Navajo Rug Lyrics - Jerry Jeff Walker

Well, it's two eggs up on whiskey toast 

Home fries on the side 

You wash her down with the roadhouse coffee 

That burns up your inside 

It's just a canyon, Colorado diner 

A waitress I did love 

We sat in the back 'neath an old stuffed bear 

A worn out Navajo rug 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Shades of red and blue 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you? 

Well, old Jack the boss, he left at six 

It was, 'Katie, bar the door' 

She'd pull down that Navajo rug 

And we'd spread it across the floor 

I saw lightning frame the sacred mountains 

The wooing of the turtle doves 

Just Lying next to Katie 

On that old Navajo rug 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Shades of red and blue 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you? 

Well, I saw old Jack about a year ago 

Said the place burned to the ground 

All he saved was an old bear tooth 

And Katie she left town 

Well, Katie, got a souvenir too 

Jack smiled as he spit out a big old plug 

Well, you shoulda seen her coming through the smoke 

She was dragging that Navajo rug 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Shades of red and blue 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you? 

So every time I cross the sacred mountains 

And lightning jumps above 

It always takes me back in time 

To my long lost Katie love 

You know everything keeps on a moving 

Everybody's on the go 

Hey, you don't find things that last anymore 

Like a hand-woven Navajo 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Shades of red and blue 

Aye, aye, aye, Katie 

Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you