Afterglow 61 - Son Volt

US highway from north to south

It’s history breathing

Get out from under the gun

Drive down Highway 61

Hannibal’s son saw the Gold Rush

Saw the civil war done

Then settled down some

On Highway 61

There’s no reason to feel downhearted

There’s music in the wheels it’s there to be found

Goodnight Irene inside the prison walls

Killed a man and lived to sing about it all

Stella 12 on Highway 61

The immigrant son left the mining town

Electrified the traditional

And had it out on Highway 61