Chords for 🎵 Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway REACTION
Tempo:
103.05 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
C
F
G
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
You can do it, Jamie.
[Bb] All right.
Today we're checking out Tom Cochran.
We're listening to the song, Life is a Highway.
Let's get into it.
[Abm]
[D] [Bb] [F]
[Bb] [C] [Bb] [C]
[F] [Bb] [F]
[Bb] [C] [Bb] [C]
[Bb] It looks like you that you travel home.
[F] There's one day, the next day goes.
[C] Sometimes you bid, sometimes you stay.
Sometimes you turn back to the way [Bb] of the world.
Outside in the dark, I can't go [F] where blues won't haunt you anymore.
[C] With a brave heart, free love, a soul
that can ride with me to the distant shore.
[D] We won't hesitate.
[C] Break down the garden [Bb] gate.
There's not much left [G] of the day.
[D] Life is [Bb] a [F]
highway [Bb] all night.
[C] [Bb] [C]
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] [F]
drive [Bb] it all [C] night long.
[Bb] [C]
[Bb] Through all these cities and all these [F] towns, it's in my blood
and it's all around.
[C] I loved you now like I loved you then.
This is the road and these are the hills.
[Bb] From Mozambique to those Memphis [F] nights,
the Kiver path to Vancouver's [C] lights.
Knock me down, I'm back up again.
You're in my blood.
I'm not a lonely [D] man.
When I get [C] home, the roads are rough.
This I [Bb] know.
I'll be there when the light comes [G] in.
Just tell them we're survivors.
[D] Life is [Bb] a highway.
I'll [F]
ride [Bb] it all [C] night long.
[Bb] [C]
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] drive [F]
[Bb] it all night [C] long.
[Bb] [C]
[Dm] Life is [Bb] a highway.
[F] I'll ride it all [C] night long.
[Bb] If [C] you're gonna drive it all night long.
Life is [Bb] a highway.
[F] I'll ride it all night [C] long.
[F] [C]
[D] Okay, I've definitely heard this chorus, but I don't recognize the song.
No, like the chorus is super familiar, but
Maybe it's from a movie or something like that.
Right?
I like how he's singing though.
I like how, I don't know, it's like a certain style that he's singing, I guess.
I don't know, but it's a little bit like, life is a highway.
Yeah, there's so many things in music that you feel, but you don't have the words to express what you're thinking or what you're feeling, you know?
Yeah, definitely.
Well, at least we don't.
[F] [C]
[F] [C] [Gm] There was a [Bb] distance between [Dm] you and I.
[C] [Gm]
[Bb] A misunderstanding once, but [Dm] now we look at it and we [C] hide.
[D] [Bb] [F]
[C] [F] [C] Yeah!
[Bb] [F]
[C] [Bb] [C]
[D] There ain't no road that I can't haul.
[C] Road so rough, yes I know.
[Bb] I'll be there when the light comes in.
[G] Just stand with the survivors.
[C] Life is a highway.
I'll ride it all night long.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
[G] If you're going my way, I wanna drive it [Bb] all night long.
[B] Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, [A] yeah!
Life is [F]
[C] a [F] highway.
All [C] night long.
[F] [Cm] [Dm] If you're going [Bb] my way, [F] I wanna drive it [C] all night long.
[Dm] Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah!
Life is a [Bb] highway.
[F] [Bb] All night [C] long.
[Bb] [C] [Dm] [Bb]
[F] I wanna drive it [Bb] all night [C] long.
[Bb] To [C] the beach!
[Bb]
[F] [Bb] [F]
[C] [F] [Bb]
[F] [Bb] [C]
[Bb] [C] [Bb]
He said, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
He had the leg kicks and everything.
[Ab] Yeah, I was like, dang.
I mean, he's into living.
If life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long.
Yeah.
He said, zest for life, you know?
Yeah, that was cool.
I like that song.
I like that line.
I don't think people have that modern day.
Zest for life?
Yes.
Some people.
Some people do!
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some people for sure.
I mean, overall, it seems like in modern day, people are kind of like, apathetic about life.
