Hi'way Songs Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

When I walk the hill so high 

Around the town where I was born 

New York seems so far away 

Though I was there just yesterday 

I have played on my guitar 

In coffeehouses, hall and bars 

Everyone that I call friend 

Knows they will not be forgot 

Trains and planes and rented cars 

Singers, saints and other starts 

I suspect them every one 

They'll never change, it's too much fun 

Just for now I'd like to rest 

In the shade of a maple tree 

To the blue Canadian sky 

I'll say a prayer for the world out there 

When I stand on my own sod 

It feels so good to be home, by God 

The winter wind has turned my head 

But I always came up warm somehow 

Bottles, beads and cigarettes 

And lovers that I ain't found yet 

Pickin' with a friend till dawn 

And singing all of those hi'way songs 

Just for now I'd like to rest 

In the shade of a maple tree 

To the blue Canadian sky 

I'll say a prayer for the world out there 

When I walk the hill so high 

Around the town where I was born 

New York seems so far away 

Though I was there just yesterday 

I would travel all my life 

If loneliness was not the price 

While headin' north across that line's 

The only time I'm flyin'