in the moonlight dancing
For the lover and the bloodhound
To catch an old indifferent sinner
And beat him when he’s down

And angel don’t you want me so bad
Don't I need you after all
Get it through my head, oh I can’t
Get it through my head

Oh seraphim, if I didn’t love you now
If I was scared to
If I didn’t want to go quiet out of the dark
Oh seraphim, you know you gotta rough me up
Knock my soul around, until I’m tired and I wanna lay my head down
I’m tired and I wanna lay my head down

I got a road this side of the mountain
Neon red into Babylon
Slow and winding wheels are turning
Fortunate and wrong

And in that time I saw you standing
Flying high o’er the holy train
And though you hide, your eyes are burning
Calling out my name

And angel don’t you want me so bad
And don’t I need you

Oh seraphim, if I didn’t love you now
If I was scared to
If I didn’t want to go quiet out of the dark
Oh seraphim, you know you gotta rough me up
Knock my soul around, until I’m tired and I wanna lay my head down
Tired and I wanna lay my head down
I’m so tired and I wanna lay my head down

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Oh Seraphim!

This is the new single from Blue Water Highway Band called "Speaking of the Devil"

Speaking of the Devil

"Evangeline" by Blue Water Highway. Recorded in one take with no overdubs, no autotune, and no tricks.

Blue Water Highway Evangeline

Burn My Heart

Rebel

Ain't Gonna Give Up

Don't Let Him Call You Baby

Keep On

Heartbreak City

Believe The Light

North of LA

Best Friend

Hanging On

Single from Blue Water Highway's upcoming Heartbreak City (Stripped) album.

Heartbreak City (Stripped)

Blue Water Highway comes from the working class, coastal town background that has informed the work of so many of rock’s greatest writers and artists.  They take their name from the roadway that links their hometown of Lake Jackson, Texas to Galveston, where the cops, the teachers, the baristas and the chemical plant workers travel to work hard and to play hard, blowing off steam, dancing to their favorite bands. Blue Water Highway’s music is the soundtrack for their lives.

“Best Friend” is the first single from their upcoming album Heartbreak City, coming out on Blue Water Highway Records/Thirty Tigers on June 8th. With a hook that’s a mile wide, it chronicles the lives, loves and friendships that sustain us. Said lead singer Zack Kibodeaux, “We wrote this as a band, and we wanted to tap into that feeling of that special friendship where you know you can count on one another. Even though I wrote characters that are not the band members, our relationship definitely informed the writing of the lyrics.”

Blue Water Highway was started by two best friends from high school - Kibodeaux (lead vocals, guitar) and Greg Essington (guitar). They were later joined by Catherine Clark (keyboards), Jared Wilson (drums) and Kyle James Smith (bass). They will be touring relentlessly to support Heartbreak City, so look for them in a town near you soon.

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