And it's like, oh, dang, it's kind of sad.
And it's [Bb] almost like life is like a highway and you're riding your bicycle along the highway. [Db] Yeah.
Like constantly trying to keep up.
If this was a song that was written modern day, it'd be like, [Gb] if life is a highway, I'm
gonna crash [Ab] into the shoulder.
You know what I mean?
Like modern day.
You know how in the 2000s songs got really about mental health and depression and things like that?
Yeah.
Like back in the day, what do you think?
90s for this?
Maybe 80s?
Probably.
He seemed happy just to be alive.
It's nice to see.
Yeah, 80s maybe.
Those leg kicks were insane.
Right.
He was so into it.
You know what I mean? Right.
This dude's just happy to be [Db] alive.
I love it.
Yeah, there was something about that song that [Bb] was different. Yeah.
Something about it was like, I mean it was summery and it was fun, but there was something
about it that I cannot put my finger on.
It was happy.
[Db]
Maybe, [Ab] that's what it was.
[G] I don't know.
[Ab]
Tell [Cm] me man, what [G] do you know.
[Ab] Yeah my boy's on the [G] road.
Where he go?
[Cm] She told me [G] boy he just go.
[Ab] Like I don't know.
But I don't [G] know.
[Bb] All right.
Today we're checking out Tom Cochran.
We're listening to the song, Life is a Highway.
Let's get into it.
[Abm]
[D] [Bb] [F]
[Bb] [C] [Bb] [C]
[F] [Bb] [F]
[Bb] [C] [Bb] [C]
[Bb] It looks like you that you travel home.
[F] There's one day, the next day goes.
[C] Sometimes you bid, sometimes you stay.
Sometimes you turn back to the way [Bb] of the world.
Outside in the dark, I can't go [F] where blues won't haunt you anymore.
[C] With a brave heart, free love, a soul
that can ride with me to the distant shore.
[D] We won't hesitate.
[C] Break down the garden [Bb] gate.
There's not much left [G] of the day.
[D] Life is [Bb] a [F]
highway [Bb] all night.
[C] [Bb] [C]
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] [F]
drive [Bb] it all [C] night long.
[Bb] [C]
[Bb] Through all these cities and all these [F] towns, it's in my blood
and it's all around.
[C] I loved you now like I loved you then.
This is the road and these are the hills.
[Bb] From Mozambique to those Memphis [F] nights,
the Kiver path to Vancouver's [C] lights.
Knock me down, I'm back up again.
You're in my blood.
I'm not a lonely [D] man.
When I get [C] home, the roads are rough.
This I [Bb] know.
I'll be there when the light comes [G] in.
Just tell them we're survivors.
[D] Life is [Bb] a highway.
I'll [F]
ride [Bb] it all [C] night long.
[Bb] [C]
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] drive [F]
[Bb] it all night [C] long.
[Bb] [C]
[Dm] Life is [Bb] a highway.
[F] I'll ride it all [C] night long.
[Bb] If [C] you're gonna drive it all night long.
Life is [Bb] a highway.
[F] I'll ride it all night [C] long.
[F] [C]
[D] Okay, I've definitely heard this chorus, but I don't recognize the song.
No, like the chorus is super familiar, but
Maybe it's from a movie or something like that.
Right?
I like how he's singing though.
I like how, I don't know, it's like a certain style that he's singing, I guess.
I don't know, but it's a little bit like, life is a highway.
Yeah, there's so many things in music that you feel, but you don't have the words to express what you're thinking or what you're feeling, you know?
Yeah, definitely.
Well, at least we don't.
[F] [C]
[F] [C] [Gm] There was a [Bb] distance between [Dm] you and I.
[C] [Gm]
[Bb] A misunderstanding once, but [Dm] now we look at it and we [C] hide.
[D] [Bb] [F]
[C] [F] [C] Yeah!
[Bb] [F]
[C] [Bb] [C]
[D] There ain't no road that I can't haul.
[C] Road so rough, yes I know.
[Bb] I'll be there when the light comes in.
