Lyrics to
Highway Child

This version of Highway Child was released by Bob Seger in 1970.

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I wasn’t born lookin’ back, I can’t tell white from black
Kesey next to me now darling, straighter than a railroad track
I’ve been so high, my mind was dry
I rent it out to farmers on the midnight ride
That ain’t all
I ain’t even got me a congressman I can call
All right
I seen ’em dumpin’ garbage, in my rivers and lakes
I seen ’em send up John Sinclair, you know
Two joints is all it takes
Then suddenly I was in a tree
And dogs were barking up at me
can’t you see
I’m so damn apethetic, I can’t believe I’m free

As the senator he signs the bills you know
And he’s telling us which way we have to go
Think it’s time we got together and declared
When you see them coming and you get so scared

Rain is falling down, but you know I’m feeling fine
I think I’ll watch the tv set, let America steal my mind
But you know I’m cool, Momma had a rule
She didn’t raise no fool to be true to someone else
I’m runnin’ down that highway child
I’m gonna be myself
Highway child
Highway child

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Bob Seger has released many songs over the years besides Highway Child. Bob Seger released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, Noah, Mongrel, Brand New Morning, Smokin' O.P.'s, Back In '72, Seven, Beautiful Loser, Night Moves, Live Bullet, Stranger In Town, Against The Wind, Nine Tonight, The Distance, Like A Rock, The Fire Inside, Greatest Hits, It's A Mystery, Greatest Hits 2, and Face The Promise. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Bob Seger.

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About Lyrics and Highway Child by Bob Seger

The lyrics to Highway Child are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Bob Seger used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Highway Child have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Bob Seger and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Highway Child by Bob Seger. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Highway Child" means the words set to the music of Highway Child, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Seger. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Highway Child and the lyrics to Highway Child are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Seger who came here looking just for the lyrics to Highway Child, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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