My Favorite Car/Driving Songs: AC/DC - Highway to Hell (1979)

It is the iconic rock hit that is a must listen to on any road trip. With a three chord opening and a head-popping drum accompaniment, it shows what "less is more" music can do.

Highway to Hell is the nickname given to the Canning Highway, a road that the late AC/DC singer Bob Scott would take in the late 1970s to reach the rock and toll hotel Raffles.

Don’t think taking the highway to hell is easy. If you do take that road, it will be anything but straight and easy. It will be filled with pain and littered with the wreckage of people whom you hurt badly. Your life legacy will be zero and there will be little peace along the path to your soul’s destruction. Trust me -- I have taken that road and at age 74 have nothing but regrets.

From 2020 AC/DC Tribute to "Highway to Hell”

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Living easy, lovin' free
Season ticket on a one way ride
Asking nothing, leave me be
Taking everythin' in my stride
Don't need reason, don't need rhyme
Ain't nothing I’d rather do
Goin' down, party time
My friends are gonna be there too, yeah

[Chorus]
I'm on the highway to hell
On the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I'm on the highway to hell

[Verse 2]
No stop signs, speed limit
Nobody's gonna slow me down
Like a wheel, gonna spin it
Nobody's gonna mess me around
Hey Satan, payin' my dues
Playing in a rocking band
Hey mama, look at me
I'm on the way to the promised land
Woo!

[Chorus]
I'm on the highway to hell
Highway to hell
I'm on the highway to hell
Highway to hell

[Bridge]
Don't stop me
Heh, heh!