[G] Just stand with the survivors.
[C] Life is a highway.
I'll ride it all night long.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
[G] If you're going my way, I wanna drive it [Bb] all night long.
[B] Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, [A] yeah!
Life is [F]
[C] a [F] highway.
All [C] night long.
[F] [Cm] [Dm] If you're going [Bb] my way, [F] I wanna drive it [C] all night long.
[Dm] Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah!
Life is a [Bb] highway.
[F] [Bb] All night [C] long.
[Bb] [C] [Dm] [Bb]
[F] I wanna drive it [Bb] all night [C] long.
[Bb] To [C] the beach!
[Bb]
[F] [Bb] [F]
[C] [F] [Bb]
[F] [Bb] [C]
[Bb] [C] [Bb]
He said, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
He had the leg kicks and everything.
[Ab] Yeah, I was like, dang.
I mean, he's into living.
If life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long.
Yeah.
He said, zest for life, you know?
Yeah, that was cool.
I like that song.
I like that line.
I don't think people have that modern day.
Zest for life?
Yes.
Some people.
Some people do!
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some people for sure.
I mean, overall, it seems like in modern day, people are kind of like, apathetic about life.
And it's like, oh, dang, it's kind of sad.
And it's [Bb] almost like life is like a highway and you're riding your bicycle along the highway. [Db] Yeah.
Like constantly trying to keep up.
If this was a song that was written modern day, it'd be like, [Gb] if life is a highway, I'm
gonna crash [Ab] into the shoulder.
You know what I mean?
Like modern day.
You know how in the 2000s songs got really about mental health and depression and things like that?
Yeah.
Like back in the day, what do you think?
90s for this?
Maybe 80s?
Probably.
He seemed happy just to be alive.
It's nice to see.
Yeah, 80s maybe.
Those leg kicks were insane.
Right.
He was so into it.
You know what I mean? Right.
This dude's just happy to be [Db] alive.
I love it.
Yeah, there was something about that song that [Bb] was different. Yeah.
Something about it was like, I mean it was summery and it was fun, but there was something
about it that I cannot put my finger on.
It was happy.
[Db]
Maybe, [Ab] that's what it was.
[G] I don't know.
[Ab]
Tell [Cm] me man, what [G] do you know.
[Ab] Yeah my boy's on the [G] road.
Where he go?
[Cm] She told me [G] boy he just go.
[Ab] Like I don't know.
But I don't [G] know.
Key:Â Â
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C
F
G
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Bb
C
F
You can do it, Jamie.
_ _ [Bb] All right.
Today we're checking out Tom Cochran.
We're listening to the song, Life is a Highway.
Let's get into it.
_ [Abm] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _
[Bb] It looks like you that you travel home.
[F] There's one day, the next day goes.
[C] Sometimes you bid, sometimes you stay.
Sometimes you turn back to the way [Bb] of the world.
Outside in the dark, I can't go [F] where blues won't haunt you anymore.
[C] With a brave heart, free love, a soul
that can ride with me to the distant shore.
[D] We won't hesitate.
[C] Break down the garden [Bb] gate.
There's not much left [G] of the day. _ _
_ [D] Life is [Bb] a _ _ [F] _
highway [Bb] all night.
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
drive [Bb] it all [C] night long.
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
[Bb] Through all these cities and all these [F] towns, it's in my blood
and it's all around.
[C] I loved you now like I loved you then.
This is the road and these are the hills.
[Bb] From Mozambique to those Memphis [F] nights,
the Kiver path to Vancouver's [C] lights.
Knock me down, I'm back up again.
You're in my blood.
I'm not a lonely [D] man.
When I get [C] home, the roads are rough.
This I [Bb] know.
I'll be there when the light comes [G] in.
Just tell them we're survivors.
[D] Life is [Bb] a highway.
I'll [F]
ride [Bb] it all [C] night long.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] drive _ _ [F] _ _
[Bb] it all night [C] long.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ [Dm] Life is [Bb] a highway.
[F] I'll ride it all [C] night long.
