I'M A LONESOME FUGITIVE by Liz & Casey Anderson with Lyrics

TheLonesomeEchoesite — September 02, 2009 — Performed by THE LONESOME ECHOES
Lyrics:
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home

I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days
My Mama used to pray my crops would fail
Now I'm a hunted fugitive with just two ways
Its outrun the law or spend my life in jail

I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home

I'm lonely, but I can't afford the luxury
Of having you come along
You'd only slow me down and they'd catch up to me
He who runs the fastest goes alone

I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home
I'm on the run, the highway is my home

CREDITS;
THE LONESOME ECHOES [Musicians]
CARMITA Morales: PIANO and BACKING VOCALS
LONNIE Scott: BASS DRUM, HI-HAT; ACOUSTIC GUITAR, HARMONICA AND VOCALS RECORDED LIVE IN MADRID circa 1998

Data related:
At the age of 16, Liz was married to Casey Anderson and they had their daughter Lynn a year later. In 1957, the family moved out to Sacremento, California, and Liz started to write songs, due to her husband's encouragement. Liz Anderson wrote "Pick of the Week", which was recorded by Roy Drusky in 1964. The song became a Top 15 Country hit for Drusky. In 1965, Merle Haggard recorded her song "All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers". The success of "Strangers" helped make Anderson one of Country Music's most successful songwriters. She won a BMI award for the song. Anderson became one of the most prolific country songwriters, publishing over 260 songs during her career and earning five BMI awards. Virtually every major country artist of the 1960s recorded at least one of her songs on their albums, including Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, Ernest Tubb, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings, Kitty Wells, Connie Smith, and Bill Anderson.
Anderson was noticed by RCA producer Chet Atkins. He liked Anderson's style of singing, and signed her to RCA in 1966. This was around the same time daughter Lynn was getting signed to Chart Records. Her two initial singles fared well, but it was her third, "Game of Triangles", with Bobby Bare and Norma Jean that became a big hit. The song was a Top 5 hit. In April 1967, Anderson finally made it big as a solo star with the Top 5 Country hit, "Mama Spank". Liz Anderson's own top 40 hit list, as a singer, includes "Go Now Pay Later" (1966), "The Wife of the Party" (1967), "Thanks A Lot For Tryin' Anyway" (1968), and "Husband Hunting" (1970).
Around this same time her only child, daughter Lynn Anderson, was rising as a Country singer. Liz wrote some of Lynn's early hits, including her 1967 debut single "Ride, Ride, Ride", as well as her first big hit, the Top 5 "If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)" (also in 1967). She had a Top 25 duet with daughter Lynn in 1968, "Mother May I", and even appeared with Lynn on a Mother's Day episode of the Lawrence Welk Show that May. Lynn Anderson would later have her biggest success in the 1970s, becoming one of Country Music's most successful female vocalists of all time.