Chris LeDoux

Songwriter: Tom Cochrane

Producer: Trey Bruce

Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won't hesitate, break down the garden gate
There's not much time left today

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Tennessee to those L.A. nights
San Anton to the Vegas lights
Knock me down get back up again
You're in my blood I'm not a lonely man

There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough, this I know
I'll be there when the lights comes in
Tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once but now
We look it in the eye

There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know
I'll be there when the light comes in
Tell 'em we're survivors

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you're going my way
I want to drive it all night long

Chris Lee LeDoux was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on October 2, 1948. His family moved frequently due to his father’s career in the US Air Force. LeDoux learned to ride horses visiting his grandparents' farm in Michigan and competed in his first rodeo at the age of thirteen in Texas. During high school, he won the Wyoming State Rodeo Championship bareback riding title and went to Casper College on a rodeo scholarship. He won the 1969 National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association bareback riding title, qualified for the National Finals Rodeo four times, and won the Professional Rodeo Cowboy’s Association Bareback World Championship in 1976.

On January 4, 1972, LeDoux married Peggy Rhoads. Together they had five children: Clay, born about 1973; Ned, born about 1978; Will, born about 1980; Cindy, born about 1981; and Beau, born about 1983. Besides being a singer-songwriter, Chris was also a rodeo competitor and a bronze sculptor. He made his home at his ranch, Haywire, near Kaycee, Wyoming.

In 2000, Chris was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis (a chronic liver disease) which required a liver transplant. Garth Brooks volunteered to donate part of his liver, but was incompatible. An alternative was located and he received his transplant on October 7, 2000. In November 2004, he was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma (also known as bile duct cancer). He underwent radiation treatments until his death on March 9, 2005 in Casper, Wyoming.

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