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, On worn out Navajo rug.
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.
[chorus] 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 this old bear tooth And Katie she left town, Ah but, Katie, got her souvenir too, Jack smiled as he spit out a big old plug, Well, you shoulda seen her coming through the smoke Dragging that Navajo rug.
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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, You know everything keeps on a moving Everybody's on the go, Hey, you don't find things that last anymore Like a double-woven Navajo.