Our Lady of the Highways (Live)

[Verse 1: John Wesley Harding]
I'm here in Philadelphia
She got stuck down in DC
It's a wretched night, it's raining
But she's coming up to meet me
There's nothing that I can do
By the time she gets halfway
She'll be tired of 95
The spray off those trucks sucks
I hope that she gets here alive

[Chorus: John Wesley Harding, John Wesley Harding & Josh Ritter]
And our lady of the highways
Keep my baby straight tonight
Guide her safely down the road
And keep her always in the light
Let the sad moon looking down at me
Shine bright as she comes here
Till our lady of the highways may appear

[Verse 2: Josh Ritter]
Sometimes the weather's worse
When you got some place to be
Like the time we drove to Boston
In the snow from New York City
Frozen to the bone
And the airplanes high above our heads
On metal wings and prayers
We tried hard to find the radio
Hoping one day we'd get there

[Chorus: John Wesley Harding, John Wesley Harding & Josh Ritter]
And our lady of the highways
Keep my baby straight tonight
Guide her safely down the road
And keep her always in the light
Let the sad moon looking down at me
Shine bright as she comes here
Till our lady of the highways may appear

[Bridge: John Wesley Harding]
And I guess she always gets here
But heaven knows just how she does
And that statue of our lady
Is crying tears of love

[Verse 3: John Wesley Harding]
Now I'm in San Francisco
And that's a town too hard for love
She's driving from Seattle
Eight hundred miles above me
Why are we apart?
So please don't let the fog roll
Heavy on that Highway 5
I want her here soon
You know I want her here alive

[Chorus: John Wesley Harding, John Wesley Harding & Josh Ritter]
And our lady of the highways
Keep my baby straight tonight
Guide her safely down the road
And keep her always in the light
Let the sad moon looking down at me
Shine bright as she comes here
Till our lady of the highways may appear
Till our lady of the highways may appear
Till our lady of the highways may appear
Till our lady of the highways may appear

[Outro]
That's my little angels!
We had a really fun tour together, I'll tell you, because I inflicted a lot of prog rock on him in that van and he still likes me.