_ [Bb] If [C] you're gonna drive it all night long.
Life is [Bb] a highway.
_ [F] I'll ride it all night [C] long.
[F] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] Okay, I've definitely heard this chorus, but I don't recognize the song.
No, like the chorus is super familiar, but_
Maybe it's from a movie or something like that.
Right?
I like how he's singing though.
I like how, I don't know, it's like a certain style that he's singing, I guess.
I don't know, but it's a little bit like, life is a highway.
Yeah, there's so many things in music that you feel, but you don't have the words to express what you're thinking or what you're feeling, you know?
Yeah, definitely.
Well, at least we don't.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ There was a [Bb] distance _ between [Dm] you and I.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[Bb] A misunderstanding _ _ once, but [Dm] now we look at it and we [C] hide. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] Yeah!
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
[D] There ain't no road that I can't haul.
[C] Road so rough, yes I know.
[Bb] I'll be there when the light comes in.
[G] Just stand with the survivors.
_ _ _ _ [C] Life is a highway.
_ _ I'll ride it all night long.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
_ [G] If you're going my way, I wanna drive it [Bb] all night long.
[B] _ Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, [A] yeah!
Life is [F] _
_ _ [C] _ a [F] highway.
All [C] night long.
_ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ [Dm] If you're going [Bb] my way, [F] I wanna drive it [C] all night long.
_ [Dm] Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah!
Life is a [Bb] highway.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] All night [C] long.
_ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] I wanna drive it [Bb] all night [C] long.
_ [Bb] To [C] the beach!
_ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ He said, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
He had the leg kicks and everything.
[Ab] Yeah, I was like, dang.
I mean, he's into living.
If life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long.
Yeah.
He said, zest for life, you know?
Yeah, that was cool.
I like that song.
I like that line.
I don't think people have that modern day.
Zest for life?
Yes.
Some people.
Some people do!
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some people for sure.
I mean, overall, it seems like in modern day, people are kind of like, apathetic about life.
And it's like, oh, dang, it's kind of sad.
And it's [Bb] almost like life is like a highway and you're riding your bicycle along the highway. [Db] Yeah.
Like constantly trying to keep up.
If this was a song that was written modern day, it'd be like, [Gb] if life is a highway, I'm
gonna crash [Ab] into the shoulder.
You know what I mean?
Like modern day.
You know how in the 2000s songs got really about mental health and depression and things like that?
Yeah.
Like back in the day, what do you think?
90s for this?
Maybe 80s?
_ Probably.
He seemed happy just to be alive.
It's nice to see.
Yeah, 80s maybe.
Those leg kicks were insane.
Right.
He was so into it.
You know what I mean? Right.
This dude's just happy to be [Db] alive.
I love it.
Yeah, there was something about that song that [Bb] was different. Yeah.
Something about it was like, I mean it was summery and it was fun, but there was something
about it that I cannot put my finger on.
It was happy.
_ _ [Db]
Maybe, [Ab] that's what it was.
[G] I don't know.
_ [Ab] _
Tell [Cm] me man, what [G] do you know.
_ [Ab] _ Yeah my boy's on the [G] road.
Where he go?
[Cm] She told me [G] boy he just go.
[Ab] Like I don't know.
But I don't [G] know. _
_ _ [Bb] All right.
Today we're checking out Tom Cochran.
We're listening to the song, Life is a Highway.
Let's get into it.
_ [Abm] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _
[Bb] It looks like you that you travel home.
[F] There's one day, the next day goes.
[C] Sometimes you bid, sometimes you stay.
Sometimes you turn back to the way [Bb] of the world.
Outside in the dark, I can't go [F] where blues won't haunt you anymore.
[C] With a brave heart, free love, a soul
that can ride with me to the distant shore.
[D] We won't hesitate.
[C] Break down the garden [Bb] gate.
There's not much left [G] of the day. _ _
_ [D] Life is [Bb] a _ _ [F] _
highway [Bb] all night.
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _
drive [Bb] it all [C] night long.
