Navajo Rug
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by: Tom Russell
written by: Tom Russell and Ian Tyson - End Of The Trail Music/Slick Fork
(capo 2nd fret)
Well it's three eggs up on whiskey toast
Homefries on the side
Wash it down with truckstop coffee
Burns up your inside
Just a Canyon, Colorado diner
And a waitress I did love
We sat in the back 'neath an old stuffed bear
And a worn out Navajo rug
Well old Jack the boss he'd close at six
Then it's Katie bar the door
She'd pull down that Navajo rug
And she'd spread it 'cross the floor
Hey I saw lightning in the sacred mountains
Saw the dance of the turtle doves
Lyin' next to Katie
On that old Navajo rug
Chorus:
Ai-yi-yi, Katie, shades of red and blue
Ai-yi-yi, Katie
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you?
Well I saw old Jack about a year ago
He said the place burned to the ground
And all he saved was an old bear tooth
And Katie she left town
But Katie she got her a souvenir too
Jack spat out a tabacco plug
He said "You shoulda seen her runnin' through the smoke
Draggin' that Navajo rug."
Repeat Chorus
Now everytime I cross the sacred mountains
And lightning breaks above
It always takes me back in time
To my long lost Katie love
Ah but everything keeps on movin'
And everyone's on the go
They don't make things that last anymore
Like a double-woven Navajo
Repeat Chorus
Katie, shades of red and blue
Ay-yi-yi, Katie
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you?
>From the album Song Of The West - The Cowboy Collection 1997
HMG/Hightone Records. This is a softer acoustic version than found on
previous Tom Russell or Ian Tyson albums