words and music by Arlo Guthrie



There's a tavern up on the roadside

I must be coming into town

The moon must be in Aries

Because the truck ain't slowing down

Pulled back on the throttle

I've been doing that all day

Looking ahead for a right-hand turn

To carry me away



There's times for understanding

It don't seem like one of those

The times are too demanding

When you're hanging by your nose

So why don't you just get out of here

And leave me here to pray

That one of these mornings the sun's going to rise

And carry me away



CHORUS:

Carry me over the highway

Carry me over the sky

Carry me over the lonliness

That I'm feeling here tonight



You know I'm feeling just like a riptide

And I'm feeling a little scared

A twisted maze of old highways

Nobody has repaired

It ain't nothing that can't be handled

Like an actor in a play

Who becomes enraged, jumps from the stage

And gets a little carried away



Now all of your highways

Don't mean much to me no more

I've been on all of your highway roads

Of that you can be sure

But I still get lost on all of them roads

I can't seems to find my way

I know there's one out there somewhere

To carry me away



CHORUS