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
[Bb] Through all these cities and all these [F] towns, it's in my blood
and it's all around.
[C] I loved you now like I loved you then.
This is the road and these are the hills.
[Bb] From Mozambique to those Memphis [F] nights,
the Kiver path to Vancouver's [C] lights.
Knock me down, I'm back up again.
You're in my blood.
I'm not a lonely [D] man.
When I get [C] home, the roads are rough.
This I [Bb] know.
I'll be there when the light comes [G] in.
Just tell them we're survivors.
[D] Life is [Bb] a highway.
I'll [F]
ride [Bb] it all [C] night long.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _
[Dm] If you're gonna [Bb] drive _ _ [F] _ _
[Bb] it all night [C] long.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ [Dm] Life is [Bb] a highway.
[F] I'll ride it all [C] night long.
_ [Bb] If [C] you're gonna drive it all night long.
Life is [Bb] a highway.
_ [F] I'll ride it all night [C] long.
[F] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [D] Okay, I've definitely heard this chorus, but I don't recognize the song.
No, like the chorus is super familiar, but_
Maybe it's from a movie or something like that.
Right?
I like how he's singing though.
I like how, I don't know, it's like a certain style that he's singing, I guess.
I don't know, but it's a little bit like, life is a highway.
Yeah, there's so many things in music that you feel, but you don't have the words to express what you're thinking or what you're feeling, you know?
Yeah, definitely.
Well, at least we don't.
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ There was a [Bb] distance _ between [Dm] you and I.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[Bb] A misunderstanding _ _ once, but [Dm] now we look at it and we [C] hide. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] Yeah!
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
[D] There ain't no road that I can't haul.
[C] Road so rough, yes I know.
[Bb] I'll be there when the light comes in.
[G] Just stand with the survivors.
_ _ _ _ [C] Life is a highway.
_ _ I'll ride it all night long.
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
_ [G] If you're going my way, I wanna drive it [Bb] all night long.
[B] _ Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, [A] yeah!
Life is [F] _
_ _ [C] _ a [F] highway.
All [C] night long.
_ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ [Dm] If you're going [Bb] my way, [F] I wanna drive it [C] all night long.
_ [Dm] Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, yeah!
Life is a [Bb] highway.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] All night [C] long.
_ [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] I wanna drive it [Bb] all night [C] long.
_ [Bb] To [C] the beach!
_ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [C] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ He said, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
He had the leg kicks and everything.
[Ab] Yeah, I was like, dang.
I mean, he's into living.
If life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long.
Yeah.
He said, zest for life, you know?
Yeah, that was cool.
I like that song.
I like that line.
I don't think people have that modern day.
Zest for life?
Yes.
Some people.
Some people do!
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Some people for sure.
I mean, overall, it seems like in modern day, people are kind of like, apathetic about life.
And it's like, oh, dang, it's kind of sad.
And it's [Bb] almost like life is like a highway and you're riding your bicycle along the highway. [Db] Yeah.
Like constantly trying to keep up.
If this was a song that was written modern day, it'd be like, [Gb] if life is a highway, I'm
gonna crash [Ab] into the shoulder.
You know what I mean?
Like modern day.
You know how in the 2000s songs got really about mental health and depression and things like that?
Yeah.
Like back in the day, what do you think?
90s for this?
Maybe 80s?
_ Probably.
He seemed happy just to be alive.
It's nice to see.
Yeah, 80s maybe.
Those leg kicks were insane.
Right.
He was so into it.
You know what I mean? Right.
This dude's just happy to be [Db] alive.
I love it.
Yeah, there was something about that song that [Bb] was different. Yeah.
Something about it was like, I mean it was summery and it was fun, but there was something
about it that I cannot put my finger on.
It was happy.
_ _ [Db]
Maybe, [Ab] that's what it was.
[G] I don't know.
_ [Ab] _
Tell [Cm] me man, what [G] do you know.
_ [Ab] _ Yeah my boy's on the [G] road.
Where he go?
[Cm] She told me [G] boy he just go.
[Ab] Like I don't know.
But I don't [G] know. _