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I​-​90 Take Me Home

from She's Folks! by Elizabeth Morgan

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Often the opener at She's Folks shows, this highway tune pays homage to a road I've traveled over and over. It takes me from my adopted home town of Chicago back to the good ol' rural Ohio of my youth. (I also followed I-90 out west on my honeymoon.) Figured I outta write a song about it.

lyrics

VERSE 1
Well about 200 miles from here is the place where I was born
That horizon line’s callin’ out to me
See my family, breathe the country air
I want to taste that old sweet corn
This highway takes me where I want to be

CHORUS 1
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Windows down breeze’ll blow the city out of my hair
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Only road I know that’ll take me there

VERSE 2
I love the city life but country’s in my veins
And I start to feel confined
I want to feel the cool grass between my toes
The city streets are loud, the people warm but tough
And I need to clear my mind
Take a little break from the life I chose

CHORUS 2
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
I pack a tshirt and my boots and my worn out jeans
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
I need to rest my back and mend my fadin’ seams

BRIDGE 1
Spent a lot of time on this wanderin’ road
Hears my dreams and carries my heavy load
Take me home to lay my burden down
Give me time to stretch and adjust my crown

VERSE 3
Well the hum of the highway’s harmonizing with me
Though I’ve been down on my luck
Got a little hitch in my gitalong
Oh, my license plate is from out of state
Til I hop in my Daddy’s truck
Window down and singin’ this highway song

CHORUS 3
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Sweet alfalfa scents the clothes out on the line
I-90 Take Me Home
I-90 Take Me Home
Front porch, Midwestern sun, and I’m feelin’ fine

BRIDGE 2
Take me to the fields and that country sky
I want to stretch my wings and I want to fly
Crops of green as far as the eye can see
Til those city streets start to callin’ me

CODA
Well the country life and the land is pretty but
I’ve got to get back to that pretty Windy City!
And I hope and pray the trip won’t take too long
Twenty bucks in the bank and maybe half a tank
I’m coastin’ in by the break of dawn
Eastbound or Westbound I can’t go wrong

OUTRO
Oh, no matter where I roam
I-90 takes me home
I-90, Take Me Home

Well she takes me home
Ooh she takes me home
I wanna go home

credits

from She's Folks!, released November 14, 2017
Elizabeth Morgan: Lead Vocal
Alex Newkirk: Vocal
Tyler Thompson: Banjo, Vocal
Ted Kitterman: Fiddle
Tyler Core: Percusssion
with Dan Fager: Guitar

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Elizabeth Morgan Chicago, Illinois

Elizabeth Morgan was born and raised in rural Ohio. After college, she hightailed it to Chicago where she performs her show She's Folks alongside her band as a love letter to the country from a kid who couldn't wait to leave.

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