Navajo Rug
Composer(s): Tom Russell; Ian Tyson
Performer(s): Ian Tyson;
Tom Russell; Jerry Jeff Walker



Well it's two eggs up on whiskey toast 
Home fries on the side 
Wash it down with roadhouse coffee 
Burns up your inside
It's a canyon, Colorado diner 
And a waitress I did love
I sat in the back 'neath an old stuffed bear 
And a worn out Navajo rug 

Now old Jack the boss, he left at six 
And it's, 'Katie bar the door'
She'd pull down that Navajo rug 
And she spread it on the floor 
Hey, I saw lightning 'cross the sacred mountains 
Saw woven turtle doves 
When I was Iying 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? 

I saw old Jack about a year ago
He said the place burned to the ground
And all I saued was this here old bear tooth 
And Katie she's left town
But Katie, she got her souvenir too
Jack spit a tobacco plug
You shoulda seen her coming through the smoke 
With that old Navajo rug 

So every time I cross the sacred mountains 
And lightning breaks above
It always takes me back in time 
To my long lost Katie love 
But everything keeps on a moving 
And everyone's on the go
You don't find things that last anymore 
Like an old woven Navajo

Aye, aye, aye, Katie
Shades of red and blue
Ayer aye, aye, Katie 
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you!