Will Rogers Highway Lyrics

This big highway goes from coast to coast,
From New Yorker town down to Los Angeles;
It's named for Willy Rogers that went on this road
From New Yorker town down to Los Angeles .

My Sixty-Six highway, this Will Rogers road,
It's lined with jalopies just as far as I can see;
Can you think up a joke, Will, for all o'these folks
From New Yorker town down to Lost Angeles?

Ten thousand lost families I count every day
Caught under my bridges and under my trees;
Can you make up a joke that'll win them a job
From New Yorker town down to Lost Angeles?

I love Willy Rogers, I love your big smile,
I go to my showhouse, Will Rogers to see;
Can you grin up a tale that'll feed my folks stranded
'Twist New Yorker town and Lost Angeles?

This Will Rogers highroad I hitched lots o'times;
All day long you sizzle; all night long I freeze;
Did ye tickle Hoover enuf ta build us all houses
From New Yorker town down to Lost Angeles?

Willy Rogers got born down around Oolagah,
In my great Indian nation of the Cherokee;
My Indians all call this the Hungry Gut Highway
From New Yorker town down to Lost Angeles.

I bummed this good road with folks you call Goons,
And your high families called us the lost refugees;
You hafta go back, Will, and tickle 'em again
From New Yorker town down to Lost Angeles.

Woody Guthrie - Library of Congress Recordings, Vols. 1-3

Feb 1992

1. Lost Train Blues
2. Railroad Blues
3. Rye Whiskey
4. Old Joe Clark
5. Beaumont Rag
6. Texas Oil Field
7. Greenback Dollar
8. Boll Weevil Song
9. So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
10. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
11. Do-Re-Mi
12. Hard Times
13. They Laid Jesus Chjrist In His Grave
14. Jolly Banker
15. I Ain't Got No Home
16. Dirty Overalls
17. Chain Around My Leg
18. Worried Man Blues
19. Lonesome Valley
20. Walking Down That Railroad Line
21. Goin' Down That Road Feeling Bad
22. Dust Storm Disaster
23. Foggy Mountain Top
24. Dust Pneumonia Blues
25. California Blues
26. Dust Bowl Refugees
27. Will Rogers Highway
28. Los Angeles New Year's Flood