Bob Seger

Released: November 17, 2017

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger

[Verse 1]
I was out on the road tonight makin' real good time
Headin' out of the frozen north for the Mason-Dixon line
I pulled off at sunrise and I stopped up on some bridge
And looked out on your Blue Ridge

[Verse 2]
I could hear the echoes tumblin' down the gaps
Cannon fire and musket shots and someone playin' taps
A hundred fifty years ago I was a Yankee in some ditch
Fightin' for your Blue Ridge
Tryin' to take your Blue Ridge

[Bridge]
Lift me up Virginia, carry me to Caroline
Set me down in Georgia right on time

[Verse 3]
From the Shenandoah all the way to Tennessee
The fearsome highland warlords, the mighty Cherokee
They held these ancient misty hills with a willful iron fist
All along your Blue Ridge
All along your Blue Ridge (Yeah)

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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