I Dream a Highway 
By Gillian Welch

The chords basically follow the same :

(G#m)   (B)    (E)   progression

Intro (G#m)   (B)    (E)   

(G#m) Oh I dream a (B) highway back to (E) you love 
(G#m) A winding (B) ribbon with (E) band of gold (B)
(G#m) A silver (B) vision come and (E) rest my soul 
(G#m) I dream a (B) highway back to (E) you

Johnny’s kicking out the footlights
The Grand Ol’ Opry’s got a brand new band
Lord let me die with a hammer in my hand
I dream a highway back to you

I think I’ll move down into Memphis
And thank the hatchet man who fought my tongue
I lie and wait until the wagons come
And dream a highway back to you

Solo break #1

The getaway kicking up cinders
An empty wagon full of rattling bones
Putting the mirror on a three hour Jones (?)
I dream a highway back to you

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with band of gold
A silver vision, come and rest my soul
I dream a highway back to you
 
Solo break #2

Which lover are you Jack of Diamonds?
Now you be Emmylou and I’ll be Gram
I sent a letter don’t know who I am  (?)
I dream a highway back to you

Solo Break #3

I’m an indisguisable shade of twilight
Any second now I’m going to turn myself on
In the blue display of the cool cathode ray
I dream a highway back to you



I wish you knew me Jack of Diamonds 
Fire eyed and wheeling when I lay down out 
Drank whiskey with my water, sugar with my tea, 
My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags
I dream a highway back to you

Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with band of gold
A silver vision come and rest my soul
I dream a highway back to you

Solo break #4

I give me some of what you’re having
I’ll take you as a viper into my head
The knife into my bed, arsenic when I’m fed
I dream a highway back to you

Pain overhead from all directions
Radiation from the porcelain light
Blind and blistered by the morning light
I dream a highway back to you

Solo break #5

Sunday morning at the diner
Hollywood trembles on the verge of tears
I watch the waitress for a thousand years
Saw a wheel within a wheel, heard a call within a call
I dream a highway back to you


Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding river with band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my soul
I dream a highway back to you


Solo break #6

Step into the light poor Lazerus
Don’t lie alone behind the window shade
Let me see the mark death made
I dream a highway back to you 
I dream a highway back to you 


What will sustain us through the winter?
Where did last years lessons go?
Walk me out into the rain and snow
I dream a highway back to you 


Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my soul
I dream a highway back to you
I dream a highway back to you



Oh I dream a highway back to you love
A winding ribbon with band of gold
A silver vision come and bless my soul
I dream a highway back to you

Solo break #7